Hello!
Yes, I’m back.
And yes, we’re in our new home.
Hell, we’ve almost totally unpacked.
Emphasis on ‘almost’.
We’ve also had more conversations with the people in the village in the last few days than we had with everyone in London, combined.
Friendly is very weird.
I remember when we lived in LA, the neighbours came and brought us ‘welcoming gifts’.
That freaked me out big time.
Fortunately England doesn’t allow for that level of intimacy, so we just had to make do with polite and interested conversation.
Anyway, I want to start the week with a post about this …
That, ladies and gentlemen, is Kraft/Heinz new product push.
Mac and cheese for breakfast.
BREAKFAST!!!
Their rationale for it is apparently that they found 56% of busy parents serve their kids Mac & Cheese for breakfast.
Now I appreciate I don’t know all the facts, but I’m calling bullshit on this.
Part of that is because I am pretty sure cereal and milk or toast is faster than making Mac & Cheese. The other part is that 56% figure lacks any context … in terms of the number of ‘busy parents’ that were asked and where.
David Lin, a friend of mine, suggested the marketing meeting went something like this:
“We can drive growth by building more occasions … we need to own breakfast”
Given the share price collapse of Heinz in recent years, I think he is bang on.
But there’s something else this news highlights.
This Kraft/Heinz brand purpose reads as this …
As a global food company, the Kraft Heinz Company’s ambition is to help end hunger worldwide.
Unless they believe the best way to achieve their purpose is to kill people with obesity, then it suggests here’s another example where brand purpose is utter shit … designed to make the board feel better about what they do without actually having to do it.
Or said another way, Martin was right. As usual.