Month: September 2018

How much does a rebrand cost?

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How much does a rebrand cost?

This cost of a rebrand is reflective of how much value it can bring to your business. In order for us as brand designers to evaluate this, it is very important to understand what you hope the rebrand can achieve for you. Your ambition and goals will determine the outcome and the cost value. For instance, you may need your rebrand to simply sell more to one specific audience, case in point – a restaurant wishing to attract more vegans – we would perform a rebrand with a clear and direct focus allowing the customer to see immediate results appealing to their new vegan audience. In the same vein, you may wish to increase your turnover by 15%, a clear goal for us as designers to evaluate and analyse your business in great depth to ensure we are targeting and communicating to the right people at the right buying level. This process is far more in-depth and can take place over a number of weeks before we actually begin the design process. Market analysis, client and business profiling exercises as well as gaining a deeper understanding of a company are all part of this. With this higher sense of your company purpose, we can accurately craft a rebrand to suit your goals and ensure success in all communications, paving a clear way for all future marketing and brand activity.

If you have clear goals then we as brand designers can determine a true value that a re-brand can have for your business and intern develop a tailored cost package to suit your needs. Believe it or not, there are no clear ways of pricing a re-brand as every one’s needs and goals are different, from the goal of attracting a new customer to increasing company turnover by 15%, raising the entire bottom line of a business your re-brand will do what you need it to do. Of course we have a fair idea following a brief of how much it could possibly cost to perform a rebrand and to what level to pitch a quote, however we always break down the price against what we have discussed in order to reach your business ambition, so you receive no nasty surprises.

Investment is a business necessity that we are a familiar with. Investing in store/building fit-outs, staff training, product development or vehicle fleets we are comfortable with these investments as of course, they show immediate results right in front of your eyes, instantly. When you hand over money for a car, the car is there in front of you to drive away, you can drive it, smell it and use it as it is supposed to be used. Investing in your brand correctly, by engaging a brand design agency such as Kaizen Brand Evolution who will take time realising the potential and delivering results through creativity will set your business apart from competitors, aid the decision-making process with consumers, increase reputation and be a true reflection of what you have to offer. Branding is an investment that you will always see results from, from year to year, an investment that will continue to evolve and give your business the platform it needs to succeed when faced with tough competition.

If you are interested in finding out how much a rebrand of your company would be, setting your ambitions for the business and reaching your goals talk to one of our team at Kaizen Brand Evolution and we will be able to take you through, step by step how much of an investment you will need to make in order to reach your objectives. Give us a call on +44 (0)28 9507 2007 or get us by email via our contact form

The benefits of the rebrand

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One of the most powerful and effective times to re-brand is when a business sees a great change in circumstance, a takeover, a merger a new product line or direction. The benefits of rebranding now are so you have the opportunity to communicate truthfully exactly what the change means to the business and express exactly what it is and how you are going to do it differently. A re-brand can reposition a company’s reputation, re-establish a failing business, make relevant what was a tired product or service and increase or develop a new interest in a business and its purpose. There are many factors but there are three main benefits that a re-brand can have for a company or service.

Refresh

A rebrand completely refreshes a business from the ground up. A new identity and re-brand project with pull the truth out from under the surface and find out what really sets you apart from the competitors and rival companies. With this understanding the re-brand with truthfully express (through logo, language and art direction) what it means to work with you as a business. USP’s are brought to the forefront, how you work differently and what makes you unique as a company can all be expressed in your re-brand. A successful re-brand will not follow design trends but assess who you are, what you do, why you are here and who you are here for. Ambition setting allows a design team to realise your potential through branding and communications. A re-brand is not simply there to impress your customers but also your team, your loyal staff who have been sitting under the same masthead for a number of years now have a voice during the research stage with the brand agency. Involvement and belief from your team will benefit brand culture internally and appeal greatly to those ideal candidates – we all want the best people to work for us and your brand and culture is an important factor in that decision-making process – would you want to drop in a CV to a tired, lacklustre looking brand? Or would it make more sense to engage with a brand that speaks your language?

Relevance

A rebrand can make a tired product or service relevant in today’s marketplace, tap into the mindset of modern consumers and engage relevantly. Your product or service might be the best, the strongest the most efficient, but if the branding, packaging or shop front isn’t relevant to todays consumer or shall we say ‘attractive’ then you can easily lose interest to young, bright and bold competition. Perhaps their product or services isn’t nearly as good as yours but they, of course, are relevant. This is a key attribute of a re-brand – to re-establish your brand/logo/packaging/website – whatever communication or brand exposure you have to become relevant to the right consumer.

Restate

To restate what you ‘now’ do is a fantastic benefit of a rebrand as it gives you a new opportunity to restate all of the lovely new things you have to off that perhaps customers might not know about – your new lines of products, your new technological advance, your new building or premises these are all seismic shifts in your business and through the power or identity, language and artdirectionn – the milestones of a rebrand you can restate your offering to your audience and restate it correctly with intrigue and excitement.

There are many reasons a re-brand can is beneficial, and the proof is in the pudding. Get in touch with the Kaizen Brand Evolution team to talk further if you feel like you might be ready to re-brand.

McQuillan Companies – Brand Identity

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McQuillan companies approached the branding team at Kaizen Brand Evolution to re-position and revitalise their brand identity. The family-owned business is well established across Northern Ireland and is specialists in civil engineering, quarrying, waste management and outdoor cleaning services to name a few. McQuillan Companies have a large presence on the road, their vehicles being instantly recognisable, a lot of which is down to their unique colour palette, something that the branding team had to keep in mind throughout the brand audit. Auditing a brand is our way of truthfully expressing the business offering today, whilst retaining loyal clients brand understanding and improving brand touchpoints (such as vehicle livery) we aim to create a brand purpose that keeps the business relevant and exciting for new and potential future clients.

McQuillan Companies – in their own words:

McQuillan Companies are a Northern Ireland based family run business which incorporates a diverse range of activities including civil engineering, demolition, quarrying, hazardous and non-hazardous waste management, outdoor cleaning services and analytical chemistry. A fourth generation business operating for over 100 years through the parent company John McQuillan Contracts, the McQuillan Companies name is synonymous with quality and excellence throughout our various divisions.

Getting started we focussed our research and investigation to forward-thinking, modern brands in the engineering, construction and land service industry – looking to London, New York and further afield. With brand learning’s from across the globe we built a solid understanding of what branding was working and not working in this industrial landscape. Following initial research and mood boarding, we filtered the findings down into 3 solid directions and began brand planning.

We initially developed the narrative before jumping into the design for McQuillan Companies. The narrative on this occasion was ‘Here for tomorrow’ – a modern, forward-thinking strapline for a modern, forward thinking business who are, in effect working on making tomorrow a better, safer place to live. We purposely avoided building or construction clichés so that the narrative was widespread across the entire company intern breeding a positive brand culture – essentially this narrative has legs to be flexible across different business facets.

We now needed a logo mark that reflected what we were talking about in the narrative. The McQuillan monogram stems from the idea of engineering and overall solid work that the company undertake. The new logo is a strong, trustworthy mark that brings together the initials of the family name and visualises the industry – simply. Our goal for any brand undertaking is to simplify, make brands that people get, without the use of selfish design techniques or trends. The logo proves successful when used across brand materials and especially in the brand livery and uniforms. Alongside the new mark, we introduced a structured contemporary typeface that suits the tone of voice and industry of McQuillan Companies. The flexibility of the new identity becomes apparent across the different business sectors where the company sector is simply introduced to the stacked lettering in each instance. Throughout the new branding, we have directed the new photography style, using modern dramatic images of the work in progress as well as team members in situ.

The crescendo of the brand audit was the re-design and use of the new branding across the vehicles. The vehicles that define a McQuillan job have been reinvented for future use and business growth, utilising the flexibility of the new logo mark and brand narrative they suitably stand out on the roads and truthfully represent the businesses heritage and future.

It was a pleasure working on the brand audit for McQuillan Companies and we look forward to rolling out the brand collateral in the not too distant future.