Mixing it up with summer cocktails
Curating and promoting a selection of premium cocktail brands at Sainsbury’s
Shaking things up
Cocktails and mocktails bring fun, colour and vibrancy to any event. Who doesn’t love a lively pink or orange coloured drink in a interestingly shaped glass with a glorious amount of ice and fruit garnishes? We identified a trend within a trend at Sainsbury’s when it came to the type of cocktails customers were looking to make during and post-lockdown…
Bringing together the right ingredients
Working with the Sainsbury’s BWS category team and using our in depth customer understanding, we identified that simple, accessible cocktails were becoming more popular when compared to on-trade favourites. Aperol Spritz, Margaritas and even ready-to-drink mixes were making the art of mixology accessible to all with a little less prep time needed and a fantastic set of drinks to sip and share as a result.
Our recipe for success
Working with our Sainsbury’s category colleagues, we looked to create a campaign that would bring together all the customer’s favourites and present them with the ideal serving suggestions, inspiring them to get imaginative and colourful with their summer drinks offerings. This was brought together with a dedicated plinth in store and a bespoke online ideas page through Sainsburys.co.uk
Engaging customers with bold creative
Our Design Studio team undertook the campaign creative, which was all about embracing the light at the end of the lockdown tunnel. After a long, hard year of restrictions, the team wanted to create a campaign visual that really embraced the end of lockdown and the start of summer; something vibrant, fun and positive for our customers to engage with and get excited about.
Snapping the essence of Summer
The approach to the concept was to make the serving suggestions sing summer. The photography made use of props, textures and a colour palette that complemented the cocktails and their vivid colours. The team then executed the concept across the in-store plinth and recipe barkers, along with online channels and further animated Digital 6 sheets at front of store.
Digital channels
Out of home disruption
Alongside the instore media channels used, our design studio team were also tasked with creating a set of animated digital 6 sheets and display adverts that would enagage customers on their arrival at store and online.