Today, Love Irish Food, in partnership with Core and Media Central, announces the launch of the 2020 Double Up Awards. As Ireland faces one of its biggest economic challenges in the wake of COVID-19 and ahead of a damaging Brexit, these three organisations have come together to help Irish produced food and drink brands fight back and command more consumer attention in 2021.
As part of the ongoing effort to support and build the future of food and drink brands in Ireland, Love Irish Food is offering five Irish food producing companies a Double Up of €200,000 in radio airtime. This means that the selected companies will have their radio advertising spend doubled in 2021. Winners will have their bought radio spend of €40,000 in Q1 2021 doubled by €40,000 in free airtime in Q2 2021, across Media Central radio stations including Newstalk, Today FM, and others.
The eight Media Central stations achieve a weekly audience of over 2 million listeners. Love Irish Food, Core & Media Central will work with the winners to plan the optimum campaign for their brand objectives.
This award is open to Love Irish Food members and non-members. Love Irish Food member brands support 12,000 jobs in the Irish food industry. The chosen brands will have the opportunity toadvertise their products to the Irish consumer with double the momentum and double the airtime.
Love Irish Food invites all qualifying Irish produced food and drink brands to enter, detailing in 1,500words or less, why this campaign should be awarded to their brand. Entrants will need to present a sound business and marketing case, with the winners being the brands deemed to benefit most from the award.
Kieran Rumley, Executive Director, Love Irish Food said: “Love Irish Food is a strong supporter of all Irish manufactured food and drink brands. At a time when COVID-19 and Brexit have added much so much uncertainty to the market, this Double Up award allows the winners the certainty of knowing that they have an increased advertising campaign for their brand in their plans for 2021. It is now critical to support locally owned and operated food businesses and this award will give brands a huge opportunity to connect with their target audience and double their voice to the market.”
Gavin Deans, Managing Director, Media Central said: “This is a very difficult time for Irish retail, Irish ood producers and Irish food manufacturing and it is hugely important that we support this Irish industry and other locally owned businesses in every way that we can. We hope this initiative can do just that by allowing the winners to reach a much wider audience, over a longer period, across our network of stations than might otherwise have been possible and provide a base to build on in 2021.”
The competition entry is a simple two-phase process where terms and conditions are outlined.
To register brands must first submit the basic details of their company and brand at http://www.loveirishfood.ie before 5:30pm Friday, 24 July, 2020. Brands must then submit their completed entry form online at http://www.loveirishfood.ie before 5:30pm Friday, 28 August, 2020.
The judging panel includes Kieran Rumley of Love Irish Food, Eddie O’ Mahony of Core and Gavin Deans of Media Central. Judging will take place the week commencing 7 September, with the five winners to be notified on Monday, 28 September.
