Footwear and apparel retailer Foot Locker has appointed GroupM agency Mindshare to its media planning and buying business across Australia and New Zealand, following a competitive pitch.
Mindshare will be responsible for performance and campaign media planning and buying for Foot Locker across both markets, delivering strategic, data-led media planning, activation, optimisation, and measurement.
A key task for Mindshare will be to support Foot Locker in its good growth ambitions, to diversify the retailer’s audience profile and grow customer value, through the deployment of the agency’s strategic approach to media panning and sophisticated performance marketing capabilities.
Foot Locker operates close to 100 retail stores across Australia and New Zealand.
Foot Locker also recently made headlines for the launch of its new Reimagined store concept in Melbourne Central, which coincided with its 50th anniversary as a brand and its announcement as Major Partner of the WNBL.
"We are very thankful to our incumbent agencies who’ve helped us achieve success to date," said Brendan Graham, senior director of marketing for Asia Pacific at Foot Locker.
"But we are at an important stage of growth for the brand. Foot Locker wants to unlock the inner sneakerhead in all of us.
"Mindshare presented a compelling strategic vision and a roadmap to achieve and measure it. We look forward to engineering the right media mix to capture existing demand and grow our customer base and purchase frequency”.
Maria Grivas, Mindshare AUNZ CEO, said Foot Locker is a vital brand with a strong history of sparking discovery.
"We are excited to bring our Good Growth and Transformation approach to the task of growing Foot Locker in a disrupted marketplace," she said.
The win follows a run for Mindshare including winning Unilever, Nova Entertainment and extending its contract with the University of Melbourne.
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