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Why early childhood education is a key growth category for marketers

Kids First Group's Fares Hamade says that perhaps the question is not whether education needs marketing expertise; it is whether marketing is ready to take education as seriously as it deserves.

Fares Hamade, Group Director – Marketing and Parent Relations, Kids First Group on educationFares Hamade, Group Director – Marketing and Parent Relations, Kids First Group, with his daughter.

Since 2010, I worked in FMCG between Procter & Gamble and Nestlé. I had the privilege of building brands that sit in the most intimate spaces of family life – Pampers and Nido among them. FMCG teaches you discipline. It teaches you about brand and business growth through positioning, segmentation, distribution and trust. It teaches you about consumers and shoppers being more than just a target demographic on a marketing plan.

In 2018, we tragically lost our first son, and something changed in me. It was a painful awakening that made me question not just how I show up for my family and at work, but why. When my son and daughter later came into our lives, post Covid, I wanted them to see


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