Unilever today announced that it has signed an agreement with WPP, the
world leader in marketing communications, for an aggregated customized
approach to Shopper Marketing in the United States. Terms of the
agreement were not disclosed.
A new group within the agency – Team Unilever Shopper – will provide
Unilever with customized Shopper Marketing solutions comprised of
resources from multiple WPP companies and associates, which include:
Barrows, Bravo, Geometry Global, Kantar Retail, Lunchbox, Mindshare,
Rockfish, Shopper2Buyer and TNS Global. The agreement is effective
immediately.
“Shopper marketing is a key capability for Unilever,” said Kathy
O’Brien, Unilever Vice President, Marketing to Shoppers. “With the
shoppers’ path-to-purchase now involving so many touch-points, we
believe our new partnership with Team Unilever Shopper will allow us to
integrate our efforts across in-store visibility, shopper insights,
multicultural marketing, retail activation, e-commerce and shopper
media. This will drive greater effectiveness through focused delivery.
We will use shopper insights to optimize our content regardless of where
it resides and what form it takes, so shoppers can engage with, talk
about and buy our brands consistently in the most convenient ways
possible.”
“More and more clients are realizing that shopper marketing is so
important it requires a collection of different agency resources working
together, rather than a single agency,” said Carl Hartman, a Global
Client Leader of WPP. “WPP is unique in our collection of assets across
insights, category management, in-store media, digital shopper and
e-commerce, multicultural shopper and more. Our real strength is being
able to customize an offering for a particular client – which we've now
done with Unilever."
About Unilever:
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and
Personal Care products with sales in more than 190 countries. In the
United States, the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Ben &
Jerry’s, Bertolli, Breyers, Caress, Clear Scalp & Hair Therapy, Consort
For Men, Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care products, Fruttare,
Good Humor, Hellmann’s, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!, Just for Me!,
Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Magnum, Motions, Nexxus, Noxzema,
Pond’s, Popsicle, Promise, Q-tips, Ragú, Simple, Slim-Fast, St. Ives,
Suave, TIGI, TONI&GUY Hair Meet Wardrobe, TRESemmé and Vaseline. All of
the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the
Unilever Group of Companies.
Our ambition is to double the size of our business, while reducing our
overall environmental footprint (including sourcing, consumer use and
disposal) and increasing our positive social impact. We are committed to
helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health
and well-being, sourcing all our agricultural raw materials sustainably
by 2020, and decoupling our growth from our environmental impact.
Supporting our three big goals, we have defined seven pillars,
underpinned by targets encompassing social, environmental and economic
areas. See more on the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan at http://www.unileverusa.com/sustainable-living/.
Unilever employs approximately 10,000 people in the United States –
generating nearly $9 billion in sales in 2013. For more information,
visit www.unileverusa.com.
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