Balance by Weight Watchers
Award-winning new product innovation for Weight Watchers from Heinz
Case study
The Weight Watchers from Heinz range of frozen ready meals was a brand with great potential in a changing market. But Kraft Heinz realised that it needed bringing up to date.
Incite are a preferred partner for complex and ad-hoc research for Kraft Heinz. So we were involved in the workstream from initial inception to execution and launch of an award-winning new product range.
The first step was to frame the challenge; leaning on both qualitative exploration and sales data analysis, we were able to establish a clear, singular project focus. A collaborative workshop built upon segmentation and U&A data in order to identify a sizeable, unaddressed opportunity for the brand to target.
We then worked alongside design agency Rare to define a roadmap for the brand and its portfolio, and refine and optimise the execution of that plan. That was supported by detailed qualitative research covering everything from recipe and packaging to pricing and portion size.
"It was really important for us to get the big picture of what market opportunities exist, and which ones the brand should pursue, and also the detail of how to go after them. Incite’s collaborative way of working meant we were able to get to a great answer to all of those questions, and a clear and actionable plan to go ahead and do it."
The outcome was a new range – Balance, by Weight Watchers from Heinz. This range delivered high quality, healthy meals with the convenience of frozen, beautifully packaged and presented to reinforce the sensory cues identified as critical.
"The Balance range went on to win The Grocer’s 2017 award for the best Top Launch in Frozen Food and is available in stores now."
See more on Rare’s work on the packaging and visual identity of the range here and you can go to Heinz to see the range itself.
