Innovative Packaging Design to Celebrate the Flexitarian
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Design & Innovation Food Safety Design Flexibles Unilever Unox Vegetarian RookworstThis bold move has been driven by a fall in meat consumption and growing number of ‘flexitarian’ consumers
Unilever’s Unox, Dutch royalty of all things meaty, has launched its very first vegetarian smoked ‘sausage’.
Packing a non-meaty punch, it’s taken time to get the recipe right – 4 years in fact! Unox has been working hard to get both the taste and texture spot-on to confidently and credibly offer a vegetarian ‘Rookworst’ experience.
This bold move has been driven by a consistent global fall in meat consumption and by a growing number of ‘flexitarian’ consumers – those who don’t necessarily identify as vegetarian but look to limit their meat consumption (whether due to animal welfare concerns or indeed a desire for a healthier and more balanced diet).
Such a disruptive offer called for a disruptive design.
The new design for Unox’s Vegetarian Rookworst needed to stand out from the rest of the Unox range and also be able to stand alone given its placement in store away from the brands core range. Promoting the distinctive ‘U’ shape of the Rookworst on pack and avoiding traditional use of product photography, we created a bold and iconic design. For those familiar with the brand, the more simple and contemporary design is surprising – purposely so, in order to encourage consumers to re-appraise the brand more broadly and appeal to new consumer groups.
“We’re proud to have helped the Unox team respond to and capitalize on changes in consumer desires and are excited to keep exploring design for a changing world as the brand looks to diversify their product range,” says Sara Jones, Design Director, Anthem Benelux.
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