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The Brief

Leading UK manufacturer of pork pies, Pork Farms tasked KRPR with creating a consumer related spring campaign to focus on brand values ahead of the April relaunch. With this, the campaign needed to be executed based on celebrating the British way of life and traditional pastimes that epitomise a typically British staple.

The Work

A creative campaign was developed and derived from Britain’s love of board games including a partnership with The Micropub Association and leading games manufacturer.  From this, Pork Farms’ Board Games Championship 2016 was born as part of National Board Games Week which we created, and launched with over 40 regional micropubs signed up in a bid to reach the Grand Final.   What better venue than a micro pub, lovers of Pork pies and board games!

Objectives were to drive brand awareness, to target new and existing shoppers, maximise sampling opportunities and increase social media engagement.

A stand alone microsite was developed allowing micropubs to sign up and receive a downloadable Landlord pack complete with score sheets and stages of the championships, dependent on success. Use of an interactive map displaying regional micropubs in the running allowed consumers to support or join in with their local heat round. Successful digital activity was then seeded across social media and blogs to encourage further engagement.

A partnership was secured with a leading board game manufacturer who supplied games packs to all participating micropubs.  The top scoring micropubs were then put to Pork Farms HQ and finalists were announced with local and regional press encouraged to get behind their micropub ahead of the grand final battle.

Eight finalists attended the grand final at One Inn The Wood micropub in Orpington, Kent where they went head-to-head over 5 traditional board games courtesy games partner. The event included top-line Pork Farms products along with branded pop-up banners and bunting. The winners received an exclusive Pork Farms pork pie trophy, framed certificate and vouchers to use across UK supermarkets.

The campaign, which took a three pronged approach, also encouraged families to get involved during National Board Games Week, with Pork Farms Family Board Games Night. This saw families post their family event to Pork Farms social media platforms in a bid to win prizes and  gave targeted family bloggers a chance to review a board game of their choice. Following this, a blogger outreach allowed Pork Farms to engage with top London foodie bloggers and invite them to a taster event ahead of the consumer grand final.   A complete media relations campaign was executed to our ‘quintessentially’ British target audience!

The Results

864k

people reached over 2 months

48

pieces of coverage reached over print, radio and digital

37%

of all traffic between February and April went to direct to the Board Games microsite

Featured In

Stockport Express Southport Visiter CIPR Pride Awards 2016 Shortlist BBC Radio Kent The Courier Gazette & Herald BBC Radio Northampton The Barry Gem The Sentinel BBC Radio Lancashire BBC Wiltshire Kent and Sussex Courier

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    KRPR provide a range of PR services across the UK including consumer PR and B2B PR. With offices in the North West, KRPR’s experienced PR team provides a broad range of PR services across a variety of sectors. By working closely with each and every client, we create and deliver PR plans and campaigns that deliver great results.

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    We have an enviable client list, with national and regional brands, as well as businesses from both the consumer and B2B sectors. Our clients include well known brands Pork Farms, Wall’s Pastry, Gorilla Glue, O’Keeffe’s Company UK and Bolton Whites Hotel, which is situated within the Macron Stadium, home to Bolton Wanderers Football Club. To date we have won all of our clients through word of mouth and referrals from other satisfied clients and partner agencies. From day one we have embodied the philosophy that you can only provide truly excellent PR services if you get under the skin of the clients brand or business. No matter what a business is, from a specialist cleaning business through to a sausage roll manufacturer, we take the time to really understand every aspect of that business. Whether that means spending a day shadowing a specialised cleaning team or meeting all of the staff at a pork pie factory, we go the extra mile to ensure that our PR campaigns are always fresh and always deliver.

    Further testimony to the high quality of PR services we provide comes from the awards we have won. These include the CIPR PRide awards where we were finalists and winners in 2013, winners of the best PR and marketing agency 2013 at the Lancashire Business Awards and winners of a Golden Hedgehog award at the PR Moment Awards in 2014. KRPR is one of the only Lancashire PR agencies to win awards from these prestigious North West awards ceremonies held in Manchester.

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