RE: Where’s my Nespresso Sugar? 50 Shades of Sugar, please.

December 21, 2015 Leave a comment

IMG_20151219_164357It’s that time of the year again. You’re hunting for christmas presents. You find yourself caught in both physical shopping spaces as well as on e-commerce websites. This year’s annual Christmas routine brought me into the Nespresso store. Accidentally something positioned as “Nespresso compatible sugar” caught my eye. It was an instant flashback to thoughts I had four years ago, in a blog post called “where’s my Nespresso sugar?”  I believe it’s very cool to see Nespresso introduce this sugar (regardless of the fact that this is pure marketing trickery). However, I feel like they left loads of opportunities behind them when implementing.

What’s next for “Nespresso Sugar”? 

I think what we might see next is a complete range of sugars. That’s fully in line with the coffee range. And it also makes sense. There are many sugars in the world. And many tastes in the world. In this respect, Nespresso could easily market different kind of “sugars”. While doing so, they could have a look at the sugar packaging. Clearly, today’s packaging is not branded as the coffee is. It doesn’t breathe emotion. Redesign of the sugar package is highly recommended. Not only in terms of branding and identity, also with regards to “usability”.

Furthermore, why not push it a little further and conceive “coffee+sugar combos”?

Tipos-de-Açúcar

50 Shades of Sugar. What else? 

So to introduce their sugar product line, Nespresso could launch a very cool campaign from the concept “50 shades of sugar.”

Think about the power of this concept for both traditional advertising and so-called new inbound marketing communication.

Is sugar truly a money-maker? What about milk: 50 shades of white? 

I noticed Nespresso is recently starting to push their “coffee + milk” machines. Would it be a good idea to have a “50 shades of white” milk line? What can be said about coffee and sugar, holds also true for milk.

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Looking forward to some creative communications about milk and sugar, Nespresso!

 

 

 

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Where is my Senseo / Nespresso sugar? Questions to a sugar cube factory!

January 12, 2011 1 Comment

Would it make sense to make a pad-and-capsules-compatible sugar cube?

Coffee. Loads of books have been written about it. Drinking coffee is an experience. And this experience has changed. At least when one thinks about new coffee machines that change the way we make, drink and experience coffee. What didn’t change was the sugar you put in your coffee: a cube. Why not change the sugar cube as well

cubing machine for the sugar industry by cfs-aquarius

cubing machine for the sugar industry by cfs-aquarius

What’s new in coffee machine land?

Question to the sugar industry

  • How would you market a sugar cube for Philips Senseo? For Nestlé Nespresso?
  • What message could you possibly bring?
  • What Channels would you deploy to reach that? Would you make it exclusive to stylish hotels, restaurants, bars?
    For Nestlé: only available through the community/club/members? Or full force retail? How would you package the cubes? And how do you believe this will influence the adoption of the new sugars?
  • How does such a sugar cube look like? Does such a cube require integration with the machines from the market leaders in pad- and capsules-land? Pads and capsules are integrated into the machines since you have to put them in to produce the coffee. Maybe the sugar cube needs to be integrated in the machine as to be able to introduce the sugar while operating the machine (in analogy to the pads). If you’d select this option you might even conclude that the sugar cube you were looking for does not necessarily needs to be a sugar cube as we know it today.
  • Would you need to team up with Philips and Nestlé? What would be the best way to develop business relations?
  • Do you have machinery in place that can handle mass manufacturing? Since this is a new product how much would it cost to build a machine that makes the special cubes?
  • How would you promote/advertise new sugar cubes?
  • …

Note on my coffee drinking behavior

I drink coffee. I enjoy coffee. I always drink it black. Sugar? No thanks!

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