Propaganda - Transforming brand and business equity


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Brand Multiple


At Propaganda, we developed Brand MultipleTM because we saw a real need in the market for a 360-degree brand aid, which could release the brand’s equity. It is a powerful tool, and the surest way to multiply the value of your brand.

Brand MultipleTM follows a detailed and thorough process, starting with a complete understanding of the client’s brief and a clear definition of the project. This is followed by three phases - diagnosis, prescription and treatment - to answer the specific needs of the brand.

Diagnosis
provides a 360-degree brand audit. For the buyer, it evaluates the true brand value and ensures that they know the strategic implications of their business aspirations. For the seller, this audit identifies ways of boosting a brand’s health, perception and, subsequently, its market value.

Prescription
is the stage where the business buyer is recommended a strategy for brand growth, based on the diagnosis. The strategic recommendation is directly aligned to the brand’s business objectives. For the seller, this stage provides insight into the way the brand can be best positioned. After evaluating all strategic alternatives, we will define the one that will deliver optimum multiple value during sale.

Treatment
is the critical implementation stage. It sees us working with the business buyer to implement a focused and defined brand strategy to achieve growth. For the seller, this stage will execute the identified brand strategy to ensure it is primed for profitable sale, and that potential buyers are made aware of the offer and the opportunities.

Brand Discovery


Brand Discovery knows the power of independent research. It’s the only way to unearth brand truths and develops a rich understanding of your business DNA. It’s the only way to unlock real opinions, real perceptions about your brand.

Discovery unearths key target audience and stakeholder insights, and uses these to create a compelling and differentiating proposition, and then communicates that proposition creatively. This program was born out of Propaganda’s belief that in order to deliver commercially accountable and strategically focussed marketing plans, we must get under the skin of our clients businesses.


The first, and core, phase
of Brand Discovery is a bespoke, rigorous programme of research, scoped and developed by the planning team. It is based on the client’s specific business situation.

The second phase
of the process is brand and proposition development. This is where the planning and creative teams at Propaganda analyse, interrogate and challenge the research to uncover the significance and implications for our clients businesses.

The final phase
concentrates on the strategic marketing plan. Propaganda will present different marketing plans in line with the agreed business objectives, financial targets and marketing budgets for the brand. This stage sees the Brand Discovery process culminating into a differentiated, strategically sound plan for the brand launch.

Brand Discovery helps us to understand the very essence of your brand, based on truth and unbiased insight; based on unclouded independent research. At the end of the Discovery process, we will know your brand and your consumer better than anyone else. And, that includes you.

Brand Lab


You know what your consumer is doing, thanks to quantitative research. But do you know why? If you want your brand to make an impact strong enough to change consumer behaviour and perception, you first need to know why they behave as they do; why they perceive your brand as they do.

Propaganda’s BrandLab team knows how to talk to consumers to get the truth, and not just focus-group answers. We believe in asking ‘why’ till we cannot ask ‘why’ anymore. Only then can we get a true brand insight. And only then can we develop an insight-rich marketing and advertising campaign brief that will influence your consumers in the way you want.

BrandLab helps you to understand how you can make your brand fit your consumers’ needs, instead of the other way around. You can only do that when you have crucial questions answered. Why is your consumer buying you? Or why are they not? Why do they connect to your brand, or, why they don’t.

By finding these answers, BrandLab also gives you the power to not just know what consumers need today, but also predict what they will need tomorrow. It helps your brand to stay ahead, and form a lasting relationship with them.

Through our BrandStarTM model we deliver a single-word equity that truly differentiates and strengthens your brand’s position and directs resultant campaign strategies.

BrandLab is here to out-think your competitors, and not outspend them.

Creative Logic


At Propaganda, our creative team will not just know your brand; they will know your business. Because here, creative doesn’t shy away from semantics.

Our creative planning department develops insight-rich briefs that enable and encourage the pursuit of the big idea. We will challenge the codes of your sector, blend strategic experience with tactical understanding, and finally bring everything together in our creative expression of your brand. Our ultimate aim is not just to build a brand. It is to build a brand with equity.

Our design department is passionate without being precious. That is what helps them to create stunning, award-winning work that also wins in the market. At Propaganda, we believe that a piece of creative can be dramatic, expressive and iconic, and be strategically strong at the same time. Logic and creativity - no brand should have to choose one and forfeit the other.

Propaganda has enjoyed huge success in creative award shows. But the awards would mean nothing to the creative team if our brands were not as successful in the real world, where the consumer is the judge.

Creative Logic creates brands that stand for something. Creatively and strategically sound work does not need to play safe or take the middle path. Every piece of work in our portfolio has had the confidence to challenge norms and be different because they are rooted in logic.

News

Boost Drinks appoint Propaganda to brand task

Following an agency review, Boost Drinks has appointed the strategic and creative agency, Propaganda, to develop and handle its portfolio of brands moving forwards.

Boost Drinks is one of the UK's leading functional drinks companies and is now celebrating its seventh year of business. the company's initial aim in 2001 was to supply a larger and re-sealable alternative to what was on offer in the ever increasing energy drinks market, whilst also making the brand a much better value offering compared to other leading brands like red bull.

The instantly recognisable 1 litre PET bottle format became the company's flagship product, and then due to increased demand for the brand in the impulse sector, Boost was subsequently launched in a 500ml size. More recently the brand has evolved into a 250ml can. Following the popularity and demand for low calorie products, Boost introduced a sugar-free version, Boost Light, available in both formats and more recently a low calorie Boost Cranberry due to the popularity of the flavour variant in the market place.

Further brand development meant Boost Sport was launched in 2007. Competing with brands like Lucozade, this isotonic drink is now available in two uplifting, ready to drink variants, Orange and Mixed Berry, and is conveniently packaged in a transparent 500ml PET bottle complete with sports cap.

the latest launch of the new Boost Fruit Smoothie has also provided a more natural boost of energy for the body. This is a new innovative ambient offering in the functional drinks sector, helping boost to retain its position at the forefront of beverage innovation.

The brand has a clear ‘simple, no frills' product proposition including a very competitive pricing structure. Boost is differentiated from established brands by targeting the broad spectrum mid market, rather than the high premium sector, occupied by big brand competitors.

The ongoing strategy is to secure as many of the independents and key accounts as possible. The local independent sector has found Boost's proactive approach refreshing and appreciate that Boost is not available in the major supermarkets.

Boost now has a full UK distribution network of leading wholesalers and cash & carries serving independent and multiple retail trade; covering forecourts, convenience stores, CTN's and off licenses.

The company is experiencing exponential growth reaching over 100 per cent year on year since it first started trading. It is selling in a rapidly increasing sector of the FMCG market and rapidly expanding into export markets. Together with the appointment of Propaganda, Boost also confirmed that it will look to increase  marketing spend in 2009 by 30 per cent.

Commenting on the appointment of Propaganda, the Boost Drinks managing director, Simon Gray, said: "We liked Propaganda‘s strategic approach to developing brands and now look forward to working with Mike and the team there to grow the boost brand further in a market which is rapidly changing."

Propaganda director Mike Phillipson, said: "We are delighted to be appointed by Boost Drinks. The company has a refreshingly incisive attitude to building its brand and we now look forward to developing a distinctive and effective consumer and trade brand strategy and creative campaign, based on knowledge, not assumption."


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Commenting on the appointment of Propaganda, the Boost Drinks managing director, Simon Gray, said: "We liked Propaganda‘s strategic approach to developing brands and now look forward to working with Mike and the team there to grow the boost brand further in a market which is rapidly changing."


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