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Get Retail Ready

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Imagine your product flying off shelves in 2026...

Customers grabbing multiples...

Buyers begging for your next purchase order.

The brutal truth? 80–90% of new food & beverage CPG products crash and burn before they ever hit retail.

This Get Retail Ready Mini-Course is your fast-start introduction — 6 bite-sized, high-impact lessons straight from Kiran Bains, a founder who’s already done it.

You’ll lock in obsessive product-market fit, scale your recipe without losing soul, design packaging that sells itself, bulletproof food safety, secure the perfect co-packer, and land your first shelves fast.

On-demand, zero fluff, and all fire from a founder who’s living it.

Don’t become another statistic. Join the rare 10–20% that actually wins big.

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course with Kiran Bains

7 Lessons

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course: Welcome & Overview with Kiran Bains

Get retail ready with Kiran Bains, co-founder of Food Venture Accelerator. Avoid the costly mistakes she made on her first launch and learn exactly how this mini-course sets you up for retail success.

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course: Module 1 – Product-Market Fit

Master product-market fit for your food brand in Module 1 of the Get Retail Ready Mini-Course. Validate demand and find your perfect retail buyer before scaling.

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course: Module 2 – Recipe Development and Scaling

Scale your recipe for co-packers, lock in consistent flavor, extend shelf life, and keep costs low—so your product tastes just as amazing in stores as it does in your kitchen.

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course: Module 3 – Food Safety and Traceability

Bulletproof your product against costly recalls and build instant buyer trust. Master food safety rules, traceability basics, and simple systems that keep your brand safe—and shelves stocked.

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course: Module 4 – Packaging & Labeling

Scale your recipe for co-packers, lock in consistent flavor, extend shelf life, and keep costs low—so your product tastes just as amazing in stores as it does in your kitchen.

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course: Module 5 – Working with Co-Packers

Find the perfect co-packer who nails your recipe, protects your margins, and scales smoothly. Avoid nightmare partners and lock in production that grows with your retail wins.

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Get Retail Ready Mini-Course: Module 6 – Sales & Distribution

Land your first stores fast, wow buyers with killer pitches, and build distribution that sells for you. Turn “maybe later” into purchase orders and watch your product fly off shelves.

About the teacher

Kiran Bains

Kiran Bains is a Registered Dietitian, nutritionist, and co-founder of Food Venture Accelerator. With a master’s degree in nutritional sciences (thesis on animal protein sustainability and veganism’s environmental impacts, aligning with UN SDGs 2 and 13), she blends clinical science with real-world CPG launches.
She created and successfully launched Upcycle Kitchen (a social enterprise turning surplus produce into shelf-stable products) and Bloom Acres Cookies (a sold-out gluten-free brand that landed wholesale accounts across farmers’ markets).
Today she manages the Western Accelerator at Ivey Business School’s Morrissette Institute, mentors over 1,500 food & beverage entrepreneurs, and contributes to global research on sustainable food systems (cited by UN-FAO and IPES-Food).
In this mini-course she distills the exact 6-module playbook that has taken hundreds of founders from Your Kitchen to Grocery Gold Rush – and gives you a powerful first taste of the full Get Retail Ready program with world-class experts.