Coincident with the last two March 8 International Women’s Days, Hershey Brazil has been actively leveraging the power of digital printing in a campaign that uses chocolate bar packaging to promote and value female talent. printers in cardiff

The converter printing the flow-wrap packaging on an HP Indigo 20000 is Camargo Cia de Embalagens Ltda. The structure is a reverse-printed polyester laminated to white BOPP. The roll-fed 20000 is capable of handling media thicknesses from 10 to 250 microns and web widths to 30 inches at speeds to 19,500 sq ft/hr in four-color mode. It produces print quality that rivals offset and gravure. And because it’s a digital press that requires no printing plates, it opens up numerous opportunities for short-run quick-change production.

In some ways the springboard for this campaign was the simple recognition that embedded in “Hershey” are the pronouns “Her” and “She.” Seizing on this fortuitous coincidence, Hershey developed a campaign called #HerSheGallery that transforms a chocolate bar’s otherwise humble flow wrapping into a space to expose and celebrate the work of female musicians, illustrators, poets, and photographers during the month in which International Women’s Day falls.

For the 2021 “Her/She” campaign, Hershey expanded considerably, as 320,000 chocolate bar wrappers were digitally printed with the work of eight new female artists. “We also added a Virtual Reality component to bring an emotional tone to the campaign,” says Larissa Diniz, Hershey LATAM Marketing Director. “It was a QR Code that led to virtual content highlighting each artist’s story of challenges they had to overcome, thus creating a connection to the reality of thousands of women.”

For both campaigns, the chocolate bars in their digitally printed wrappers were available for a limited time in select stores of Grupo Pão de Açúcar and through Hershey’s e-commerce platform at www.hersheys.com.br. To broaden the reach of the campaign, Hershey populated the featured artists’ work throughout its social media network. The brand also encouraged other women to post their work using the hashtags #HerShe and #HerSheGallery.