Reconnected worked with Toscano to create a successful campaign that boosted grocery sales, increased social media engagement, and positioned the brand as a top choice for home cooks. The campaign led to record-breaking sales and strengthened Toscano’s reputation with both consumers and retailers.

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Challenge:

Toscano needed to activate a short-term retail campaign to buy time for brand development by driving immediate sales to ensure business momentum.

Marketing Strategy

Due to low brand awareness, the campaign focused on distinctive brand assets. A product-centered message maximised physical distribution, while social media relaunch was funded to drive pre-store demand.

Creative Strategy

Research revealed that Toscano’s European-inspired products gave at-home cooks the confidence to adapt classic recipes. This insight led to the “Crafted by Us, Created by You” campaign, which showcased Toscano as the perfect quality base for culinary creativity.

Solution

The integrated campaign included:

• In-store merchandising and consumer promotion
• Store staff merchandising incentives
• An 8-week social media owned and retailer content plan
• Integrated macro & micro-influencer campaign

A multi-pronged campaign across in-store merchandising, a consumer promotion, an 8-week social media campaign and a series of store incentives. Crafted by us, Created by you was a campaign that hero’d the consumer and positioned the unknown Toscano as the ‘quality base to start on’.

Our Gozney promotion helped cement our quality international credentials and drove a significant uplift in both ranging and consumer pull-through at the shelf.

Our social partnerships with Tom Walton & Chris Tran provided a consistent beat pushing content to the limit by embedding us in the occasion with ‘Slice & Swirl’ whilst pushing the ASMR recipient limits without ‘How it Started’ campaign.

These were supported by partnerships with ten other micro-influencers that reached 2.6 million Australians

Retailer: Elevating Physical Avaliablity with Gozney and Store Incentives

The Gozney promotion highlighted Toscano’s international quality credentials, driving increased shelf ranging and sales. In parallel, store staff incentives ensured consistent product visibility and engagement at key retail locations, strengthening Toscano’s presence in-store.

Social Influencer: Slice & Swirl and Recipe Inspiration

The Slice & Swirl content series, led by Tom Walton and supported by ten micro-influencers, brought recipe inspiration to life, embedding Toscano into key meal occasions. This collaboration reached 2.6 million Australians, driving awareness and connection with diverse audiences.

Social Owned & Retailer: Curating a Distinctive Voice with Chris Tran

Partnering with Chris Tran, Toscano developed a unique social voice, blending product storytelling with recipe content. Retail integration, supported by targeted paid campaigns, funneled traffic to online stores and competitions, creating a seamless bridge between brand engagement and purchase intent.

Impact

Record-breaking sales months

Retailers placed record orders

Product shortages due to overwhelming demand

What our
clients say

"The Reconnected Team helped us quickly pull together a business-critical integrated campaign that pushed our business limits creatively and operationally. The results were fantastic and gave us the time and confidence with the business to step-change the brand."
Michelle Bluett
Toscano Marketing Manager