First impressions count – this is especially true for the launch of a new brand. A positive reputation in relevant media plays an important role. We successfully faced this challenge for our client The Plantly Butchers.

Billie Green is the first plant-based brand of the newly founded corporate startup The Plantly Butchers. To achieve broad visibility among retail decision-makers and end consumers, we took over the press relations at B2B and B2C level for the launch of the first five products.

our goals

Building Positive Brand Awareness in the B2B and B2C Environment

Our Approach

In the first step, we translated the initial situation with all facts into a solid and media-relevant storyline. Depending on the target group (B2B or B2C), the focus had to be set:

Addressing B2B and business media

The Plantly Butchers as a new corporate startup within an established family business undergoing a transformation from Germany's second-largest sausage manufacturer to a broad-based provider of protein-based foods + Billie Green as an innovative lighthouse brand, for whose production fermentation processes are used for the first time

Addressing B2C Media

Billie Green as a new innovative plant-based brand that has clear advantages over the competition:

  • First brand largely free of additives
  • High protein content
  • Innovative manufacturing process makes the products particularly authentic in texture and taste
  • Products that are superior to the competition in terms of taste and nutritional value
  • Product innovations that are not yet available on the market

In order to exploit the storyline in the best possible way in terms of editorial output, we divided the launch into three phases:

  1. Pre-Launch: Exclusive placements
  2. Launch Phase 1: Broad distribution to other B2B media and (supra)regional daily press
  3. Launch Phase 2: Placement in B2C and business media (premise: nationwide distribution within Germany)

Measures & Implementation

  • Exclusive placements as a media prelude before the official brand launch
  • Establishing the new brand with publishers with target group-relevant media from the food and lifestyle segment
  • Distribution in the (supra)regional daily press
  • Placement in business media

Result

With all measures, we succeeded in achieving a total of 88 print and online publications with a reach of 39 million in the first six months since the launch.