Success Stories: Amy’s Kitchen
CLIENT
Amy’s Kitchen
CHALLENGE
As Amy’s Kitchen expanded into additional markets and retailers, the brand (expectedly) drew more competition. Few (if any) of the new brands that jumped into the frozen or soup sets had the same quality of ingredients and taste story as Amy’s Kitchen but they poured into the marketplace. The management team at Amy’s, always incredibly supportive of emerging brands, wanted to have a voice in how retailers looked at their respective categories and all the new entries. They hired The Touch Agency to work up a fact-based category management platform to begin to organize the emerging Frozen Food Category.
RECOMMENDATION(S)
The Touch Agency team worked through internal shipment reports, portal data and syndicated data sources to create MaxFrost, the Amy’s Kitchen category management tool. This included:
- Consumer purchase decision trees
- Category segmentation
- Brand/SKU shares and trends
- Pareto charts
- Recommended SKU list, target delete lists
- Recommended planograms
MARKETING PROGRAM
- MaxFrost category management program
- MaxFrost retail sell sheets
- MaxFrost dashboard reports
RESULTS
Amy’s Kitchen became the Category Captains at 15 major retailers by the end of year two of the program.