Heinz Beanz Australia launches new can sizes + heart-warming animated short film via Y&R NZ
CB Exclusive – In a bold move, Kraft Heinz Australia removes iconic Heinz Beanz branding for charming new labels, launching four new can sizes. The nationwide integrated campaign has been created by Y&R New Zealand and Assembly Ltd, with music composed by Franklin Road.
The heartwarming campaign, led by an animated short film, follows ‘Geoff’ – the head of innovation at Heinz Beanz. It tells the story of how, across the years, Geoff’s circumstances change, prompting him to create a new can size for every life stage.
Says Josh Moore, CEO/CCO, Y&R ANZ: “Heinz Beanz is one of those classically iconic global products that only Don Draper and advertising school students get to work on. It’s not the kind of brief that falls in your lap in
the real world. But it did and so the Y&R and Assembly teams came together and delivered Geoff, a truly beautiful piece of work that’s going to sell a hell of a lot of beans.”
The campaign consists of a 3-minute film for online and cinema, individual product spots for TV, digital, and point of sale. And for the first time, it also acts as the sole catalyst for re-naming the Heinz
Beanz product range across Australia.
Says Tom Paine, ECD, Y&R NZ: “Launching an animated campaign which directly influences the real-world, on-shelf product is a unique, gratifying process. Hopefully the Australian public enjoy it as much as we’ve enjoyed making it.”
Says Damon Duncan, Director at Assembly: “It was a pleasure working with the team from Y&R to create this piece. We loved bringing these characters to life and telling Geoff’s story. The opportunity to tell a life story on this scale was a fun challenge and one the Assembly team relished.”
Client: KraftHeinz Australia
Chief Marketing Officer AMEA: Rodrigo Wickbold
Chief Marketing Officer: Shalabh Atray
Category Marketing Manager – Quick Serve Meals: Arjun Tomar
Marketing Director: Mughees Abid
Brand Manager: Olivia Plymin
Agency: Y&R New Zealand
CCO and CEO: Josh Moore
Managing Director / Head of Planning: Jono Key
ECD: Tom Paine
Copywriter / Art Director: Ellen Fromm
Senior Account Director: Katie Loverich
Senior Account Manager: Heike Middleton
Head of Design: James Wendelborn
Head of TV / Producer: Sacha Moore, Liz Rosby
Production Company: Assembly Ltd.
Director: Damon Duncan
Technical Director: Rhys Dippie
Executive Producer: Amanda Chambers
Lead Designer / Character Design: Josh Fourt-Wells
3D Artists: Geoff Kirk Smith, Katie Naeher, Craig Speakman, Craig Baxter, Alex McLeod, Damon Duncan, Rhys Dippie, Josh Fourt-Wells, Marcos Godoy, Anastasia Fileva, Andrii Kryvuila, Gustavo Soares, Alex Scollay, Patrick Blades
Environmental Design: Scotty Wilson
Compositing: Rhys Dippie
Grade: Pete Ritchie
Sound: Franklin Road
Music Composed By: Mahuia Bridgeman Cooper
Sound Design: Shane Tapari
Executive Music & Sound Producer; Jonathan Mihaljevich
Media Agency: Spark Foundry
Investor: Keily Brown
Digital Director: Taylor Svarc
Account Manager: Marissa Taylor
Account Coordinator: Chelsea Caddey
54 Comments
It’s got all the makings of a beautiful animated story, like Justino or Chipotle. It just lacks the beautiful story.
It looks great. It’s just got no substance. Almost the opposite problem beans have!
Amazing craft. Well done.
A thumbs down version of Up.
Very nice, hats off
Heinz – “sell cans of Beanz”
Based on the brief this is pretty bloody good
Fell asleep about an hour in, work up about 8 hours later, it was still going.
If copying famous animation was the idea, this is great.
If original and interesting story telling matters, this is a big fail.
Beautiful storytelling. I forgot I was watching an ad. Well done.
They have changed the font on Heniz beans, why!? you can’t just do that. looks wrong. Really cheaped the brand. I won’t be buying 1 can of these. And trust me I buy a lot of beans. FAIL.
This is an ad for Heinz baked beans. To launch new cans. In Australia. The odds couldn’t be more heavily stacked against this being a success, but it’s great.. Congrats all involved, I’ve no doubt Aussies will love it.
It’s just lovely.
Wow. So beautifully crafted, right down to those lush textures and soft lighting. Bravo! 🙂
Awesome.
As an animator, I wish there were more jobs around like this one. Top work!
It’s just lovely.
Heinze have slowly, over the last six months been introducing a smaller size can. It started off cheaper. Now in my local Woolies the big can has completely vanished off the shelves and all that is now left is this new smaller can with is about 1 3rd smaller than the one that has been around since I was a kid. The new small can is exactly the same price as the larger (now gone can). For this very reason I will no longer buy Heinz cans even though I have eaten them all my life.
It’s just lovely.
Where’s the fun storyline??
The main character looks awfully like Ricky Gervais from Extras “are you having a laugh” sitcom. But sadly, I wasn’t having a laugh, just a long yawn. Sadly also lacking was a good story and an intriguing plot. Had the making of a wonderful commercial but just didn’t go anywhere exciting or funny.
Saw this last night and it stood out. It’s called advertising the clients product people
I watched 12 seconds. More than consumers will
This is beautiful.
The 15’s work just fine.
Well done to all involved.
Well done Damon and team at Assembly…your builders not the architect….and you have done an amazing job….my 9 yr old loved it, and he’s not in advertising, just a Baked Bean eater.
Best spot this year. First time baked beans have made my eyes well up. 10/10
This is certainly a lot better than 95% of the dross brands create.
As for it not telling a story, I’m not sure what those detractors are talking about.
Will this work for the main grocery buyer? You bet.
Will people remember the brand? They sure will.
Will kids love it? It appears so from some of the comments above.
Could it have been a shorter? For my liking… yes. But that’s subjective, innit?
Still, I would rather see this in a cinema over most other ‘creative’ spots.
Well done to everyone involved in making this beautifully crafted spot.
Swede as Damo.
looks like a new CCO desperate to make something
This animation is well produced, however I’d like to know why the characters lacks any form of diversity. If white anglo Australian’s were the only ones that eating beans out of a can I might understand the logic here. Did’t one person on the production ask the question?
Beaut. Lovely work Ellen Fromm. TOP SHELF.
Beautiful animation! Big thumbs up to all involved.
Personally I thought it was really sweet. I got my kids to watch it and they loved it too.
I really don’t understand the level of hate here though. How many of us are getting projects like this approved? Fuck-all I’d suggest. So even if you thought it was too long, too cute or whatever – maybe just admire a team who was able to get something through a client that wasn’t just a bunch of shitty banner ads. Cos that’s all I’ve got to look forward to tomorrow….
You’d have to be pretty heartless not to love this. A very generous tip of the hat to Y&R.
Making cool sh*t with other people’s money is why most of us are here. You’ve done that, and I suspect you’ll sell a few cans as well. Well done.
Re: Diversity
It’s a family of gingers – how “minority” do you want to get?!? They’re almost extinct ffs
Ginger’s are super Caucasians mate, they don’t count as a minority.
That’s a very engaging and memorable add with top quality animation. Well done to everyone involved.
A blatant rip off of Up. The character design looks like a near-exact copy! It would’ve been a whole lot more heartwarming if they’d had the decency to make their characters a little more original.
A clever marketing tool to confuse and trick the public into believing that Heinze cares about us and our needs… If they did they wouldn’t be charging us more for the same product.. I have been a loyal consumer of Heinze baked beans all my life and I’d even be happy to pay a price increase if it was done with transparency and not trickery…
Well done on betraying your customers….Do you really think we are that gullible??
i love your BBQ baked beans or i should say loved, have eaten then ham for as long as i remember, i always buy 12 420 g tins at a time, i bought some from woolies on friday the new smaller can Lol paid 50% more and was shocked at the new size that cost more, I thought i hate when thing go down on size and go up on price…. most know how much they need or use…. ok i thought i guess i have to deside which way to go either get ripped off or stop buying them… my choice was i have no choice i really like them then tonight i tasted them , they are not the bbq baked beans i eat 2-3 times a week for breakfast since they came out, For these reasons I will no longer buy Heinz backed beans the taste is cheap beans i can buy for 65cents not $3 …. unless by some mistake on heinz part that these tasteless powdery cheap beans are ur rejects mistakenly sold… if u have changed the recipe you are really stupid….
Carolyn
I do not like the new bean can sizes they are nothing but a greedy cash grab the new big size is to big and the next smaller size too small. If Heinz doesn’t retain the existing standard can size l will not buy the project and will buy another brand. Heinz feel free to contact me if you want.
Love Love Love the new ad – someone had enough brains to create a great ad without, violence, sex, or critisim – WONDERFUL JOB BEST AD I HAVE SEEN FOR A LONG LONG TIME.
Heinz – firstly, it’s not ‘innovative’ to change your can size so don’t fool yourselves. Secondly, one can only be cynical about your motives in removing the standard sized cans. The new can sizes don’t suit me nor my family – your ‘market research’ was based on flawed premises and the conclusions were likely the result of confirmation bias. Disappointing from a company of your stature.
Heinz obviously can’t add.
1+1 = 2 when I went to school.
So if Heinz’s one for one can is 220g then how can the 1 for 2 be 300g? It needs to be 440g.
So now if I buy a 300g can it only gives me 150g on my two pieces of toast for lunch. You’ve got to be kidding.
All I can say is I’ve gone over to SPC. This is a cynical exercise and treats us as complete idiots. Either that or Heinz are complete idiots. Probably both are true.
Has your director seen the film ‘ The fantastic flying books of Morris Less More? very similar.
You say “a can size for every aussie”.
My size is 420g where has it gone?
One word … SPC
Good by Heinz.
Good buy Coles homebrand.
I think you’ll find that the set of cutesy commercials is just a facade to try & win you over with their new range of can sizes to meet our needs – hoping you won’t notice the reduction in the standard 420 size can down to 300 – apparently at the same price but just over 1/4 less. Either management thinks we’re all stupid or they have a real issue understanding figures. They advertise the new sizes listed as 220 For One & 300 For Two – but wouldn’t it be 440 for two, or the size it already was at 420 ?? It sort of even spells it out on the label that the For Two 4 2 0.
No I feel that its more likely to be another major corporation’s greedy grab for profit that they try hiding under a disguise but overall its at our expense – similar to Cadburys reducing their family blocks in weight and the shape of the squares but retaining almost the same size block and offering the reason as the new shape allows for more even distribution of chocolate across the taste buds – Yeah Right ! I just hope that SPC & others don’t follow suite so customers will always be able to see & compare. So nice try Heinz. but FAIL
300gm instead of 420gm for the same price – Its true what they say – less is more.
Guess I’m also no longer an Aussie – Thanks Heinz
I am not a favour of your new sizes I am paying twice the price for a smaller can than I paid for the original size lost a customer
Haven’t seen the ad but I have seen the price and switched to SPC
Is it only me?
I have done a scan of reviews but have found no reference to the movie Up.
This ad is completely disrespectful to the storyline of the movie.
Why use this art style?
Maybe I’m missing something?
Well done to those consumers who picked up the bad change in can size – based on full price & discounted price the 300gr & 555gr cans are now anything from 10 to 15% DEARER – I have been a Heinz fan for years – NO MORE – switched to SPC beans, Praise Mayonnaise & Masterfoods Ketchup/Sauce – don’t believe the company on it’s market research – clearly a money making CON
Why do you conceal the manufacturing date on canned bake beans?