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McCain Foods Tempts UK Bus-Users With AromaTising

Bottom Line: McCain Foods is pioneering new odour technology to arouse the taste and nasal-buds of British bus travellers to promote a new potato product, McCain Ready Baked Jackets - technology that could presage an era of odorous ads.


Shoppers and commuters in York, Manchester, London, Nottingham and Glasgow are being greeted by the wafting aroma of "3-D baked potatoes" as they huddle in wintery city bus shelters. The frozen foods firm is using unique aromatic technology to imply the deliciousness of its new McCain Ready Baked Jackets. To activate the experience, travellers are invited to ... 

[Estimated timeframe: Q1 2012 onward]

... press a button which activates a hidden heating element. This gently warms the potato and releases the tempting aroma of a slow oven-baked jacket potato throughout the bus shelter.

The aroma was developed over three months in collaboration with a specialist scent laboratory to accurately match the warming scent of McCain's sensual spud.

In a neat marketing double-whammy, the bus shelters will also dispense money-off coupons to enable people to try the new product for themselves.

The campaign was created by London agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay.

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