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controversy with campaigns such as palm oil ban The unveiling of Christmas television advertisements is an annual ritual in the UK’s hugely competitive retail market. Yet the commercial judged to be the most effective in 2018 never made it on to the nation’s TV screens. Advertising agency Kantar Millward Brown con- ducts consumer research into the effectiveness of festive campaigns. It says the expensive effort by department store John Lewis featuring singer Elton John and a schmaltzy Sainsbury’s supermarket advert about a school play both had less resonance than Iceland Foods’ low-budget animated feature about an orangutan made homeless by deforestation. Richard Walker, managing director of the frozen food chain, says the ‘Rang-Tan’ advert was origi- nally made for Greenpeace, the environmental lobby group of which he is a member. ‘They showed us a rough cut of this campaign video they had: it brought a tear to my eyes. We thought it would be great if we could use it as our Christmas advert,’ he says. Clearcast, the organisation controlled by broadcasters that approves adverts, had other ideas. It refused to clear the advert because it had previously appeared on the Greenpeace website and the group had some of the legal characteristics of a political organisation. Instead, the advert was released online – with a generous dose of ‘the ad they tried to ban’ publicity – and promptly went viral. It was viewed more than 70m times worldwide, while a petition launched in the UK urging Clearcast to reconsider received more than 1m signatures. Walker is adamant Iceland did not plan for this turn of events as a cost-effective way to upstage bigger rivals. ‘We thought debadging it would be enough to get it past Clearcast. I genuinely did not Case study think it would be banned.’ He says the company had booked more than £600,000 of television advertising slots to air the commercial. The advert refers to the clearing of forests in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for palm oil plantations. According to Greenpeace, an area equiv- alent to 146 football pitches is cleared every day in Indonesia alone. ‘Rainforests cover only 2 per cent of the planet’s surface but account for half its bio- diversity. They are the crown jewels,’ says Walker, who in April 2018 pledged to remove palm oil from all Iceland’s own-label products by last December to persuade the industry to stop clearing forests. Iceland’s choice of campaign theme might seem an odd one for a company that, since its foundation in 1970, has targeted customers at the value end of the shopping spectrum. It lacks the scale of other supermarkets – its annual revenue of £3bn is a frac- tion of the £51bn (excluding fuel) that UK market leader Tesco achieves, or the SFr91.4bn ($90.6bn) posted by food multinational Nestlé. Iceland’s palm oil consumption for own-label products, about 500 tonnes a year, was inconsequential in a global con- text; consumer goods giant Unilever gets through 1.5m tonnes annually, and total world yearly produc- tion is 72m tonnes. Walker acknowledges the move was at least Download 6.59 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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