Foster’s Radler, Heineken’s refreshing new combination of Foster’s lager cut with cloudy lemon, brought a touch of Aussie sunshine and a taste of Australian beach life to shoppers with a new live brand experience campaign. Created by Arc London, the activity captured the laid-back attitude that permeates Foster’s TV advertising by installing a beach hut […]
Heineken believes all men have a legendary traveller inside them, just waiting to come out. For the past three months, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam have been putting this theory to the test with Dropped, a series of episodic adventures plucking real men out of their daily lives and dropping them into the great unknown. This last gruelling […]
Heineken is beginning to test crowd sourced ideas for products designed for older drinkers, such as bottle shapes and beer recipes as it looks to innovation to offset ongoing declines in Western Europe. The brewer is to consult consumers and beer experts on three ideas – a range of beers containing iron, a new bottle […]
Heineken lager brand Fosters is to run an experiential marketing campaign to support its continued ‘Good Call’ TV advertising. Developed by Space, the activity will see brand ambassadors invite customers to play the Good Call, Bad Call Wheel of Fortune Game, which will be located at both the Old Trafford County Cricket Ground in Manchester […]
Are you willing to take a leap of faith and alter your travel plans for a trip to the unknown? Heineken’s global campaign “Voyage” arrives in the U.S. with the debut of a new television commercial “The Voyage” and travel experiment – Departure Roulette. This omni-channel campaign drops men from across the world into remote […]
Integrated marketing agency Space is enhancing John Smith’s long-running association with horse racing through its ‘Smooth as Silks’ campaign, an on-trade initiative designed to give drinkers a chance to ‘buy one ticket and get one free’ at jump and flat racecourses across the UK. John Smith’s Extra Smooth, part of the Heineken portfolio, is the […]
Global beer brand Heineken have launched a new contemporary packaging design across its consumer six pack, and 24 pack varieties. The new packaging features the brand’s iconic red star as a prominent feature on the front of each carton, symbolling quality and style, while maintaining Heineken’s status as a progressive and premium international beverage. The […]
Heineken CEO Jean-Francois van Boxmeer told a crowd at the Cannes Lion that marketers of alcoholic beverages need to do more to encourage customers not to consume their products excessively. Van Boxmeer spoke at Cannes during a session hosted by Publicis Groupe CEO Maurice Levy. Also participating was Heineken CMO Alexis Nasard. “Abuse is not […]
A Heineken ad campaign from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, the brand’s first global campaign effort, has won the Cannes Lions Grand Prix award in the creative effectiveness category, festival organizers confirmed. Separately, a campaign from McCann Melbourne for Metro Trains called “Dumb Ways to Die,” won the Grand Prix in the direct category and a […]
Mexican lager Sol is rolling out a new identity, which launches in the UK this summer. The Heineken-owned lager has been rebranded by WPP consultancy VBAT, which has offices in The Netherlands and Mexico. The new designs feature a long-necked bottle, with illustrations featuring the sun (‘sol’) and the brand’s strapline Espiritu Libre desde 1899 […]