We introduced a new package format, spurring the rebrand and re-launch of the entire company. With its powerful corporate vision articulated, Ice River Springs become a leading company in this competitive market.
Duty Free Canada is a group of retail stores that sell products to cross-border travellers free of tax and duty. They're located on the Canadian-side of the Canada-US border. The store owners have been striving to educate travellers, particularly Canadian travellers, that they can indeed stop
The high profile advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky has parted ways with Burger King after seven years. Over that period CP + B have created advertisements that have been edgy and creative including, “Whopper virgins” and “Subservient Chicken,” which was one of the first mainstream
Last night (Dec. 7th, 2010) the Marketing Planning Group of the American Marketing Association hosted a networking and learning event called Deciding the right mix in a new world of exploding choices. The fundamental question was this: how can marketers balance new and old media
There are few markets as brutally competitive as automobile retailing. There is excess manufacturing capacity with too many retailers selling identical products and fighting over easily aggravated consumers. This is an ideal testing ground for fresh and more disciplined approaches to marketing communications. The president of
Whether B2C or B2B, companies with strong beliefs in their own rationality will tend to create marketing programs that don’t take the full purchase decision-making process into consideration. Emotional investment is presumed absent.
Positioning is who you are in essentially three or four very focused words. It is the company’s identity in the minds of the target audience. Positioning has special relevance to entrepreneurs with multiple product lines. Its focus can seem like a cruel axe to the many
Retail space is getting more and more congested with products. Generally, shoppers have limited time and it can be frustrating to sort through the thousands of products at retail locations. A company’s challenge is to stand out on busy shelves and to make the shopper’s
A high security key company, Mul-T-Lock (a client of ours), had a predominantly trade-oriented business model. In their dealings with their locksmith customers, industry jargon was an accepted vocabulary. As Mul-T-Lock saw an opportunity to improve its awareness with consumers, it would need to more clearly