Active and Ideaworks by Y&R Wins Best in Show at the Shop! 2018 Marketing at Retail Awards
Active and Ideaworks by Y&R last night scooped the major prize in an event celebrating Australian Retail Marketing, taking home the Best in Show Award for its Myer Santaland concept at the Shop! (formerly POPAI) 2018 Marketing at Retail Awards. As well as scoring 5 awards, the agencies are celebrating back to back wins of Best in Show and Pinnacle Awards for Innovation/Design and Shopper experience having won these coveted awards two years in a row.
Myer
Santaland took out several of the major prizes at the Awards Gala
Dinner, held last night at Doltone House Jones Bay Wharf, including the
Tom Harris 'best in show' Marketing at Retail prize, Best Design &
Innovation, and Best Shopper Experience.
Says Danny Lattouf, regional head of retail for Y&R and IdeaWorks
MD: “We’re a customer experience design agency – our entire business is
driven by the Y&R people first philosophy. RCX (Retail Customer
Experience) is at the very heart of everything we do. With the customer
first, delivering the right communications, experiences and engagement
between brands and customers is something we take a lot of pride in
doing. We have been fortunate to work with incredible partners and being
recognised by POPAI and our industry over the course of the last three
years in such a way has been truly humbling. It just reinforces the
importance of putting the customer at the centre of everything we do.”
Best Display was awarded
to Spark and Ainbow's Star Wars: The Last Jedi for The Walt Disney
Company, while PepsiCo and XPO Brands won the People's Choice Awards for
Doritos Crackers.
Experiential, the fastest growing category of the Shop! Marketing at Retail Awards program, saw Myer Santaland by Active and Ideaworks by Y&R take home Gold, while Silver went to The Round Table's Project Botanicals for Bacardi- Martini and Bronze to Myer's Giftorium Christmas Experience by Active.
In Grocery (Food), Fonterra dominated the Permanent category, winning Gold for its Ideal Chiller campaign with The Xine and Hussmann and Silver for its Next Generation In-Aisle Fridges with Clemenger BBDO and Parmalat. In all, Fonterra's Ideal Chiller received three Gold on the night, while its Next Generation Fridges received two Silver.
Bronze in Grocery (Food) Permanent went to ID POP's Pringles Gravity Fed Unit for Kellogg Australia, and in Temporary, the Red Bull Smile Like Dan campaign by Extravert and OPG Global won Silver; and Fonterra, APR Creative and General Mills' Mexican Made Easy Collaboration took Bronze.
In Health and Beauty, Gold prizes went to Revlon's Youth FX Floor stand by POP This POP That in Temporary, and EDA's Bvlgari Travel Retail system for Permanent.
The annual Shop! ANZ Marketing at Retail Awards recognise and reward best practice, innovation, and excellence in retail and shopper marketing across Australia and New Zealand. Now in their 20th year, the Awards span 22 categories, covering physical display (both permanent and temporary) and shopper experience.
2018 is the Awards biggest year ever, not only attracting a record number of entries at 222 (65 more than 2017), but also the highest standard right across the board.
Carla Bridge, Shop! ANZ general manager, said she was blown away by the quality of entries, with the 2018 competition incredibly tight.
"We've seen a surge in popularity in the non-traditional Shopper Experience categories. While the more traditional Physical Display categories remain as strong as ever, 2018 has really been a tipping point for newer disciplines such as Digital and Experiential."
To achieve Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards, entrants must hit set scores - in the case that a score is not met in a category for that year, no prize is awarded.
To view the 2018 Shop! Marketing at Retail Awards entries and images, visit the Shop! website, www.shopassociation.org.au.
