Brand, purpose and culture

Shaping perceptions

We work with you to achieve differentiation from your competitors. Creating, redefining or repositioning your brand with purpose and transparency to gain strategic advantage, shaping perceptions of your audiences through impact and engagement. By combining stakeholder, competitor and contextual insights with purpose, strategy and vision, we help brands stand out.

Our capabilities

Strategy, purpose and positioning

Brand purpose is at the heart of brand differentiation. We work with you to understand your business, your market and the expectations of your stakeholders to define and articulate your purpose. We then create a unique positioning that combines purpose, vision and values  to ensure that differentiation is clear, consistent and sustainable across all communications channels and audiences.

Naming

As a core part of your brand story, choosing an effective name is crucial. It is the symbol of your purpose and positioning, the first interaction for most stakeholders. Our approach begins by aligning your business strategy and objectives with your proposition to create distinctive and creative solutions.

Visual identity

From logo and logotype through colours, typography, imagery and graphic language, our creative process explores, creates then defines the fundamental building blocks of your brand to create a consistent and appropriate identity that differentiates you in your market and brings your purpose and proposition to life.

Messaging

We work with you to develop your language across the brand experience, from messaging to tone of voice. Messaging distills what a brand stands for and helps to shape perceptions as your business and environments develop. Messaging lives at a brand level and is adapted for specific situations and stakeholders, helping to support positioning and strategy and to engage audiences across all communications platforms.

Launch & implementation

Our brand guidelines and toolkits equip you and your people with the practical tools to consistently apply your brand across all touchpoints. Our in-house capabilities and expertise can implement and showcase your brand narrative and proposition to internal and external audiences through film and animation, websites, print and social media.  

Guardianship & rollout

We have the in-house design, production, film and management capabilities that enable us to deliver ongoing brand requirements on a retained basis. We have the capabilities and expertise that cover all media channels and can act as brand guardians to ensure consistency and quality in all applications.

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Who we work with

We have extensive experience working with many types of companies and organisations, from those looking to create a reputation to established businesses that need to refresh or re-orientate perceptions among key stakeholders and audiences.

Some of our reporting clients

We are a global communications consultancy, working in partnership with our clients to help them understand and navigate change. Our aim is to build trust through transparency and honesty, so that together we can be a force for good.

Paul Owen
Managing Partner

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