Showing posts with label Branding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Branding. Show all posts

04 December 2011

Going a bit Square in Wellington - Lambton Square Shopping Centre Redevelopment

Immersion pitched for and won the branding and signage contract for the multi-million dollar re-development of Lambton Square Shopping Centre. The new site will become the flagship for the retailing landscape around Lambton Quay. Competition was fierce, and a few eyebrows were raised when a Dunedin based company beat out the ‘Capital City’ marketing teams.

Sarah Girvan will now be out of the office every Wednesday and putting her knowledge of international shopping centre marketing to good use. As part of the project Development Team she will be working with representatives from AMP Capital, Jasmax Architects (the same architects that designed Forsyth Barr Stadium), and Demografik Design. Another, ‘watch this space’ project, that is going to be BIG!

View the redevelopment photos here...

Going a bit Square in Wellington - Lambton Square Shopping Centre Redevelopment

 Foodhall
 Foodhall
 Upstairs
Downstairs
Redevelopment designs by Jasmax Architects. 

How Hot Are You? Ethos Woodfires




Ethos Woodfires are based in Christchurch and their patented wood fires are sold nation-wide. Ethos approached Immersion Marketing wanting assistance to develop a marketing strategy and refreshed brand that would help them to increase sales and distribution nationwide.

Immersion’s first task was to determine Ethos’s value proposition and appropriate positioning strategy. The team became engrossed in the Ethos brand, statistics were analysed, retailers interviewed, customers surveyed and a focus groups held. As a company, Ethos Woodfires began the process of reflecting on what they have achieved so far and rejuvenating their brand for the future.

We partnered with Christchurch based Demografik Design to create a new logo and simplified colour palette that presents a consumer facing brand.

We identified that Ethos has the hottest lowest emission fireplace on the market, and Demografik created a brand identity that focused on people rather than fires, and the emotional decisions tied to a wood fire purchase. With the black and white photographs, a strong logo and an emotive play on words, Ethos Woodfires has claimed their market position as an expert in clean heat. ‘What’s your Ethos?’

The importance of supporting retailers was also identified during the brand positioning phase. Co-branded marketing packages have been developed, along with in-store information packs, technical specifications and digital displays. To enable effective consumer decisions, this information is also available online and backed up by the Ethos sales support team.

Client feedback: – “Love it, Immersion Marketing nailed it!”

Spot Bob! - How do you market a bladder cancer detection test?


Cxbladder® is a non-invasive, simple-to-use urine test that detects bladder cancer.  

The Challenge: To develop a marketing campaign that would connect with two distinct audiences: medical professionals and their patients. Finding the balance between medical ‘tech speak’ and ‘do this because it could save your life’ was a challenge in itself.

The Creation: Immersion partnered with Strategy Design & Advertising, from Christchurch, to reposition the brand and develop an innovative information pack for medical professionals (predominately urologists) and patients.

Whilst Immersion was instrumental in identifying the appropriate positioning strategy and translating technical content into plain language, Strategy Design & Advertising introduced a fresh new professional look, with a fun twist - a challenge to ‘Spot the bladder cancer patient’, on the front cover!

Thanks to Dunedin based Taieri Print, the design became a reality, a challenging print job, it's finished to the highest possible quality (Sarah spent 3.5 hours press checking the job onsite, thanks for your patience Taieri Print!).

The health professional information packs feature a high quality, custom three panel folder that reveals an information guide, supporting research papers, and sample wire bound patient case studies in a clean, uncluttered format. A leaflet with its own free-standing display will also be displayed in waiting rooms as an educational aid for patients.

The Result: Feedback from the Pacific Edge team, stakeholders and prospects in New Zealand and internationally has been excellent. The direct mail launch to urologists and GPs will will be happening early in 2012, whilst the re-branded design has also appeared in KiaOra magazine advertising, on the Cxbladder® website, trade displays in North America and Australia, and will soon feature in a nationwide advertising campaign.  


02 August 2011

Venture Partners: An innovative branding strategy, for an innovative client.


Venture Partners are exactly the type of client we love working with - we love getting our teeth into new markets, and the carbon market is certainly that!

An innovative new business concept, with a focus on the rapidly growing carbon trading market, they came to us in June to assist with developing a branding strategy. The brief was to develop a flexible and scalable branding structure, one that could grow and adapt as their business also inevitably will. 

We worked with them to develop the parent brand and underlying sub-brands, using a logo device and creative that's flexible, scalable and importantly, recognisable both in isolation and clustered together.
View the final website here.


"We engaged Immersion Marketing to deliver a versatile brand, website design and marketing collateral, all in a tight frame. We're delighted with the results. Immersion delivered a first class job, on time and within budget. It's been a pleasure working with Sarah and the team and I'd be happy to recommend them." - Greg Fahey, Managing Director

06 June 2011

Dunedin - the preferred short holiday destination for South Island families...


Over the past few months we have been working with  Tourism Dunedin to create a winter marketing and advertising strategy aimed at families within 1 -4 hours drive from our fantastic city. We want to entice families to discover what Dunedin has to offer including the abundance of events throughout Winter. 

Along with our design partner Demografik, Immersion Marketing has created a stunning and emotive creative, that will be deployed from Christchurch south, via inserts, print and online advertising, social media and direct e-marketing.  

While putting together the visuals Sarah and the team got resourceful and, if you look closely, you may just see some Immersion staff, friends and families turned models for the on location photography! Click here to see more campaign imagery.

15 February 2011

Iconic Menswear Store in Christchurch has a New Look!


Iconic Christchurch menswear retailer Colombus & Ware Menswear has a new look! Immersion was contracted to do a complete rebrand for this popular store situated on Colombo Street in Christchurch.

The strategy was to develop an innovative new brand campaign that would position Colombus & Ware based on their key strengths of superior customer service, quality product and heritage. Our objective is to increase brand recognition and positive perception of the brand, resulting in a long term sustainable increase in sales.

The new branding has been rolled out across signage, radio, online and print media. See more artwork here.

01 January 2011

Eastgate Shopping Centre Brand Refresh


As part of Eastgate Shopping Centre’s 2010 marketing strategy Immersion recommended the development of a new brand creative platform. We went to market through a request for proposal (RFP) process and found Strategy Advertising & Design.

Strategy came up with a fantastic new branding campaign that’s fun, memorable and completely meets Eastgate’s objectives of creating a revitalised brand creative that:
-Communicates Eastgate’s key differentiators and strengths of:
o   Convenience
o   Unique retail mix and variety.
o   Majors: The Warehouse, Countdown, Farmers and No. 1 Shoes.
-Appeals to all segments of Eastgate’s catchment:
-Flexibly supports the annual marketing and promotional plan.

We look forward to seeing more of Eastgate’s cute furry friends over the next 12 months!



22 December 2010

Avonhead Shopping Centre - Newsletter

The 'Avonhhead Word' is a community newsletter published to 20,000 homes in the Avonhead area.

Immersion Marketing collaborated with the retailers of the Avonhead Shopping Centre to develop a local newsletter that provided a platform for showcasing their stores and building ties with the community.

The 'Avonhead Word' is a quarterly publication featuring promotions and points of interest such as local community events and articles of interest, as well as specific retailer profiles and product reviews. It is a bright and colourful publication with eyecatching detail, printed and finished on high quality stock.

The response from both retailers and shoppers has been extremely positive, with a measurable increase in foot-traffic evident following each distribution. 

22 November 2010

Ari Designs E-Newsletter

Dunedin based fashion accessories designer Linda Malam of Ari Designs approached Immersion Marketing to help launch her exclusive 2011 Collection.
Our initial focus was to help launch the incoming shipment of Ari Designs Stock. We immediately developed a brand platform and applied this to a branded email newsletter.  

Through the newsletter we were able to efficiently and immediately announce the arrival of their long awaited 2011 Collection.


Needing overall strategic direction and input, Linda really appreciates Immersion's hands on approach and loves the final product. We look forward to upcoming developments such as the website launch in early December 2010, marketing strategy to establish positioning and differentiation of the brand for long term sustainability and catalogue release in early 2011.



26 September 2010

Scissortrix - Client Referral & Appointment Card

Immersion came up with a novel way to combine the traditional Salon appointment card, loyalty card and referral card into one. This way every Salon client who makes an appointment is a potential referral source, every appointment card has a perforated 'refer a friend' voucher attached.


The cards are finished with a high quality finish for that extra 'wow' factor, in matt laminate and spot UV gloss in places. Demografik were our creative partner and Federal Print produced the cards.