LONDON, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, is pleased to announce that Eric Gillenwater has been appointed to the role of Vice President and Business Head of Global Carrier and Enterprise, leading the Company's Enterprise division.
In his new role, Eric is responsible for engaging distribution partners who can bring OneWeb's forward-thinking, enterprise-grade connectivity solutions to market. Eric will ensure the enterprise market is taking full advantage of OneWeb's LEO network capabilities which will offer unprecedented speed and low latency connectivity to customers as early as the end of 2021.
Eric brings more than 20 years of global telecommunications experience to OneWeb, most recently with Airtel as Vice President and Business Head of Airtel USA.
Eric Gillenwater said: "I am delighted to have joined a company with so much potential. The OneWeb solution fits incredibly well into the product portfolio of our partner companies. The OneWeb offering can either be the primary solution or part of a multi-technology answer for Enterprise applications. I am looking forward to working with our global partners to bring OneWeb's LEO technology to enterprises of all sizes around the world."
He added: "Currently many markets are grossly underserved by fiber or have limited satellite options due to high cost and high latency, thus creating a cost and customer experience challenge. My priority will be to upend this status quo and engage global partners to expand their business opportunities and increase the user experience."
OneWeb will rapidly deploy enterprise connectivity to unserved and underserved sites and increase the capacity, availability and performance of existing solutions to ultimately maximise success for enterprise customers.
About OneWebOneWeb is a global communications network powered from space, headquartered in London, enabling connectivity for governments, businesses, and communities. It is implementing a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites with a network of global gateway stations and a range of user terminals to provide an affordable, fast, high-bandwidth and low-latency communications service, connected to the IoT future and a pathway to 5G for everyone, everywhere. Find out more at https://www.oneweb.world
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Adam Cooper.
Adam CooperWonderful Pistachios was The Wonderful Company's first brand in its portfolio to hit over $1 billion in annual sales in North America.
The man behind the marketing, Adam Cooper, shares how the company turned an underrated product into an edgy, exciting purchase.
Leaning on an entrepreneurship mindset and focusing on unique selling propositions helped drive growth.
The company also wasn't afraid to incorporate humor into its advertisements and drive interest through thought leadership and education around plant-based protein.
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In late October 2020, Wonderful Pistachios announced that annual North America retail sales had surpassed $1 billion for the first time. It was the first brand in The Wonderful Company's portfolio, which also includes Wonderful Halos mandarins and POM Wonderful pomegranates, to achieve this.
The brand has seen huge gains since it launched in 2008. According to analytics company IRI, Wonderful Pistachios No Shells is currently America's fast-growing snack brand and is driving double-digit growth.
But building a brand around a product unfamiliar to many Americans was never a slam dunk. Pistachios had never experienced sustained and successful marketing - they were considered a commodity crop and sold mostly in bulk like produce. Nuts in general were seen as too high in fat and lacking the high-impact flavor of other salty snacks. Promotion and sales might pick up around the holiday baking season or big sporting events, but they were largely ignored.
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"When we first launched the brand, we wanted to disrupt the pistachio category, then the nut and salty snack category," said Adam Cooper, senior vice president of marketing. The company did this first with the in-shell nuts people were accustomed to. Later, Cooper said, "We actually challenged the status quo and disrupted ourselves when we decided to do two varieties of Wonderful Pistachios: No Shell and In Shell."
Creating its own competitor was a risky move, but it paid off. While the No Shell line accounts for $350 million of the $1 billion in brand sales, the In Shell product remains the driver of growth.
Cooper shared how the company pulled off a notable success.
Start with company culture
"One of our company's values is to play to win," Cooper said. "Sometimes companies play to not lose." Wonderful never intended to just enter the pistachio category; it set out to disrupt and dominate it. According to the company, the brand now has 70% market share for pistachios in the US.
"You empower the team, you embrace dissent, and you dedicate resources to things you think are going to have a big impact," Cooper said. "We have a culture of continuous improvement. We always want to find opportunities to try new things. Sometimes they work, something they don't work. But when they work, we go big and jump on it."
Cooper is clear with his staff that sometimes things are going to be hard and they're going to have to find the silver lining. The COVID-19 pandemic is one example of how the team successfully dealt with an "oppor-threat," as he calls them.
"This has been a challenging time for lots of people, but we were well-positioned at the beginning because consumers were starting to look for foods that were healthy and helped them with their immunity," Cooper said. "We were fortunate to have foods that were rich in antioxidants and rich in Vitamin C. We saw that and capitalized on it."
In the last decade, the company has invested more than $1 billion in marketing Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, and POM Wonderful, positioning itself as a leader in the healthy snack and beverage space. It's also invested in the produce ecommerce space, which proved quite beneficial at the beginning of the pandemic when more consumers transitioned to shopping for food online.
Do a few things very well
At Wonderful, the goal is always to do a few things really well.
"As important as saying yes to business initiatives and new opportunities is knowing when to say no," Cooper said. "We take a very disciplined approach to evaluate new opportunities with the most important criteria being alignment with our company's mission of making the world a better and healthier place, which we are not willing to sacrifice for a profit."
One of the things that allows this to happen is "being vertically integrated from the seed to the shelf," Cooper said. Controlling how its food is grown and processed gives it great influence over the quality of the end product. The company's in-house advertising agency, sales and merchandising group, and research team allow it to recognize and capitalize on trends very quickly.
"When we're looking at something new, we ask ourselves, does it have a unique selling proposition that will make people healthier?" Cooper said. "Will it make a difference? Can we build a brand around it?"
Think edgy and partner with thought leaders
Like most nuts (Planters peanuts being the notable exception), pistachios had no identity or brand association before 2008.
"With pistachios and other brands, we really do build these uncompromising and iconic brands, and we do it with humor," Cooper said.
The first No Shell ads used the edgy tagline "Sometimes, Naked is Better." It showed famous nude statues, such as Venus de Milo, wearing clothing and shopping for the disrobed nuts. As the plant-based food trend has taken off, Wonderful has focused on the slogan "Plant protein from pistachios: It's the next big thing."
"Our latest ad has (former NFL tight end) Tony Gonzales, who is famous for advocating for a plant-based diet," Cooper said.
The Wonderful Pistachios brand started small, but when the company was ready to go big, it turned its attention to thought leaders. "Plant protein was this emergent trend," Cooper said, "and it was more focused on a small population," including people eating vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian. "We wanted to talk to leaders in that space who were driving that conversation, which was the dietitians and scientists."
In April 2019, the company hosted the first Plant-Based Nutrition Leadership Symposium in Los Angeles. "The two-day event was a total immersion into plant-based nutrition science, culinary applications, and leadership dialogue, and of course, to celebrate pistachios in a plant-based context," Cooper said. Sessions were led by experts from universities and other organizations and covered topics such as protein quality, pediatric nutrition, sustainable nutrition, and sports nutrition.
Information shared by experts from events like this have helped consumers see pistachios as not just fun but part of a healthy lifestyle, which has been a winning combination for Wonderful and helped it achieve its first - but perhaps not last - billion-dollar milestone.
