ARLA: Taste is Blind: How Arla Got Consumers to Care About an Upstart Cream Cheese

Arla Foods, a dairy company, communicated the brand's superior taste to its US audience to double its sales and household penetration in six months.

The Situation

When Arla Foods, the fifth largest dairy company in the world but a relative newcomer to the U.S. market, launched its fresh-tasting, four-ingredient cream cheese here in 2015, it seemed like a slam dunk.

After all, the food world had been totally disrupted by consumers demanding healthier, less-processed foods with no artificial ingredients. Big Food was out. "Clean" was in.

And for decades, consumers had had basically one choice in the cream cheese aisle: Kraft's Philadelphia. The epitome of Big Food.

Research and product testing showed that Arla's product was a winner. It had only four ingredients versus...

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