GSC worked as Peroni’s global communications agency for over ten years, creating their global style and advocacy programme and building their reputation among trendsetters and opinion-leading consumers worldwide
Over their tenure, GSC repositioned Peroni Nastro Azzurro from a domestic pizzeria brand into the world’s most stylish beer with its ‘Italian style applied to beer’, driving conversations across industries. Peroni gained market share and cornered the market on stylish drinking occasions. We managed their brand across 25 key markets and onboarded affiliated communications teams internationally.
Peroni was quickly considered to be the jewel in the crown of the SABMiller portfolio and GSC helped drive the subsequent successful sale to AB InBev and thereafter to Asahi. The value of the Peroni brand increased from a purchase of €380 million in 2003 to over £2 billion in 2016. Peroni is the most successful global beer brand of recent times. Peroni sold at an incredible multiple of 12 after working with GSC.
GSC created a long-term award-winning strategic partnership with Vogue Italia and its late editor Franca Sozzani which further cemented Peroni as a style icon.
This collaboration included two landmark international exhibitions. The first was at the Royal Academy celebrating “25 Years of Italian Style” with artists such as Mario Testino and Nick Knight. The second was an innovative digital exhibition – The Visionary World of Vogue Italia – created in collaboration with Super Studios in New York City, and featuring several high-profile creatives such as Baz Luhrmann, A$AP Rocky, Quentin Tarantino, Jessica Chastain, Edie Campbell, Poppy Delevingne, Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik, Olivia Palermo and Zoe Saldana.
GSC created Peroni’s original award-winning campaign, which started with the creation of one of the UK’s first pop-ups, Emporio Peroni. On London’s iconic Sloane Street, this thought-provoking campaign and art installation drove conversations around the meaning of Italian style craftsmanship on a global stage. It fuelled enormous global broadcast and print coverage including two full pages in the FT on marketing innovation as well as features on CNN and BBC Worldwide.
GSC created and managed Peroni’s partnership with designer Antonio Berardi, who had an ambassadorial relationship with Peroni and created limited-edition, luxury accessories exclusively for the brand. This partnership ran for over five years. GSC supported his shows, co-created several design collections and organised his mentor work for up-and-coming young designers.
GSC forged relationships and creative activations on behalf of Peroni with Georgio Locatelli and the legendary design brand Alessi around this campaign that focussed on Italian excellence in design and food.
GSC created the concept of ‘House of Peroni’ to showcase Italian style, arts, and culture. The concept is still being activated by local agencies across the world.
GSC supported the Annual MADE for Peroni Young Designer Awards, a competition for talented young designers in three of the biggest fashion hubs across the country: New York, Los Angeles and Miami. The 2013 program kicked off at Milk Studios and included an expert judging panel comprising Coco Rocha, acclaimed fashion designer Antonio Berardi, co-founder of MADE Jenne Lombardo, winner of the inaugural MADE for Peroni Young Designer Awards Nolan Bellavance and fashion editor and style expert Zanna Roberts Rassi.
“Worked with GSC as International Marketing Manger, Peroni Nastro Azzurro and later as Senior Commercial Manager Jose Cuervo International and again as Regional Managing Director Western Europe and West Africa. GSC thank you for the very good work you did creating the Valigia campaign and bringing in Antonio Berardi as a long-term collaborator. The campaign was very effective and got the attention of the SABMiller board brought to life the concept of Italian style applied to beer in an engaging way and allowed us to bring in a spokesperson who was able to speak about our brand in a way that we could not ourselves.”
– Pierpaolo Indelicato, Peroni Intl Marketing Manager
“GSC truly understand the value of brand collaboration and execute them like no other agency.”
– Antonio Berardi, International fashion designer and Peroni partner
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