Cereal Partners UK

Cereal Partners UK

Nestlé breakfast cereals CMS website engaging customers and retailers

We had been working with Nestlé for two years on a number of consumer brands before we linked with Cereal Partners UK (CPUK) in 2014 to redevelop and redesign their new website. CPUK are responsible for leading products within the cereal industry including Corn Flakes, Weetabix and Cheerios and with growing competition there has never been a more important time to establish and strengthen multi-channel selling.

The challenge was to explain and promote a service for convenience store managers whereby a representative visits the store to assess how the shop display to help them sell more cereal, specifically more Nestlé cereal. By establishing a dialogue with the retail businesses that sell their products, CPUK wanted to be recognised as the go to place for advice on all things cereal. Through initial user research, market research and competitor reviews, CPUK and Gibe Digital agreed on a combined approach.

In our approach to the client’s brief, we identified roles the website needed to play and key areas for improvement. In order to increase conversion we needed to encourage convenience store owners to request a store visit. By leveraging the Nestlé brand, we could promote credibility of CPUK as an expert within the cereal industry. And by building a more informative and accessible website, we could successfully promote key cereal insights and product information to business owners and give them reason to stock products. To further validate the service we could introduce case studies detailing sales uplift and growth in profit.

The new Cereal Success site was built with various features to aid the promotion, education and allocation of cereal products for shop owners. Online planograms use floor and shelf space to determine how best to display cereals within a shop space, while the 'Profit on Return' calculator helps shop owners calculate profit return per case of produce. There is also a ‘Score your Store’ interactive quiz to help quickly identify key weaknesses within a shop’s current stock inventory, which then advises on improvements with infographics.

 

As a relatively new service offering for convenience stores, we realised that leveraging Nestlé as an influential brand and creating a dedicated section for sales tools would help the target audience understand the value of the CPUK service. We wanted to create a fun and engaging brand experience utilising online interactive tools. With two websites for one, we separated content for convenience store owners and food service workers with two separate information architectures.

 

What Cereal Success looks like on mobile and desktop

The website has been credited with allowing store owners access to materials that have directly led to an increase in their sales. As Nestlé have continued to bring on new brands the site has continued to update and Gibe have supported with the creation of new features and material for campaigns and to keep the site fresh and modern.