3. • Background
• Objectives of the awards
• Judging categories
• Sponsorship benefits
• Communication strategy and
audience
• Social strategy
• Partner benefits
• Key dates, timeline and costs
• Appendix - PR and editorial from
2017
Agenda
4. Objectives
• Raise awareness of New Zealand businesses
that produce high quality, innovative products at
both primary and value-added levels.
• Encourage and reward producers for the
development of excellent products.
• Elevate the profiles of the producers, their
company and staff.
• Provide consumer foodies with information on
innovative products, who’s behind them and
where to buy.
• Drive product trial of brands associated with the
awards to influence purchase.
• Provide our partners with brand leverage.
6. People’s
Choice
Awards
• Voted by the public
• Sponsors logo included on all material
• Promoted in all good food stores and farmers
markets on A3 posters (your logo included)
• And a full page advertisement in Life & Leisure
magazine driving people to the website to vote.
8. Sponsorshi
p Benefits
• Naming rights to the Outstanding NZ Food
Producer Awards to be known as the Miele
Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards
• Reach New Zealand’s passionate food consumers
• Create interactive cookery experiences with award
winning products
• Have your brand associated with NZ’s Award-
winning food producers
• Develop content for your advertising, PR, social
media and trade marketing
• Integrate your brand with our campaign.
• Opportunity to engage with the Life & Leisure
audience and influence their purchasing
behaviours.
• Network and build relationships with expert food
judges, their peers and the wider food, lifestyle
news media
• Leverage your brand by working with the Supreme
Winner
9. Sponsorshi
p Benefits
• Acknowledgement and logo at all Outstanding NZ
Food Producer Events, Awards Announcement,
Food Producer Dinner Series, Food Marketing
Workshops and on website
• The opportunity to use the Outstanding NZ Food
Producer Awards logo in Miele internal and
external communications
10. Potential
Leverage
Opportunitie
s
• Present your award at the Awards Event and speak
about your brand association with the best of NZ
food products and produce
• The opportunity for cooking classes at the Miele
Kitchen in Auckland using winning products
• The opportunity to create an e-zine using recipes
featuring Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards
winner
• Client hosting opportunities and networking with
producers and foodies at the Food Producer
Awards Dinner Series (July to October 2017) and
the Awards Event (April 2018)
• A tailored print and digital advertising package with
NZ Life & Leisure with opportunities to leverage
your association with the Awards
• Miele branded videos created using Outstanding
Food Producer content
• Tickets to the Food Producer Awards Dinner
Series, Awards Event and Food Marketing
Workshops
• Attend the judging day, network with food judges
and media, sample entry products
• Access to recipes featuring your category winner
11. Our
Difference
• Recognition of primary produce and value-added
product categories.
• Judged in the peak growing season to highlight
NZ’s optimal fruit and vegetables – mid March
2018
• Assessed by credible judges who are all
independent food experts in their own rights
• Focus on sustainability
• Supported by NZ’s leading lifestyle publication –
NZ Life & Leisure and www.fresh.co.nz, one of
NZ’s largest online food sites
• Consumer friendly focus across all aspects of
social media including Facebook and Instagram
• Complimentary food marketing and brand building
workshops for entrants
• Organised by passionate food marketers who
understand NZ’s food and drinks industry – and
aim help build it.
13. NZ Life &
Leisure
Audience
• 35% of L&L readers have a HHI of $100 000+
• Readers spend on average 45 minutes reading
each issue
• 28% of readers live in Auckland
• 72% of readers have investments, 20% of whom
have investments of $200,000 or more
• 75% own their own home with 37% mortgage free
• 39% are likely to buy a car in the next 12 months
• Our audience spend more on groceries and eating
out per household.
• 68.5% of readers enjoy drinking wine, 25% have
had at least one glass of red wine in the past week,
31% white wine and 12% sparkling wine.
• They enjoy frequent travel both locally and abroad.
• Health is a priority, with 64% believing that a
healthy diet and exercise are essential
• 75% of NZ Life & Leisure readers have bought
products reviewed and recommended as a result of
seeing it in a magazine.
• 80% have visited a website to find out more about
a product as a result of seeing that product in a
magazine.
• Source: Nielsen CMI Q1 2015 – Q4 2015
16. Communicati
on Strategy
• Current reach across Outstanding Food Producer
and www.fresh.co.nz
• Facebook 13788 likes
• Instagram 2550 followers
• Databases 42500
• Websites combined UB’s TBC
• And growing!
17. Partner
Benefits
• I like the slides used in this years presentation
though it does add a number of slides?
• Brand & Advertising
• Publicity & Trade Marketing
• Events & Marketing Workshop
20. Highlights
from 2017
awards
• Number of entries
• 152 exceeded our expectations
• NZ Life & Leisure and digital platforms - your
support
• You are an amazing partner and we value your huge
contribution to the success of these awards
• Awards event
• Food by L’affare, attendance by all winners and the
vibe in the room
• Sponsor support
• T & G Global, Fresh.co.nz and Label & Litho have all
confirmed they would like to continue in 2018
• Intermedia and Coast FM have approached us to
become trade and radio media partners
• Publicity
• Excellent support from a wide range of media
• Food Producer Dinner Series
• Enthusiasm and support from all category winners and
runners-up
21. PR and
Editorial
snapshot
• Radio
• Eight interviews across Radio Live , RNZ and Coast
FM
• Digital
• 41 clips across stuff.co.nz, fresh.co.nz, ODT, FMCG
Business,
• Hospitality Business, Rural titles etc
• Print (other than NZ Life & Leisure)
• Eight clips across ODT, Manawatu Standard, Gisborne
Herald, Waikato Times, Oamaru Mail, NZ Listener,
Sunday Magazine , Farmers’ Weekly
31. Our Judges
• The Outstanding NZ Food Awards judging panel
work in New Zealand's food community every day.
Whether they’re writing about, cooking or eating
food, between them they have a wealth of
experience and knowledge of this country's
produce and Kiwi producers
• Head judge: Lauraine Jacobs
• Panel: Enzo Bettio; Sam Mannering; Anna Tait-
Jamieson; Lucy Corrie; Kathie Paterson; Trudi
Nelson; Nick Honeyman and sustainability expert
Emily Dowding-Smith.