We are experts in building brand presence for everyday products in Canada.
We combine our deep knowledge of the market and consumers to create transformative campaigns that generate awareness, shape perception and influence behaviour, to drive sales.
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WE KNOW CANADA
Locally Based
A Proudly Canadian company, Harbinger is female-founded, independently operated and based in Toronto, Ontario with national team coverage.
Regionally Entrenched
Immersed in national and regional culture, we have long-standing relationships and established best practices with media,influencers and strategic partners.
Optimize Your Debut
Ensuring that your point of difference is well defined, we hone the narratives that best introduce your brand, product or service to Canadians.
A Step Ahead
Invested in the short and long-game, we help you anticipate and navigate through local policy and regulations, trends and the competitive landscape.

BEHR Colour of the Year 2025
To support the North American launch of Behr Paint Company’s Colour of the Year 2025 and Exterior Stain 2024 and Curb Appeal Collection, Harbinger re-imagined the U.S. campaign for the Canadian market—preserving its core creative strength while ensuring it connected meaningfully with both consumers and trade professionals in Canada.
Building on the existing platform, we localized the strategy with Canadian-specific insights, media behaviours and retail realities. This included refining language and tone for bilingual audiences, weaving in cultural nuances unique to Canadian homeowners, and partnering with local influencers and media to ground the campaign in authentic, homegrown voices.
The result: a seamless cross-border campaign that maintained creative cohesion while landing with distinctly Canadian relevance—driving awareness, credibility, and engagement nationwide.

Influencing Canada’s Taste
Recognizing the powerful role social media plays in today’s consumer journey, Harbinger has spearheaded multiple influencer programs for Conagra’s diverse portfolio. From Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP and Orville Redenbacher to PAM, POGO and more, our strategies activated a full spectrum of creators — from Nano voices to high-impact Mega influencers — to drive relevance, trial and conversation.
Campaigns spotlighted both core products and innovation, generating hundreds of thousands of organic video views and ultimately scaling to millions through paid amplification in partnership with the interagency team. Select programs further encouraged trial through couponing and contesting, creating a seamless path from awareness to action.
Across Canada, these integrated efforts strengthened consumer affinity and reinforced the brands’ cultural relevance, ensuring Conagra’s products stayed top-of-mind in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Telling the Schwarzkopf Story
To elevate Canadian awareness and spark genuine emotional connection for the hair colour brand, Harbinger re-imagined the global “What Story Will You Tell” platform through a uniquely Canadian lens. We launched a national contest inviting women to share their own next chapters — moments of change, ambition and personal reinvention — inspired by the brand’s promise of confidence through personal expression.
A bilingual influencer program amplified the movement, with creators across the country rallying their communities to participate. The result: a surge of entries from coast to coast, robust engagement, and storytelling that reflected a deep understanding of both the product’s standout benefits and the brand’s larger purpose.

Evolving an established brand
Taste USA works with over 40 U.S. Cooperators to bring Canadians an amazing selection of fresh, high-quality U.S. food and beverage products – everything from table grapes to craft beer to barbecue sauce. To appeal to Canadian consumers as the next best choice to local products, Taste USA was in need of a brand overhaul. Harbinger worked closely with their team to update the brand name, tagline and identity, all while validating the changes through focus groups and online surveys. Results are proving successful as Taste USA continues to connect with local consumers and grow north of the border.

Canadian launch of plant-based egg product exceeds “eggspectations”
Eat Just Inc. introduced JUST Egg into the Canadian market and Harbinger was challenged with creating awareness and driving trial of this delicious, folded, plant-based egg product that cooks in your toaster and creates amazing breakfast sandwiches. Harbinger implemented a national media relations program and a three-tiered influencer relations strategy (macro, micro and nano influencers) that spread the word to both English and French consumers across the country through a variety of social platforms including TikTok. In just two short months, the campaign garnered millions of impressions and hundreds of thousands of engagements which helped to create loyal customers and solidify relationships with Canadian grocery retailers.

Canadian Packaging Launch
Milkadamia, a US-based non-dairy beverage, needed Canadian packaging for the launch of this product in Canada.
In addition to creating impactful, bilingual English/French artwork for Canadian Milkadamia products, Harbinger provided recommendations for French taglines and translation, to resonate with French Canadians. To meet Canadian labeling regulations, Harbinger gathered input from a Canadian registered dietitian, who is a Nutrition Facts Panel expert and ensured the new packaging met our client’s Canadian customers’ needs.

Convincing Canadians to Cheat on Meat
As a large plant-based masterbrand, Gardein has a strong variety of offerings for those looking to adopt more of a flexitarian diet. The brand needed a campaign that stood apart. Harbinger, along with the interagency team, developed a program that encouraged consumers to “Cheat on Meat” – incorporating plant based eating into at least one meal a week. We created and cheeky campaign that included a cheat on meat micro-site and quiz; partnerships with relationship experts and influencers to encourage you to “cheat” and a full earned media campaign allowing it to all break out from the regular food story-lines. The campaign beat all KPI’s with massive engagement and millions of impressions, including earned reaction from top Canadian celebrities. It also drove trial with thousands of quiz completions and coupon downloads. Gardein continues to be a dominant force in the plant-based category – shifting the mindset of consumers across Canada.

A Fresh Start – DareFoods.com
With an expanding category and product portfolio and continued domestic and international growth, our client was looking to modernize their corporate websites. Their ambition: to improve user journey, enhance brand visibility and engagement potential and enable future customization of site design and functionality, much more efficiently. All this, while also retaining a multi-brand presence that would showcase the unique attributes and content appeal for different audience targets, throughout the site.
Showcasing unique brand personalities, celebrating food inspiration and product attributes and improving discovery and shop-ability of brands and products were priority for our content and site design strategy.
The site re-launch further enhanced the customer service access, site search and navigation between global sites and brand-owned social channels and third-party eCommerce. We worked closely with our clients to create a custom analytics reporting dashboard to provide broad and detailed reporting for relevant stakeholders, at their fingertips.

Driving Healthy Sales of California Prunes
Harbinger worked with the California Prune Board promoting the versatility and health benefits of California Prunes. By leveraging our long-standing relationships with English and French dietitians, media and influencers, along with consumer sampling and a targeted digital ad campaign, Harbinger’s marketing campaign increased the sales of California prunes in Canada by 28%.

Dove – A Masterbrand with purpose and a platform to launch category leaders
To differentiate Dove, make it relevant in the cluttered beauty category and launch a host of products year over year, Harbinger, in partnership with a team of partners, worked to uncover and launch the brand’s purpose. For the past 15+ years, we have launched new initiatives and new products all under the key tenets of the brand to make girls and women feel good about themselves and keep consumers coming back to the brand again and again. Since the inception of the campaign and the brand’s entry into several personal care categories for women AND for men, we have seen a significant positive shift in brand perception and massive sales.
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Our Services
We provide strategic counsel and best-in-class execution to support your business objectives.
Here are some of the services that we offer.
Activations & Launch Events
End to end vision planning and execution, staff training and on-site management, etc.
Corporate and Executive Profile Management
Corporate communications, social profile management, trade strategy, thought leadership planning, etc.
Digital Creative & Advertising
Website development, copywriting, video production, email campaign strategy and display advertising.
Earned Media Relations
Outreach strategy and execution, Spokesperson training, press release development and pitching, media kits, etc.
Harbinger Design Lab
Design and creative including: graphic design, branding, exhibit and event design, media and sales kits, interactive presentations, video and photography.
Influencer Marketing
Spokesperson and ambassador identification, product seeding, reviews and endorsement, strategic collaborations, etc.
Launch Plans
Strategic planning, key message development and phasing, visual branding, website build and optimization, etc.
Multi-channel Content Strategy
Channel planning, Search, copywriting, translation, asset development, paid & earned partnerships, etc.
Social and Community Management
Social strategy planning, community development and engagement, content calendar and creative development, performance monitoring and optimization.
WE DELIVER
Transparency
We provide detailed and transparent visibility to project scope, budget and service commitment.
Measurable results
Aligning to your business objectives we establish and deliver on measurable targets.
Proven Results
We get brands to #1. Our results are proven and span independently owned businesses to established global brands.

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- Employee recruitment and advancement
- Community support and client counsel
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