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Scotts®, the dominant lawn care company, turned to our Vertical Innovation process in order to improve the consumer experience with their products. They wanted to discover new business opportunities within their category, and bring new consumers into their expanded target market.
The Nottingham Spirk innovation team worked closely with Scotts to understand the underlying emotions and ‘real life’ frustrations with current products. Through a seamless process of creating new concepts, developing engineering layouts, prototyping dispenser/ package system, and regular checkpoint testing with consumers, we translated these user insights into the Snap system.
The Scotts Snap Pac system was carefully designed to eliminate the most common annoyances associated with spreading fertilizer, seeds, and weed killer. The design solution combined a new intuitive spreader with a self-sealing new cartridge package. With the Snap Pac, consumers never touch or even smell the chemicals, or fiddle with spreader settings. The unique package easily locks into place and adjusts the material flow rate automatically.
After a soft launch of the product to refine price points, merchandising mix and marketing ideas, the national launch is Spring 2012.
The Snap consumer product line is available at Wal-Mart, Lowes, Home Depot, Ace and Amazon online. Several pending patents will protect the system.
Patents
U.S. Patent US 2011/0042493 A1 - Catridge Spreader System
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