Objective: According to researches, food is an integral
part of Russian culture and everyday life: Russians like to gather around the
table and express warm feelings to their loved ones when sharing food. For
target audience of IKEA there is a lot more to food than food. It’s about being
together, about creativity, about personality, about expressing your feeling to
your loved ones, celebrating everyday and special moments. But from the
research we found out that currently Russians are influenced by lots of
stereotypes that prevent them from truly enjoying everyday life around food.
But sometimes they tend to compromise on it due to various reasons: small
space, low budget, existing stereotypes and opinions.
The objectives were to challenge these
conventions and inspire people with new ideas how to cook, eat and socialize
without compromises. The INSTEAD OF CAFE campaign was planned to be long-term
activity to give everyone an opportunity to visit it.
Idea: We created unique experiential venues with IKEA
kitchens in the center of Moscow and St-Pete – called INSTEAD OF CAFE “NEW
IDEAS TO EAT’”. Everyone can book a kitchen they like for their families and
friends online for free and then come there to cook, to celebrate any occasion
or just spend a great time with their families and friends in a true home
atmosphere. Also we help them to arrange thematic parties – to provide serving
ideas, decorations etc. With all those activities we enable people to
experientially prove themselves that they can create a better everyday life
with food in their homes without compromising. Every kitchen was built to break
a stereotype about life in and around kitchen.
Results:
Over 48 277 visitors, and 6805 of them enjoyed cooking on the kitchens
300 000 people virtually visited INSTEAD OF CAFE and learned about IKEA kitchen solutions
238 journalists came to INSTEAD OF café
20 885 publications
95085261 audince
The sales results went up:
For Cooking category 43%
For Eating category 37%