I’m fascinated by the hubbub that Tropicana created by changing their branding.
Have you seen this?
A while back, Tropicana decided to change their boxes from the straw in the orange look to a new, cleaner looking box with a “crate and barrel glass” filled with juice on the edge of the box.
The move, as I read at the Daily Heller, was pushed as a “historic integrated-marketing and advertising campaign… designed to reinforce the brand and product attributes” and “help consumers rediscover the health benefits they get from drinking America’s iconic orange-juice brand.” Wow, that’s a pretty big job for a simple box redesign.
What was the result of this “historic” push?
It lost money. Either because people didn’t recognize the branding anymore or were turned off by the “generic” look of the new box. Personally, I like the clean look of the new branding, but the thing that used to say Tropicana doesn’t say Tropicana to me anymore. It says Orange Juice.
Maybe they should have talked with Naota Fukasawa who designed new fruit juice packaging meant to mimic the look and feel of the fruit inside.
Updating your packaging and by extension, your brand can be important to keep current in the fast moving world, but at what expense?
‘Chelle Parmele
Social Media Marketing Manager
