Hot chocolate brand Options is offering consumers one month’s free membership with the online magazine app Readly, worth £7.99, in its latest on-pack promotion.

Options, which according to Nielsen Scantrack data is the UK’s leading instant hot chocolate brand, is owned by tea and hot beverages company R. Twining & Company Ltd.

The promotion which runs from now until December 31^st, 2017, was created by brand activation specialist Toucan, in partnership with Readly. Consumers can claim one month’s free membership of the UK’s No 1 magazine app worth £7.99, by redeeming the unique codes which feature on jars across five flavours of Options hot chocolate (Belgian Choc, Mint, Orange, White Choc and Salted Caramel). Options hot chocolate jars 220g retail at £3.99.

Claimants are directed to an Options branded landing page where they can set up a Readly account and gain access to over 2,000 magazines across five different devices (so family members can share) without submitting their bank details. The initial one-month subscription can be extended twice for a maximum of three months by buying another two jars.

Andy Corris, Senior Brand Manager for Options said “Options is all about having your hot chocolate moment your way. Our drinkers love the wide range of hot chocolate flavours we produce and partnering with Readly offers something for everyone, really allowing our consumers to tailor their perfect hot chocolate moment.”

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Clipper Teas, the Fairtrade tea brand owned by Wessanen UK, has launched a new on-pack promotion across its range of organic teas to reward existing fans and attract new customers to the brand.

The ‘With love from Clipper’ initiative incentivises purchases of Clipper’s Fairtrade Everyday Tea (£2.55 for 80 bags), Organic Everyday Tea (£2.60 for 80 bags) and Pure Green Tea (£2.79 for 80 bags). It offers fans the chance to own a series of limited edition tea caddies and tea towels, each featuring colourful designs linked to the established brand’s distinctive packaging. An online competition also provides the opportunity for tea-lovers to own the whole set.

The promotion looks to build on Clipper’s success as the UK’s fastest-growing black tea brand; Clipper has grown its value sales by 8% in the last 12 months (IRI w/e 8 October 2016). It also takes place during Clipper’s 20th anniversary of selling Fairtrade green tea in UK supermarkets.

“Life’s too short for bad tea,” comments Gill Green, Marketing Director at Wessanen UK. “Quality drives everything we do here at Clipper, from the way in which we source our tea right through to the experience that our customers receive when purchasing. We’re committed to getting tea from crop to cup in the best possible way.”

Gill Green adds: “We know how important it is to keep tea in tip-top condition; that’s why we have designed this limited edition range of caddies and tea towels to reward and delight fans of our brand.”

Sourced from some of the world’s finest tea estates across East Africa, India and Sri Lanka, Clipper’s signature teas have been blended and packed in Dorset since Clipper first launched in 1984. Clipper was the first UK tea brand to carry the Fairtrade mark in 1994, and has been fiercely committed to ethical tea sourcing ever since.

The Fairtrade tea brand owned by Wessanen UK believes that “life’s too short for bad tea”

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Nespresso, the pod coffee machine system from Nestle, has launched its latest campaign featuring Hollywood star, George Clooney, with a fully integrated campaign featuring TV and online advertising, plus a content-rich landing page including behind the scenes footage and consumer engagement through interactive image filters and gamification and prize promotions on the brand’s social channels.

Launched September 25^th 2016 at www.nespresso.com/whatelse, the light-hearted campaign sees George embark on a rough night as he looks to protect his precious coffee. Starting in the stylish Nespresso boutique on London’s Regent Street, George’s adventure begins as he strikes up conversation with an attractive female over a cup of Nespresso coffee. Sadly for him, she is the wife of the ‘boss’, who demands Clooney’s Nespresso as punishment.

And so ensues an eventful evening, courtesy of the ‘boss’, played by ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Deadwood’ star, Ian McShane, which sees Clooney take a trip through the backstreets of London. The following morning we see a battered and bruised George in his home savouring his Nespresso coffee, as he lets the audience and his maid know that he ‘wouldn’t change a thing’ about his Nespresso experience. As the maid walks off, she comments: “Must be some coffee…”

The campaign was created with McCann Worldgroup and kicked off with a teaser phase earlier in September with consumers were invited to guess what fate awaited George Clooney.

Alfonso Gonzalez, Chief Customer Officer for Nespresso, explains: “Our relationship with George strengthens year on year, and in our twelfth collaboration, we have created a storyline that shows Clooney at his best. He is a true partner for the brand, and here we see just how far he is willing to go for that incomparable Nespresso coffee experience”.

The full TV advertising campaign from Nespresso, entitled Change Nothing debuted worldwide (excluding US and Canada) from September 25^th. It can be viewed on YouTube or via the Nespresso website, www.nespresso.com/whatelse.

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Clipper Teas, the Fairtrade tea brand from Wessanen UK, is launching a three-tiered summer sampling campaign for its green tea range, designed to position the brand as the “Queen of Greens.”

The Fairtrade brand, which currently produces more than 15 green tea variants, will distribute over 250,000 samples of its flagship Pure Green Tea throughout July. The campaign will feature a mixture of face-to-face hit squads, office-based sampling and free samples in ASOS mail deliveries.

BEcause Experiential Marketing has been hired to mastermind the live hit squad aspect of the campaign. An all-female ‘Clipper Crew’ of green tea ‘queens’ in flower-chain crowns, will tour high-footfall outdoor areas within the M25 over nine days of live activity, distributing samples from bicycles and trailers with simple, rustic charm. Public spaces around Wimbledon Park showing the tennis championships on giant screens will be amongst the areas targeted.

To support the hit squad activity, Clipper has engaged GemsAtWork to manage an office-based sampling campaign, whilst Response One has been tasked with coordinating free samples in all mail order deliveries from online fashion retailer ASOS throughout July.

The new campaign aims to champion the delicious, natural taste of Clipper’s Green Tea range as well the health benefits of green tea, and the company’s ethical heritage. It builds on the brand’s quirky Truthful Green Tea Shop pop-up activation earlier this year, which took a humorous hidden camera approach to highlight the difference between Clipper’s green teas and those produced by many other manufacturers.

Gill Green, Marketing Director at Wessanen UK, comments: “Demand for green tea continues to boom, yet within this highly-competitive marketplace we believe our green tea reigns supreme. This concerted sampling drive will allow us to directly reach potential customers that may not have experienced our great-tasting tea before, and to introduce them to our range of delicious, all natural flavours. It is also an opportunity to chat with consumers about the difference they can make to the lives of tea workers and their families, just by drinking a cup of Fairtrade tea from Clipper.”

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Bovril and Colman’s are partnering with the upcoming Dad’s Army film, with new limited edition Bovril packaging and an on-pack promotion offering fans the chance to win a holiday, a Dad’s Army mug or a shovel-shaped spoon.

The limited edition Bovril jars highlight the brand’s heritage as an iconic and trusted stock paste and hot savoury drink brand, which has kept Great Britain warm since 1886 and was used as part of military rations for soldiers during World War II.

Bovril’s three Dad’s Army-themed jars, which launched January 1st, promote the launch of the new film. They feature nostalgic motivational war messages such as Dig In For Victory, Beef Up For The Home Front and Dad’s Army Wants You Beefy.

Colman’s and Bovril – which are owned by Unilever – are supporting the partnership through the joint competition, which is being hosted on the Colman’s website (www.colmans.co.uk/dadsarmy). Prizes include a holiday in Yorkshire, a trip for two to Bletchley Park, 250 mugs and 1,000 shovel spoons.

Jonathan Roberts, assistant brand manager for Bovril, says: “Bovril and Colman’s are steeped in heritage and our promotion of the Dad’s Army movie is a great opportunity to remind consumers of the role each brand played in supporting Britons during World War II. Bovril formed part of military war rations and the government refused to ration Colman’s so Brits could add flavour to war time meals.”

Roberts adds: “In addition to Bovril’s limited edition packaging, our joint competition is an exciting opportunity to generate buzz around both brands and promote the launch of the film in February.”

The Dad’s Army partnership follows Bovril’s return to TV advertising in December 2015 for the first time in 20 years, with a rerun of its classic Bovril Biker advert. Bovril also launched three limited edition Bovril jars in January 2015 with labels featuring early 20th century advertisements, helping remind consumers of the part Bovril has played in ‘Keeping Britain’s chin up since 1886’.

The jar designs included the famous ‘Alas my poor brother’ slogan from the turn of the 20th century, imagery from the 1930s that encourages consumers not to forget the Bovril, and also from the 1960s which reminds people that a mug of Bovril ‘Prevents that sinking feeling’.

Dad’s Army, the feature film based on the iconic British TV comedy series, will march into cinemas on February 5. Directed by BAFTA award-winning director Oliver Parker, the film brings together an award-winning British cast Dad’s Army’s all-star British cast including Bill Nighy, Catherine Zeta Jones, Toby Jones, Tom Courtenay and Michael Gambon.

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