Steve Hanson Email & Phone Number

Cave Creek, AZ, US

Art Farm Iowa is a non-profit public charity founded to establish and develop the arts alongside agriculture in Worth County, ultimately becoming an international destination.

Nutrasocial is a business development consultancy focused on creating and building nutrition brands through strategic marketing, branding and sales development. Nutrasocial is focused on companies seeking to build their brands along with contributing to the greater whole.

• GRIP IDEAS focuses on providing market development strategies to build businesses and organizations in the nutrition, food & agriculture industries. Its client base features many of the industry’s leading companies.
• Created marketing plans and brand strategies for clients.
• Increased international sales for Ester-C® by 43 percent within first year of assignment.
• Attained national public relations exposure for clients including New York Times features.
• Wrote advertising, radio scripts and press releases.Partial list of clients include:Indena, Prenexus Health, Alliance Principle Ingredients (Canada), MEG-3 - Ocean Nutrition (Canada), Cargill, New Chapter, Emergen-C.

Prenexus Health is leading the future of prebiotics. Prenexus Health is a natural prebiotic ingredient company in the U.S. focused on individual health and wellness through the scientific research, development, and production of branded natural prebiotic ingredients for nutrition.Steve leads marketing and business development efforts to establish Prenexus.

• Wrote and implemented international business plan that included country prioritization, marketing strategy and plan and full financials.
• Increased international sales for Ester-C® by 43 percent within first year of assignment.
• Signed three distributions agreements to expand sales of Ester-C® in new geographies.
• Completed national advertising campaign for Ester-C® in the United Kingdom that included print and national TV.

Des Moines, Iowa, US

• Directed marketing efforts for 10 Kemin companies. Kemin group company sales represented over $250 million.
• Coordinated messaging for the Kemin brand among all companies.
• Established worldwide corporate identity standards for Kemin.
• Chaired monthly meetings among all business marketing units.

Des Moines, Iowa, US

• Hired and supervised a staff of 15 people.
• Developed infrastructure to coordinate marketing efforts globally.
• Established efforts to increase sales revenues three fold.
• Wrote business and marketing plans for Kemin Foods, FloraGLO Lutein and additional product brands.
• Served as spokesperson creating presentations for the CRN Annual Conference, Nutracon, Marketing Nutraceutical & Functional Foods, International Traders of Iowa and Co-Branding Initiatives.
• Created the FloraGLO Lutein brand program signing over 400 companies in over 10 countries to utilize the FloraGLO trademark.

West Des Moines, IA, US

• Led agency team for Bayer Corporation – the agency’s largest account between the 1996-1998 fiscal years.
• Introduced categories for Bayer Corporation and Abbott Laboratories.
• Developed one-to-one relationship management systems for Bayer Corporation and Pioneer Hi-Bred International.
• Led public relations team for Pioneer Hi-Bred International, responsible for media relations and special event planning.
• Performed 2,459.5 billable hours with 2,912.25 total hours for the 1996-1997 fiscal year and received meritorious performance reviews from clients and agency staff.