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Transforming a Bicultural Beverage into a Branded House
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Legacy Competition: Compete with entrenched players like Clamato by offering superior, health-conscious ingredients.
Expanding Usage Occasions: Drive product trial and loyalty through new product lines and channels, including food service and retail.
Unified Brand Identity: Consolidate fragmented brand assets and develop a cohesive brand architecture to support future growth.
Scaling Growth: Develop a strategy to attract funding, increase customer lifetime value, and reduce customer acquisition costs.
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Comprehensive Brand Overhaul
• Packaging & Logo Design: Redesigned packaging to emphasize better-for-you attributes and cultural authenticity, creating a distinctive shelf presence.
• Website & Apparel: Built a modern, engaging website and branded merchandise to deepen emotional connections with customers.
• Asset Consolidation: Unified all brand assets for consistent messaging across retail, food service, and digital channels.
New Product Development
• Fresquita Agua Fresca Line: Launched a carbonated agua fresca line to compete with Jarriots and increase consumption occasions.
• Nada Chelada Collaboration: Partnered with Athletic Brewing Company to launch Nada Chelada, a zero-proof Michelada—the first of its kind—which sold out online and at retailers shortly after launch.
Channel Expansion
• Focused on food service as a trial-driving mechanism for retail, creating a product flywheel effect that increased brand engagement and built loyalty.
• Expanded presence in food service establishments to enhance brand visibility and trial among new customers.
Fundraising and Strategic Growth
• Crafted a compelling brand story and investor pitch that emphasized cultural relevance and category disruption.
• Helped raise new funds that supported product launches and marketing efforts, leading to a 127% increase in sales and surpassing budget expectations.
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Sales Growth: Achieved a 127% year-over-year increase in sales, beating all brand budget expectations.
Category Expansion: Successfully positioned Arriba Chilada as a culturally relevant, better-for-you competitor to Clamato and expanded the brand into new usage occasions with Fresquita.
Partnership Success: The Nada Chelada collaboration with Athletic Brewing Company sold out online and gained rapid adoption in retail channels.
Brand Loyalty: Built a branded house under the Arriba umbrella, creating a multi-product strategy that increased customer lifetime value while reducing acquisition costs.
Retail & Food Service Presence: Established a dual-channel strategy that drove trial in food service, translating to increased retail sales and customer loyalty.
Arriba Chilada’s transformation into a branded house of culturally relevant products showcases the power of strategic brand building and innovation. By blending better-for-you ingredients with a deep cultural affinity and expanding usage occasions, the brand has set a new standard in the beverage industry. The partnership with AJNCI proved instrumental in crafting a cohesive strategy, designing compelling assets, and driving remarkable growth for the brand.
Arriba Chelada, a “better-for-you” beverage startup, was entering its next phase of growth, aiming to scale its retail and food service presence. The brand’s unique positioning combined Hispanic cultural heritage with a modern twist on traditional mixer drinks, appealing to bicultural families and the Hispanic market. However, the brand needed a strategic overhaul to prepare for this ambitious expansion.
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