Kennedy Creative is a diverse network of creative consultants specializing in brand creation, package design, identity systems and promotional materials to meet your design and marketing needs.
We have a large talent pool that enables us to hand pick the best project team for you. With so much flexibility, Kennedy Creative always delivers high quality creative work to meet your marketing objectives every step of the way from project initiation, to category review, to creative concept generation, through artwork completion.
Kennedy Creative has helped many companies build their business through stronger, more effective branding and package design, and we’d love the opportunity to work with Abbott Nutrition International. Attached is a PDF of a few pages from our portfolio book for your review.
If you have any questions about Kennedy Creative’s services, please feel free to call or email me. I will follow up with a few more of our case studies and/or a phone call within the next week or two. Don’t forget to check out our website at www.kennedy-creative.com for more exciting details about Kennedy Creative’s services and success stories!
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3. KENNEDYCREATIVE cincinnati . new york
strategy + design
for high growth brands
WHO WE ARE
Our firm, Kennedy Creative, was started 18 years ago and brings over 75 years of As a result, Kennedy Creative has eliminated unnecessary obstacles, allowing us to focus
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experience to our clients. We specialize in identifying on the target - successful solutions for our clients. We respond quickly and are flexible and
and leveraging the unique benefits brands offers to consumers. Our research, strategy innovative enough to exceed expectations, both around the corner and across the continent.
and award winning design have helped our clients build their high growth brands.
We pride ourselves on excellent customer solutions. Our goal is to tap our vast resources
To us, bureaucratic layers stifle ideas, add complexity and prevent clients from getting of experienced creative thinkers - to not only produce solutions that go beyond expectations,
the full attention they deserve. but produce maximum results in the marketplace. Our network of creative talent is directed
by managers with the know-how to get the results our clients demand.
WHAT WE DO
Our passion is branding, our history is creative packaging and our focus is your brand.
We research, create, build, direct, revitalize and manage brands. Our approach is
straightforward. We partner with our clients. We embrace strategies, are mindful of
processes and understand the importance of big-picture solutions. Bottom line - we love
what we do. We choose to work because we find it rewarding, enjoyable and satisfying,
and so do our clients.
HOW WE DO IT
The structure of Kennedy Creative is pared down to the essentials. Our managers
assemble and direct a creative team that is uniquely customized to your needs. They
maintain focused discipline on project objectives, schedules, and budgets. We combine
experience with enthusiasm to create the best possible solution for you and your brand.
BELIEVE IT
We are so confident in our ability to provide the best strategic solutions for our clients that
we have developed a simple way of walking-the-walk. The Kennedy Creative Guarantee:
We will deliver beyond your expectations or we will work for no fee until we do. Period.
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4. research/strategy
private label LOYALTY PROGRAM
Extensive consumer research drove these Devised, wrote, developed, created and
dynamic redesigns of Kroger’s premium analyzed a personalized loyalty program to
Private Selection line and Kroger brand coffee. help retain and “build wallet” of PNC’s high
Private Selection Coffee: Generous use of color net-worth customers. The results were a
and metallic gave this line an international travel dramatic 67% return on our questionnaires
feel. Original oil paintings used as backgrounds and 8% improvement in customer retention.
provided an appropriate premium attitude.
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5. strategy/marketing
exploring
new markets community connection
A series of concept boards were created for Kennedy Creative helped to develop
consumer research that helped to identify and execute a distinct, regional online
multiple market opportunities. marketing program designed to strengthen
brand loyalty. By coupling manufacturers
and retailers with community fundraisers,
we made the process easy for all
stakeholders.
grass roots
repositioning marketing
Energized an old brand for new owners. The traveling Creamette and Prince brand
Creamette was updated by rewriting a trucks and kitchen trailers crisscrossed
“new” brand history that led to a complete across the Midwest promoting the brands
rebranding, leveraging unique historical at the “grass roots” level, building brand
equities that were made relevant to current awareness for line extensions and new
and new consumers. product introductions.
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6. branding expertise
regionally Focused
strategy & design SCORED FORM EXAMPLE SCORING GUIDE
We build stronger, more profitable regional brands.
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REGIONAL BRANDs x
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Our goal is to help your local brands dominate in the x 3
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marketplace. Our mission is to elevate the role that regional,
local and place-based brands play in their respective categories 17
by identifying and leveraging the unique benefits these brands This package would be rated as marginally effective.
offer to consumers.
Regional Brand Builders (RBB) is a specialized team of
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experts from Kennedy
Creative dedicated to elevating the role of local brands. With Bone Suckin’ $5.59
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Premium Price
Anchor Bar (Wing) $4.64 Walden Farms $4.88
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over 40 years of CPG experience, we specialize in Strategy, Olde Cape Cod $3.46
• Nance’s (Wing) $3.49
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Stubb’s $3.08 Brooks’ $3.25
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Design, and Retail Execution. Our proprietary RBB Brand • Salamida’s $2.80
•
Dinosaur $2.42
Famous Dave’s $1.88 •
Audit® was developed specifically for the unique needs of
Cattlemen’s $1.74
Bull’s Eye $1.55 • •
National
• Local
DESIGN
Sweet Baby Ray’s $1.50
local brands. Customized to your brand, our system identifies • Montgomery Inn $1.79
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the needs of your local consumer and positions your brand to Open Pit $1.20
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Kraft Hickory Smoke $0.93
• Price Chopper (PL) $0.92
fill those needs. Chicken ‘n Ribs $0.87
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Value Priced
From product ideation, to creative concept generation,
through design completion, we always deliver results that will
exceed your marketing objectives, guaranteed. Unlike other
creative firms, we provide marketing strategy, downstream Within the Barbecue Category
retail support, and sales support that will take your brand from
Segments Timid Users General Hard Core Adventurers
idea to the store shelf.
• safe • use a variety of • like to try new products
Attitudes
• not sure about
new items
barbecue products • looking for new flavors
• like 1 or 2 brands
Our Regional Brand Experts have done the research. • dislike surprises
We have the experience. Behaviors
• do not brand switch • would try a new
product in a brand
they currently use
• read labels
• try new products
• share with others
Let us empower your brand.
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7. category management
regionally focused Category ScoreCard
brand MANAGEMENT
We manage your category by leveraging regional brands.
1. Identify appropriate categories
2. Review Quantitative Performance Measures
3. Cross Functional Team
1. Availability
4. Qualitative Market Level Assessment
2. Assortment
5. Deliver measurable findings
3. Pricing
6. Identify the right regional brands 4. Shelving
7. Integrate regional merchandising, assortment, pricing, and shelving 5. Opportunity
8. Increase consumer awareness of regional offerings 6. Sustainability
9. Develop regional new product pipeline
business performance packaging
benchmark evaluation system
1. Innovation Platform 1. Unique Identity
2. Convenience 2. Priority of Communication
3. Message 3. Reason to Believe
4. Trial 4. Overall SKU Presentation
5. Loyalty 5. Memorability
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8. business creation
Sustain was built from the ground up as a new idea rooted in a simple sustainable pr0mise.
We are committed to bringing only locally owned, locally grown products to mainstream grocery.
CONSUMERS suppliers retailers
85% Wish local products • Support local farmers/ Benefits to Retailers -
were clearly marked as a businesses
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community benefits when economies
• Purchasing Consolidation
they support locally owned • Forage for fresher,
businesses
na healthier options • Shipping Consolidation
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nally know 79% Are concerned about • Organize many local
where their food comes brands • Receiving Consolidation
from • Deliver unique varieties
• One Company vs. Many
82% Would like to be able to • Promote and build
compare local products with brand awareness • DSD vs. Warehousing Costs
national products on shelf • Advertise and tell the
• Managed Inventory
brand story
50% Would be willing to pay
more for a product that is • Create an intimate bond
grown or produced locally with loyal consumers
Sustain = Local unique local stories
One recognizable
brand name
Each Product has its own
unique local story
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9. ground breaking ideas
market creation pr promotion
This groundbreaking concept was created We built a one-of-a-kind bike concept to
for the New Product Development Team at be used as a traveling PR program for
P&G. The strategy was to lift the sales of CATERPILLAR. The bike was built by Orange
smaller brands by coupling them to large County Choppers and featured on the
brands. This was the precursor of the Discovery Channel.
current trend in the market of combining
brands to move sales.
value added line extensions
Kennedy Creative saw an opportunity to Sam Adams is an American Revolutionary
boost sales in the pickle category by adding War hero. We utilized war themes to brew
a special “Pickle Puller” to product lines, revolutionary flavored line extensions.
thereby making the brand more valuable
and the pickle jars more consumer friendly.
Heinz Sweet Ketchup is a regional
formula concept.
The Kibbles ‘n Bits package was
rebuilt to help the printability of
the concept.
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10. brand creation
child
diet/energy development
The leftovers of two dead brands were Put pen to paper to create a series of fun
animated into a new brand, Optibolic. new characters geared toward children
This rebranding and repackaging program ages 2-5. This learning series included
generated $15M in new sales annually for original coloring books, original songs,
7 years. original characters, clothing and plenty of
kid appeal.
bundling
program commodity branding
Brand creation, naming, and a complete Jack’s Magic Beans is an award winning
package system from Kennedy Creative package who’s purpose was to breath life
added $26.2 million in new sales within into a commodity line of products.
the first 6 months of sales.
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11. brand revitalization
food service
private label channel
Private label revitalized by an intelligent Kennedy Creative created, developed and
use of vibrant color to create an exciting executed the successful rebranding of the
visual dialogue with consumers. The brand North American portion pack program for
family is held together by the remade Smuckers.
large brand logo and consistent use of
photography.
time/cost brand/category
savings management
We updated the overall look of the A-Z vitamin The Kroger Cheese category used over 16
and mineral line with a simplified color different colors, creating a “rainbow” of color
palette and strong item-specific versioning. in the store case making the category difficult
By utilizing shrink-wrap technology, we to shop. We took the Kroger cheese in a new
significantly reduced the number of parts per direction, creating a large, distinctive brand-
item, time to market and a production cost block that created a cohesive look for over
savings of 18%. 900+ SKU’s nationwide. This new direction
resulted in an 8% sales increase.
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12. brand revitalization
Aquisition market leader
Our challenge was to increase sales to Prince pasta was updated to bring vitality
help make the company more attractive into this 90-year-old brand. Clearer product
for acquisition within 24 months. Our segmentation helped consumers shop the
rebranding, repackaging 80+ SKUs pasta varieties. The rebrand helped maintain
and new shelving program resulted its leadership position in the market.
in sales increase of 28%. Acquisition
accomplished.
introduction
PRIVATE SELECTION to retail
Graphic standards were updated and Kennedy Creative expanded a 75-year-old
maintained for this upscale private food service line into the retail market.
label brand line. This line covered many This recreation started with 2 SKUs and
categories, hundreds of SKUs and a expanded to 12 SKUs. Sample sell kits
multitude of packaging structures. were created and additional food service
brands were repackaged for retail.
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13. delineation
Filter program filter program
Developed and maintained this line of oil, Helped to develop and create a new to
air and cabin air filters. 149 SKUs are in market line of air, oil and cabin air filters.
this line of filter products. All 282 SKUs were produced trilingual.
Managed all downstream suppliers and
deliverables.
filter program oil filters
Maintained and expanded this Maintained and expanded this race ready
performance driven line of oil and air line of oil filters. Generated custom made
filters. We managed all downstream QR codes for packaging making access
suppliers and deliverables. 173 SKUs are in to filter information and installation
this line of premium products. instructions a quick scan away.
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14. 07/10/03
PMS 871 Metallic Gold changed to PMS 872 Metallic Gold per new Graphic Standards Guide, dated
7/8/03, from Loraine Simpson.
P - Logos
Private Selection LOGO
(07-10-03)
SPOT COLOR
PMS 485
PMS 872
100 K
FOR MOST APPLICATIONS FOR SMALL LABELS
4-COLOR PROCESS
100 M, 100 Y
35 C, 40 M, 84 Y
100 K
r i v e r· s p a n
FOR MOST APPLICATIONS FOR SMALL LABELS SCULPTURE EXHIBITION AND SALE
REQUIRED ELEMENTS FOR PACKAGING
SIGNATURE COPY:
Pick-up from “SIGNATURES” folder on server.
File Name: Inter-American Signature
GUARANTEE STATEMENT:
Pick-up from “SIGNATURES” folder on server.
File Name: Inter-American Signature
Private Selection Script = Larissa Regular
Premium Quality Type = Optima Demi-Bold
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16. clients
A FEW OF OUR CLIENTS
Asset Advisory Group J&L Management
Bedrock Group Development Company Kao Brands
Borden The Kroger Company
Carbon’s Golden Malted Links Construction
CATERPILLAR NASA
Champion Laboratories New World Pasta
Diversipak PNC Bank
Global Food Procter & Gamble
GNC-General Nutrition Corp. The J.M. Smucker Company
H.J. Heinz United Dairy Farmers
Int’l Publishing Group Unilever
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17. KENNEDYCREATIVE
strategy + design
for high growth brands
110 Front Street | Cincinnati, Ohio 45157
p 513.381.4900 | f 513.381.4915
kennedy-creative.com
Matthew Kennedy - Principal
mkennedy@kennedy-creative.com