In a competitive world how do you take your technology to market so that it's your product that wins at the point of purchase? Using 20 detailed case studies, a wealth of market intelligence, graphs and tables, The Food & Health Marketing Handbook will guide you to fully exploit the science and health benefits of your ingredients or products. The Food and Health Marketing Handbook (available in PDF only) will help you:
Learn the practical tools used today by successful companies:
The Hi-Tech, Hi-Touch, Science Push or Consumer Pull Model
The Functional Foods Marketing Model
The Five Strategies
The Four Factors of Success
Discover how you can combine the practical tools to:
Develop your strategy
Identify your target consumer groups
Position your brand in the market
Build an integrated communications strategy
The Food & Health Marketing Handbook is published in full-colour and includes:
20 detailed case studies
50 charts, figures and tables in full colour
Over 60 full colour illustrations of products and advertisements
Key point summaries at the end of each chapter
Content
Part I Strategy Development
Chapter 1 Introduction: How To Use This Handbook
A strategy not a category
The challenge of innovation
New nutrition science
Strategy
Product concept development and brand positioning
CHAPTER 2 The many ways of seeing health
The "wellness generation"
Health products stumble
The information overload
Choosing a personal path to health
Low-carbohydrate diets
The unstoppable obesity epidemic?
Just one trend among many
Snacking and on-the-go consumption
Convenience
Cash-rich, time-poor
Women working
Increase in single-person households
CHAPTER 3 From Hi-Tech to Hi-Touch: Science Push or Consumer Pull?
Introduction
The value chain starts in the mind of the consumer
The Ambition: Adding Hi-Tech to food for higher added value
Hi-Tech and Hi-Touch - applying lessons from other Hi-Tech to consumer markets
Hi-Tech = innovations in technology
Hi-Touch = innovations in marketing
Producer Value or Consumer Value?
Applying lessons from the Hi-Tech phone market
Phase 1: Hi-Tech with Lo-Touch
Phase 2: Hi-Tech with Hi-Touch
Summary of the lessons from mobile phones
Cholesterol-lowering spreads - applying the lessons from the Hi-Tech food market
Phase 1: Hi-Tech with Lo-Touch
Phase 2: Hi-Tech with Hi-Touch
What can we learn from these Hi-Tech examples?
Corporate culture can define whether your company chooses Hi-Tech or Hi-Touch
Production-centered businesses
Consumer-centered businesses
Is your marketing about science push or consumer pull?
Science Push - the Benecol example
The role model of Science Push
Consumer Pull - the Yakult example
Life marketing
Death marketing
The development of functional foods strategies
Conclusions
Contents
Chapter 4 Targeting The Different Stakeholders Of Health
Introducing the Functional Foods Marketing Model
Technology stakeholders
Lifestyle stakeholders
Brands with lifestyle appeal
Mass market consumers
Functional foods marketing strategy: develop the market, stakeholder by stakeholder
Using the Functional Foods Marketing Model
Why target a niche in the mass market?
Case study: ProViva - making a mainstream brand
Chapter 5 Five Strategies To Enter The Market
Strategy 1: Leveraging nutritional assets
Definition
Case study: Leveraging a hidden nutritional asset to build a new ingredient business - Kemin Foods
Case studies on this strategy
Description
Strengths and advantages
Disadvantages
Strategy 2: New category creation
Definition
Case studies on this strategy
Strengths and advantages
Disadvantages
Strategy 3: New segment creation
Definition
Case studies on this strategy
Strengths and advantages
Disadvantages
Strategy 4: Category substitution
Definition
Case studies on this strategy
Strengths and advantages
Disadvantages
Strategy 5: The functional foods make-over
Definition
Case studies on this strategy
So where after these five strategies?
Part II Brand Development
Chapter 6 The Four Factors Of Success
Case study: The Four Factors in action: Up & Go
How to use the four factors
The first factor: need the product as food
Make your product the best solution to a need
Finding changes in consumer behaviour is one of the keys
Who, when and why - the key questions to find the best possible consumer
Old guys don't drink smoothies
Gatekeeper marketing
The second factor: accept the ingredient
Find out what the consumer knows
What is this ingredient doing in this product
The third factor: understand the health benefit
Consumers and health claims
Trust in the message
Feel the effect makes it easier to understand the message
The fourth factor: trust the brand
Trust the established brand
Trust in a new brand?
Brand differentiation on expertise
Chapter 7 Twenty Key Case Studies
1. Benecol - cholesterol-lowering spreads; the U K. and Finnish experiences compared
2. Yakult - a Japanese company launches Europe's 'battle of the little bottles
3. Danone Actimel
4. General Mills - whole grain heart health success
5. Tropicana - leveraging the healthiness of orange juice and substituting for milk
6. Lycopene and five-a-day the Heinz way
7. White Wave's Silk - creating a new category in soy milk
8. Gatorade
9. Red Bull - taking the mainstream market by the horns
10. Emmi Energy Milk, a Swiss success story
11. Novartis' Aviva - a failed leap into the mainstream
12. Danone Activ U K. - adding bone health to expand the water market
13. Marks & Spencer &More - own label comes to functional foods
14. Sainsbury's shows the Way to Five
15. Innocent Drinks
16. Sanitarium's Up & Go - inventing liquid breakfast
17. New Zealand Dairy Food's De Winkel - giving an old brand new life
18. Perrier Vittel's Contrex - leveraging hidden brand values and new ingredients to revitalise an old brand
19. Suntorys' Dakara Life Partner - near water, a new category in functional drinks