Appy Fizz

You gotto be kidding if you don’t remember the fizz ParleAgro created with the launch of Appy Fizz created during its launch in June 2005. The target was clear –Gen Y and the positioning was abso clear- “A Cool Drink to Hang out with”.

The personality of the drink was a cool dude aged in late teens or early 20s and typically fun loving, pocky – just like that chilled out dude you hang out with. I briefly remember last year when I and a a friend of mine met this gentleman at Parle Agro (ahh one of those sponsorship-cold-visits for our college fest virtualities) and we asked him why Appy Fizz didn’t come in glass bottles. He said that the apples are original Kashmiri apples which are of top grade quality and the taste would be hampered if packaging wouldn’t be PET. Appy Fizz is available in SKUs of 300ml, 500ml and 1 litre PET bottles, priced at Rs18, Rs25 and Rs45 respectively. Ok Gotcha! So you have an array of variants in terms of sizes lined up. A slight putoff was the price tag it carried but it was a clear show of premium which all of us were ready to pay – afterall it was the ONLY fruit based fizz which was fun to drink and unlike the fantas and the mirindas. Ok I also gathered the fact in the meet that Appy Fizz initially faced a lot of problems from the MNC Brands while placing it at the multiplexes and youth zones! The sales team did a fabulous job though backed by the strong pull that brand created. Who can forget the amazing series of TVCs the brand had right!! Its all about the RE-CALL Effect, I still remember my engineering days when few people carried Appy Fizz bottles (refilled with drinking water) in colleges as a signature – “I’m cool”. And that induced others to buy the product. Yea packaging rocks man!

Now if we go by text books, product life cycle says that Appy Fizz would still in the end of the growth stage, the brand enjoys a decent brand pull. But maybe the craving for the brand has slightly passified, afterall the name fizz still has soda in it and the sudden buzz about the “oh-what-about-my-calories” effect is turning to people’s mentality. Right so what do we do @ Parle Agro! We have a new product launch (I’ll capture it soon) which was recently announced. Parle Agro is entering the 100 % juice market in a bid to take it head on with established brands like Dabur’s Real, PepsiCo’s Tropicana and Coca-Cola’s Minute Maid. Afterall the Indian juice and juice-based drinks market is standing at over Rs 1,200 crore with market growing at around 20 per cent YOY. In a recent press release, Nadia Chauhan, director, Parle Agro, told Business Standard that its premium apple drink, Appy Fizz, has been introduced in a new avatar. “Appy Fizz isn’t just a sparkling apple drink; as a brand it is representative of the youth. And the youth is all about constant change and experiments — with looks and style, with ideas and beliefs. Appy Fizz’s new look is in keeping with that kind of a mindset”.

Wow! In sync with the statement, check out the the latest commercial by Appy Fizz new avatar

The ad shows the bottle of Appy Fizz changing and surprising his buddies with the new avatar. ''We maintained the fun quotient Appy Fizz had in the previous campaigns but added a lot of style since it was going to be about the New Look'', says Sajan Raj Kurup, chairman and chief creative officer of Creativeland Asia, the agency that created the new packaging design and the communication. ''Bold, unrestrained, unabashed and cool that should sum up the look we have created for Appy Fizz. It pretty much mirrors the youth values today', he adds.

Speaking about the kind of detailing in the new packaging, Nadia Chauhan says, ''It's about engaging the consumer at the first point of contact and engineering the right kind of start to the relationship''. Yea if we talk about packaging, as the 5^th P, Parle Agro has a history attached with itself. The company was a pioneer in introducing fruit drinks in Tetra Pak's in India, and the first to introduce fruit drinks in PET bottles in India – who can forget the “frooti” packs we all craved for as kids right!

Do you know the APPY FIZZ also does a CSR Activity on Global Warming?No click here

Its called "DONATE YOUR ICE" where APPY FIZZ and his friends educate us about the funda thats gripping the world @ this point of time. But still it would be gr8 if they have a better gripper for the youth connect something like TATA TEA has come up with (see my previous post)

My take for the repositioning it has done,3/5...you are revitalizing the need for the brand among the TG. This ad will induce the users to go and try out the new fizz. The 2 points that I kept reserve is since the product perse is still the same!! Looking for more Appy!! Cheerz and way to go!!!