ANZ Bank hands Rapp Collins gold card brief

HONG KONG: Rapp Collins has won the ANZ Bank account to launch its gold credit card in Hong Kong in a shootout against M&C Saatchi, the bank's main agency in Asia.

It is the second ANZ win for Rapp in just over a year - at the end of 2000, it picked up the brief to roll out the bank's Pt100 Platinum Card.

The gold card campaign is expected to launch within four to six weeks.

Rapp managing director, Sean Cooper, said that ANZ Gold would be "a mass market product but targeting a specific mindset", but he declined to elaborate on the psychographic target market.

However, he said that going after a specific mindset within the broader market formed the backbone of the branding and marketing strategy.

"The gold card market here has lost its lustre over the past years. Gold no longer carries that much prestige, and it has become devalued to the point that it has become a standard entry-level card. So the question was how to make the value proposition different and unique from the other cards,

Cooper said.

He said the campaign could include "an event such as the blimp

and added that television, print and outdoor executions were all in the pipeline, with the main acquisition route likely to be handled through press and below-the-line.