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.

Results

Spear & Jackson - I came, I saw, I conquered

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Against a first-year target of 30,000 units, the company sold over 200,000 units. Their wood saw division increased its turnover from £675,000 to £1,765,000 within a year, and £350,000 was invested in additional machinery to meet demand for the Predator.

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How do you help the country’s oldest tool manufacturer cut through its competition? Spear & Jackson was operating its wood saw division at a loss, on a turnover of just £675,000, and they needed Propaganda to give their wood saw division an edge.

Our in-depth research and a fast-track discovery project revealed that tradesmen were loyal to their tools. They selected a saw according to comfort, weight, balance, quality, speed and durability, with price being a significant factor. Propaganda’s ambition for Spear and Jackson was to challenge the traditional mind-set, break habitual purchasing behaviour, and convince tradesmen not just to switch brands, but to pay twice as much. Nothing like this had ever been attempted in the wood saw market.


Based on our recommendations, Spear & Jackson developed a new universal hardpoint, non-resharpenable wood saw. This saw would offer greater comfort and speed whilst increasing longevity. But for it to be a success, we needed a marketing campaign that was just as innovative and exciting as the product. Most saws on the market had dull names. Our’s had to personify the brand essence – speed, quality, durability. We named it Predator.


Before advertising Predator, we decided to break the tradesmen’s repetitive buying behaviours and encourage trial. Firstly, we introduced a first-in-the-sector money-back guarantee. Secondly, we sought the endorsement of independent body CATRA, thereby providing peace of mind for the buyer. Then, a powerful brand proposition was created which, based on a solid understanding of buyer behaviour, made Predator the must-have tool for every serious tradesman.


Our compelling trade advertising campaign focused on the differentiating benefits of the saw, and the launch campaign challenged conventions - from design innovation to our marketing tactics. The next thing we focussed on was packaging. Predator was a better saw, but it also came at a higher price. It had to rule the shop shelves with innovative packaging, so we developed one that doubled as a measuring and drawing aid. We also created interesting collateral, and gave away 200 saws, generating a highly positive review from industry guru Roger Bisby.


The Transformation

This hardpoint saw came in and completely turned things around for Spear & Jackson. Against a first-year target of 30,000 units, the company sold over 200,000 units. Their wood saw division increased its turnover from £675,000 to £1,765,000 within a year, and £350,000 was invested in additional machinery to meet demand for the Predator. Predator’s success also had a halo-effect, with sales of other Spear & Jackson products shooting up.


The success of Predator has led to the launch of four new products under the Predator brand name, all of which are now listed in B&Q.

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