Vegetarian meat craze boosts awareness of MeEat Food Tech

Mellakka created a plan that included multiple elements, from media communications to social media activations and advertising. The project got off to a flying start, and the new products grabbed the attention of the media and consumers.

Additional impetus to the launch of “Muutosruoka” (“Food of change”) was provided by the authorities, who forbade Pouttu from using the terms vegetable meat, burger patty and vegetable meatball that were prominent in Muu’s packaging and campaign.

Mellakka naturally made the most of it. Mellakka created a bold, one-post social media strategy knowing it would be a hit. And that’s exactly what happened. An hour after publication, the “case of the vegetarian meat” created by one social media post was already on the front pages of all national media. Altogether, the post generated 100 news items in the media, a huge social media discussion, and to top it all off, Kotus, the Institute for the Languages of Finland, chose vegetable meat (“kasviliha”) as its word of the month.

It soon became clear that the domestic market in Finland was no longer enough; the good news about plant protein must be spread to the world. Muu split off from Pouttu as a separate company, MeEat Food Tech Company, and this is where the work of building an international brand, its tone of voice and also product development began. In 2022, we were able to tell the world about the launch of sales of 3D printed meat and the publicity MeEat Food Tech had received around the world.

And all this because if nothing changes, nothing changes.