318. CAFÉ BUENO, “No Nerves” Print Campaign, 1962

CAFE BUENO INTRO ADS, 1958

Commonwealth Foods Inc. was founded back in 1951 and its first flagship brand was  the popular CAFE PURO. It paved the ay for the opening of a new Comfoods plant in 1956,  the country’s first instant and soluble coffee manufacturing plant. Once established, new variants were added to the Café Puro line in 1958:  CAFÉ EXCELENTE, a premium brand known for its winey taste, and CAFÉ BUENO, the decaffeinated version. 

PARACHUTE JUMPER, Cafe Bueno, 1962

When CAFÉ BUENO was launched, its benefit of “having coffee as often as you want and wake up refreshed” was touted in the headline.  Since it had less caffeine, it caused no jitters—“no nerves”, as the copy noted. Four years later,  the “no nerves” story became the 1962 campaign’s central theme. 

HUNTER, Cafe Bueno, 1962

To visualize the benefit, critical situations in which alertness was pivotal were used in a series of ads: jumping with a parachute, hunting and shooting a wild animal, walking on a tightrope.

TIGHTROPE WALKER, Cafe Bueno, 1962

CAFÉ BUENO enjoyed a level of popularity with a niche market throughout the late 60s, longer than CAFÉ EXCELENTE, which was phased out by 1966.