Wednesday, 30 October 2013

MARS Celebrates in Cannes with new Innovations

 Mars International Travel Retail (MITR) continues to drive confectionery sales growth through innovation with a number of category exclusive launches for 2014. Focussing on key brands M&Ms®, Celebrations® and Maltesers®, the offer targets the fast moving family and informal gifting sectors with specific items appealing to the souvenir/destination shopper. All the new innovations can be seen on the MARS International Travel Retail stand at TFWA World Exhibition (Bay Village – Stand Bay 9).

Travelling becomes more FUN with the new M&M’s® blockbusters - For 2014 MITR is putting additional emphasis on souvenir gifting with items developed both for general tourist destinations and specific airport retail locations. The offer includes a fun range of M&Ms® Travel Mugs with general travel designs featuring airport themes and specific location themed mugs for the M&M’s® shop-in-shops.


Continuing the souvenir theme, a range of colourful City specific M&Ms® Candy Dispensers are also being introduced. ‘Combining favourite M&Ms® candy with travel related souvenirs featuring favourite characters Red and Yellow is a great gifting idea. All are exclusive to travel retail and designs have been carefully chosen to reflect each specific location,' says MARS Marketing Director Lieke Duijmelings. 'They're attention grabbing and ideal to collect – a must have item for 2014.'

Besides this, a new travel retail exclusive design has been introduced to replace the original M&M’s® Car Dispenser. This exclusive design better meets the needs of customers in terms of size and shelf appeal. This conveniently boxed dispenser is perfect for shelf display with easier to read ingredients and instructions on the decorative box. A new state of the art dispensing mechanism makes this item a guaranteed top sales item for 2014.

Tapping into the personalization trend with the exclusive Celebrations® Big Sweet -The successful line of assorted chocolates is a big focus for 2014 with a number of exciting activations planned around the theme of personal messaging and gifting. In Cannes the highlight is the new travel retail exclusive Big Sweet, a perfect gifting story. The 310g box has been designed to represent a giant gift-wrapped chocolate. Customers can choose boxes with one of three appropriate gift tags – heart, gift box or star shaped – allowing them to write their own personal message. 'Personalising a gift with a loving message makes giving and receiving even more special; with the new Celebrations Big Sweet, consumers can choose the gift tag most appropriate to the message, which we believe creates extra sales motivation,' adds Lieke Duijmelings.

MARS to introduce an ITR exclusive brand - Brand new to the sector is the exclusive Maltesers® Teasers® range – offered in pouch, sharing bag and bucket formats .The most popular chocolate in the Celebrations® mix, Teasers® is now offered in its own right. 'New and totally exclusive to international travel retail we're confident Maltesers® Teasers® will really boost the retailers' snacking and sharing offer'' continues Lieke Duijmelings.

'These new product innovations and renovations for 2014 are at the heart of our promise to continue delivering exclusive items based on world leading brands to our travel customers,' she adds. ‘Combined with an exciting program of activations designed to attract, engage and delight the consumer, we are on track for a very busy and successful 2014.’

'We very much look forward to meeting with our retail customers during TFWA World Exhibition to introduce these and other exciting concepts for the coming year.'

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