Impact

Defining a corporate Brand Architecture

A major Australian utility with a highly respected reputation required a review of its brand architecture to instil increased discipline over its sub-brand and new product development approach.

What was the question?

What brand architecture should be adopted organisation-wide, what role should the master brand and sub-brands play and how should the organisation approach branding?

What did we do?

  • Conducted a brand audit of current brand identities, including a review of the current brand identity disciplines in place
  • Modelled the entire business in the context of the organisation's key brand and its market

What was the outcome?

Rules for the master brand and sub-brands were developed, consultation across business workshops was carried out in order to screen brand identities, the proposed architecture was signed off by the board, 176 sub-brands were reduced to 4 hero brands and several sub-brands and a forum was developed for better management of sub-brands in the future.

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