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Advertising Campaign for Strongbow
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The UK market for alcoholic beverages is currently experiencing a slow-down, however contrary to the general market trend, the sub-market for Low alcohol ciders is registering an impressive turn of growth. Within the last eight years, preferences for cider and attendant sales volumes have increased as consumer stereotypes of the beverage as a drink for women have waned. Accordingly the cider market is on a growth trajectory; within the last three years alone the market has increased by 3%in sales volume and 5% in sales value. Research shows that cider now constitutes 38.3% of the alcohol beverage market in the UK.
Strongbow, a traditional British brand of apple cider which pioneered the change in consumer perceptions towards cider, remains the clear market leader in this alcohol beverage category. Strongbow currently holds 21.8% of the cider market share followed By competing brands, Magners with 8.8% and Stella with 6.4%. As the market for ciders expands though, more and more newer brands of cider are successfully penetrating the market and Strongbow’s lead has narrowed from a dominant market share of 52% in May 2009 to 24.3% in 2010 and then its current value of 21.8%.
Strongbow’s advertising over the years has been very successful in connecting with its specific target market of 35-60year olds in the C2, D social class (mostly skilled workers, artisans and labourers). With the current spate of competition in the burgeoning market, it is imperative that Strongbow seeks other poles/market segment in order to expand its reach among alcohol consuming men and increase market share thereby restoring significant dominance of the cider market and increasing sales volume enormously.
In line with this opportunity, this document by our agency, Loves ads, proposes a subtle repositioning campaign dubbed the ‘Strongbow Real man’ campaign with a view to including a new market segment; young men of 21-34years and of a slightly higher social class;


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