For National Heart Health Month coming up, Cheerios changes its iconic O shaped cereal into Happy Heart shapes. The limited edition cereal aims to inspire health and happiness as it prepares to hit the shelves on February 1st.
General Mills Canada emphasizes the importance of heart health -- Director of Marketing for Cereal, Fawad Furrukh states, “with over 2.4 million Canadians living with heart disease, we hope to spark conversations on the importance of heart health in an approachable and fun way, while reminding people that Cheerios can support your heart-healthy lifestyle." To help with this mission, Cheerios will be giving customers a chance to win 1 of 5,--- Fitbit Inspire 2 devices to encourage healthy habits.
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What's Driving This Trend
- Heart-healthy Messaging
- Opportunities for other brands to promote heart-healthy messaging through limited edition products.
- Limited Edition Products
- Opportunities for brands to create limited edition products to promote health and wellness themes and invoke collectibility.
- Promotional Giveaways
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Who This Affects Most
- Food and Beverage
- Opportunities for the food and beverage industry to promote healthy living and wellness through limited edition products and heart-healthy messaging.
- Fitness Wearables
- Opportunities for the fitness wearables industry to partner with food and beverage brands to promote healthy lifestyles through promotional giveaways and contests.
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Opportunities for the consumer packaged goods industry to create collectible limited edition products to drive brand loyalty and promote health and wellness messaging.
