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Creative Grocery Merchandising June/July 1999


Colorful Floor Display Features Dolphins & Friends

Austin Quality Foods, Inc., based in Cary, NC, is using this 6 oz. Canister Shoppable Display to promote its new Dolphins & Friends bite-size cheddar cheese crackers.The display is designed to merchandise easily and move product through quickly, while appealing to kids.

This display holds 48 6 oz. Canisters and it assembles easily in three easy steps. The space efficient unit takes up just 4’ x 4’ of floor space.

Additional merchandising options for retailers include a 6-count tray shipper display and a colorful dump bin.


Post Introduces Summer Cereals

Kraft Foods’ Post division is introducing three limited-edition cereals to bring summertime excitement to the cereal aisles.

Post Cinna-Crunch Pebbles feature a cinnamon sweet taste in a new, crunchy puffed shape. Post Create-A-Crunch is the first-ever cereal creation kit hitting grocery stores in July. Post Reptar Crunch capitalizes on the popular Nickelodeon dinosaur character, Reptar, that appears on "Rugrats."

These products are designed to add "crunch" to summertime cereal sales by offering high-interest, limited edition varieties, according to Kraft.

Display modules, including special pallet displays will help gain incremental off-shelf store placement and draw extra attention to the limited edition cereals.


Southern Comfort Runs Promo With Maxim Magazine

Brown Forman’s Southern Comfort has launched a promotion offering six consumers the chance to be special event correspondent for Maxim Magazine.

Off-premise support materials include entry form tear pads, case cards, shelf-talkers, window clings, banners and 5’ x 3’ banner/pole displays.


Jack Daniel’s Celebrates Great American Grill Out

Brown-Forman Beverages is offering Jack Daniel’s entree and appetizer recipes as part of its Great American Grill Out promotion.

The program, developed by DraftWorldwide, Chicago, is designed to maximize impact at the point-of-purchase. It presents consumers with new ways to think about using Jack Daniel’s while offering special deals on barbecue-related merchandise. Consumers can take advantage of special values on grill-related merchandise including Weber Grills, Pfaelzer Steaks, Jack Daniel’s Coleman coolers and Jack Daniel’s barbecue tools through Jack Daniel’s displays, including case cards, mobiles, and shelf talkers.


Young & Rubicam Reports On Food Trends

Young & Rubicam’s Brand Futures Group has released a report on trends in food consumption, finding that attitudes toward food are becoming both globalized and increasingly localized. This "globalization" of food is leading us to an evolving master taste palette. Expect the Easternization of North American eats and health routines (alternative medicines, mind/body discipline, etc.) to intensify.

Consumers’ search for ever-more-convenient food and for value-added food will be balanced by a quest for the peace of mind associated with comfort foods. Organics are poised to become the third wave in health-positioned foods, for they address three consumer trends: demand for premium quality, desire to protect the environment, and concern about food safety. Despite consumers’ misgivings about genetic tampering, "even healthy eaters are willing to yield to technology if it brings with it improved taste at less cost to the waistline." For instance, Frito-Lay’s fat-free Wow potato chips were the best-selling new product in the U.S. in 1998, despite negative publicity about their key ingredient, Olean.


M&M’s Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich Introduced

M&M/MARS is introducing M&M’s Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich, a frozen snack layering rich vanilla ice cream between two home-style cookies baked with M&M’s Milk Chocolate Mini Baking Bits.

M&M’s Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich is available in a family four pack or as an individually-wrapped singles package.


General Mills Introduces NesQuik Children’s Cereal

General Mills is introducing U.S. consumers to Nestle NesQuik cereal, made of rice and corn puffs, which are dusted with NesQuik powder to transform milk instantly into NesQuik chocolate milk. Through Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW), General Mills’ joint venture with Nestle (excluding North America), NesQuik cereal is sold in 20 markets around the globe.

The launch will be supported with 2.6 million in-store samples, and a cross-promotion with Nestle this fall.


TCBY Launches Novelty Frozen Yogurt Bars

TCBY Enterprises. has launched a line of novelty frozen yogurt bars in supermarkets and grocery chains. Flavors include Chocolate Covered Cherry Swirl and Cotton Candy Swirl. The packaging was designed by Fisher Design, Cincinnati, OH.


Purely Burley Debuts Perfect Prep Potatoes

Perfect Prep from Purely Burley Marketing, are fresh Idaho potatoes that have been cooked and chilled using a vacuum process without preservatives. They’ll remain shelf-stable under refrigeration for at least three weeks.

The result is all-natural potatoes without the inconvenience of raw or frozen potatoes.

Varieties offered include: oven fries, steak cut fries, oven roasts and hash browns. They are sold in vacuum-packed bags in stackable boxes in the fresh foods section.


Take Control Spread Introduced

Take Control, a margarine-like spread that promises to help consumers in the battle against cholesterol, has been introduced by Lipton, a division of Unilever PLC, which makes the spread. Take Control includes a natural soybean extract that helps lower cholesterol. Lipton recommends that people seeking to lower their cholesterol consume one to two tablespoons of Take Control per day.


New Jelly Belly Bean 3-oz. Tins Offered

Herman Goelitz Co., Fairfield, CA, has introduced Jelly Belly Sours and Jelly Belly Tropical Mix in 3 oz. pocket size tins.

Both new Jelly Belly Tins are prepacked in 12-count display caddies ready for check-out counters and candy shelves.


Seagram’s Ginger Ale Runs Summer Promo

The 5 A Day Produce for Better Health Foundation and Seagram’s Diet Ginger Ale, have teamed up for a summer in-store campaign that will offer consumers a rebate on their combined purchase of fruits and vegetables along with Seagram’s Diet Ginger Ale.

Displays with rebate coupons in produce and beverage sections will offer up to $1.50 back.

S.A.I. Marketing, Jenkintown, PA, developed the promotion.


MLB Road Show Promotes Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB), and Jif peanut butter, have launched a nationwide mobile marketing tour called the "Club MLB Road Show Presented by Jif Smooth Sensations."

The first-of-its-kind tour includes two semi tractor trailer vehicles which convert into a baseball-inspired playground complete with historic memorabilia, hands-on baseball action and a truck-top skybox. The exhibit will include visits to marquee events, fairs, festivals as well as Major League stadiums in more than 20 markets across the U.S. The exhibit is outfitted with batting and pitching cages, interactive computer kiosks, a steal home challenge, and a mammoth LED video screen. Complimenting the interactive areas touting baseball, there will be a Jif ‘Sensations Station’ sampling tent and wandering samplers dedicated to distributing individual portions of Jif Smooth Sensations.


CATEGORY: Signs
DISPLAY PRODUCER: Art Merchandising, Inc.
601 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001

Pepsi’s summer promotion tied into the excitement and appeal of the Star Wars blockbuster, "The Phantom Menace" with an array of P.O.P. materials. This 3-D sign brought the glamour of the Star Wars characters into the retail store. The signs are pre-printed vacuum formed styrene with the characters in dimension with real textures. Two signs were mounted back to back with a hole on the top for easy hanging from the ceiling. The texture and dimension was achieved through careful sculpting and precise vacuum forming of the pre-printed styrene sheets. The promotion was featured in C & G Stores.


CATEGORY: Sweepstakes/Contest Programs
DISPLAY PRODUCER: Tim-Bar
560 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

The objective for this program was to develop a piece to provide a display and support vehicle for Planters Cans or Jars (9 oz. Or larger). The display unit featured a standee riser card with lug-on basketball player and lug-on backboard. The graphics were designed to support the "$10,000 lay up" consumer promotion riser card. The display also featured a Mail-in tear pad and contest details. The display was shipped "KD" on pallets with product, to grocery, drug and mass retailers.


CATEGORY: Corrugated Displays
DISPLAY PRODUCER: Smurfit-Stone Display Group
5200 S. Airport Drive, Sandston, VA 23150

Pepperidge Farm sought to maximize sales by creating a display which would set-up in under 30 seconds, required limited floor space, yet would hold 10-12 cases of product. This corrugated cookie/cracker display is erected in 10 seconds and has an optional riser. The design allows for modularity with multiple lay-outs.


CATEGORY: Permanent Displays
DISPLAY PRODUCER: Heritage Frame & Glass Creations, Ltd.
344 Industrial Drive, Nesquehoning, PA 18240

The Timber Wolf Mirror was designed to boost brand recognition in the highly competitive smokeless tobacco market. Swedish Match of North America wanted a unique display which would be cost-effective so that it could achieve wide-spread distribution. Both the frame and mirror areas are decorated with full color lithographs that tie in with the client’s print advertising. The brand’s Timber Wolf mascot was included with the display as a die-cut accessory to be placed on the frame to create a 3-dimensional appearance.


CATEGORY: Inflatables
Display Producers: Small Wonder Inflatables Inc.
1941 Friendship Drive, Suite F, El Cajon, CA 92020

This inflatable VM Bug with Dangler was produced for S.C. Johnson Wax/Zubi Advertising for the Raid Bug Spray product. The eye-catching red 1999 Model VM Beetle calls attention to product information on the hanging Dangler. The "VM Bug" ties in to "Raid Bug Spray" and its famous cartoon bug characters in television ads for sell-through marketing. 3,000 units were placed, half Spanish/English and half English.


CATEGORY: Special Event Programs
SALES PROMOTION PRODUCER: Flair Communications Agency
214 West Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60610

GPC is a value brand cigarette produced by Brown & Williamson Tobacco. Flair planned a GPC sampling and special event program and tied it in with the George Strait Music Festival, an 18 city music festival. The music festival was sold out in every city and attracted 950,000 attendees. At each show there was a special area for adults only titled, GPC Straitland. In this area there was a GPC trading Post where attendees could sample the GPC Brand and were given free packages. 75% of the attendees (713,000) visited the Straitland area. Prior to the George Strait Music Festival, in all 18 cities, a bar/club "GPC Main Event Night" promotion was planned where customers could enter a sweepstakes to win tickets to the Music Festival or CD’s. They could also enter a George Strait look-alike contest to win back stage passes.


CATEGORY: Plastic Displays
DISPLAY PRODUCER: Point 1 Displays Inc.
5454 Cote de Liesse, Montreal Quebec, Canada H4P 1A5

RJR Macdonald needed a promotional vehicle to highlight their sponsorship of the Canadian Skins Golf tournament being held at Mont Tremblant, Quebec. They decided on a display that would be quite practical. The attempt was to insure that the display remained in sight long after the golf was over. The display features two golf balls that may be used to hold either ball markers, tees or pencils, while the back of the unit can hold the score cards. The display was intended for select golf courses throughout Canada. The display was constructed of vacuum-formed plastic, acrylic and wood.


CATEGORY: Permanent Displays
DISPLAY PRODUCER: Display Technologies
111-01 14th Avenue, College Point, NY 11356

This versatile spring-loaded shelf management system for Light Life Foods, Inc. provides high in-line impact, efficiently organizing vegetarian food products of different sizes into streamlined, eye-catching displays with a uniform brand look. The modular system is constructed of high -impact polystyrene, and is a customized "TechStoc" unit. Spring-loaded trays form the foundation of the system. Each tray is 2 ¼" high an depths are adjustable at retail form 14" to 18". To meet the challenge of displaying products of differing dimensions, the trays are manufactured in two widths: 4" and 6". The trays feature the TechStoc Track & Pusher System using a spring mechanism to consistently move packages to the front of the display as they are dispensed..


CATEGORY: Plastic Displays
DISPLAY PRODUCER: Display Technologies
111-01 14th Avenue, College Point, NY 11356

This display rack for Casa Fiesta Tortilla Chips and Salsa Dip was designed to boost consumer awareness and increase sales for the line. This display is a customized TechStoc™ Optimizer Floor Rack. It shows the Casa Fiesta brand name and bold graphics on the header and the name and logo printed on all of the shelf facings. The TechStoc line of pretooled floor displays includes dump bins, spinner racks, shelf management systems and more


CATEGORY: Corrugated Displays
Display Producer: Alpak Manufacturing Corp.
181 Boyd St., P.O. Box 339, Montgomery, NY 12549

This corrugated P.O.P. Display converts into a product merchandiser as well as signage in the South American Market. Depending on particular laws and regulations of each South American country, an insert is used when no product can be displayed, (as pictured). This display features a 2-color base rubber plate. The insert and riser which are matched contiguous artwork, is 4 color process


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