What we do
To help our clients grow, we focus on:
Research & Insight
Research and insight are central to understanding where a brand is now and central to developing a rigorous and relevant brand strategy for the future. To help us measure the health of a brand both externally and internally, we conduct brand audits on positioning, customer journey and experience, customer segmentation and profiling, through to assessing a brand’s portfolio strategy.
Brand Strategy & Consulting
Rigorous strategy that focuses on your business and brand experience objectives blended with creative execution that fuses insight and transformational thinking to deliver the essence, promise, positioning and proposition of the brand, as well showing what it will mean to multiple stakeholders by way of experience, products, services and offerings.
Design, Creative & Expression
Strong brands have personalities just like people. They express and project themselves visually and verbally – through the logo and brand visual identity systems, the tone of voice, in writing, and through photography and imagery. And the secret to good design and creative expression, is for it to be strategic in nature and brand focused in deliver.
Internal Branding & Engagement
Creating successful brands delivered by employees who truly believe in the brand’s vision, proposition and purpose. Energised, aligned and fully engaged employees are far more effective at maximising revenue and being motivated, delivering on goals and objectives by up-selling, cross-selling and also by also being the best external brand ambassadors.
Communications & Activation
To connect to the chosen customer segments and all stakeholders, it is critical to engage the marketing and communications teams about the value of the brand from articulating the promise and the positioning and then working with them in how to express the brand in the market by way of products, services, offerings, sponsorships, community programmes and all general and strategic communications.
What drives our brand thinking
Our thinking combines the three fundamental and dynamic elements in any market: customers, organisation and market interactions & experiences.
With insight from this as our starting point, we are able to set an ambition and create a purpose for our clients. We build in flexibility blended with focus, relevance blended with value, meaning they can stay true to their purpose while responding to the ever changing market dynamics.
Our three-stage branding process
For every brand programme no matter the size, budget or scope - to maximise impact - we follow a simple yet comprehensive and thorough three-stage process – it’s as simple as ABC️ - ANALYSE, BUILD & CHANGE.
The ABC end-to-end branding process has three stages. ABC is strategic in approach and nature, and focuses everyone from the beginning, provides structure and clarity, and helps control and support the programme management.
This in turn helps our clients to manage budgets, deliver on timings and identify resources to drive and implement the programme with efficiency, effectiveness and impact.
ANALYSE
IDENTIFYING BUSINESS, MARKET & BRAND OPPORTUNITIES
INSIGHT & DIAGNOSIS
We identify opportunities you can dominate by understanding your business and market.
External Research
Market research and analysis;
Qualitive & quantitative research;
Customer experience audit;
Trendspotting
Internal Research
Internal communications assessment;
Internal focus groups & surveys;
Brand visioning workshop
Brand Audit
Visual brand audit;
External communications audit;
Design thinking
Digital Audit
Digital analytics;
SEO & SEM, UX & UI analysis;
Social listening
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BUILD
SETTING A NEW DIRECTION & REINVENTING YOUR PRESENCE
STRATEGY & DESIGN
We set your new direction and then activate your vision and purpose visually, verbally & experientially
Strategy Development
Vision, purpose, positioning, proposition;
Brand naming and portfolio architecture;
Communication strategy & messaging;
Events & Customer experience
Design & Expression
Brand & visual identity system – logos, palette, imagery;
Packaging & retail design;
Brand communications design;
Environment & experience design;
Motion graphics & sensory branding
Employer Branding
Employer & employee value propositions;
Corporate responsibility & sponsorship guidelines;
Brand governance & metrics
Digital Design
Website, intranet, and app design;
UI & UX design;
SEO, SEM & digital content creation;
CRM & e-commerce design
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CHANGE
DELIVERING A BRAND-LED TRANSFORMATION FOR YOUR BUSINESS
ACTIVATE & ENGAGE
We bring your brand to life externally as well as internally through activation, communications and engagement.
Brand Activation
Brand launch strategy and activation;
Events & Sports marketing;
Brand management;
Brand measurement
Internal Branding
Brand culture training & rallies;
Internal communications;
Employer/employee brand engagement, alignment and activation.
Brand Communications
Brand guidelines, toolkits & metrics;
Communications design and production;
Merchandising and shopper marketing;
Environmental and wayfinding design;
Video and moving image design & production.
Digital Activation
UI, UX, SEO and SEM;
Social & digital advertising;
Digital brand guidelines.