Design Bridge reveals new package designs for Dutch fruit-juice favourite Appelsientje

International brand design agency Design Bridge has unveiled a full range of new package designs for Appelsientje, the Netherlands’ most favourite juice drink brand.

Appelsientje was launched in 1973 as the first pure juice in the ambient shelf and has a long heritage in the market, where their iconic orange juice is both a childhood memory and an everyday staple. Their growing range of juices enjoys a privileged position in local hearts and minds, but risked getting lost on supermarket shelves.

Standing out on a crowded shelf

The wide selection of ambient juices and fruit drinks makes for a crowded shelf environment dominated by generic formats and imagery. Most brands look at category leaders to borrow visual cues for pure juice, which increasingly put Appelsientje’s unique look and feel under pressure.

So the challenge for Appelsientje was to stand out — both from the competition within the category and from themselves and become the proud icon again as it has always been.

A juicy story

An additional challenge arises because non-refrigerated juices are more likely to be perceived as more processed by supermarket shoppers. In fact, Appelsientje’s core range was already 100% pure juice — no additives, preservatives or added sugar. As part of the packaging redesign, Appelsientje have reshaped their complete portfolio of fruit drinks to remove added sugars and sweeteners and make all their products more natural than ever.

The new designs give pride of place to the long-established Appelsientje brand. Their easily recognised and evocative “A” logo is capped by photography of pure fruit still on the tree, celebrating the wholesome natural goodness inside each pack. A new custom-made typeface ties the brand and product names together inseparably.

Little moments of pure happiness

The brand idea behind this design evolution celebrates all the little pure moments of happiness we enjoy together every day — just like that first glass of juice at the family breakfast table each morning.

“Appelsientje has been a part of Dutch family life for decades now, but their products were getting lost in sea of sameness,” said Bas van Herten, Client Business Director at Design Bridge. “Our goal for this project was to proudly reclaim their heritage by giving consumers a fresh, natural and distinctive design for a brand already engrained in their hearts — so every glass of Appelsientje is a little moment of happiness in their day.”

“The new designs from Design Bridge are a perfect tribute to what we pour into every pack: pure juice for pure enjoyment,” said Siska Schipper, Director Marketing Riedel at FrieslandCampina Branded Netherlands. “We wanted to make our brand iconic again and stand out from the crowd by radiating our passion for pure and natural fruit juices.

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