Friday 16 December 2016

Easy marketing £1 coffee

EasyCoffee is a growing franchised coffee chain under the Easy brand umbrella, soon to open dozens of new branches around the UK. The top brand attribute for Easy is (no surprise) value (£1 for a regular -sized coffee or tea). You know, Easy as in easyJet, the high-profile Easy-branded budget airline.

Here's the EasyGroup mission:
To manage and extend Europe's leading value brand to more products and services, whilst creating real wealth for all stakeholders.
Businesses or other organisations can have an EasyCoffee vending machine (above) on their premises to offer employee value-priced branded coffee. In other words, EasyCoffee's distribution strategy goes beyond consumer-oriented retailing into B2B marketing.

Which is a good thing, because competition in the retail side of coffee shops is intense, given the strong brands trying to increase market share (Starbucks, Costa and so on). Not to mention competition from other food service brands that make coffee a signature element in their outreach to certain customer segments (such as McDonald's with its McCafe coffees).