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For the past 20 years, anti-ageing has been the largest and fastest-growing segment of the beauty market, largely based on the premise of tying youth to beauty. Dove, however, sought to break category ...

Wash&Go was the long-time mid-tier shampoo leader in the Balkans, but was finding itself competing with both a growing premium and lower tier market. Rather than launch a premium brand - as many of it ...

In early 2007, Vicks was suffering from a decline in both relevance and sales, and employing different communication ideas for each new product initiative. Alongside launching new products to fill gap ...

Kellogg's wanted to further broaden Special K's appeal in the burgeoning slimming market, ideally using a joined up international idea that would appeal to women around the world. A range of diet plan ...

Procter & Gamble's ThermaCare was a small player in the menstrual market. The product had been in a two-year decline, and lacked marketing support and shelf space, as well as operating at a price disa ...

The Chemistry.com dating website aimed to be a differentiated service from the major players in the website, match.com (which founded the category based on its subscribe and search model) and eHarmony ...

Dove made its first major foray into the beauty category in 2004 with The Campaign for Real Beauty, challenging widespread concepts of beauty and helping the brand gain $1.2 billion in value. It now w ...

The 2 SMRT 4U Internet Safety Campaign's had the main objective of increasing the awareness of internet risks among teenage females. The main message of the campaign was to encourage them to change th ...

In August 2006, SPAR Hungary, part of the SPAR multi-national supermarket chain, prepared to launch its own-label bio-food range 'Natur Pur'. The brand aimed to be 'natural, healthy and pure', and to ...

This paper details the 2005-06 campaigns (Commuter Travel and Leisure Travel) for First Scotrail, the national Scottish railway franchise, to encourage consumers to travel by train. Commuter Travel ta ...

This paper discusses the 2006-07 campaign by Standard Life Investments to increase customers and turnover at the Churchill Square Shopping Centre in Brighton, which was facing a decline on both measur ...

This paper describes how by generating reappraisal Ryvita Minis, advertising created awareness, product consideration, trial and repeat purchases above benchmark levels. Minis achieved year three pay ...

In recent years, anti-cellulite products have become the market driver for the whole body care segment, with L'Oréal acting as the innovative European pacemaker, and Dove also taking an increasingly p ...

NIVEA's Q10 had proved to be a high successful anti-ageing product, but as its competitors diversified their portfolios, it became clear that the company required a new brand to boost its relative pos ...

The European deodorant market was becoming increasingly crowded, and Dove was seeking to differentiate its own brand by associating itself with positive skincare credentials, based on its unique offer ...

Herbal Essences positions its products in terms of being an experiential brand, rather than focusing on science and problem-solving, as was the case with much of the rest of the category. The launch o ...

Tide - a mid-priced detergent sold in Serbia and Romania - was losing market share both to cheaper brands and to its direct competitors, a situation that was compounded by low awareness levels among c ...

Deichmann - the biggest shoe retailer in Germany and Austria - introduced a new communications strategy in 2005/06 in an effort to further improve its quality credentials, and in an attempt to build s ...

Fairy had enjoyed a dominant position in the Iberian market, but was finding itself increasingly under threat from cheaper alternatives, and particularly private label brands. The challenge was to att ...

Pantene's 'Set Your Colour Alight' campaign sought to overcome several obstacles standing in the way of Pantene making its mark in the coloured hair sector. Among these was the fact that coloured hair ...

The household cleaning brand Monsieur Propre (know as Don Limpio in Spain) sought to boost its position in its core French and Spanish markets by challenging the advertising conventions of its categor ...

In the two years prior to the launch of Masterpiece Mascara in November 2005, Max Factor was in a serious decline. There was a lot riding on Masterpiece - which employed an innovative and patented 'ru ...

Nike was seeking to become the number one player in the women's sportswear category. To do this, it needed to inspire all women to feel like athletes - and it decided to use dance as the vehicle to co ...

This paper explores a major issue facing many brands and organisations; the need to innovate in order to renew relevance for the target audience. Brands need to constantly innovate to keep in step wit ...

To fuel growth in a mature market post 2000, we launched a new product wrapped in a concept that radiated significance for all couples: Three Diamonds for your Past, Present and Future. The PPF campai ...

Tyson Foods’ mission is to proudly power the world with their chicken, beef, and pork products. Tyson’s “Powered By” campaign leverages cultural cues, humor, and love of family, to demonstrate that Ty ...

Into a fiercely-competitive ice cream category known for aggressive price promotions, Mayfield Ice Cream launched four new flavors without the benefit of discounting – and into a freezer case flooded ...

As the housing market went from a boom to a transition market, Century 21 needed a campaign to break through the clutter, increase brand awareness measures over Re/Max, and boost the amount of traffic ...

Having lost over 50% of its franchise from 2002–05 and 29% of its share of shelf, Slim-Fast wrote-off approximately $1 billion. Tasked with proving the brand’s vitality to dieters, retailers and Unile ...

Despite acceptance of the importance of milk in youth, generally milk consumption among adults is generally half that of children. The main reason was the perceived image of milk as being fattening. T ...