Yesterday evening two of our most recent campaigns were rewarded at the prestigious EFFIE Awards. Which – of course – makes us very proud: it’s our 15th EFFIE Award since 2002. It makes us Belgium’s most EFFIE rewarded agency of this decade and confirms Duval Guillaume’s efficient creativity approach. Creativity not for the fun of it, but a great campaign idea, sharp media insight and excellent production execution, all anchored on an innovative strategic insight. Creativity that stands out and helps our clients business to be more successful.

Our Drink milk now for later campaign for VLAM Melk (the Milk Board of Flanders) was awarded a Gold EFFIE. The judges mainly praised the innovative strategic insight that milk allows you to stay flexible your whole life, and the consistency with which the strategy was translated to strong creative work. These two factors eventually lead to fantastic results with proven effect of communication: we succeeded to establish the first growth in milk consumption in Flanders in decades.

With the campaign Coffee and Lotus Speculoos, always together we won a Silver EFFIE. The strategic choice to grow Lotus Speculoos by focusing all our communication efforts consistently on one consumption moment, the coffee moment, proved to be effective and lead to significant growth with remarkable ROI results.

For more info about both cases, feel free to contact mattijs.devroedt@duvalguillaume.com

Drinking milk on a daily basis helps you stay fit and flexible. To prove this, we did a stunt during the tv-program “So You Think You Can Dance�.

Consternation, when a 64-year old man appears before the jury. Even more consternation when this 64-year old man does his audition in jump-style. The jury couldn’t believe their eyes. They got on their feet, applauded while Leon showed his moves and were flabbergasted when he ended his audition with a split. (*)

Jurymember Jan Kooijman commented: “I don’t think I’d be able to pull that of when I’m your age�. Exactly what we wanted to hear, because right after the show we revealed that the 64-year old was entered by Milk. With his performance, he proved that if you drink milk when you’re young, you’ll be able to dance like Leon when you’re older.

(*) Please don’t try this without drinking milk first.

On the closing night of this year’s Cannes Festival, we have  four chances to get our fourth lion . The following tv-commercials are shortlisted : Spa Barissart “Barfight”, Mercator “Milkman”, Milk “Jumpers”, Milk “Freestyler”.

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In comparison with the supermarkets, the local bakeries don’t only have better products, they also have that extra social dimension. This social aspect is highlighted in a new TV campaign for the Flemish Union of Fresh Bakers.

In realistic and humouristic way the relationship between the local bakers and their clients is portrayed. For the commercials we used the best possible casting, including Flemish actress Tania Van den Sande, well known for leading roles in some of Flanders’ cult series.

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With a new TV campaign, the Agricultural Marketing Board of Flanders wants to stimulate the consumption of milk.

The commercials build on how we all see our future: we all want to grow old, but we don’t want to feel old. That’s why everyone is already investing today in tomorrow, through pension funds and anti-wrinkle lotions. You can also invest in your resistance by starting to drink milk on a daily basis. Hence the new claim of the campaign: drink milk now for later.

The campaign kicks off on tv and in cinema. Later on, the commercials will get an interactive sequel.