Brum Smith - Case studies

Mars - Take Your Dog To Work Day

Showcasing the benefits of dogs in the workplace

Surely you're no stranger to the iconic Mars Belgium brands. M&Ms®, Snickers®, Twix®, Mars®, Balisto®, Bounty®, Ben's Original™, Pedigree®, Cesar®, Frolic®, Whiskas®, and Sheba®. But did you know they've been a pioneer in pet-friendly offices for over two decades?

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BVI.EU - Green Business Park Nivelles Nord

How strong media relations amplified exposure on BVI.EU’s Nivelles Nord project

BVI.EU, a renowned developer of mixed-use business parks, SME units and build-to-suit buildings, has consistently delivered exceptional projects for over two decades. This case study highlights the importance of strategic public relations (PR) in maximising media exposure and maintaining strong relationships with key media players in the Brabant Wallon region.

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Kruidvat

Turning statistics into stories to advocate for affordable healthcare

We regularly work with market research companies to shed light on current issues and obtain relevant statistics. We strive for high-quality media coverage to highlight issues in society. Kruidvat’s aim is twofold: not only to educate the public, but also to ensure that policy makers are aware of the importance of affordable healthcare.

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Kriket - New product launch

Fueling the Media: How Kriket's High Protein bars ignited media buzz

Kriket, a unique Brussels-based food start-up founded by foodie crusaders Michel and Anneleen, specialises in making nutritious cricket-based foods. They approached us with an intriguing request: to draw media attention to their newly launched high-protein bars.

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Flemish Government - We Zien U

Flanders-wide media publicity for awareness campaign against sexually assaultive behaviour

Together with partner agencies Oona and Hotel Hungaria, we carried out a campaign for the Flemish Minister of Justice and Law Enforcement, Zuhal Demir, to combat sexually assaultive behaviour among young people. Projections were published on well-known buildings in five Belgian provincial capitals (Leuven, Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp & Hasselt).

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Lous and The Yakuza for Silversquare

Three-stage opening of Silversquare North in collaboration with international superstar

Coworking pioneer Silversquare opened its ninth location in Belgium, in the northern quarter of Brussels, in early March 2023. The company follows the same strategy each time: a unique coworking location in collaboration with a local artist. Silversquare believes in the power of inspiring environments to foster creativity, innovation and better entrepreneurship. For the Brussels North location, they collaborated with Lous and The Yakuza, an eccentric Congolese-Rwandan singer-songwriter, rapper and creative all-rounder.

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Sotheby's Auction

Massive (inter)national media coverage for Rubens painting unveiling

As an internationally renowned auction house, Sotheby's has long since ceased to be an unknown name. In Brussels, this global player has set up its gallery and offices on the prestigious Avenue Louise. February 2023 was an artistic highlight. A rare painting by Peter Paul Rubens, estimated to be worth between $20 and $30 million, returned to Belgium for the first time in 200 years. Sotheby's Belgium was honoured to unveil the painting to the public before it went to New York for auction.

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Aviko

Media ‘mayhem’ for the official opening of the most modern fries factory in Europe

Aviko is Europe's market leader in potato products and among the world's top five potato processing companies. It has built an eight-hectare plant in the fields of West Flanders that produces more than enough fries to serve every Belgian a portion of fries every week. So it should be no surprise that this was one of the most intensive cases of 2022.

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Bobex

Positioning Bobex in the energy debate with an energy barometer based on data

Bobex is the most significant bid comparator in Belgium and describes itself as a matchmaker between contractors and clients. In September and October, rising energy prices were a hot topic in the media, which also entailed more expensive renovation costs. We connected Bobex with this topic because the company has a lot of data on the sale of building materials. We know that journalists need data to substantiate their articles so we made Bobex relevant by linking their data to current events.

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Febelfin

A journalistic approach to media relations to raise awareness of cybercrime

Febelfin, the Federation of the Belgian Financial Sector, launched an awareness campaign to make young people and their parents aware of the dangers of online fraud. It was up to us to generate media attention for this campaign.

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BVI.EU

International communication for the Belgian market leader in green business parks

BVI.EU has been a developer of mixed-use business parks, SME units & build-to-suit buildings for over 20 years. Their many years of experience recently extend beyond our borders as well. With projects in both France and Germany, they are introducing their green philosophy to Belgium's largest neighbouring countries and also two of the largest countries in Europe. BVI.EU does not hide its ambition to expand further in Belgium and beyond.

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Maes 0.0%

Awareness campaign against drinking and driving in association with The Wolfpack

Maes 0.0% is a sponsor of the Deceuninck-Quick-Step Cycling Team or, as they like to call themselves, "The Wolfpack". The brewery sees the Wolfpack as the ideal ambassadors to draw attention to a highly topical issue: "don't drink & drive". To strengthen that message, the riders dressed up in a special jersey for the GP Samyn (2021).

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Alzheimer Liga Vlaanderen

Primetime news programme for a good cause

Alzheimer Liga Vlaanderen launched a brand new fundraising campaign after 60% of its income was lost due to the abolition of the dual benefit system. Our task was to get the media interested in the campaign.

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Stefano Boeri for Triple Living

Media carousel for the world-famous architect Stefano Boeri

Italian architect Stefano Boeri travelled to Antwerp to inaugurate his first building on Belgian soil, the Palazzo Verde by Triple Living. Our job was to get the maximum media coverage out of it. It was a great opportunity, and we achieved fantastic results.

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Triple Living

Impactful media relations and solid reputation management for Belgium's leading project developer

The Antwerp-based project developer Triple Living embodies architectural gems by teaming up with internationally renowned architects. We give them strategic advice on reputation and crisis management combined with regular media training.

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Starcasino Koers Zoekt Vrouw

A talent show in search of female cyclocross talent

The women of the Starcasino Team were looking for new cyclocross talent and therefore travelled through Flemish fields looking for a new star for their red brigade. Three ladies made it to the final stage where one of them won a coveted professional contract with the star team. In this project, we showed our best strategic and executive side. The turnaround time was less than a week so our responsiveness and flexibility had to be top notch. We came up with a good strategy that created maximum impact followed by a solid execution. We used a targeted approach for the Flemish and international press and launched a general press release mixed with regional versions.

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Foodmaker

Taking PR to the next level for the healthy restaurant chain

Foodmaker, a bold brand with a rock star CEO, embodies fantastic food and a great vision on healthy living. When they asked us to help optimise their PR efforts, we were over the moon. We’ve been helping them with strategic communications advice, story mining, copywriting, and PR outreach in the north and south of the country since March 2020.

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Silversquare

Opening a trendy co-working spot in the middle of a crisis

Opening a new co-working spot during the Covid-19 crisis is clearly a challenge. In terms of business, but also communication. However, the opening of Silversquare's newest co-working spot, Bailli, was a huge opportunity to share the company’s exciting growth ambitions.

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Brussels Flight Simulators

Launching the first F-16 simulators on Belgian soil

Brussels Flight Simulators called on Brum Smith to professionalize and intensify its marketing activities and give sales a boost. We designed an integrated social media advertising, public relations and communications campaign.

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Test Aankoop - Test Achats

Boosting subscriptions for the Belgian consumer body

The Belgian consumer body known as Test Aankoop - Test Achats was struggling to increase its subscriptions and had designed a new marketing campaign to do so. However, they wanted to try something new, which they believed in but didn't know quite how to implement strategically. So they called on Brum Smith to design and implement a lifestyle influencer marketing campaign.

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BVI.BE

Inauguration of business parks in Wallonia

BVI.BE, the Belgian pioneer of SME and business parks, wanted to create awareness and visibility for a new business park in Wavre in Wallonia. Despite a first brief on achieving local media coverage, we were actually able to generate qualitative coverage on a national scale. An excellent example of the impact of our journalistic approach.

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Zyzo

Launching the Belgian tablet for seniors

The team behind Zyzo, a tablet for seniors designed and engineered in Belgium, called on Brum Smith to help with the launch on the Belgian market. Creativity was key, as marketing & communications budgets were limited, and brand awareness and reputation almost non-existent. We teamed up with one of our partners to propose an integrated 360° marketing & public-relations campaign, consisting of social-media advertising, media relations and influencer marketing.

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