Charmin: Researching and marketing a premium brand to price-conscious Hispanic consumers
Geoffrey Precourt
The Procter & Gamble presentation at the 11th-annual Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference was a powerful lesson in marketing.
In this particular instance (a 2010 Gold Effie award-winning campaign), the problem was a familiar one: how do you get customers who are satisfied with one product to realise that they could get greater satisfaction with a premium - even the upgrade included price as well as product.
"The Hispanic customer is a value-oriented customer," Elizabeth Papasakelariou, account director at Lapiz, Hispanic agency...