Wonderful Pistachios Launches New Plant-Based Marketing Campaign
LOS ANGELES, CA - It seems that plant-based everything is popping up across the grocery store. The produce aisle, however, is plant-based in itself! Even so, The Wonderful Company is driving home the plant-based craze with its launch of a new multimillion-dollar marketing campaign that highlights plant-based protein. Spearheaded by Wonderful® Pistachios, the campaign emphasizes that the best protein is grown on trees, not bred or developed in a lab.
“As more consumers make changes in their diet to eat less meat, but simultaneously crave more protein, Wonderful Pistachios represents the perfect snack because it’s a real, whole food containing six grams of plant-based protein per serving,” said Adam Cooper, Senior Vice President of Marketing. “When it comes to plant-based protein, you can’t beat the original, and our new campaign drives that message home.”
The new integrated campaign features print ads, social media, digital, public relations, emails, and Wonderful Pistachios retail bins featuring imagery of pistachio trees. The bins provide retailers a lift in sales and will propel the campaign throughout 2020.
The brand will promote plant-based messages at events throughout the year, influencers will continue to share plant-based protein benefits with their followers, and the company will host a live virtual symposium dedicated to sharing the latest trends on plant-based protein with retailer partners, supermarket dieticians, and other nutrition experts.
Today’s savvy consumers have changed their perspective to reduce the amount of meat they consume, and it’s more than just a passing trend, according to a press release. 55 percent of consumers say their change is permanent, according to HealthFocus data.
At the same time, Mintel data confirms 75 percent of people are adding more protein to their diet. To attract these protein-seeking shoppers, new retail display bins—hitting store floors early this year—will stand out at point of purchase, drawing attention to the plant-based origins of Wonderful Pistachios and offering a solution to those hungry for a plant-protein-powered snack.
These efforts continue the momentum from the Plant-Based Nutrition Leadership Symposium, which was hosted by Wonderful Pistachios in April 2019, and drew an exclusive audience of nutrition experts for an immersion into plant-based nutrition science, culinary applications, and leadership dialogue, while celebrating pistachios in a plant-based context.
The entire campaign will ensure consumers know pistachios are one the highest protein snack nuts, and, unlike meat, protein-powered pistachios are naturally cholesterol free and offer the added benefits of fiber.
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