Verein Schweizer Brot is an association of cereal producers, millers and bakers. The aim of the association is to promote the consumption of Swiss bread.
In 2015, Schweizer Brot defined a new communication strategy with a focus on young families and young adults. The communication should refer to the entire value chain and thus illustrate the value of Swiss bread. Social media and the web form the new cornerstones of the communication mix.
In order to implement the strategy, several agencies were invited to a pitch and in a multi-stage selection process we (at that time still under the name of Achtgrad) were finally selected as the new lead agency.
In a first phase, the somewhat bureaucratic-sounding former name Schweizerische Brotinformation was changed to Schweizer Brot (respectively "Verein Schweizer Brot") and a corresponding memorable logo and wordmark was developed, which presents the various members of the association and
on the other hand also sets a strong sign for the target group.
Based on the new brand, the corresponding CI/CD Guidelines were developed, which also form the basis of the Design System.
In addition to the digital assets and services, we also designed various offline projects such as the Schweizer Brot
stationery, letterheads, templates, visualisations, print advertising and the Best of Swiss Gastro (BOSG) Brot-label.
The central hub for the online communication is the bilingual (German & French), GDPR-compliant website of Schweizer Brot, optimized for mobile devices. This was designed by us and realized by a specially developed WordPress theme, supplemented by custom developed plug-ins. To support the content marketing strategy, the areas knowledge,
recipes and blog posts were created and optimized for Google Search (SEO). The website, like all other services, is monitored in real-time, continuously optimized and expanded with new offers.
Additionally a Digital Assets Management System (DAM) was also developed to support the extensive content.
Newsletter marketing is an important part of the online marketing mix of Schweizer Brot. For this purpose we have developed a personalised newsletter for the B2B (industry) and B2C (consumers) sectors. These newsletters are optimised for different e-mail clients (mobile, browser, desktop)
and published around 6 times a year.
With an open rate of 52.8% (industry average: 17.8%) and a click rate of 28.1% (industry average: 2%) these newsletters are far above the industry average.
In order to increase the awareness and reach of Schweizer Brot, the use of social media was used from the very beginning. For this purpose, we developed a social media strategy and an appearance in the social media that enables direct
communication between Schweizer Brot and their consumers. These services are constantly improved and adapted to the needs of the target group by means of a permanent measurement of success.
In order to transform visitors of the website and social media channels of Schweizer Brot into leads, we have developed an inbound marketing strategy. This strategy is geared to the needs, challenges and wishes of the consumers and offers them added value through specially developed PDF
brochures on the topics of food waste, aperitifs, breakfast and recipes. The entire process is automated, is advertised via social media and ad's and contributes successfully to increase traffic on the website, digital visibility, customer loyalty and the number of newsletter subscribers.
All channels of Schweizer Brot are monitored by different services and help to constantly improve data-based marketing and content. The monitoring includes the areas Analytics (Google Analytics), Security (Securi), Error Tracking
(Sentry, Logentries) as well as Server Uptime (Pingdom) and is presented in a dashboard (Google Datastudio) clearly arranged and accessible for the whole team.
18'000
followers on Facebook21'000
newsletter subscribers1'000'000
social media impressions per month80'000
video impressions per month1'100'000
website visitors per year4'200'000
website pageviews per year1'900'000
website sessions per year1'500
media clippings per year