Avocados from Mexico Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Avocados from Mexico (AFM) is kicking off its 2014-2105 retail promotional activity this Hispanic Heritage Month with “Échale al Asador” (Toss it on the Grill), a fully integrated program for Hispanic accounts. The “Échale al Asador” (Toss it on the Grill) program will drive aggressive display activtiy and consumer excitement. The program will feature a mobile sweepstakes and a coupon/recipe savings offer as well as digital/social and in-store merchandising. The main drive to build excitement in consumers will be through text-to-win mechanism where  consumers will be able to win outdoor large green eggs. In addition, consumers will be able to save $1.00 on their produce purchase when they buy three Avocados from Mexico. The savings offer will be made available via an in-store coupon and also through the text-to-win platform. This is the first Avocados From Mexico mobile program that will be targeted to Hispanic consumers. Consumers will be able to text-to- win to enter in the sweepstakes, access the coupon and grilling recipes from their mobile device. “Given that Hispanics are adopters of technologs in-language digital and mobile channels will be key to reach Hispanics in their path-to-purchase,” says Stephanie Bazán, Hispanic marketing director, AFM. “In order to reach the 'Nueva Latina' Avocados From Mexico needs to leverage the technologies that she uses to engage with her.” The “Échale al Asador” program will run from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2014 in California, Arizona, Texas, Chicago and Florida in approximately 1,200 hispanic chain stores and independents. Retailers will feature large avocado dump bins with the AFM header and Hispanic Heritage themed POS. An AFM in-store merchandising team will be utilized to help merchandise and maintain avocado displays. The digital and social aspect of the program will utilize a landing page on echalealascador.com as well as the AFM Hispanic Facebook and Twitter pages. To learn more about the “Echale al Asador” program, visit www.echalealasadaor.com starting September 15.