Rebranding Chicken of the Sea — John Nunziato // LIttle Big Brands

How do you rebrand a legacy CPG brand with a 99% household penetration without backlash? What consumer insights and missed opportunities should drive the rebrand? Get answers to these questions as John Nunziato, the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Little Big Brands, discusses the Chicken of the Sea rebrand.
About the speaker

John Nunziato

LIttle Big Brands

 - LIttle Big Brands

John Nunziato is Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Little Big Brands

Show Notes

  • 01:45
    The Little Big Brands back story
    The agency was started by John and a laptop in a bedroom after leaving his former agency amicably with three clients. They focus on branding and visual design.
  • 04:31
    How do you rebrand a legacy CPG brand?
    It begins with strong strategic positioning and learning about the brand and its wide demographic.
  • 07:41
    Its all about consumer insights
    For Chicken of the Sea, people love the brand and the product and trust the brand but don't know many ways to use it.
  • 09:48
    Creating products that consumers truly need is the most important thing.
    The branding becomes how to make this more visible, appealing, beautiful, and shoppable for the consumer.
  • 11:13
    Brand identity changes that went into the Chicken of the Sea rebrand
    It did a label cleanup, and they developed and designed the logo to be stackable.

Quotes

  • "We had the opportunity to do some strategic positioning. We learned a lot about the brand. We learned about positioning and repositioning the brand, which is difficult because it is a legacy brand that appeals to a wide demographic with a 99% household penetration, which means everybody knows Chicken of the Sea." - John Nunziato

  • "We found that people love the brand, the product, they trust the brand, but maybe didn't know how to use it. There are many amazing recipes and ways to use the product instead of just putting it on top of a salad." - John Nunziato

  • "I encourage people to follow the brand because it helps moms, single moms, and families get to a healthier place, feed your family on a budget so that you don't have to spend a huge amount of time in the kitchen preparing food. That's one amazing trigger for the brands we tried to help enforce." - John Nunziato

  • "Creating products that the consumer truly needs is most important. Moving into pouches and snack bowls, more accessible, easy-to-use, and approachable forms, is the future. You can see some of the other brands moving there. Chicken of the Sea looks forward to being a leader in the category." - John Nunziato

  • "We approached the branding, like, how can we make this more visible, appealing, beautiful, and shoppable for the consumer. One of the things we approached while working on the identity and container is how to make the packaging more shoppable." - John Nunziato

  • "The brand hadn't been redesigned in about 20 years. It was approached, I think, in 2003 ish. It didn't do great, and they remain the same. What we did was a label clean up, for sure. So, the logo we developed and designed to be stackable allowed us to increase the real estate and the size of that mark. We simplified the mark and maintained its brand equity, but we moved it forward in a very smart way." - John Nunziato

About the speaker

John Nunziato

LIttle Big Brands

 - LIttle Big Brands

John Nunziato is Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Little Big Brands

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