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Marketing vs. Sales through retail With a raft of brilliant teams and brand ambassadors contending for Field Marketing awards I was struck by the sheer versatility of the participants. What most of the best field teams have is an ability to blend marketing and sales know-how into the same person, the same brand ambassador. For many brand ambassadors visiting retail, that is especially the case. Single skill specialists such as merchandisers, samplers or van salespeople are disappearing. All-rounders have emerged who order stock, train store staff, report on compliance, connect marketing strands at the point of sale, negotiate sitings and sell direct. The best of these all-rounders are both marketers and salespeople. They influence sales (marketing) in an accountable way (sales). There is a clearly and direct correlation between the best brand ambassadors and the result at the till, with hard EPOS data to back that up.

brand knowledge bases with awareness of aspects of the marketer’s toolkit including the brand’s advertising, its product benefits, competitor activity, promotional activity and targeting. At the same time, they are expected to use sales skills such as negotiation, deal broking, leverage and sales analysis. Not only that, but they are expected to collate qualitative, quantative and transactional data, reporting both store and shopper product knowledge, reaction and brand love. From warm and woolly emotional feedback to cold and calculating ROI our brand ambassadors must seek opportunities to help the brand gain on its objectives. Collectively they are making some big calls for the business. Those who worry over defining field marketing vs field sales may be missing the bigger point. The point is that the collective knowledge going into store and the collected data and insight on departure make field teams and their actions a crucial business resource. Field teams are often called the eyes and ears of a brand but they are also its nervous system, responding to rapidly command and later delivering information that all parts of the body corporate can benefit from.

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Contents 1 Open Field 2 FM News 5 FMBE Symposium 8 FM Awards Shortlist BEST BE AUTUMn FORE 2016

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Core2Store and RSS see shopper angst shift The Ann Savva Group launches As little as 2 years ago the price of products was the most important issue for shoppers. Now, in a report from Shopper Insight Agency Core2Store, the position has shifted, and it’s more about availability. That is according to the collective findings of a shopper survey from Reasearchbods coupled with store insight from Core2Store and agency RSS.

Ann Savva Promotions announce the launch of The Ann Savva Group supporting Researchbods polled 1,000 people on their attitudes to their the additional range of services now daily shop. They reported that – relating to the major store offered to their clients. they shopped in – 38% of shoppers complained that products The 29 year old company is now focusing they wanted were not always available either normally or on on four key divisions of their award promotion. 31% complained that it was not easy to find the winning brand experience and events products they wanted – that’s compared to just 36% agency. The new dedicated business mentioning price. sectors include Promotions, Event Colin Harper MD of Core2Store explained “Price has continued Solutions, Field Marketing and to drop, ranges to compress, but products are not in place to Entertainment. meet demand. Unchanged store supply systems are just not up Originally a small modelling agency in to the job of moving products fast enough to meet local 1987, The Ann Savva Group client portfolio demand based on the need to make return on ever smaller includes global brands Citroën, margins”. Sennheiser, AEG and Telefónica O2, amongst others. “Over the years, the industry has advanced and our services and requirements from our clients have become more diverse. We are now capable of delivering across any brand experiential event, offering a full event solution, promotion, placement, audit or compliance project”, explains Mark Savva, managing director of The Ann Savva Group. The creation of The Ann Savva Group is also supported by a new brand identity.

The problem goes right back to individual stores, as RSS, a leading Field Marketing agency, found when they interviewed 177 managers, on their attitude to the shopper figures. 60% of these managers reported they agreed the availability issue applied in their store, but an interesting 12% of managers (18% for Morrisons) believed the position was worse than this. 70% of these managers reported that they would be very interested to learn where their store could do better. Ben Myles from RSS commented “Give managers believable figures, and show them where they can improve in their store and they will do all they can to help”. Myles added “Store managers are on the front line and you can build trust on the back of accurate, timely, advice” Harper summed up “There are real opportunities here to take a message of better to managers and meet a warm reception – one that will play well in terms of profit and ROI. We have case studies of 30% sales improvement from simply passing the right message to the right manager.”

Mette to supply Tesco with 900 demo units Mette, via its specialist sub-brand Pop Up Cookspace, has worked with brand activation agency N2O to produce 900 brand-adaptable demonstration units for use in Tesco stores across the UK.

partner that would meet its specific design and production requirements, combining both practical and visual appeal, and taking a more creative, design-led approach, that would be reflective of its clients’ brands.

This collaboration provides Tesco with a new range of demonstration units for the majority of its Extra and Superstore format stores. The units are readily available for Tesco and its suppliers to demonstrate, promote and sample in store with custom branding.

Grant Finney, senior campaign director at N2O, said: “Working with Mette was an enjoyable experience. They did a great job, delivering on time and on budget and maintaining high professional standards. Mette worked with us to identify challenges and devise solutions to meet our specific needs, showing a flexible, collaborative attitude at all times.”

N2O selected Mette following a comprehensive search for a

Contain launches with Havaianas TRO supports experiential marketing degree

Asset Space’s partner company, Contain, in conjunction with the commercial team at Cabot Circus, has developed its first bespoke outdoor retail solution combining brand experience with cutting-edge mall retail design.

Contain provided the design, conception, creation and delivery of an external retail platform for Havaianas.

Working with both the brand and the centre team throughout, Contain was able to deliver a completely bespoke unit which represents both Havaianas and Cabot Circus in a uniquely engaging way. The unit was installed and started trading on the 9th June 2016, and was in situ for four months. Contain works with brands and any venues to offer a bespoke and relatively low-cost platform for retail, promotions or food and beverage.

On Monday 26th September, members of the TRO team will visited Sheffield Hallam University to officially launch the UK’s first experiential marketing degree.

TRO has had input into the development of the course material and will be guest lecturing to students throughout the duration of the degree.

The team will meet the first cohort of 17 students on the International Events Management with Experiential Marketing course, the first degree of its kind in the UK.

Dr Phil Crowther, Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Business School said: “As a university we are committed to co-creating curriculums with industry partners to ensure our students are highly employable on completion of their course. We have enjoyed a great relationship with TRO over the past 18 months and are very much looking forward to educating the next generation of experiential marketers alongside the industry insights that TRO will provide.”

The agency has been working in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University since June 2015 to develop the “International Events Management with Experiential Marketing” course – with specific focus on offering “real world” industry advice and relevance to optimise student’s employability on graduation.

Tactical Solutions recognised by Investors in People Tactical Solutions has been recognised once again by Investors in People, after being awarded accreditation against the organisation’s standard, demonstrating their commitment to high performance through good people management.

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The agency took part in a rigorous review process, where an assessor visited their head office and assessed all elements from the training academy to the company induction where employees take part in a 26-week training programme.

Commenting on the award, Cathy Evans, managing director of Tactical Solutions said: “At Tactical we are all about our people, we pride ourselves on our dedicated teams who go out into the field every day, acting as brand ambassadors and communicating with key retailers on our clients’ behalf.

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Quiqup joins forces with Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Market and delivery company Quiqup announce exclusive partnership that enables Londoners to have groceries and household items delivered in as little as 1-2 hours. Having completed the pilot in May, Quiqup and Whole Foods have revolutionised the traditional e-commerce model by providing an on-demand delivery service that focuses entirely on the customer and their schedule.

“Essentially everything from tea bags to T-bone steaks are available to hundreds of thousands of Londoners.” Benjamin Woodgate, head of marketing at Whole Foods Market comments: “We are delighted that our customer’s appetite for the highest quality of natural and organic foods can now be met on-demand exclusively through Quiqup.” Customers select their preferred store, add items to a virtual shopping cart and then check out securely. Quiqup’s personal shoppers confirm incoming

Channel Advantage relaunches as Retail7

The change for the agency, which was founded in 1994, embraces the everchanging landscape of the retail sector and how it has now become a 24/7 industry.

Retail7’s brand review includes a new logo, tagline and website to supports its evolution since merging with the HPS Group in 2014. Tony Hall, MD of Retail7 commented: “The rebrand to Retail7 marks an exciting new chapter for us, at a time where the retail landscape is going through some of the biggest changes since its inception.

orders on their smartphones, shop for the items at Whole Foods stores and then handover the shopping to the

‘Quiqee’ driver to deliver to the requested address.

Lunchtime out

Online shopping has raised customer expectations dramatically in recent years. First, it was next day delivery. Now, it’s next hour delivery. If you can’t give someone what they want, when they want it, someone else will. “Products need to be on the shelf, correctly priced, attractively displayed and well supported by an expert, every second of every hour. Now, it seems, every day is a Saturday. Our new name reflects the new landscape: Retail7 provides marketing support for clients and retailers that’s always on.”

tasty brands including: * Cathedral City – Official Cheese

The ‘It’s Lunchtime’ promotional campaign returns for a third time at the end of this month supported by leading lunchtime focused grocery brands with the aim to encourage consumers to liven-up lunch and to shake up their midday eating habits.

* Carte Noire – Official Coffee

Consisting of major media, promotional and trade support activity, It’s Lunchtime will feature a lunchtime roadshow which will be taking to the road from September 22nd and reaching around half-a-million shoppers to highlight the importance of the midday day meal or snack and its importance to health, well-being, energy levels and concentration.

Over the duration of the roadshow, around 325,000 samples will be given out.

Packed with ideas to liven-up lunch and wellbeing, the roadshow has teamed up with

* Nakd – Official Healthy Snack * Bahlsen PiCK UP! – Official Biscuit * Clover – Official Dairy Spread * Kallo – Official Rice Cake

The roadshow will be appearing at two London mainline stations, Victoria and Waterloo, as well as 30 key Tesco and Sainsbury’s large format stores over four weeks of lunch tasting sessions, where they will be also giving out money saving vouchers.

Pension’s Day rolls out Pension Geeks, a service set up to help businesses to communicate with and engage with employees in regard to their financial futures, had been touring Britain in a branded double decker bus, in an awareness push that is supported by Scottish Widows. Field Marketing caught up with the roadshow at Broadmead in the city centre of Bristol. The bus is wrapped in colourful imagery designed in house by

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Pension Geeks, whose team create communications across all manner of marketing and communications platforms. Pension Geeks managing director, Jonathan Bland told Field Marketing that his service communicates pensions advice to businesses in a jargon free way using new media and smartphone technology. “We create animation, video, scripts, models and calculations and games”, he says.

The nationwide tour supports Pension Awareness Day (also created by Pension Geeks) and is staffed in house by the Pension

Geeks team. The bus was provided for the tour and wrapped by roadshow, exhibition and events business Commbus.

Seen and Heard

The FMBE Symposium was hosted back in May at Tobacco Dock, just after our Summer issue came off the presses. That makes it a distant memory, back when Brexit was just an outsiders bet - but we did see some fantastic keynotes and four panel sessions – 2 field marketing-led and two brand experience. Here is a reminder of the first field marketing-led sessions, on FMCG sales and marketing. Louise Fowler,

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Panel A – FMCG sales and marketing

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Fraser Doherty MBE

Sally Davis, MD, Logobrand

Louise Fowler, one of Britain’s most senior marketers, an ex-chief marketing officer from businesses including British Airways and First Direct opened our day by discussing creating an experience led enterprise and how inspired people and teams drive sales and marketing in business.

After Louise set the tone, and gave big business insight Fraser Doherty’s entertaining discourse told how he started out in business at 14 using his Gran’s recipes, He soon persuaded Waitrose to stock his 100% fruit SuperJam after a series of ‘nos’, by taking tips from his hero brand builders innocent on packaging style plus his own clear ideas on quality and bucket loads of self-belief.

Laura Keates, business director, RPM

Fraser ran through his career whilst overviewing a gamut of FMCG skills including sales, retailer communications, product presentation and sampling and growing Internationally. Fraser’s inspiring story also told how he had segued from jam recipes, marked by his SuperJam Cookbook, into a deeper understanding of entrepreneurialism expressed in his 2011 book SuperBusiness. He also overviewed the successful launch of his craft beer club, Beer52 and the emergence of his charity SuperJam Tea Parties that entertain elderly people.

David Louis, S ales and Marketing Director, Field Sales Solutions Mark Jones, head of sales development, Warburtons Crispin Reeves, MD, Haughton Honey Our panel saw two FMCG brands represented at both ends of the manufacturing scale. One was Mark Jones from Britain’s most chosen brand (according to Kantar), Warburtons and Crispin Reeves from a successful start-up, Haughton Honey, recently listed in Northern English food retailer Booths. These two were joined by two sales agency leaders, Sally Davis from Logobrand and David Louis, Field Sales Solutions. Finally, Laura Keates, a shopper marketing expert from marketing agency RPM completed the panel. Louise Fowler facilitated. The panel were unanimously inspired to be on stage after Fraser who David Louis said was “such a great example of focus and the drive to keep trying.”

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L-R David Louis, Mark Jones, Sally Davis, Laura Keates, Crispin Reeves, Louise Fowler.

The group naturally discussed how best to bring retailers on board. One of the challenges, Crispin Reeves noted, for a new brand in store, was focussing away from promotion noise and just making sure of on shelf presentation and availability. Laura Keates questioned how you bring the theatre of marketing into the store in a convincing way before giving her own team’s work with chocolate at Easter in Tesco. She said, “In a category where everyone wants space understanding what Tesco wanted was key- they wanted more than just samplingmore than just leafletting.” Whilst Keates advocated bringing brands to life in store, Mark Jones focussed on the pragmatic approach needed in order to win over the most senior decision makers in store. He commented: “the greatest success comes through connecting with senior people. You have to establish the right level of competence and provide some insight of value to them. It is easier in some stores than others to gain benefits through influences.” Picking up on this David Louis added: “You need to engage the principle of involving everyone at a retailer from senior staff right down to the floor staff.” The panel then picked up on Laura Keates’ earlier points about sampling. Sally Davis commented that a danger of sampling is that it isn’t sure to engage, whilst Mark Jones described the cost stores ask in order to sample in them as ‘absurd’. The panel advocated the difference that can be made in store by field marketers that can sell the store team their vision and why their brand plan will benefit the

store, the conversation turned towards the provision of, and use of data. Sally Davis commented: “We invest heavily in real-time technology, continually developing applications to make our work more effective. Using measurable real time data, you can be driving sales- target right actions create right experiences. Tech should be doing 75% of what we should be doing manually to make us more effective.” The panel discussion advocated technology to push ROI up, to drive store actions and to audit though Laura Keates warned that from an experience perspective, too many brands present to shoppers instore using technology for technology’s sake. Directing the audience questions (which were brought to the panel via real time polling using on screen technology from Glisser), Louise Fowler brought the panel to a conclusion by asking Mark Jones a question about the effect of a wellknown Warburton’s TV commercial that had enlisted The Muppets to help launch Giant Crumpets, one of the recent success stories in store for Warburtons. “I am proud of the Muppets advert,” he said, “we looked for fame and talkability and the advert helped connect to retailers who wanted to add value to their sales at bakery.”

Warburtons and Giant Crumpets are shortlisted in the product launch category of the FMBE Awards 2016. The shortlist awards preview runs right through this issue.

Illustrations were drawn live at the FMBE Symposium, Tobacco Dock, by Sam the Illustrator, sourced for the event by Kru Talent International

Report: Town Centre vs Online UK shoppers’ ongoing love for the high street experience will keep town centre shopping alive, according to a new report.

people buying online, almost a fifth (18%) want to see stores develop a more community spirit than consumerist feel.

‘Online Vs Instore’ by shopper behaviour experts The Market Creative found that 75% of consumers will not desert the high street for online shopping, with nearly half (47%) preferring to get a feel for products in person and almost a quarter (23%) enjoying the social side of going out shopping.

The Market Creative surveyed more than 1,000 UK shoppers to better understand the relationship between shopping instore and online.

But while shoppers’ love affair with the high street will protect it from the pressure of

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Sixty per cent of shoppers said they preferred to go instore at some point, whether to research products, try before buying online or just to buy. The majority of respondents (88%) said that staff on the

shop floor could make or break an enjoyable experience. Shopping solely online was preferred by 40% of shoppers. Ease, price and choice were the main reasons shoppers felt e-commerce would eventually lead to the death of the high street. Sue Benson, managing director at The Market Creative said: “Declining footfall and shop closures paint a gloomy picture of the high street. But we shouldn’t underestimate just how much we as a nation love the experience of

spending time with friends and family out shopping. The need to see and try products in the flesh will also continue to send shoppers out into towns and city centres. “A call for retailers to focus more on their communities and less on consumerism means building a richer experience, promoting shopping together, delivering an exceptional service, and encouraging play and engagement on a deeper, less transactional level.”

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The FMBE Awards 2016: Powerful Brands in Action

B: Most effect demo or sampling at retail

Sponsored by Teamhaven A fine shortlist belies a category where the strength in depth did not run deeply for a second year running. Nevertheless, the finalists are all identifiably high on accountability and ROI. Have Fizz Experience and The Food Warehouse done enough a year on to step up from silver in 2015 to gold this year?

Fizz Experience – The Food Warehouse by Iceland Gekko – Beko GMR Marketing – Miller Lite N2O – Flora & Bertolli PSfm – Sonos REL Field Marketing – Panasonic Space – Nivea

If 2015 saw a trend saw a trend of extended client relationships, then 2016 is seeing the fruit of that as more entries than ever are quoting a rolling yoy improvement. Consequently, the sales and instore category finalists have greater assurance than ever, a sense of tried and trusted partnerships showing how content they are to have moved up another level. That’s not to say that new relationships haven’t been impressive too. There are even new brands showing how they can use FM for cut through in terms of marketing share and whose current agency partnerships were plotted at earlier FMBE get togethers or client groups. There are quite a number of teams breaking through from other countries too, our ever strong Irish contingent augmented by finalists from Holland, Italy, Romania, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and the US. A: Outsourced Sales Performance of the Year ODM’s Virgin Atlantic team

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Field Sales Solutions – Ferrero Gekko – Hive promogems – Atkins Logobrand – Wrigley NexusEngage – VIP e-Cigarette Orchid – Storck REL Field Marketing – Danone Waters/Red Bull

Momentum/ Asda (Minions)

A huge entry saw a variety of approaches in store. To make like for like comparisons as close as possible the category has been split into campaigns that are led by the objective of influencing stores and campaigns that are led by direct shopper engagement. The quality was high enough for a gold in both divisions. Both golds will be stage presented on awards night. The category broke all records in FM with a massive entry that reflect the growing importance of shopper marketing to brands, and saw some finalists who set exceptional standards – some of the best entries we have seen in FM Award history. Two shortlists emerged – one with B2B/ store focus and one going direct to shoppers. Amongst the store influencers, could Contract People defend gold in this category with Pladis’ brand Carr’s? Could REL, who won silver last year, carry on a strong tradition in this category with shortlisted work for Ritz and Tetley? To do so they will have to see off formidable grocery challengers from renowned agencies Logobrand, McCurrach and Tactical Solutions, and a great brand presence story for Adidas in the Philippines from Spark. Amongst the shopper engagement finalists, we saw a welcome return to the category from Gekko and its sister agency g2, proving their versatility with Karcher and Fitbit respectively, whilst BWP and PrettyGreen both showed how best to exploit a solid relationship with the retailer brand. That is also the case for Momentum in Asda, with two case studies showing a great understanding of shopper psyche. Grup Saptes’ effective work with Beko in Romania is an international raider with enough creative competency to keep any instore team on their toes.

D1: Influencing Stores

Contract People – Carr’s Logobrand – Tassimo McCurrach – Kerry Cheestrings REL Field Marketing – Ritz Crisp & Thin REL Field Marketing – Tetley Spark Field Solutions – Adidas Tactical Solutions – Tangerine

D2: Engaging Shoppers BWP Group – IKEA g2 – Fitbit Gekko – Karcher Grup Sapte – Beko Momentum – Asda (Evian) Momentum – Asda (Minions) PrettyGreen – Pandora

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E: Tactical Campaign

F: Team of the Year

The category is split into 2 divisions, ROI focussed and marketing led. In the ROI division Acer vs Acer is an intriguing sideshow and two laptop demo teams went head to head with intense sales excellence. Innovation in the category came from PSfm and Sonos using the brand strengthening power of store in store to benefit headphone demos. Entries for Tassimo, Tetley and innocent showed that core skills of ROI-driven field sales at grocery still has the power to deliver stunning results. In the tactical campaigns led by marketing, variety and innovation impressed our judges who were tested by some ‘only at FMBE’ entries. First up was an astonishing entry for Pawn broker customer acquisition using field teams in the Philippines whilst a much more conventional merchandising activity for Intel by Spark was energetically activated in the same country. Blended FM techniques to launch Hop House 13 for Diageo in Ireland, and the merchandising team behind M&S Rosie showed immense effectiveness. Campaigns with a brand experience feel led to big success at a festival for Rockstar and via a pop up shop for The Pet Shop Boys.

This was undoubtedly the toughest category to judge and high standards meant that some stellar reputations failed to make the short list. There were 20 teams shortlisted at one point! The involvement of many big field national field teams mean that this is still the award that is the most followed up and down the country. Category masters, REL Field Marketing have seen two teams shortlist again, this time matched by Field Sales Solutions. Agency Orchid has won ‘Team’ before and Tactical Solutions and Kru Live have both won staff performance awards at FMBE in 2014 and 15 respectively. ODM’s return to FMBE competition after a couple of years out has been marked with a team entry that lives up to a great track record in the awards.

E1: At Store/ROI Led

PSfm/ Sonos

Agent42 – Acer Gekko – Acer Logobrand – Tassimo PSfm – Sonos REL Field Marketing – Tetley Tactical Solutions – innocent

Field Sales Solutions – Ferrero Field Sales Solutions – Pladis Kru Live – Bright Partnerships and DHL ODM – Virgin Atlantic Orchid – Storck REL Field Marketing – Molson Coors REL Field Marketing – News UK Tactical Solutions – innocent

Gekko/ Karcher

E2: Tactical Campaign POS/ Marketing/Experience Led Cebuana Lhuillier (in house) Contract People – Hop House 13 eXPD8 – M&S Rosie Slingshot Sponsorship – Rockstar Energy Drink Spark Field Solutions – Intel Worth Retail – The Pet Shop Boys SUPER

PrettyGreen/ Pandora N2O/ Flora and Bertolli

g2/ Fitbit Worth Retail/ The Petshop Boys, SUPER

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Experience Draft A press release received recently was about an app that helps drinkers or bar staff know one Cask Ale from another, including tasting notes and heritage, direct from the brewer (see Technofield this issue). The app creators are definitely onto something. The craft beer revolution is surging onwards and upwards with many new beer aficionados emerging. For pubs that have been losing out to at home drinking there is an opportunity here, a chance to be the place where drinkers can indulge in a perfect pint, conditioned, poured and served to its best advantage. But in most pubs the staff seem to know little about the beers, and often don’t offer taste advice. In fact, bar staff typically seem nonplussed when it comes to talking about their hero products and beers are often relegated to side order status with food being the focus.

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Great beer presentation may not reverse the long-term decline of the beer/drinking pub but it can combat that decline, but a core part of the press release shows the benefits of quality counter staff. “The Report shows 81% of Cask Marque pubs to be growing sales – which, when set in the context of the overall cask market, indicate a direct correlation between quality and sales. According to the research, 90% of consumers say beer quality is very important or essential when choosing where to drink. Additionally, cask drinkers spend on average £967 a year in pubs – nearly twice the amount other drinkers spend. “Given that, it’s a commercial no-brainer to make sure pub staff know how to look after, taste and judge the cask ale they are serving,” says Cask Marque’s Paul Nunny. A cosy night out at the pub can still be an attractive proposition and the quality of the experience is reliant on people+ products (with a dash of technology too, if you like apps). The pub drinking sector is certainly one where brand experience is often poor. A bit of brand knowledge goes a long way to maintaining brand value and shopper spend in any bricks and mortar retailer. We can talk about this over a beer at next weeks FMBE Awards, October 20th!

Walkers injects extra flavour

Lovefone opens world’s smallest repair shops

To celebrate Britain’s love of sandwiches, Walkers added excitement to its latest sandwich-inspired flavours campaign with a new TV advert and pop-up crisp sarnie shop.

Lovefone have opened up the world’s tiniest repair shops inside British red telephone booths. The first of its kind was unveiled on Tuesday, 16th August 2016 on Greenwich High Street. The advent of mobile technology has made the iconic red telephone boxes obsolete. Lovefone is bringing these listed structures back into public service by creating tiny mobile phone repair shops with a free charging service.

Building on its tie-up with Heinz to launch the six limited-edition flavours. Walkers’ latest activity offered consumers the chance to win £10,000 every week, as well as ‘sarnie’ themed prizes and free crisps.

Lovefone has started with locations in Greenwich and Knightsbridge and is planning another 6 boxes in London. The aim is to have 35 locations in London over the next 18 months with Franchise opportunities available outside London.

Rob Kerr, Lovefone Company comments: “High street retail in London has become very expensive and difficult to acquire. We already send technicians across the city on bikes with a briefcase of parts so the phone box is actually just enough space for a tiny repair shop. They also happen to be located on most major high streets in the UK, there are 7000 in the UK that get used on less than once per month by the public. Now the we have the first in place we’re seeing a great response from the public. We’re keen to drive local awareness of our presence in the communities where we launch so experiential will be key.”

In the new TV advert, brand ambassador Gary Lineker was joined by Paddy McGuiness to run a club serving only crisp sarnies. The new TV creative, which sees Gary and Paddy take over a real café launched on September 1st.

Thomas Barkholt, marketing director at Walkers, comments: “Our new ad and experiential experience are great ways to drive further excitement behind our To support the campaign, members of the on-pack flavours promotion. The pop-up shop is a brand new public could buy tickets to visit the concept for us and we are sure it ‘Walkers Crisp Sarnie Club’ pop-up. will give consumers an Visitors were invited to an unassuming newsagent in London where they entered unforgettable experience.” a hidden door, behind a crisps display, to Creative agency Initials was enter the crisp sarnie experience. Guests responsible for the experiential could immerse themselves in a mixture of development of the campaign. experiences such as ‘Build Your Own Production was handled by The Sarnie’, an interactive menu and a Halo group, working closely with squidgy ‘bread bed’. Initials.

Indesit Launderette at Camp Bestival

Ben and Jerry’s s‘Wich things up Hot Pickle devised an experiential activity to promote Ben and Jerry’s new ‘Wich family range of products. The ‘Wich activation was split into two parts, the first was the Ben and Jerry’s camper situated in Box Park Shoreditch, the Ben and Jerry’s hub allowed ice cream fans to Win a ‘Wich on the big spinning wheel or have their go at scoring a free treat on the ‘Wich and Putt. The Ben and Jerry’s area encouraged the people of Shoreditch to come and make their own ‘Wich creation and select the cookies and Ice cream combination

flavours themselves to create their perfect ‘Wich, they can then sit back and relax and enjoy their creations in the chill out area. The second part of the ‘Wich tour saw Ben and Jerry’s fans from other areas of London getting a slice of the action. The branded VW toured the city handing out free scoops of the new S’Wich up pint. Rupert Pick, Hot Pickle director and co-founder says: “It’s a real privilege to work with Ben & Jerry’s. They not only make fabulous ice cream; they also care about the community.”

Indesit attended Camp Bestival for the 3rd consecutive year, and once again gave visitors the chance to get their dirty laundry washed and dried for free, as well as hosting a variety of football-themed activities to keep families entertained.

The Indesit Full Time Launderette featured a bank of Innex washing machines and energy-efficient heat pump tumble dryers, with a team of singing launderetters on hand to complete festival-goer’s laundry for free throughout the weekend.

Indesit joined forces with its official partners, Arsenal FC and sportswear brand Puma, to bring the Family Football Experience to Camp Bestival. The Junior Gunner’s clubhouse offered face-painting, arts & crafts and two big screens for FIFA tournaments. There were also 5-a-side matches, skills tests and coaching sessions that saw 600 children enjoying a kick-about in the sunshine.

Sam Johnson, brand manager, Indesit UK & Ireland commented: “We were thrilled at how popular the Indesit Full Time Launderette was again at this year’s Camp Bestival. Our Innex washing machines were running at full capacity for the entire festival, with so many families very pleased to have the hassle of festival laundry taken care of for them, helping to save them time, money and effort so they could concentrate on enjoying the festival.”

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Ghostbusters impresses at Waterloo Sony Pictures launched A super-sized spooky Out-of-Home campaign with JCDecaux. The event saw Waterloo Station transformed into a filmthemed showcase for two weeks to promote the release of the new Ghostbusters film.

transformed with New York vinyl wraps and atmospheric audio, including eerie snatches of sound from New York City.

Eight meter ‘Slime Poles’ were placed around the station, and a giant sculpture of the ‘Stay Puft’ Marshmallow Man could be seen smashing through the concourse floor. Commuters were encouraged to capture a picture and share on Twitter using #ghostbusterswaterloo.

The creative was handled by Feref and media handled by MGOMD and Talon.

Visitors could buy merchandise at a pop-up Ghostbusters retail unit which had been built to look like a New The campaign activity was augmented York Subway entrance which was run by Forbidden Planet. with a variety of global media-firsts debuting at the Waterloo Station The campaign concept was created, spectacular. managed and executed by JCDecaux.

An immersion zone in the station’s busy commuter tunnel had been

Colour in and eat lunch Kabuto Noodles brought a giant colouring in billboard to London’s most stressed boroughs, touring Westminster, Greenwich and Hackney, offering busy Londoners respite from a tough day at work with a calming colouring in billboard and serving up hot noodles pots from their range.

on-trend activity to reduce stress and strongly linked to mindfulness and meditation.

Kabuto Noodles founder Crispin Busk comments: “Kabuto Noodle and Rice pots are all about helping people reclaim their lunch break while still enjoying Working with top mindful illustrator Mike something hot, tasty and filling.” Collins, Kabuto Noodles produced a Illustrator Mike Collins world first 10 foot by 20-foot colouring commented: “Colouring in is a in board for Londoners to bring to life great activity to help get rid of with colour during their lunch. An stress and clear the mind. Focusing on simple actions really helps the brain let go of worries and anxiety, and the end result also looks great. I can’t wait to see people bring my illustration to life on such a large scale.”

Stacey Knight, director of JCDecaux Blue said: “Waterloo station is the perfect location to create memorable experiences for commuters. The team at JCDecaux had a lot of fun coming up with the creative ideas for the Ghostbusters campaign.”

Londoners could request a visit from the billboard and some noodles by tweeting Kabuto Noodles and explaining why they need to reclaim their lunch break.

Deliveroo feeds Pokémon trainers Pokémon Go trainers were treated to a surprise delivery of free sushi an evening in late July as they took to the capital’s hotspots on the hunt for the new game’s elusive characters.

iD appointed by The Co-operative Group iD, has been appointed by The experiences that will drive excitement Co-operative Group to deliver a series amongst new audiences and of experiential campaigns on behalf showcase their great tasting food.” of Co-op Food. The news arrived shortly after The Emma Ede, managing director for iD, Co-operative Group announced they said, “We’re delighted to be given the are set to re-brand and go back to opportunity to work in partnership using the blue cloverleaf logo of with Co-op Food; creating authentic before.

Freeman achieves ISO 20121 Freeman has announced it has received the ISO 20121 Event Sustainability Management System certification, the first in its industry to do so on a global scale. The certification is an international standard designed to help organisations involved in the events and hospitality industries integrate sustainability into management practices and processes. “Environmental and social responsibility has always been at the heart of Freeman and guides our business,” said Jeff Chase, vice president of sustainability, Freeman

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who oversees the company’s sustainability initiatives and led the certification effort. “Earning this certification – an industry first – reflects the philosophy of our founder, Buck Freeman, and is a tribute to the over 7,000 employees who strive to create sustainable events for our clients.” First introduced at the 2012 London Olympic Games, ISO 20121 provides a management blueprint to address the “triple bottom line” of sustainability – the economic, environmental and social impacts of events.

Deliveroo invited trainers across London to tweet the location of their Pokémon Gym in a bid to win a free delivery of sushi. Answering the call for gaming sustenance, Roos were spotted feeding the trainers in a number of London locations including Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus – the most popular Pokémon Gym in the city.

and receive edible treats direct from Deliveroo restaurant partner Yo! Sushi. Deliveroo spokesperson, Kate Thomas said, “With players focusing on the game, they don’t always have the time to head to the shops or cook. We hope that our delivery will help trainers keep their energy levels up for the hours of gruelling hunting and battles ahead!”

Teams Red, Blue and Yellow battled to lure the Roos to their PokéStop

Keeping Up with The Jones’ pops up Meredith O’Shaughnessy introduced Londoners to The Jones Family in her latest pop up adventure ‘Keeping Up With The Jones’ which launched in July at Clerkenwell Green.

Actors played the role of The Jones Family. Mrs Jones led guests on a food and drink adventure of Mrs Jones secret recipes, including, edible vodka toothpaste, cocktails in detergent bottles, gin and tonic marshmallows and macaroon dishwasher tablets.

‘Keeping Up With The Jones’ was hosted in conjunction with, Whirlpool and Bang & Olufsen and featured an array of their state of the art products Guests could enjoy one of Mrs Jones and appliances throughout the hampers, brimming with her classic ultramodern Jones household. British picnic favourites, in the Home’s Zen Garden or dance the night away Each room revealed a collection of experiences for her guests to explore, in the dirty laundry pop up disco bar including a giant dishwasher room for complete with Whirlpool washingmachine cocktail makers and edible guests to get inside, A washing liquid-tabs. powder snow-storm, a Bang & Olufsen sound-lounge, a feather-filled pillow fight space, a disco launderette and a Zen garden complete with 6th Sense meditation zones.

Ali Reynolds from Hawksmoor created the cocktail list for guests to sample – with cocktail creations including: Bright & Shiny, Liquid Luxury and Nosey Neighbours.

Independent Events seek out Boohoo vote Brand ambassadors supplied by Independent Events hit the streets of the UK to generate votes for Boohoo. com in support of two ITV Lorraine’s High Street Fashion Awards. Boohoo. com made the shortlist for a 5th consecutive year for both Best Online Retailer and Best Curvy Collection for their Boohoo Plus range. Independent Event’s street teams were out in force spreading the Boohoo.com

word, pushing the votes in key cities such as Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester. Armed with goodie bags and discount vouchers, they engaged with over 14,000 potential voters. The campaign generated a lot of interest and Boohoo.com won both of their categories to once again came out as the best online retailer for the fifth year in a row.

The Event Professional’s Handbook Over 80 event industry professionals and influencers celebrated the release of the Event Professional’s Handbook in September at OXO2. The Event Professional’s Handbook, a collection of interviews, essays and insights from some of the event industry’s most influential figures, is available to download for free worldwide from all the major book retailers, including Amazon, Apple books, Kobo, Scribd and Google Play books.

n ‘ Planning

Contributors Kevin Jackson and Simon Burton at the Event Professional's Handbook launch

an Event like a Celebrity’ by Jason Allan Scott, Premier Party Planner

n ‘ Experience

is Bigger Than Just the Event’ by Bonny Shapira, Leader, Cisco Live EMEA

n ‘ Technology

May Facilitate and Enhance a Real Human Experience But Never Replace it’ by Mark Smith, Marketing Director, GSMA

The book, created in partnership by The Experience is the Marketing and Citizen Event, features thoughts, ideas, experiences and future predictions from some of the most interesting thinkers and practitioners in the industry. Chapters include:

n ‘ The

Art of Engagement’ by Peter Wardell, Magician, Speaker and Founder of Unconventional Speakers

n ‘ Events:

Creating Emotional Memorabilia, From Band to Brand’ by Kevin Jackson, Director of Ideas and Innovation, The Experience is the Marketing

n ‘ Events

Always Going to be the Human Need to Gather, and we Can Try to Create Another Understanding of it’ by Debs Armstrong, CEO, Strong & Co

Are Like a Chemical Reaction’ by Björn Wigforss, Marcom Director for Events, Microsoft

n ‘ There’s

n ‘ The

Magic Moments’ by Chris Baréz Brown, Founder, Upping Your Elvis

n ‘ Events

– The Real Social Media’ by Simon Burton, CEO, Exposure Communications Trade Show Market in Southeast Asia’ by Mark Cochrane, Managing Director, Business Strategies Group, Regional Manager in Asia, UFI

n ‘ The

Impossible is the Possible in the Events Industry’ by Tracy Halliwell, Director of Business Tourism and Major Events, London & Partners

n ‘ The

Changing Face of Sponsorship’ by Chris Hornbuckle, Founder, Sports Optimus

n ‘ Bums

on Seats: The Art of Audience Acquisition’ by Simon Hughes, Managing Partner, MCHA Ltd

n ‘ The

Events Are a More Effective Tool to Support Brands’ by Nick de Bois, Chairman, UK Events Industry Board

n ‘ The

Attendee Experience of the Future – Will you be Ready?’ by Brian Ludwig, Senior Vice President, Cvent

n ‘ Why

Hard, Play Hard and Be Kind’ by Sean Doyle, Director of Brand and Creative, Clive

n ‘ Producing

Brilliant Experiences is a Balance Between Art and Science’ by Jason Megson, Managing Director, George P. Johnson

n ‘ Work

n ‘ Sports

Events’ by Nigel Rushman, Founder, Rushmans

Entertainment for the evening at OXO2, a Concerto Group venue, was magician, founder of Unconventional Speakers and contributor to the handbook, Peter Wardell. The event was captured by Darren Bandoo Photography and each guest received a complimentary copy of the Event Professional’s Handbook. Sam Gill, CEO of Concerto Group, said: “We were delighted to be hosting such an important group of luminaries from the events industry including many of the contributors to this fascinating insight into our constantly changing live events landscape.” Kevin Jackson, Director of Ideas and Innovation, the Experience is the Marketing, said: “Our contributors have designed, created, promoted and attended a vast array of events, spanning the entire event industry. Their knowledge and experience is a powerful tool for any event professional, whether budding or established. The Event Professional’s Handbook captures a glimpse ‘behind-the-scenes’ of how some of this industry’s most influential people operate and we’re very proud we can make this resource free for every event professional across the world.”

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From the Top After a year and a half as MD at George P Johnson, what are the ambitions for a global agency that has such a broad event and experiential reach? Harriet Cramer put the questions to Jason Megson. What is new in the world of GPJ? In the eighteen months that I have been here, I have seen a lot of interesting moves in terms of senior hires and new talent. These moves are across digital, creative and strategy, which has been really positive for the business. We are already seeing the fruits of the new hires and seeing some changes coming in terms of how they have inspired some of the existing agency. We are moving as a business more towards focusing on our ideas, thinking and innovation, verses just the delivery which is essentially where we have come from as a business.

Where has the influx of new talent come from? A lot of our talent has come from non-traditional brand experience or events routes. One of our chief strategy officers has come from Ogilvy group where they worked in advertising, sponsorship, PR and entertainment, so a very interesting and diverse background. Our head digital strategist has come from sapientNitro social partners, a big WPP agency, that is active in the digital space. Our executive creative director has a mix of skills from having his own agency and experience at large integrated groups like Iris, and Jack Morton Worldwide. It has been really beneficial to have this diverse mix of skills come in.

Do you feel it’s important to attract young people into the industry? It is hugely important, it’s been one of our biggest challenges and still is. I think we have a legacy of people my age and maybe older falling into the industry. We can look at other communication industries and see any transferable skills and see if we can poach them and bring them across to our industry in order to upscale. Those industries themselves, advertising, media and PR are also struggling to find talent. There are people at university who are bright, talented and creative but they are going to tech companies or start-ups and doing their own thing. There has never been a better time to start a career in events. As agencies, we need to up our game, we need to offer a really interesting and compelling career for people. We are working with people who are not going to university. We are looking into setting up apprenticeships, we are working a lot more closely with university organisations. We need people from a diverse range of different backgrounds. As an agency we don’t tell a good enough story about why it is great to work in brand experience and as an industry we are terrible at it. The life of the agency is the people, if we don’t have people we don’t have an agency, just a website that some guy designed.

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What else has been going on at GPJ over the last 12 months? We have won some new business which shows that directionally, we are making some positive changes. We are delivering in different sectors and different industries and widening our capabilities. As well as winning new clients, we are also delivering slightly different work that wouldn’t necessarily be traditionally our area of expertise. Not only are we doing big things that we wouldn’t have done before, we have also been able to be more nimble and entrepreneurial and go for smaller projects that are more focused on creativity and innovation and some of those more interesting new areas of digital brand experience. It’s been great to have the skills and the flexibility to give the agency a slightly difference outlook on what it can achieve.

What excites you most about brand experience industry? We are still a young industry. Us at GPJ and the industry as a whole can create our own future. We aren’t hemmed in by the more established communications channels or areas of expertise, so it’s exciting to know that the future is a bit of an unknown. It’s up to us to create that future. I think the nature of being a young industry means that our clients are quite diverse in terms of their understanding of what we can do for them. Why brand experience is, and could be an important way for them to spread their message as a brand. That openness means that there are lots of opportunities for us to do different and new and exciting things. We are the teenagers in the communications industry. We can be a bit more bolshie, we can take more risks.

Where do you see the future of the brand experience industry going? Who knows! It’s up to us as an industry to decide what we want to make it. We can make it huge, in terms of how big brand experience is and will be to our clients. It should be our ambition to make it as big as advertising was in the 70 and 80s in terms of the scale and the value we can bring to clients. My ambition is that we usurp one of the more traditional communications channels. So a chief marketing officer, if things change or if they want things to change, will pick up the phone to their brand experience agency, we have the opportunity to do that, we have lots of work to do to get there. We have to commit, we have to make sure we have the right skills, we have to be confident but I think we can do it and that’s what I want to do.

As a multinational company do you feel that Brexit is going to have an effect on this office? On the whole no. There may be some functional things that become slightly trickier like moving things around Europe, which we are very used to doing. 25/30 per cent of our business from our London office is delivered in the UK- so even within George P Johnson we are one of the most international offices. We are pretty resilient to changes within the local market as well as the UK. I am relatively pragmatic about it and I think that, as an agency, we have to stay optimistic. We are always adapting to change. We are 102 years old as an agency, we have been through two world wars and multiple recessions, we have seen the car industry which is what we were built around, nearly collapse. We survive and get stronger, for us it’s just one of those things, you have to look for opportunities in the face of any adverse conditions.

How does a Pan-European campaign, such as Oral B get anchored and if so does London run it? We run a lot of pan regional activity and the nature of how our business is structured means that we run a hub and spoke model in GPJ EMEA. We have offices in London, Norway, Paris, Belgium and Poland. In London, we are full service with all the skills and all the capabilities of the GPJ network. When a project comes into one of the smaller offices, we are able to bring those skills in and work, either remotely or bring them into the offices to deliver. We are flexible enough that we can scale up or scale down as much as we need to.

Is there much innovation in the automotive sector? There’s plenty. A prime example is The Consumer Electronics Show in LA, there are now 30 -40 car brands that are going there instead of going to a traditional auto show because they want to talk about how it’s not just a mobility story for a car it’s about the technology. It’s an enhanced motor story. For them, it’s constant innovation. Companies can’t rest on their laurels. An engine and leather seats isn’t good enough. They have to offer the buyer something more substantive and technology is hugely important in this industry. We see lots of innovations whether it’s at auto shows or talking to car manufacturers about how they want to present themselves internally to their staff. It’s going to be a bumpy road for the auto industry over the next 10-15 years, there’s a lot of change on the horizon for the industry. Only the strongest and most innovative will survive but that’s good. All brands now need to make sure they are delivering something to the people they are selling to. We are in a much more democratised consumer powered world were if you aren’t giving anything back to the consumer, you shouldn’t exist. You can’t hide behind being a big corporation anymore, the most progressive brands and companies know that.

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Recently seen at intu...

Awards Preview: Brand Experience Categories

Recent months have seen brands taking major strides in using a combined mix of experiential and high impact ambient media sites at intu. intu shopping centres offer hanging banners, escalator wraps, pillars and balustrades. The ambient sites deliver 100% share of voice for a 2-week takeover campaign. They build precampaign excitement and true domination for the brand while used alongside experiential. Angry Birds took over 8 intu centres in May. These pictures were taken at intu Lakeside.

More entries and more quality – this has been another record breaking year for the Brand Experience Awards – our reward for 12 years of consistently great champions in brand experience together with clients who drive entries from their agencies and the most exacting of judging processes across weeks of deliberation and debate. We did hear that BE Awards are just too competitive for some and it is true that there are going to be some much lauded campaigns that won’t add to their credentials with a win here (and some that will), but for most that simply means you haven’t come up against such good rivals and such intense scrutiny as you do at the BE Awards. But most people do understand that the most rewarding wins are when you have edged a close contest vs the very best and a glance through this shortlist is all that anyone needs to know that has to be the case here. BE Awards are true recognition of excellence. G: Sponsorship Activation

20th Century Fox have taken brand immersion at intu to a new level through their sponsorship of intu’s half term activities, most recently for Kung Fu Panda 3, which sponsored all 15 of intu centre’s kids clubs.

The strongest entry list since 2013 sees a divide into sports sponsorship and music/entertainment activations with both being presented gold on stage on the awards night. In the Sports division the locations of the activations show some of the exciting events that benefit from brand entertainment – Wimbledon, Tough Mudder, Aegon Championships (Queen’s Club), Major League Baseball, The Color Run, Rugby in Australia, and the Champions League Football Festival (Berlin). As one judge commented “The won’t be any one of these seven not expecting to win. This is great work.” In the Music and Entertainment division of Sponsorship Activation, brands took advantage of music festivals and film tie-ins, namely, The Capital Summertime Ball, Big Feastival, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Creamfields, Snowbombing and Absolutely Fabulous. As with Sports the standard was regarded as exceptional.

G1: Sponsorship Activation (Sports) Amplify – Lavazza Banana Kick – Kingstone Press ClinkClink – Moet & Chandon GMR Marketing – Esurance Toucan – Ocean Spray Traffik – Samsung TRO – Nissan

G2: Sponsorship Activation (Music and Film) Turkish Airlines used ambient hanging space to dramatic effect. This scale aircraft took to the sir above shoppers at intu Trafford Centre

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FreemanXP – Vodafone Fusion – Renault Initials – Jeep Undercurrent – Samsung & Vodafone Vision Nine – Three White Label – Stolichnaya Vodka

McCann London & Momentum/ Xbox, Tomb Raider

Reach over 1 million customers every day intu Braehead 350,000 weekly footfall* 51% ABC1, 76% female Largest exp. space: 10m x 9m Manchester Arndale 800,000 weekly footfall* 57% ABC1, 61% female Largest exp. space: 15m x 7.5m intu Trafford Centre 600,000 weekly footfall* 66% ABC1, 79% female Largest exp. space: 13m x 5m intu Potteries 240,000 weekly footfall* 51% ABC1, 75% female Largest exp. space: 6m x 5m intu Derby 465,000 weekly footfall* 54% ABC1, 63% female Largest exp. space: 10m x 9m intu Merry Hill 450,000 weekly footfall* 53% ABC1, 61% female Largest exp. space: 22m x 12m intu Milton Keynes 330,000 weekly footfall* 71% ABC1, 76% female Largest exp. space: 8m x 5m The Mall at Cribbs Causeway 230,000 weekly footfall* 76% ABC1, 66% female intu Watford 350,000 weekly footfall* 71% ABC1, 68% female Largest exp. space: 12.5m x 5m

intu Metrocentre 500,000 weekly footfall* 53% ABC1, 73% female Largest exp. space: 16m x 13m

intu Eldon Square 700,000 weekly footfall* 61% ABC1, 67% female Largest exp. space: 8m x 6m

intu Victoria Centre 465,000 weekly footfall* 53% ABC1, 74% female Largest exp. space: 16m x 10m

intu Broadmarsh 300,000 weekly footfall* 44% ABC1, 73% female Largest exp. space: 24m x 16m

intu Chapelfield 240,000 weekly footfall* 60% ABC1, 69% female Largest exp. space: 20m x 10m

intu Lakeside 500,000 weekly footfall* 56% ABC1, 76% female Largest exp. space: 18m x 13m

intu Bromley 350,000 weekly footfall* 69% ABC1, 81% female Largest exp. space: 10m x 7m

intu Uxbridge 250,000 weekly footfall* 58% ABC1, 82% female Largest exp. space: 4m x 4m

Call intu Experiences on 020 7887 7046 IEEnquiries@intu.co.uk intugroup.co.uk Estimated weekly footfall

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H: Most Effective Shopping Centre/ Roadshow

I: Immersive Events (mass consumer)

Sponsored by Mobile Technik

iD – Cornetto ignis – Jameson MKTG – Air New Zealand MKTG – norwegian N2O – Ben & Jerry’s Produce UK – 38 Degrees Space – Nivea

FreemanXP – Vodafone Frukt – Energizer Hammerson – Yamaha Music Europe iD – Comfort Intense MKTG – Cadbury Momentum – Xbox One, Tomb Raider TRO – BA

A bold reworking of the creative campaign allowed entrants to focus on the visuals of their event campaigns. With these campaigns you can see – within moments – what the big idea is, assuming the big idea is boldly creative. A morning judging session saw the shortlist easily arrived at – the vision of many just wasn’t creatively focussed as it was with these seven. Picking a winner wasn’t that easy though and quite a debate ensued.

MKTG/ Cadbury Vision Nine/ Three

Traffik/ Samsung

ClinkClink/ Moet

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Independent Events/ Road Respect

space/ UEFA

Willow Park/ Panasonic Brand Brewery/ DHL

Frukt/ Energizer

MKTG/ Air New Zealand Produce/ 38 Degrees

The RAWK Agency/ Dewars TRO/ BA

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Event: Supermalt at the Carnival By Harriet Cramer

Following on from last summer’s “Got It” Notting Hill Carnival experiential activity, The Bank Agency, brought Supermalt to the carnival once again, with an immersive experience in the heart of the festivities. Promohire had wrapped and supplied a bespoke vintage Citroen H-Van. Promohire had modified the van to include chilled facilities for the drinks and a place to serve them from. The van had the added bonus of underpinning the logistics of the event. Around the van, brand ambassadors offered out samples of the beverage along with whistles in the heavy footfall area. Either side of the van were different Supermalt branded gazebos offering an array of tasty food. Directly behind it was the Mastermind stage. I caught up with Neil Lunn, Trade Marketing Manager at Royal Unibrew UK on site to talk

about the #Liveupsummer tour. On the first day of Notting Hill Carnival, the Carnival King and Queen, supplied by Hel’s Angels along with Supermalt’s office team, who had come along to help, had handed out over 600 samples. The Carnival King and Queen’s main aim was to chivvy up the party and add to the atmosphere as well as encouraging festival revellers to have their picture taken with a cut out frame for Instagram activity and sharing their photos on social media using the relevant hashtag. Anyone sharing pictures of Notting Hill Carnival via Snapchat also had the option of adding a Supermalt Live Up tour filter to the picture - which I discovered when I shared a picture of the van with my friends.

the drink at the Mastermind Stage just behind. The location helped attract passers-by with a whole host of DJ’s working the decks all through the day and into the night.

Supermalt’s Summer reach out has been via a series carnivals including Manchester and Nottingham as well as Notting Hill. Promohire was engaged with The Bank for the full tour. Coinciding with the The Supermalt van had been kitted out with tour, limited edition bottles speakers on the roof and played music from with different designs have Hoxton Radio, Supermalt’s sponsor. After been available to purchase receiving a sample, carnival goers could Field enjoy Sales in store. Insight from Retail Alchemy

Teaching a man to fish: The true value of in-store training

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Like most agencies that specialise in technology, many of our clients invest large sums of money in the training of in-store sales colleagues in the hope that this will lead those colleagues to upsell their products to consumers. After all, the old adage of ‘teaching a man to fish’ vs giving him a fish would seem to ring true.

Teaching a man to fish: The true value of in-store training

The trouble is most traditional forms of ROI analysis routinely fail to detect an uplift from such selling immediately during or after the view amongst clientsTraining and agencies alike that training either does not of effect over time: vs Active Selling the activity took place in store. activity thereby creatingIndex work or is measured by more intangible measurements like a build-up of brand equity or advocacy 120 Indeed, this is often the timescale amongst in-store colleagues. 100 over which most traditional forms of ‘trial versus control’ analysis are Whilst the latter80of these views is undoubtedly true, our work with a number of our agency and 60 brand partners has indeed shown that training does in fact have a tangible sales benefit, albeit one conducted: 40 Index of effect

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him when it comes to promoting brands in-store: but the industries definition and measurement of ROI needs to adapt how activity designed tothis work, rather than being ‘one Training Food and drink samplingtocampaigns haveisdominated quarter, capitalising onathe summer size fits all’ definition. holiday period and raising awareness of new product lines. Q3 Activity Report

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Autumn 2016 29 It’s clear, therefore, that ‘teaching a man to fish’ is a far more economical use of resources than British Summer Fruits actually fishing for him when it comes to promoting brands in-store: but the industries definition and brought their Berry Brain campaign to New Street Square, London with a giant

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Experience and Appleton Estate By Harriet Cramer Wolf Brand Experience and Appleton Estate rum have been traveling the length and breadth of the country in a branded Appleton Estate Van to educate foodies and drinks connoisseurs about the rum and encouraging the public to look at rum differently. The activation included the bus complete with on-board bar and fully trained mixologists, a large chill out area around the bus with plenty of seating and a BBQ serving up authentic Jamaican Appleton Estate marinated jerk. I met the van at the Foodies Fest at Alexandra Palace to learn more about how the brand is connecting with a different audience. I was met by rum enthusiast and brand ambassador Adam Westbrook, who took me through an immersive rum tasting journey, starting with a 21-year-old sipping rum. I

was guided through all the different notes of three different Appleton estate rums and encouraged to compare them, while hearing about the history of the brand (Appleton Estate Rum have been continuously producing Rum since 1749) and learning about the distilling process. The aim of the tour is to encourage people to start enjoying a good fine rum in the same way

that one would enjoy a fine whiskey or brandy and to get the brand into the hands of a different audience. Foodie Fest attendees could purchase a cocktail at the side of the bus and were encouraged to hop on board and have their picture taken in the drivers’ seat. This could then be shared via social media for the chance to win Appleton Estate prizes.

Venue Spotlight: Southgate Hotel Chocolat and Apple Store.

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Q3 Activity Report Food and drink sampling campaigns have dominated this quarter, capitalising on the summer holiday period and raising awareness of new product lines. British Summer Fruits brought their Berry Brain campaign to New Street Square, London with a giant brain constructed from a range of different berry punnets clustered together. Brand ambassador, mathematician and television presenter Rachel Riley made an appearance during the activity, promoting healthy eating and distributing the berries. Promoting berries as a snack with brain power to office city workers, passers-by were encouraged to take some berries and share their experience on social media by taking selfies with the brain using the hashtag #BerryBrainy.

SouthGate, Bath is a stylish, modern shopping destination with Georgian style open streets and public spaces. The venue is home to over 60 retailers including anchor Debenhams, local restaurants Steak & Brewery Graze and Jika Jika and high quality names such as All Saints, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Visitors to the stand could use the hashtag #ChilledClassics in order to receive a coin to insert into the machine and receive their free cold drink. Lipton created a pop-up area with parasols, park benches and chair swings with passers-by invited to enjoy some Lipton Ice Tea in vintage style mason jars. To launch the latest Ghostbusters film, a mammoth Marshmallow Man appeared in Waterloo breaking through the station floor. The station was decorated with green slime poles, the underground map was re-worked to resemble the Ghostbusters logo and many of the station stops were given spooky new names.

Linda McCartney Foods celebrated 25 years of pioneering vegetarian meals with a sampling event during the festival period. Hungry festival-goers traveling from London Paddington to Glastonbury were treated to some vegetarian sausages, as were campers on their way to T in the Park.

Car promotions have been prevalent with activity across a broad spectrum of venues including shopping centres, retail parks and garden centres with brands raising awareness of their latest models.

Starbucks and Lipton Ice Tea were cooling down commuters in June with their sampling campaigns in Waterloo and Kings Cross Stations respectively. Starbucks placed a large vending machine styled as an ice cube to dispense their Chilled Classics range.

A number of travel companies were also involved in activations this quarter. Virgin Holidays, for example, toured multiple venues including

New role for Bodwick Andrew Bodwick will move to the newly created role of Head of Brand Experience within SpaceandPeople as of 1st October 2016. Andrew will build on the portfolio of brand activations and venues his team has worked on in recent years and will be responsible for further broadening the company’s knowledge bank on the experiential market and venues.

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Bath is renowned for having one of the UK’s largest concentrations of original boutiques, galleries, antique shops and quality restaurants outside of London. Centrally located next to the city’s travel hubs, SouthGate has a weekly footfall of 442,000, a high average dwell time of 77 minutes and many shoppers within the Executive Wealth ACORN Group. For more information, please contact marketing@spaceandpeople.com.

Meadowhall in Sheffield encouraging participants to pack a suitcase to the weight of 23kg within one minute for the chance to win a Caribbean holiday. The promotion also included a photo booth and Caribbean-themed props. Dubai Tourism launched its largest ever experiential campaign with commuters invited to experience the sights, sounds and attractions of Dubai on Waterloo’s concourse and the chance to win a trip to the city. Maximising Sampling Campaigns SpaceandPeople is now offering a kiosk to complement sampling campaigns. The kiosk has multiple plasma screens which display video and images and can be vinyl wrapped with a dump bin to amplify branding and sampling campaign messages.

Q3 ACTIVITY BREAKDOWN 17%

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Charities

Government & Health 12%

Retail

Entertainment 2%

Health & Beauty

Travel

Financial Services

Miscellaneous 8%

42%

Mobile Communications 2%

Automotive

P: Product Launch/Relaunch P1: Product Launch – (Experience led)

Two Fiat 500 launches offers obvious intrigue here, but launching a bank, a flight destination or a music album also offered up eye-opening reading for our judges. A gaming and a handset launch would seem to offer potential for more conventional experiential work, but these two also pushed at expectations and boundaries. Exciting stuff!

Awards Preview: Field Marketing & Brand Experience Categories

Our preview and analysis feature continues with a look at the categories that both field marketing and brand experience teams compete for – including the agency of the year shortlists

N: Brand Ambassador of the Year A very strong line up of contenders means that two golds have been awarded. team on their toes.

Initials – Fiat 500 Icon Lodestar – Fiat 500X MKTG – Air New Zealand MKTG – Bank of China Momentum – Xbox One, Tomb Raider Undercurrent – Samsung S7 Worth Retail – Pet Shop Boys SUPER

P2: Product Launch – (Field Marketing)

There were no weak selections in the finalists here. Notable successes here for agencies Contract People and McCurrach for making the shortlist twice each when many high profile teams missed out on finalist status.

Q: FMCG Campaign This new category, that replaced creative sampling, has seen a full range of FM & BE skillsets contributing to the success stories behind the finalists. Guerrilla sampling, immersive event sampling, in store entertainment, a sampling billboard, field sales and merchandising have all been used across these successful brand teams

Ambient – Zeo Circle Agency – Dorset Cereals FMI – Mondelez Ireland MKTG – Nakd Momentum – Asda (Evian) REL Field Marketing – Ritz Crisp & Thin Walker Agency & Mobile Technik – Mentos

Contract People – Hop House 13 Contract People – Nibbles Field Sales Solutions – Tic Tac Mixers McCurrach – Microsoft Windows 10 McCurrach – Richmond Perfect Bake Tactical Solutions – Birds Eye Stir Your Senses Warburtons (in house) – Giant Crumpets

N1: Brand Ambassador of the Year

Event Managers, Consumer Sales, Product Demonstration

Jamie Stamp – Coalition, Various John Senior – FMI, Electric Ireland James Riordan – Hel’s Angels, Benefit Cosmetics Gillian Broadfield – Mash, Lavazza Karen Williams – ODM, Virgin Atlantic Esra Kirkaya – PSfm, Samsung Angelique Wolf – PSfm, Sonos

N2: Brand Ambassador of the Year

RPM/ Skyride

Promohire and AgencyUK/ Chang

Field Sales, Merchandising, Retail, Team Training

Michaela Wilkinson – Field Sales Solutions, Ferrero Jarrod Millar – Logobrand, Jacobs Douwe Egberts Kelly Kelly – Orchid, Storck Debbie Garner – REL Field Marketing, News UK Irfan Amin – REL Field Marketing, Tetley Simon Perchard – Tactical Solutions, a2 Milk Hal Fade – Undercurrent, Samsung

O: Small Scale/Local

PowerSwitch/ Milo (Indonesia) MKTG/ Air New Zealand

One of the most fascinating categories, this one took a long judging session to get it down to just seven finalists. The category was marked by successful entries for brands and events that we don’t see much of in other categories..

Banana Kick – Yorkshire Bank Independent Events – Road Respect Kreate – NHS Blood and Transplant MKTG – Bank of China MKTG – London and Partners REL Field Marketing – Red Bull Undercurrent – Western Union

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R: Live – Digital Award A first showing for this LiveDigital award, which enjoys a focus on content creation, event sharing, smartphone innovation and social shares saw a lower than anticipated entry list, but has been rewarded with one of the best quality shortlists at the year’s awards. One judge praised the ‘sheer innovation” another the ‘practical application’ whilst another admired the “creative content” in this category.

The Flash Pack – H&M GMR Marketing – Esurance Independent Events – Road Respect Initials – Jeep MKTG – Madame Tussaud’s / Angry Birds Space – Coral Vision Nine – Relentless Energy Drink

S: Stand/Display

T: Operational Success

How much does a good stand cost? Some would say you can get the job done for £5000, some £1.5M. Can both ends of the spend scale live up to, and surpass the effectiveness brief. Our judges felt that they could, but chose two shortlists to reflect the different brand challenges.

The finalists are certainly varied. A massive drilled staffing output for Aesthetics, a detailed and exacting brand launch for Diageo’s Hop House 13 by Contract People, a headline stealing opportunist sampling gift at Leicester City fans by Fudami, a new car roadshow kit by Fusion for Hyundai, recording breaking drink sampling in Indonesia by PowerSwitch and a challenging and exacting shopper programme by REL.

S1: Stand/Display Large scale space / build

Avantgarde – Honda Circle Agency – PlayStation Fusion – Renault Holovis/Produce UK with Brooklyn Brothers – Hyundai MKTG – Coca-Cola

S2: Stand/Display

Aesthetics Event Staff – Rugby Travel Hospitality Contract People – Hop House 13 Fudami – Krispy Kreme Fusion – Hyundai MKTG – Cadbury PowerSwitch – Milo REL Field Marketing – Asda Challenge 25 Programme (Retail Guardians)

U: Professional Agency Team 5 finalists were chosen. There was a clear gap between these 5 and the rest. One judge commented “It is through the success of agencies like these that our industry can look ahead to a bright future,”.

Contract People Kru Live McCurrach REL Field Marketing TRO

Small scale space/display

Fizz Experience – The Food Warehouse by Iceland iMP – Clarks MKTG – Nakd Promohire and AgencyUK – Chang Beer REL Field Marketing – News UK/ Weetabix

TRO/ BMW

Banana Kick/ Yorkshire Bank Esra Kirkaya, PSfm/ Samsung

The Flash Pack – H&M

Angelique Wolf, PSfm/ Sonos

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V: Special Category: Sports Campaign of the Decade When we sat down and devised this year’s special category we did with a view to leaving our own mark on a sporting year. We could not have handpicked 6 more credible finalists – 6 sports associations that between them show FMBE techniques to be capable of cultural and/or behavioural change. A category for the whole industry to be proud of.

Circle Agency – PlayStation drp – Sainsbury’s REL Field Marketing – Molson Coors RPM – Sky Space – John Smith’s TRO – BMW

Y: Special Category: Experiential Brand of the Year

W: Field Marketing Agency of the Year