• 2 months ago
Northern Ireland schoolboy’s sweet idea becomes new product sold in SPAR stores across UK

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00:00This packaging design was inspired by a drawing sent to us by Archie Barr, aged 8, or nearly 10,
00:08at a local shopper at Spar Ballygally, Culantrum, Northern Ireland.
00:13I was just working away one day and Archie approached me with his mum and they had a little page in their hand
00:19and they walk up to me and Archie was like, I've something to show you Chris, it was their kit.
00:23The creativity that he put down on the page, it was absolutely fantastic
00:27and he was just like beaming as he presented it to me.
00:31I like the way it's like a pinky red here because like the opposite of blue is like a reddy pink
00:37so it like stands out against the blue which I like.
00:41Having studied product design and design communication myself, he nailed it.
00:45All the ingredients, visual and literal ingredients, were all there to showcase what he was trying to communicate, it was fantastic.
00:53I put the back stark blue because it makes like the light blue stand out and it's cool.
00:57It's lovely to also be the shop that he came to, you know, it's like we're his local so he's like I have to show this to Chris.
01:04He put it in a ploy pocket and they gave me three free packets of TP sweets.
01:08And now it's a real thing?
01:10Yeah, real thing.
01:12Even has a little spar logo.
01:14So I knew it had to be at least, at least shown to Spar
01:19and I put it on Facebook and it was kind of like, you know, it was getting a little bit of buzz and stuff like that
01:24and it was only a few weeks back we were contacted to say listen this is really growing legs and arms and here it is.
01:30It's in the process and it's a physical product right here in front of you.
01:34It was exciting, couldn't wait to see it, couldn't wait for today.
01:36Couldn't wait to see Archie's reaction as well, which is cute.
01:42Really good.
01:43Out of 10?
01:44Um, 10.1.
01:49It has now went nationwide and these are available all over the UK
01:52so it's super cool to see our little village on the Antrim coast suddenly to go nationwide
01:58and needs to be available throughout Spars, but we are the first.
02:02We are the first.

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