Seriously Strong Cheddar - How advertising created a seriously big impact on seriously strong cheese

McLelland’s powerful performance as one of the fastest-growing grocery brands in the UK has been very impressive.
Agency: 1576Author: Ruth Lees

Seriously Strong Cheddar – How Advertising Created a Seriously Big Impact on Seriously Strong Cheese

INTRODUCTION

This paper will prove how advertising successfully grew a little-known cheddar cheese brand with awareness and perception problems into a 'lighthouse' brand – a brand with 'attitude' that got the competition running scared. We will show how the advertising helped Seriously Strong aggressively steal market share, threatening number-one cheddar brand Cathedral City's position, and build consumer loyalty, the 'holy grail' of the cheddar cheese market. All of this within a period of only one year of advertising...

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