Who we serve CMOs & marketing, communications, brand leadership

Your team produces a lot. Your audiences retain little.

We partner with marketing and communications leadership at four families of health & nutrition companies: B2B ingredient suppliers, consumer brands, clinics, food groups in transition. The problem is structural, not functional.

A good ingredient is fine. A good positioning is rarer.
Communication strategy workshop led by Nicolas Rousseau
Strategy workshop with a marketing team.
What your peers tell us

Four very different contexts, three pains that keep coming back.

You'll recognise them. The vocabulary changes from segment to segment — the dynamic doesn't.

01 — Expertise that doesn't hold outside

Your scientific substance is strong. Your external story doesn't hold.

Your R&D or clinical team produces solid expertise. Marketing simplifies it, the press distorts it, social channels flatten it into wellness clichés. The final message holds up to neither ChatGPT, nor journalists, nor university nutritionists.

02 — Differentiation dissolved

Your competitors say exactly the same thing as you.

In a market saturated with "natural," "clean label," "science-based" and "sustainable," your product page, brochure and sales keynote could be swapped with a competitor's. Your differentiation evaporates into the category's semantic fog.

03 — Internal languages out of sync

R&D, marketing, sales, press and leadership don't speak the same language.

Each function has its own version of the story. Buyers, consumers, prescribers and journalists detect the inconsistency before you fix it. In health and nutrition, inconsistency is a direct loss of trust.

Four CMO profiles, one craft

Budgets, cycles, audiences and vocabularies change radically.

What doesn't change: the responsibility to bring a credible voice to the surface in a noisy category. We work across these four configurations with a shared method and segment-calibrated deliverables.

01 — B2B ingredients

CMO at an ingredient supplier, biotech or B2B producer.

You sell to formulators, R&D leads, industrial buyers. Your buyers read the papers before meeting you. Your sales team gets stuck on €/kg comparisons when your cost-in-use or clinical dossier should be winning.

Client typology Lesaffre · Lactalis Ingredients Pharma · Meurens Natural · Sunbloom · HHOYA · Vivien Paille
02 — B2C health & nutrition brands

CMO of a consumer health & nutrition brand.

You sell to consumers in a market saturated with influencers, dubious claims and wellness lifestyle. You have to simplify without over-promising, educate without boring, differentiate without trading on fear.

Client typology Yakult and consumer health & nutrition brands
03 — Clinics & healthcare

Communications director of a clinic or medical structure.

You lead communications at a clinic, practice or medical institution. You have to build a brand that's medically credible, commercially desirable, and falls into neither the cold-clinical nor the Instagram-wellness trap.

Client typology Claris Clinic
04 — Groups in transition

Communications director of a food group in repositioning.

You manage communications at a group or BU mid-transition: UPF, Nutri-Score, NOVA, pesticide and sustainability scrutiny. You're looking for a partner who holds under media pressure and arms your posture before the crisis.

Client typology Bonduelle · Avril
What we deliver

Seven craft moves. All available from month one.

We don't sell retainers "in principle." Every engagement produces tangible, sourced, reusable assets that survive past our intervention. No single-use slides.

Narrative strategy

Sourced message house.

Translate scientific substance into a tenable commercial narrative — once, for every function: R&D, marketing, sales, press, leadership.

Branding / Rebranding

Verbal & visual identity.

Build or sharpen a health brand that doesn't look like a generic pharma lab — and doesn't look like a wellness influencer.

Content marketing

Long-form editorial.

Articles, white papers, ebooks, controlled simplification, CEO and expert thought leadership, themed series per audience.

Press & PR

Scientific press dispositifs.

From calibrated press kit to placement in health, nutrition and consumer newsrooms. Pitch by pitch, no spray-and-pray.

Sales enablement

Battle cards, talk tracks, sales decks.

Arm your teams without betraying the science or promising what EFSA, FDA or ANSES don't allow. Claim-safe by design.

Monitoring & crisis

Reputational preparation.

Pre-written defence line on sensitive subjects (UPF, NOVA, Nutri-Score, pesticides, health claims), before the crisis breaks.

GEO / Answer engine readiness

LLM citability.

Make your brand exist when ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini answer a question in your category — B2B and B2C alike.

Applied, by segment

Four situations, four ways to intervene.

CASE 01 — B2CYakult

Educating on the microbiome–hormone link for a female audience, without over-promising.

Stake
Speaking up on a sensitive territory (hormonal health) the brand had long avoided.
Our role
Consumer-facing editorial, claim calibration, internal training.
Outcome
Durable editorial line, holding up against press and university nutritionists.
CASE 02 — B2BProcelys / Lesaffre

Establishing scientific leadership in fermentation in a consolidating market.

Stake
Concentrating competition (Novonesis, DSM-Firmenich) on derived ingredients.
Our role
Multi-channel thought leadership, message house per sub-category (HA, peptides, yeast extracts).
Outcome
"Fermentation expert" positioning consolidated with European formulators.
CASE 03 — HealthcareClaris Clinic

A clinic brand medically credible and commercially desirable.

Stake
Escaping wellness clichés without falling into cold-clinical, in a competitive sector.
Our role
Verbal and visual identity rebrand, patient editorial line, positioning.
Outcome
Brand repositioned with a clear line, held across every touchpoint.
CASE 04 — GroupBonduelle

Anticipating UPF, NOVA, pesticide attacks before they reach the newsrooms.

Stake
Recurring media pressure on processed-food and agricultural categories.
Our role
Continuous reputational monitoring + pre-written defence line per sensitive topic.
Outcome
Crisis response time cut, public posture held under pressure.
Our method — Transform & Impact

Four phases, applied to a retainer or a one-off project.

Each phase produces deliverables, not slides. The framework doesn't change by segment: the substance does.

Unfold the four phases
01
Strategy

The art of strategy.

Understand before acting. Audit of your audiences, category, scientific estate and current discourse.

02
Build

The content factory.

From concept to creation. Message house, long-form editorial production, audience-specific variations, scientific and legal validation.

03
Amplification

Targeted amplification.

Make your message resonate. Multi-channel distribution: press, LinkedIn, paid campaigns, events, GEO.

04
Optimisation

Continuous optimisation.

Measure to improve. LLM citability monitoring, share of voice, press pickup, sales conversion. Iterate every quarter.

Engagement frames

Two ways to engage us.

Frame 01

Monthly retainer — foundational construction.

On quote — scope and cadence calibrated to your context.

Best for: foundational narrative construction, continuous editorial production, reputational monitoring, GEO management. Your marketing team keeps the wheel; we carry the voice.

Frame 02

One-off projects — fixed scope.

On quote — closed scope, dated deliverables.

Rebrand, flagship white paper, ad-hoc press dispositif, CEO keynote, team training, reputational crisis. Dense intervention, closed perimeter, dated deliverables.

They trust us
  • Yakult
  • Procelys by Lesaffre
  • Ennolys by Lesaffre
  • Lallemand Bio-Ingredients
  • Solyve
  • Bonduelle
  • Nutrition & Santé
  • Avril
  • HHOYA
  • Sunbloom
  • Angeopro
  • Claris Clinic
Frequently asked

Before you write, the useful answers.

01

No — four client families: B2B ingredient suppliers and biotechs, consumer health & nutrition brands, clinics, and food groups in transition. But the core of the work is B2B ingredients: RCTs, EFSA dossiers and conference posters turned into commercial pipeline.

02

Precisely. A scientific dossier wins R&D committees, not RFPs. We translate the evidence into per-target arguments (formulator, buyer, quality), battle cards, and content that AI answer engines can cite.

03

Everything is tailored: the scope calibrates to your brief. After a 30-minute conversation and a read of your material, you receive a free quote within 5 days — no commitment.

04

Quarterly review on KPIs defined in month one: qualified leads, press pickups, visibility across five AIs. A monthly review is noise; a yearly review is an alibi.

05

Good: I don't replace it, I reinforce it. I work in your tools and routines, on what is most often missing in-house: turning the science into messages that R&D, legal and sales sign off. Depending on the need, that's a targeted mission, team training or ad interim support.