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Mountain Dew teams up with Kings XI Punjab
 

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(9 March 2010 6:20 pm)

 

MUMBAI: Pepsi's brand Mountain Dew is IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab's official beverage partner.

In keeping with its inherent characteristic of youthful irreverence and adventure, Mountain Dew has rolled out a consumer campaign offering fans an opportunity to play against the cricketing icons of their favourite IPL team - KXIP.

The campaign is called Daar ki Wicket Girayega to Hamare Saath Khelega. Fans can demonstrate their all-round cricketing skills in a daring environment, and win a slew of value-added gifts such as complimentary tickets to IPL matches involving KXIP, branded merchandise, Meet and Greet with the players and the top prize to 11 lucky fans to be part of the Mountain Dew team to take on the KXIP in a cricket match.

PepsiCo India Holdings executive director Flavours Alpana Titus said, "Mountain Dew is all about setting new benchmarks by challenging the conventional parameters. The 'Daar ki Wicket Girayega to Hamare Saath Khelega' campaign symbolises this brand positioning. It challenges the clutter created by the commonality of consumer promotions surrounding the game of cricket these days, and brings to its fans a unique medium to reach out to their favourite cricketing icons."

Mountain Dew will have a presence on the players' uniform with the logo at the back.

Kings XI Punjab CEO Anil Srivatsa says, "It is really exciting to see Mountain Dew launch this initiative to coincide with the IPL. We at Kings XI are absolutely looking forward to playing with our fans. It certainly adds a lot of fun into the whole concept of playing for your home team. Outside of the field, we are sure they will be cheering us in each match to see us win the IPL 2010."

Mountain Dew will be unleashing a 360 degree marketing campaign for the Daar ki Wicket Girayega to Hamare Saath Khelega initiative, involving on-ground activities in colleges, multiplexes, marketplaces, outdoor, radio, and TV.

In order to win these cricketing goodies, all that the consumers need to do is to present two crowns or one PET label of Mountain Dew bottles and get to play a game of cricket on the decked-up floats visiting their colleges and marketplaces.

The matches on the floats will test the consumers' all-round skills - batting, bowling and fielding. These skills will be tested through games such as 'Crazy Catches' and 'Speed Ball'.

Keeping in mind the growing popularity of the game amongst women, Mountain Dew has something for its female fans too. The floats will have cricket-based trivia quiz for the female fans of cricket fans, and winners will be given exciting prizes including match tickets.

Each float will have a graffiti board to announce the winners' names. Winners will be judged on the spot to receive their prizes. Prizes on offer include branded bands, gripper and match tickets, and the top lucky winners a chance to play with the KXIP.

For each KXIP match, as many as 50 consumers will be brought to the stadium in specially decked-up branded luxury buses, and they will be given personalized kits, including T-shirts, backpacks, sippers, trumpets and inflatable hands. Treated like true superstars, they will get to enter the stadium with much fanfare.

Some of the select winners will also get yet another golden opportunity - to meet and greet the KXIP player while they are practicing at the nets in the stadium.

The final Mountain Dew winners will be selected from amongst all the winners' basis a certain selection process, which will then get to play a five over-a-side daring cricket match with the KXIP team in Dharmashala.

 
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