Social Marketing: Vinea’s campaign “Bring life back to vineyard”

Social marketing had been mainly connected with non-profit organisations. However, as the market develops the companies require higher level of sustainability and differentiation. Therefore, social marketing is now also applicable to other businesses. In order to prove the benefits of social marketing for company and society this thesis provides basic theories of classical marketing and their comparison with social marketing. These theories were applied to analyse a specific example of Vinea and their 2016 campaign Bring life back to vineyards. The campaign proves Vinea approach to connect their heritage with modern advertising. While connecting people over the most important element of brand, the grape. Vinea created several events to teach participants of campaign about the wine growing in Slovakia to connect the brand with its core ingredient. The goal of the thesis is to find out attitudes of consumer towards Bring life back to vineyards campaign and give a recommendation for the follow-up of campaign. The questionnaire with Lickert questions, multiple choice and open questions was used to research the attitudes of consumers. The sample contained 109 respondents out of which 64 were women and 45 men. The average age was 32,54. The research showed the overall perception was positive and the female respondents reached higher level of agreement in almost all questions. Although the awareness of campaign was very low (7,3%). The recommendation was to continue in this way of promoting wine production but extended it to various wine regions in Slovakia and Czech Republic while focusing on the ecological wine growing and upgrading interaction via social media with passive audience to be more in touch with the campaign.