Friends eating together at a table, sharing 27 Peaks baked snacks

Case Study · Brand · Web · Film

27 Peaks

A clean-label food brand with a genuinely better product and advantages that were far too easy to miss. Good Word Agency built the words, the website and the brand film that make the difference impossible to ignore.

Client

27 Peaks, baked snacks and spices

Services

Brand Strategy, Messaging, Web Design and Development, Brand Film

Year

2025

Overview

27 Peaks is a vertically integrated food manufacturer: baked snacks like TrailBites and clean, filler-free spices, made for health-conscious buyers and national retailers including The Fresh Market, Meijer and Rouses. Every product is built on purity, real ingredients you can pronounce and nothing you did not ask for. Good Word Agency defined the brand strategy and messaging, designed and developed the website, and created the brand film concept: three connected deliverables built from one clear positioning.

Deliverables

Positioning and messaging platform, brand promise and tone of voice, website design and development, brand film concept and production

Engagement

Brand platform build

Role

Strategy, design and production

Industry

Food manufacturing and retail

Retail

The Fresh Market, Meijer, Rouses

Bowls of 27 Peaks ground spices photographed from above, paprika, sesame and whole cinnamon

Clean, filler-free spices. The product truth the whole platform is built to make visible.

Challenge & Goal

The Challenge

The advantages were real but technical: ingredient purity, small-batch production, BRCGS-certified manufacturing. Shoppers check labels constantly and trust them rarely. Seventy percent read the ingredient list; fewer than fifteen percent believe what it says. 27 Peaks needed messaging, a website and a film that turned process and proof into something people could feel.

The Goal

Turn what is in it and how it is made into a story buyers and consumers believe. Purity is not only the 27 Peaks product, it is a market opening: snacks made with real ingredients grow two and a half times faster than conventional ones. The job was to claim that opening in words, on the web and on screen.

Our Approach

How we built the 27 Peaks platform

Phase 01

Brand strategy and messaging

Before a website or a film, 27 Peaks needed language. We translated ingredient purity, small-batch process and higher manufacturing standards into a positioning, a promise and a voice, and landed on the line the platform hangs from: Elevate Everyday Eating.

The positioning: for health-conscious food enthusiasts seeking authentic flavors, 27 Peaks provides pure, additive-free baked snacks and spices that elevate everyday meals, ensuring both taste and wellbeing. Every product keeps three promises. Pure, free from artificial additives. Flavorful, authentic global flavors. Trustworthy, transparent about sourcing and process. The voice is confident, authentic, transparent and inviting.

70%
Shoppers Who Read Labels
<15%
Who Trust Them
2.5x
Faster Category Growth
$29.6B
Spice Market By 2027
The Platform Line
Elevate Everyday Eating.

Phase 02

A site built for clarity and conversion

We designed and developed the 27 Peaks website to turn the brand's commitment to purity and quality into a clean, modern digital experience. Refined layouts, responsive interactions and scalable e-commerce let buyers and shoppers quickly grasp what makes 27 Peaks different, then explore and buy across both snacks and spices.

The 27 Peaks website shown across tablet and phone screens

Inside the website.

The Purity and Craft section of the 27 Peaks website27 Peaks website account and login screens27 Peaks website spice range page27 Peaks website product detail and cart27 Peaks website brand story section27 Peaks baked snacks styled on a table on the website

Refined layouts, responsive interactions and scalable e-commerce across snacks and spices.

Phase 03

A brand film: Straight to the Source

Straight to the Source travels from the raw origins of the spices to the dinner-table moments that matter, in three chapters: where it starts, the snack, and the table. It makes no fillers, no shortcuts into something you can see, hear and very nearly taste.

Words, web and film, one clear positioning, made impossible to ignore. That is the brand platform we built for 27 Peaks.

Watch the film
Bowls of 27 Peaks ground spices photographed from aboveThe crew setting up a shot during the 27 Peaks brand film productionFood styling on set for the 27 Peaks brand filmFilming a table scene for the 27 Peaks brand filmFriends eating together at a table, sharing 27 Peaks baked snacksBehind the scenes in the kitchen during the 27 Peaks shoot

Behind the scenes on the 27 Peaks brand film.