16/11/2013

More Fanta less serious

Brand history

Created in Germany, this drink "fantastisch" has been launched in the French market in 1958 under the name of Fanta. 

In 1939, the political tensions between Germany and the rest of the world made difficult the Coca-Cola production (the necessary syrup could not cross the boarders).

Max Keith, the man in charge of the Coca-Cola Company in Germany had the idea to create a new soft drink with the remaining products. 

To find its name, he organized a « competition » within the company. He described the new product by being « fantastisch » (wonderful) with a formula fantasievoll (full of imagination).

The simplest ideas being often the best, the name Fanta is immediately chosen.

German people adopted immediately the new beverage which overtakes its competitors in a short time although the firm made several modifications before finding a formula close to the one that we know today. The soda will have the German market exclusivity until 1949, date by which Coca-Cola reintroduced its key drinks.


Key dates:  
  • 1958: Fanta Orange is launched on the French market
  • The 80’s: Beginning of the partnerships with Disney 
  • The 90’s: Launch of new flavors like Lemon Fanta
  • 2005: Fanta World is launched with tree new multi-fruit recipes containing 30% less sugar than the majority of the fruit carbonated drinks on the market. 
  • 2007: Fanta launched Fanta Zero to replace Fanta Light.
  • 2008: Fanta Still (a Fanta non-carbonated drink containing Stevia) is launched

Product Presentation: 

Fanta is a soda trademark own by "The Coca-Cola Company". It is produced and distributed by the same company. It is one of the first fruit carbonated drinks.



For 50 years, the brand did not stop diversifying its offer towards its priority target: the young people from 12 to 24 years old, seduced by the fruity taste and the original tone of the company communication.

Fanta products include a lot of variety except in the United States where the company does not try to develop strongly the brand to avoid the competition with Coca-Cola.

With the launch of Fanta Citron, Fanta became one of the first brands of the fruit carbonated drinks to offer another taste than orange.

Indeed, there are approximately 70 flavors of Fanta, although most of them are sold only in certain countries (for instance Fanta blackcurrant in Switzerland).


The most appreciated flavor of the brand remains Fanta Orange. This product is available in 180 countries in diverse sizes from 15cl to 2L.



By Bloody Orange

Sources:
http://www.lsa-conso.fr
http://www.coca-cola-france.fr

11/11/2013

Orangina: What a crazy history !

Villemot's advertisement
Léon Béton : the brand creator.
     
In 1935 Leon Béton, an Algerian owner of an orange grove, visited his brother in Marseille and decided to go on a trade fair. He was attracted by a strange bottle of a special drink: Naranjina.

Naranjina was a drink invented by the Spanish Dr Trigo. The concept was to mix the solution of the bottle with water and sugar and add to it essential oils, contained in the cork of the bottle. 

Convinced by this concept Léon Béton bought it to the Spanish professor and created the trademark Orangina.

In 1947, Jean Claude Béton ( Léon Béton’s son ) launched Orangina in France and found success thanks to Bernard Villemot’s first advertisement. 


Other key dates: 
  • 1983: Launching of the brand in the United States under the name of "Orelia".
  • 1984: Orangina is bought by Pernod Ricard - international launching.
  • 1995: Launching of Orangina in on 11 new markets !
  • 2000: Orangina and Pampril merger : The Orangina-Pampryl Group is born.
  • 2001: Orangina is sold to Cadburry Schweppes.
  • 2006: Orangina-Pampryl Group and Schweppes France merger : The Orangina-Schweppes Group is born.
  • 2009: Suntory Group buys the Orangina-Schweppes Group.

Why so much success?


source: www.orangina.eu
The bulby bottle: Orangina’s icon!

Few times after, Léon changed the shape of the bottle. Well, this product is about Orange, so why do not give to the bottle an orange shape? That’s what happened: orange and texture shape for the bottle and it hasn’t changed since 1953!

The taste:

Actually, everything is based on the orange fruit in this brand: the packaging, the name, the logo (a peeled orange) and… the taste of course.
Orangina insists on the fact that their drink is natural, with “an authentic taste of oranges with real fruit pulp and natural orange zest.” The fact that we need to shake the bottle before drinking had been considered for a long time as a default. But Orangina transformed it as strength, using it in its advertisement.

Today, Orangina is a well known soft drink brand which has been part of the Orangina- Schweppes Group in France since 2006 and this group was bought by the Japanese Suntory Group in 2009.  Orangina’s products are distributed in the mass market, in restaurants and independent retailers in 60 countries with a strong presence in Europe.

Product Presentation:

All over the years, Orangina has expended its range of products. It began first with the launching of Orangina Light in 1988, then Orangina Plus in 1991, 4 new tastes in 2009 and 2 in 2010 !
Today, more than 12 different tastes exist and it is still the same bottle! 




By Crazy Lemon

http://www.histoire-entreprises.fr/he-le-magazine/orangina-la-petite-boisson-secouee/
http://www.orangina.eu
http://www.orangina.fr