Kraft Foods has just announced the re-launch of its Christmas selection range in time for this year’s season. Slice Design was appointed following a successful strategic pitch in 2010. The agency was challenged to bring magic and wonder to the Christmas range.
bakery & confectionery
Cadbury, the official treat provider of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is announcing a new phase of the Olympic sponsorship campaign, which continues its Spots V Stripes initiative. As part of the new extension dubbed ‘Keep Team GB Pumped,’ the £8m campaign running on TV, digital platforms and experiential media, Cadbury launches consumer engagement activity and introduces themed versions of its favourite products as well as Olympic mascot shaped chocolates and Bassetts Jelly Mascots this month.
Celebrating further expansion into UK supermarkets, Northern Ireland’s favourite craft baker, Genesis Crafty, has commissioned branding specialist Brandhouse and new media agency Matmi to develop a promotional game. The free-to-play social game, ‘Knead for Speed,’ helps to tell the Genesis Crafty story through social game play, and features the company’s six founding brothers in a stick men bake-off of epic proportions.
Creamy boxed chocolate assortment Dairy Box celebrates its 75th birthday this year with new packaging launched in time for Christmas. Bristol-based agency Epoch Design was tasked with engaging the shopper with a refreshed look and feel. Facing stiff competition from other premium, high street and retailer-own boxed chocolates, the brand needed to stand out in a busy market.
PepsiCo is relaunching Planet Lunch, the lunchbox brand, with new packaging by Bloom. Planet Lunch gives mums an easy way to fill the daily lunchbox with healthy food their kids will love. The range of fruit bars, fruit squeezers and bread bites are all 100% natural and combine child-friendly flavours and textures with health benefits like fibre and 5-a-day.
Launching this month is the new bright and bold packaging for the Maynards sugar confectionery range designed by leading strategic brand design agency Bulletproof.
Following a 3-way strategic pitch, Bulletproof were chosen to evolve the Maynards design and improve differentiation vs the competition, whilst providing a clearer role for each of the variants which include Maynards Wine Gums, Maynards Wine Pastilles, Maynards Sours, Maynards Sports Mix and Maynards Midget Gems.