What’s a research agency to do when a well-loved FMCG business wants to branch out of their key brand? You back them – and you do everything you can to set them up for success. In this case, it meant product clinics with children and parents that led to identifying key messages that resonated with all target audiences.
A leading FMCG wanted to expand their footprint within the snacking category. The brand was an adult proposition surrounded by younger-skewing competitors that typically had sweeter taste profiles.
We needed to explore ‘permissibility’:
Product Clinics were the key.
We recruited parent-child pairs to the same location. Parents and kids participated in the product clinic but were separate from one another.
Remarkably, the feedback from both kids and adults were well aligned, despite the discussions being completely separate from one another.
The results gave clear parameters around the kinds of promise the product could make to keep kids interested and parents happy, whilst identifying the support messages (e.g. back of the pack) which assuaged possible anxiety of the ‘gatekeeper’.