Northern Ireland schoolboy’s sweet idea becomes new product sold in SPAR stores across UK

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00:00This packaging design was inspired by a drawing sent to us by Archie Barr, aged 8, or nearly 10,

00:08at a local shopper at Spar Ballygally, Culantrum, Northern Ireland.

00:13I was just working away one day and Archie approached me with his mum and they had a little page in their hand

00:19and they walk up to me and Archie was like, I've something to show you Chris, it was their kit.

00:23The creativity that he put down on the page, it was absolutely fantastic

00:27and he was just like beaming as he presented it to me.

00:31I like the way it's like a pinky red here because like the opposite of blue is like a reddy pink

00:37so it like stands out against the blue which I like.

00:41Having studied product design and design communication myself, he nailed it.

00:45All the ingredients, visual and literal ingredients, were all there to showcase what he was trying to communicate, it was fantastic.

00:53I put the back stark blue because it makes like the light blue stand out and it's cool.

00:57It's lovely to also be the shop that he came to, you know, it's like we're his local so he's like I have to show this to Chris.

01:04He put it in a ploy pocket and they gave me three free packets of TP sweets.

01:08And now it's a real thing?

01:10Yeah, real thing.

01:12Even has a little spar logo.

01:14So I knew it had to be at least, at least shown to Spar

01:19and I put it on Facebook and it was kind of like, you know, it was getting a little bit of buzz and stuff like that

01:24and it was only a few weeks back we were contacted to say listen this is really growing legs and arms and here it is.

01:30It's in the process and it's a physical product right here in front of you.

01:34It was exciting, couldn't wait to see it, couldn't wait for today.

01:36Couldn't wait to see Archie's reaction as well, which is cute.

01:42Really good.

01:43Out of 10?

01:44Um, 10.1.

01:49It has now went nationwide and these are available all over the UK

01:52so it's super cool to see our little village on the Antrim coast suddenly to go nationwide

01:58and needs to be available throughout Spars, but we are the first.

02:02We are the first.