Intermarche : The Ugly Carrot
Intermarche Aims to 'Rehabilitate' Imperfect Produce
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Ugly fruits and vegetables finally get their own chance to shine in this campaign for Intermarche, France's third biggest supermarket chain. It's designed to "rehabilitate" imperfect or mis-shapen fresh produce and discourage wastage, mindful of the 300m tons of fruit and vegetables wasted each year and the European Union's designation of 2104 as the European Year against Food Waste.
The campaign, by Marcel Paris, includes TV ads, including one about an "Ugly Carrot," and this one featuring a strangely deformed Clementine who's reassured, in a charming voiceover, that her imperfections are "actually quite cute." Print executions feature items such as the "Hideous Orange" and the "Failed Lemon," beautifully photographed.
Intermarche also ran an in-store campaign in which the ugly fruits and veg (which it acquired from growers who would normally throw it away) are made into products such as Inglorious Vegetables Soups and Inglorious Fruit Juices. The products were also given their own supermarket aisles, their own labelling and their own separate listing on the till receipt. Marcel reports that the campaign resulted in a 60% increase in traffic to Intermarche's fruits and vegetabes section and a 24% uplift in overall store traffic.
Credits
- Date
- May 20, 2014
- Agency :
- Marcel
- Brand :
- Intermarche
- Client :
- Intermarche
- Chief Creative Director :
- Anne de Maupeou
- Executive Creative Director/Production :
- Dimitri Guerassimov
- Creative Director :
- Julien Benmoussa
- Copywriter :
- Julien Benmoussa
- Copywriter :
- Gatan du Peloux
- Copywriter :
- Youri Guerrassimov
- Art Direction :
- Youri Guerrassimov
- Art Direction :
- Gatan du Peloux
- Art Direction :
- Anas Boileau
- Copywriter Film :
- Sergio Alonso
- Film Director :
- Sebastian Piacentini
- Production Company :
- InDaProd
- Director :
- Cdric Dubourg
- Editor :
- Yacine Saadi
- Sound Producer :
- Clmens Hourrire
- Sound Producer :
- Boris Jeanne
- Sound Production :
- Prodigious
- Print Production :
- Prodigious
- Producer :
- Justine Beaussart
- Photographer :
- Patrice de Villiers
- Retouching :
- LAsile Paris
- Global Print Manager :
- Jean Luc Chirio
- Art Buyer :
- Soone Riboud
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