2015 Promo & Activation

BEST-BEFORE PACKAGING

TitleBEST-BEFORE PACKAGING
BrandPENNY MARKT
Product/ServicePENNY DAIRY PRODUCTS
Category A05. Product Launch/re-Launch or Multi-Product Promotion
Entrant Company SERVICEPLAN Munich, GERMANY
Advertising Agency SERVICEPLAN Munich, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Alexander Schill Serviceplan Chief Creative Officer
Christoph Everke Serviceplan Executive Creative Director
Alexander Nagel Serviceplan Executive Creative Director
Tom Meifert Serviceplan Creative Director
Julia Keim Serviceplan Copywriter
Daniele del Nero Serviceplan Art Director
Yvonne Hopf Serviceplan Account Director
Fabian Franz Serviceplan Account Director
Katy Pergelt Serviceplan Agency Producer
Stefan Randlkofer Freelancer Photographer
Katharina Seth Neverest Illustrator
Jelena Lezaic Plan.net Technology Online

The Brief

Our client PENNY is truly aware of their social and economic responsibility. For example food waste is one of the main topics PENNY wants to raise awareness about. In Germany, two-thirds of the 6.7 million tons of annually wasted food comes from private households. Our task was to create a message against food waste that can be placed as close as possible to the customers' daily life and their households, since that's also where the problem starts. According to that, we decided to let the products themselves spread our message, instead of using advertising in the first place.

Campaign Success

The products themselves were used as promotional items to support the food waste topic at this year’s sustainability week of PENNY. This special week took place in every PENNY market across Germany during week no. 33, 2015. Additionally to the packaging, the idea was adapted to other media, like different in-store material and a microsite to give customers further information about food waste and the promotion.

Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results

The Best-Before Packaging was designed for the basic range of PENNY products, because this range is frequently purchased as it supplies the daily requirements of every PENNY customer. With over 500.000 produced and quickly sold-out products, we placed our message against food waste in over 500.000 private households. That way, the Best-Before edition could not only save itself, but also a lot of other food from being wasted.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service

The Best-Before Packaging is a promotion for our client PENNY, a discount grocer, to keep customers from wasting food. By making the Best-Before date as big as possible, we turned PENNY products into promotional items alerting customers about the issue of food waste and reminding them at home to enjoy the products in time, instead of wasting them. To support the promotion, we used further media, like different in-store material and a microsite to give customers further information about food waste and the promotion.