Happy Easter, from mine to yours. So, it’s a cosy day on Twitter and Famuyide Olawale was generous enough to share with us some of the Easter Designs Made by Nigerian Brands. Do click on the tweet to see some of the creatives churned out by these brands.
https://twitter.com/famuyideolawale/status/853614579737403392
For this post, I decided to arrange them into industries and tried to identify some trends. Here are the industries in Alphabetical order.
Classification by Industry
Automobile – Peugeot
Banking (13) – GTB, First Bank, Diamond, Fidelity, Zenith, Wema, Heritage, Access, Stanbic, Union, UBA, FCMB, Skye, Sterling
Beauty Industry (2) – House of Tara, Zaron
Beverage (2) – Guinness Nigeria, Maltina
Consumer Electronics (1) – Tecno
Digital Printing (1) – Printivo
E-commerce (3) – Konga, Slot Ltd, Payporte, NextCashAndCarry
Telecommunications (5) – Etisalat, MTN, Airtel, Galaxy Backbone, Spectranet
FastFood (1) – Chicken Republic
Financial Services (3) – Leadway Pensure, Verve, Paga, RenMoney, Cornerstone
FMCG (4) – Omo Detergent, Peak Milk, Knorr, Maggi
Retail (1) – Spar
Pay Television (1) – DSTV
Insights
What you’ll quickly observe is that the Banking industry is being well-represented. This could be potentially due to the fierce competition in that space. If you recall, around the time of the KeepTheChangeBruh saga, lots of banks were quick to get in on it as well. Also, one can argue that the banking industry in Nigeria is quite old, hence, potentially more players which contribute to the competition and accounts for the sheer difference in the number of participants across other industries. Furthermore, we can say that their services are more far-reaching and less-exclusive compared to Pay TV, which caters for more of the middle and upper class than lower.
The Telcos come up second after the banking industry and this time it is representative of the Sim Card Providers as well as the ISPs.
Is anyone surprised that we are yet to receive an Easter message from a Governmental Agency (*runs to check the officialEFCC timeline*), I was right, none so far? Why though? Is it against the constitution to felicitate with the citizens? Or we are just more laid back when it comes to handling public offices. As many of you found above the greetings came from the Private Sector. Hopefully, the highly-praised @officialEFCC account will break this yoke for Christmas and wish us a Merry Christmas, likewise for Islamic Celebrations.
As Famuyide noted, some other brands missed out on this ‘opportunity’ so to speak. Such as Ecobank, Shoprite, Samsung, Cadbury etc.
I didn't see anything from brands like
Keystone
shoprite
Dangote
Jumia
Nigeria Breweries
Pampers Ng
Indomie
Quickteller
Ntel
Cowbell— Famuyide Olawale (@famuyideolawale) April 16, 2017
So, what impact will this have on the loyalty of their customers? Unknown. It is unknown simply because we don’t have access to the stats and historical data to back up claims of brand loyalty to an improvement of company’s bottom-line.
Key takeaway and recommendation: Although it was a public holiday, special remuneration structures (such as bonuses ) could be enacted for Social Media Managers in order to motivate them to work on weekends/public holidays. I believe if they are being paid handsomely, they are most likely to go above their job description (JD) to come up with very good representations for their respective companies.
As an aside, Verve’s design and that of Etisalat’s were highly regarded by other Twitter users who commented on the thread (I particularly like Verve’s design…highly representative and ingenuine).
https://twitter.com/chefobubu/status/853649212566843392
Enjoy the rest of your week!