Has Findus done their homework?
I grew up on Findus cuisine. Well, not quite. My mum refused to serve the frozen ready meals. But as a kid growing up in 1990s Britain, I was bombarded with adverts about the joys of frozen food.
Now Findus has come to Denmark. And I’m puzzled. Danes simply don’t have a tradition for frozen ready meals – they’re virgins in this territory. Findus isn’t just trying to enter into a new country market. It’s attempting to change an entire nation’s eating habits. I wonder if they’ll succeed on the basis of their ad campaign, which plays on Danes’ busy lives: ‘A person spends 65 days of their life chopping vegetables’, reads a poster near my house. Is this tactic enough to get a nation – increasingly organic and health-obsessed – dashing for the frozen counter?
Mmmh, not sure. I can see a market in Denmark. But a small (single male) one. Perhaps Findus has done their homework with thorough market research and will surprise us all with whopping sales. Because this isn’t about food innovation – Brits were eating this stuff years ago! It’s about identifying new product markets. And that’s not a one-size-fits-all thing. I’ll be interested to see if Findus is still here this time next year.
