 Wysłany: Czw 16:38, 23 Sty 2014 Temat postu: Tyrells show tasteable difference beats TV ads |
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| Tyrells show tasteable difference beats TV ads
Tyrells is a great example of a distinctive brand building a business without advertising. The premium potato chip brand had sales in 2009/10 of 18mill, forecast to grow to 40mill this year. It also another example of an innovation coming not from logic and strategy, but from a "happy accident". Founder William Chase actually started out farming potatoes. He sent the reject potatoes, too dark and irregular for the supermarkets he supplied, to a manufacturer of upmarket crisps, according to this article. But Chase was unimpressed with the end product, and decided to have a go himself. He bought a secondhand fryer from a local chip shop, sliced some potatoes, fried them and thought they were better. In the first year only 5% of his crop was used for potato chips. Now the farm's entire crop is used. He grew the business for several years, before selling out to Private Equity house Langholm Capital in 2008 for 40million. The persistence, stamina and energy needed to build and sell such a business is shown in this quote from an interview with William in The Guardian: "People look at entrepreneurs and think, that looks easy but the problem is it eats you. I lived [Tyrrells] 24/7. When I ran it,[url=http://www.floware.fr]michael kors femmes[/url], I was in the factory every day. I ran around all my favourite customers checking they were OK."Given the lack of any advertising support, Tyrell packs do have to work harder than for most consumer goods brands. In addition to helping create standout on shelf they work as a form of extra communication, adding emotional "sizzle" we call this "packvertising". Each distinctive pack uses amusing, oldstyle black and white photography. The photos change across flavours and over time. approach started back in 2004 with the launch of an unsalted variety of Tyrrells, called Naked Chips. featured a picture of naked ladies from the 1930 The name alone is a nice touch, communicating a bit of personlity versus conventional namingThere definitely a good product "sausage" at the heart if the Tyrells brand. The product is made using locally source British potatoes, which is a nice provenance story. But more importantly, the production process makes a "tasteable difference" that creates thicker, crunchier and more artsianal looking potato chips. Conventional crisps are made in a mechanical continuous frying process, which uses thinly sliced . To get potatoes washed to remove starch, as this can cause potato slices to stick together in continuous frying. This process takes out potato flavour and goodness. But at this adds real value to the brand, Tyrells are able to charge almost twice as much as regular, runofthemill crisps. is also impressive is the way William fought to protect the price premium by taking on in 2006. The retailer wanted to treat Tyrells like other brands and cut the price. William refused to stock them, resulting in Tesco sourcing cheaper product from overseas. William threatened to sue and forced Tesco to back down. The next few years will be interesting for Tyrells, following the sale of the business to Langholm Capital. This is the firm beind the success of Doreset Cereals, and their ambition is to repeat that success with their new aquisition. One smart move has been to bring in Perry and his crew at Big Fish design, who are busy working their magic on the design and website, as they did with Dorset. In conclusion, Tyrells is another lovely example of a product with a clear fuctional difference, a strong personality and distinctive packaging, all of which support a price premium. In other words, its a true brand. If only there were more of them around. Rosiny said. to funds for orphans of suicide bombers. Ritzmann said. |
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