Orbit Gum(R) Invites Its Facebook Fans to Influence New Series of Consumer-Generated Pack Designs
(firmenpresse) - CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 01/23/12 -- People enjoy putting their mark on the brands they love through customization and personalization -- from clothes and commercials to food and electronics. As a brand known for its innovative and stylish packaging, Orbit gum is asking consumers to help influence the next series of pack designs for its fruit-flavored Remix line of gum through the .
The innovative online tool utilizes an individual's numerical Facebook data to generate a pack design of shapes and colors unique to each consumer. The end result is an artistic representation of this information, essentially making each person's Facebook life a work of art.
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Once a pack is created, consumers have the ability to edit their design and enter it for the chance to win $500 and potentially see their unique pack design appear on store shelves.
To increase their chance of winning, consumers can share their design with their Facebook friends to recruit votes and can even download the Campaign Kit to further spread the word through other social networks, such as Twitter.
Each month, up to twenty winners will be selected by fan voting now through February 28, 2012.
Orbit gum plans to introduce up to 60 new pack designs to their Strawberry Remix®, Tropical Remix™, Wildberry Remix™ and Melon Remix™ flavors in 2012.
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The Spotlight Series Facebook application and contest is part of a multi-year initiative created by Orbit gum to give consumers a chance to creatively influence its pack designs.
During the first phase of the project in 2011, college students from various creative disciplines participated in the by submitting original pack designs for the brand's latest gum flavor, Melon Remix. The contest successfully generated Orbit gum's first ever crowd-sourced pack designs, available on store shelves now.
Orbit gum worked with San Francisco advertising agency Evolution Bureau to create and design the and generative art engine that produces each unique pack design.
No purchase necessary. See for full contest details and eligibility.
About Wrigley
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company is a recognized leader in confections with a wide range of product offerings including gum, mints, hard and chewy candies, lollipops, and chocolate. The Company has operations in more than 40 countries and distributes its world-famous brands in more than 180 countries. Three of these brands -- Wrigley's Spearmint, Juicy Fruit, and Altoids -- have heritages stretching back more than a century. Other well-loved brands include Doublemint, Life Savers, Skittles, Big Red, Boomer, Pim Pom, Winterfresh, Extra, Starburst, Freedent, Hubba Bubba, Orbit, Excel, Creme Savers, Eclipse, Airwaves, Solano, Sugus, Lockets, P.K., Cool Air and 5. Wrigley is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and operates as a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated, based in McLean, Virginia. Mars is a $30-billion, family-owned company that produces some of the world's leading confectionery, food and petcare products and has growing beverage and health & nutrition businesses.
© 2012 Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. All Rights Reserved. Orbit, Orbit O Design, Spotlight Series, Strawberry Remix, Tropical Remix, Wildberry Remix, Melon Remix and all affiliated designs are trademarks of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
For more information, contact:
Ashley Crimaldi
Olson PR
(312) 577-1770
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Datum: 23.01.2012 - 10:47 Uhr
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