The Aim: ensure strong brand awareness of Newsells Park Stud. Promote the high quality of their bloodstock, particularly the annual yearling consignments and their stallions. Pace has provided marketing services for Newsells Park Stud since it was founded in 2002.
High quality direct mail campaigns have been sent to key buyers, breeders and bloodstock agents annually, which also capitalise on the association the stud enjoys with chocolate, through its owner, the Jacobs family. To promote the yearlings these have included:
– a Newsells/Willie Wonka branded chocolate bar which contained a Golden Ticket and a flyer with details of the yearlings, incorporating a £10,000 Newsells Golden Bonus.
– a ‘smart yearlings’ campaign incorporating a branded tube of smarties together with a rotating wheel disc flyer promoting key winners and yearlings.
– capitalising on the strong brand colours of yellow and black with the theme ‘Choosing the right yearling isn’t black and white…. but if you add Newsells yellow things become a lot clearer’.
An advertising plan is produced each year leading up to and during the sales or stud season, with advertisements designed to promote the yearlings and stallions reminding buyers of their key strengths and reflecting that year’s overall campaign theme. Success advertising featured in the UK and international racing press if a horse bred by the stud or stallion won a notable race.
The website is regularly updated with current news, success, images, videos, as well as bloodstock updates on stallion progeny, mares pedigrees, foals and yearling information.
Branded emails are sent to key buyers and breeders timed to coincide with direct mail campaigns and key winners. Advice is provided on social media ideas and competitions related to the campaign themes.