Unlocking Innovation In Frozen Beverages

Challenge

Unlocking actionable, future-oriented innovation opportunities for our client’s frozen beverage portfolio, to inspire a killer slate of exciting innovations for 2025-2030.

Our client, a leading food company, sought to explore and anticipate the trends of tomorrow to gain a deeper understanding of their growth potential. We used these trends to inspire novel innovation platforms that would enable them to deliver an exciting new range of frozen beverages, flavours, and beverage enhancers that would be sure to make a splash.

Approach

Our client already has an impressive legacy of innovation, setting a high bar for creativity and excellence. To rise to this challenge, we immersed ourselves in the frozen beverage category and its adjacencies. We drew inspiration from trendy coffee shops, juiceries, smoothie bars, and mixologists, giving us a wide range of sources to build from.

We also dove deep into popular culture and consumer trends, analyzing emerging shifts and taste communities shaping the preferences of young frozen beverage lovers. This thorough exploration equipped us to anticipate future movements, revealing exciting opportunities that align perfectly with our client’s innovative spirit.

Outcome

We delivered 8 innovation platforms, each with a range of ready-to-test idea statements and mapped them along a 5-year pipeline, giving our client a clear action plan for success in the market.