Tag: Smoodh

  • Parle Agro’s dynamic OOH campaigns for Appy Fizz, Frooti & Smoodh make a striking impact this summer season

    Parle Agro’s dynamic OOH campaigns for Appy Fizz, Frooti & Smoodh make a striking impact this summer season

    Mumbai: As summer heats, Parle Agro, India’s leading beverage giant, has set out to captivate consumers with vibrant Out-of-Home (OOH) campaigns for its popular brands – Frooti, Appy Fizz and Smoodh. Designed to grab attention during the scorching summer months, the campaigns aim to maximize brand impact,reach and consideration across all corners of the country.  

    Each brand’s campaign has its own unique theme, tailored to its specific target audience. The Frooti campaign, under the theme ‘WOW Frooti’, has been launched in 74 cities. Featuring brand ambassador Alia Bhatt, the campaign’s attractive visuals capture the fun and wow factor associated with every sip of the mango drink. Similarly, the outdoor campaign for dairy brand Smoodh featuring ambassador Varun Dhawan, reflects the brand’s irresistible smoothness with the ‘Oh So Smoodh’ themed campaign and has gone live across 90 towns. Appy Fizz’s ‘Get Fizz’ themed campaign reflects its effervescent energy personified by brand ambassador Kriti Sanon. The vibrant and electrifying visuals of Appy Fizz have been splashed across 94 towns in India.  

    Each campaign has been launched with over 600 media assets. Parle Agro has adopted a micro-catchment targeted strategy, focusing on specific city pockets to ensure the campaigns receive maximum visibility and impact. They’ve been strategically placed at top-performing markets and high-distribution towns, tourist hubs and prominent city landmarks. The campaigns leverage dynamic digital-out-of-home (DOOH) creatives to boost engagement. Static and digital billboards have been positioned along major roads and intersections, targeting key routes. Additionally, smaller format media like Bus Queue Shelters (BQS) were placed along sub-arterial routes, covering market areas, commercial hubs, and popular spots like railway stations and bus depots.

    1. Speaking of the campaigns, Parle Agro head of marketing & international business Ankit Kapoor said, “For us, the summer season is about becoming the top  choice for consumers seeking delicious refreshment in the heat.  OOH is a critical medium for us in driving memorability and and reinforcing the distinctive worlds of our brands. By placing our media assets at strategic locations, we ensure our brands are not just seen but remembered. Moreover, our focus on dynamic content and celebrity endorsements adds an extra layer of engagement, enhancing the effectiveness of our campaigns. With these visually captivating campaigns, we aim to maximize brand visibility, impact and consideration across our top-performing markets nationwide.”

    Speaking about the campaign, Platinum and MRP CEO Dipankar Sanyal said,  “Parle Agro campaigns for Appy Fizz, Smoodh and Frooti brighten up the summer season. Their success is a result of the exceptional teamwork between Parle Agro and the Platinum team, leveraging every available data to maximise return on investment. We used Madison’s suite of OOH tools for scientific planning and faultless execution, adapting to each market’s unique needs. Despite the added challenge with General Election campaigns, our timing ensured our campaigns stood out without being overshadowed.”

  • 2023 NIQ bases breakthrough innovation awards in India

    2023 NIQ bases breakthrough innovation awards in India

    Mumbai: NielsenIQ has released its highly-anticipated BASES Breakthrough Innovation Awards for 2023. The awards recognize successful product launches across all strategies, ranging from launches that managed to disrupt their categories and grow their brand, to targeted plays that did not intend to appeal to the mass market but were meant to delight a specific target. This year, they are also acknowledging the ‘Wavemakers’ – innovations that, within less than three years, have already made a significant impact in their respective domain.

    This year, Breakthrough Innovation named 10 winners among this year’s innovative brands in India that have transformed their categories. It also acknowledged 2 Wavemakers, products that show great potential for future success.  

    This year’s Breakthrough Innovation winners have successfully navigated through a persistently precarious landscape, marked by the enduring impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions and extraordinary inflationary constraints.

    The recipients of this year’s India Breakthrough Innovation winners have made remarkable strides across diverse product categories. Buyers gravitated towards food and beverage brands that had a fun and indulgent aspect to them. Spicy flavors were very popular with buyers, but consumers were also seeking out healthy and whole ingredients in their snack foods. Whole ingredients transferred in other verticals too as buyers looked for healthy benefits in their personal care products with proactive and preventative care top of mind. Throughout all product categories, Breakthrough Innovation winners in Indian have excelled in delivering convenience through a variety of product formats and packaging options.

    “When it comes to evaluating innovations, there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach anymore. It is critical to understand the business objectives and the innovation strategy”, said BASES Leader South Asia Vidya Sen. “However, one common thread for success is sustainability of the innovation in-market which is non-negotiable”. As a result, BASES looks at the scale of the innovations in year 1 and their sustained growth in year 2, to arrive at the winners.

    BASES scrutinized 3000+ innovations across 85 categories in FMCG & OTC, to come up with 12-odd winners. The combined year 1 sales across the winners are Rs. 623 Crores, which speaks of the impact innovations can have if developed and executed with perfection.

    “Innovation is more than making a change. It is making a difference!” said Sen.

    The 2023 India Breakthrough Innovation Award Winners are:

    •  Cadbury 5 Star Oreo
    •  Cadbury Dairy Milk Lolly
    •  Cadbury Dairy Milk Silk Mousse
    • Colgate Visible White O2
    •  L’Oreal Paris Dream Lengths
    •  Lay’s Sizzlin’ Hot
    • SMOODH
    •  Sunfeast All Rounder Potato Biscuit – Cream & Herb
    •  Tata Soulfull Ragi Bites No Maida Choco
    •   Whisper Choice Night

    The 2023 India Breakthrough Innovation Award Wavemakers are:

    •    Dettol Powder to Liquid Handwash
    •    Lay’s Gourmet
  • Parle Agro launches ‘Smoodh Hazelnut Chocolate’ campaign; provides rich taste to consumers

    Parle Agro launches ‘Smoodh Hazelnut Chocolate’ campaign; provides rich taste to consumers

    Mumbai: Beverage giant Parle Agro has introduced a delicious new variant to their disruptive flavoured milk portfolio – Smoodh Hazelnut Chocolate. The new offering is the fourth addition to their widely loved dairy beverage range.

    Parle Agro has also introduced a high-intensity campaign for the new offering targeting consumers across India. This includes visibility in 90+ channels, digital platforms as well as across one-third of cinemas across India. 

    Crafted by combining the irresistible taste of top-quality hazelnuts and chocolate and blended with the goodness of milk, the new Smoodh Hazelnut Chocolate is a wholesome, energy-boosting, and nourishing drink. Its creamy and silky texture coupled with the rich taste of hazelnut chocolate is a complete delight to the taste buds and will light up your day in a healthy way. 

    Smoodh Hazelnut Chocolate is available in Parle Agro’s classic and convenient, single serve Tetra Pak at the price of Rs 10 for an 85 ml pack. Hazelnut-based offerings are typically priced higher than others. Driven by their resolute mission to bring best-in-class products to consumers across India, Parle Agro has been able to once again, draw on their innovative and technology-driven approach to offer a hazelnut flavoured chocolate milk drink at the incredible value of Rs 10, a price dominated by Parle Agro in the beverage category. 

    Commenting on the launch of the new flavour, Parle Agro joint managing director & CMO Nadia Chauhan said, “We are delighted to introduce Smoodh Hazelnut Chocolate and bring the rich taste of hazelnut and chocolate to consumers across India. This offering is another unique innovation from Parle Agro and we are confident it’ll see much love and acceptance from consumers.”

    Apart from Hazelnut Chocolate, the other three flavours that Smoodh is available in are ‘Chocolate Milk’, ‘Toffee Caramel’ and ‘Coffee Frappe’.