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Nestle Rowntree is changing tactics after more than 40 years of promoting its Fruit Pastilles brand to children with new advertising that pitches the sweets at adults.
The brand, for which the slogan 'Don't forget the fruit gums mum' was coined, is targeting adults in a pounds 2 million relaunch through Lowe.
The new campaign is an acknowledgement that adults now account for about half of the product's consumers and marks the end of the 'Search for the Rowntree' advertising aimed at children.
The advertising, for Fruit Pastilles and the new Fruit Rush, uses black humour. In one commercial, a father offers his student son a Fruit Pastille, insisting that it will guarantee he passes his medical exams. The boy's mood lifts and it seems his ambitions have been realised when ...