A Specialist Branding and Communications Consultancy

From time to time we endeavour to examine, discuss and converse on innovative ways to create, evolve and manage brands. Here our new posts highlight the do's and don'ts for brand management by major companies and organisations, as well as how to get the best from focus group research and the latest about placing brands in off-shore markets. So enjoy, give us your comments, and stay tuned for lots more!

 

Design and art direction in branding

To brand effectively requires more than framing and instigation of a set of corporate identity guidelines and then rigidly or – more accurately – blindly following them. To put it mildly, it’s an expensive exercise to start with and prohibitive if you don’t get it right. A prescribed look i …

“Getting the latest from Nike”

TONY EASTLEY: Workers making Nike shoes in Indonesia say they’ve been forced to accept less than the minimum wage and they’ve been stood over by military personnel specially hired to intimidate them. 

Activists say the workers earn so little they get just enough to afford one meal …

A brand is more than a logo

ANZ Bank believes brand drives its business. Many companies believe that their logo is their brand. In fact the logo is just a small representative part of any brand. A brand encompasses many things – its the organisation’s products and services, its the way the business interfaces with …