Birds Eye Target Market
Identification and evaluation of viable target market (where to compete) and positioning strategies (how to compete) for this product.
Birds Eye’s target market is consumers that want a quick, convenient, and ‘proper’ meal. The market has been driven by several factors including consumer demand for convenience foods, a rise in freezer and microwave oven ownership, the decline of families sitting down to eat together and a rise in one and two-person households. They use to target mainly at families but because of the change in eating habits their target market more so would be one-person or two-person households and students.
The breakdown of families has provided Birds Eye with the perfect market in which to promote ready meals. One-third of all households in the UK alone are expected to be single-person households in 10 years time. A number of families are in bad financial positions because of the recession meaning often both parents needing to work which causes time pressure in the household. Birds Eye has targeted these families by providing larger portion sizes. Rising health concerns meant that consumers were more aware of the influence of their diet on …show more content…
their health so recently Birds Eye introduced a new range of ready meals, ‘Eat Positive.’ Here Birds Eye are targeting towards health conscious consumers. Most parents are concerned about the health of their children, so Birds Eye should take up the opportunity to provide these ‘Eat Positive’ ready meals in larger portions or provide specific meals for children with essential vitamins and minerals in order to target parents with children.
Birds Eye positioning strategies were successful as they are the leading frozen brand in the UK.
Their main competitors are Heinz/Weight Watchers and Findus. Heinz/Weight Watchers have a slightly lower price but Birds Eye offer bigger portions. Last year they re-launched their whole range with fresh packaging and this year they introduced its ‘Eat Positive’ range. Birds Eye spent £4 million changing its range in order to guarantee that all 130 of its products are free from artificial colorings, flavorings and preservatives. They spent £25 million publicizing their campaign to promote ready meals. The Birds Eye campaign, which carries the slogan: ‘We don't play with your food’, establishes the company as one of the first major European food processor to guarantee that their products are
chemical-free.
Captain Birds Eye is the advertising mascot of the brand. Birds Eye was marketed to families, most of the advertising campaigns featured Captain Birds Eye as having a "crew" composed mostly of children in their preteens. This encouraged brand loyalty from children and made it more convenient for parents to buy. An advertisement in 2005 featured Captain Birds Eye informing consumers that Birds Eye readymade meals contain no artificial flavorings or preservatives, with an emphasis that they are healthy to children.
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Birds Eye’s target market is consumers that want a quick, convenient, and ‘proper’ meal. The market has been driven by several factors including consumer demand for convenience foods, a rise in freezer and microwave oven ownership, the decline of families sitting down to eat together and a rise in one and two-person households. They use to target mainly at families but because of the change in eating habits their target market more so would be one-person or two-person households and students.
The breakdown of families has provided Birds Eye with the perfect market in which to promote ready meals. One-third of all households in the UK alone are expected to be single-person households in 10 years time. A number of families are in bad financial positions because of the recession meaning often both parents needing to work which causes time pressure in the household. Birds Eye has targeted these families by providing larger portion sizes. Rising health concerns meant that consumers were more aware of the influence of their diet on …show more content…
their health so recently Birds Eye introduced a new range of ready meals, ‘Eat Positive.’ Here Birds Eye are targeting towards health conscious consumers. Most parents are concerned about the health of their children, so Birds Eye should take up the opportunity to provide these ‘Eat Positive’ ready meals in larger portions or provide specific meals for children with essential vitamins and minerals in order to target parents with children.
Birds Eye positioning strategies were successful as they are the leading frozen brand in the UK.
Their main competitors are Heinz/Weight Watchers and Findus. Heinz/Weight Watchers have a slightly lower price but Birds Eye offer bigger portions. Last year they re-launched their whole range with fresh packaging and this year they introduced its ‘Eat Positive’ range. Birds Eye spent £4 million changing its range in order to guarantee that all 130 of its products are free from artificial colorings, flavorings and preservatives. They spent £25 million publicizing their campaign to promote ready meals. The Birds Eye campaign, which carries the slogan: ‘We don't play with your food’, establishes the company as one of the first major European food processor to guarantee that their products are
chemical-free.
Captain Birds Eye is the advertising mascot of the brand. Birds Eye was marketed to families, most of the advertising campaigns featured Captain Birds Eye as having a "crew" composed mostly of children in their preteens. This encouraged brand loyalty from children and made it more convenient for parents to buy. An advertisement in 2005 featured Captain Birds Eye informing consumers that Birds Eye readymade meals contain no artificial flavorings or preservatives, with an emphasis that they are healthy to children.
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