Useful strategy & communication dedicated to food Usefood helps brands, manufacturers and farming supply chains combine performance and responsibility.
Why usefood? Be useful* * Useful to brands looking to reinvent themselves, to companies that want to make sense, to those who dare to combine performance and responsibility.
Build bridges* * Between strategy and design, vision and communication, values and consumers. Create leverage, accelerate, transform.
Co-create* * With the voices, hands and hearts who carry the projects. Alongside them, we listen, reveal and make an impact.
Who do we work with? From field to shelf, we work with every link in the food chain.
Food manufacturers BtoB & BtoC Local & national brands Upstream Services Farming solutions and tools Distributors Marketplaces Wholesalers Retail Farmers Associations Cooperatives Farmer groups (GIEE) Startups Institutions Regions Trade unions Learned societies Our approach: a cross-cutting view a. a. a.
AGRI · AGRO · FOOD
a. Agriculture A field of tensions and innovation: torn between sobriety and performance, it questions its production methods, embraces the promises of agritech and redesigns its models around fairer supply chains.
a. Agrifood The pivot of the value chain, the industry balances secure supply, competitiveness, innovation in times of changing habits and the need for calmer relations with retailers.
a. Alimentation It raises questions of nutrition and health, balanced diets, naturalness, quality and safety, and reflects ever faster changes in the way we eat.
CSR Impa a a ct, the usefood wayCSR is more than an option: it is a strategic lever and an analysis tool to reconcile the three pillars of the aaa value chain.
Accelerating and transforming food models means understanding today's and tomorrow's challenges at every step. Every usefood project brings the long term into short-term decisions.
Retail & visitor design Concept store Brand platform Retail design Construction management Offer marketing Atelier Sarrasin Brand storytelling Product innovation Packaging and market launch Industrial production Strategic consulting Fundraising & startups Strategic audit Executive coaching Equity story Go to market Innovation & offer Retail & visitor design Factory shop and visitor tour Transforming a 400 m² space Scenography Construction management Strategic consulting Supply chain and regional development Structuring a supply chain Regional development Agricultural marketing Avenir Bio funding Certification Strategic consulting A 3-phase method Audit & listening: first-impressions report Strategy & ideation: strategic roadmap Action: operational roadmap Offer marketing Packaging Positioning Design Regulations Offer marketing Brand activation & events Event design 200 m² booth Editorial content Trade shows, round tables, press Corporate & CSR Internal and external communication CSR communication concept Tool production Editorial management Corporate & CSR CSR certification CSR audit Showcasing existing work Progress roadmap Commercial promotion plan The usefooders Complementary profiles from industry, consulting, design and communication.
View profile + Nicolas Crabot Founder View profile + Fred Fenouil Digital designer View profile + Stéphane Blanc Creative director View profile + Jacques Renault Industrial transformation & go-to-market expert View profile + Damien Créquer Social innovation & management transformation expert View profile + Vincent Teillet Editor-in-chief & editorial creator × The usefooders · 1/6 Nicolas Crabot Founder
A committed entrepreneur and food-transition expert, Nicolas has spent 25 years helping food brands, institutions and manufacturers shape their strategies. A former advertising executive and CSR expert, he also co-founded Sarrasin Filière France and l’Atelier Sarrasin. In 2025 he founded usefood, a consultancy combining strategy, design and sustainable performance. He remains very active in the French food ecosystem through incubators, competitiveness clusters and training institutes.
LinkedIn profile → The usefooders · 2/6 Fred Fenouil Digital designer
A digital designer for more than 20 years, Fred creates innovative digital experiences for food brands. He combines creativity, technical skill and a command of artificial intelligence to build engaging, intuitive, high-value interfaces.
LinkedIn profile → The usefooders · 3/6 Stéphane Blanc Creative director
A graduate of the École Penninghen, Stéphane is an expert in design, branding, packaging and retail architecture. He has worked with Nicolas Crabot on many projects since 2012. With a strong track record in the food world, he creates high-value visual identities that combine meaning, impact and strategic consistency.
LinkedIn profile → The usefooders · 4/6 Jacques Renault Industrial transformation & go-to-market expert
A Supélec engineer and former plant director in the food industry, Jacques brings solid hands-on experience. Founder of the consultancy Funae, he has spent 10 years guiding industrial companies through strategic transformation, especially in food, cosmetics and health.
LinkedIn profile → The usefooders · 5/6 Damien Créquer Social innovation & management transformation expert
Co-founder of Taste and the French Talent Studio, Damien has spent 20 years helping companies evolve their management practices. His human, systemic approach makes him a key player in collective transformation for organisations seeking social and societal innovation.
LinkedIn profile → The usefooders · 6/6 Vincent Teillet Editor-in-chief & editorial creator
A communicator and creator of committed content, Vincent crafts strong, embodied brand stories. He runs the editorial team of Gueuleton magazine, where he cultivates a distinctive tone mixing food culture, terroirs and team spirit. His editorial approach feeds usefood’s content strategies.
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