Re Branding Review 1 Exito English
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Rebranding Review 1
The largest Colombian big box
looks confused, rebranding
without using
Design thinking. Writted by:
Felipe Alford
Rebranding Consultant
Loaz | Brand Design Management
WHO ARE “THE SUCCESS GROUP” (EL GRUPO ÉXITO) AND THE
WHOLESELLER BRAND EXITO
Old - Current New - Current
It has just been published by the media that Almacenes Éxito was the biggest colombian
seller in 2009.
EXITO, is the most successful brand of “Grupo Éxito”, which is one of the largest South
American country's economic groups.
The group has been formed by a series of mergers and acquisitions in the last decade.
Owned a platform with 260 points of sale including all brands and formats of “ Grupo
Éxito”
Such us:
Wholesaler: EXITO
Warehouse: Carulla, Pomona and Ley
Discount store: Bodega Surtimax
Specialist: Home Mart
Charity Foundation: Fundacion Exito
Old - Current New - Current
Corporate Web Site - Current
Printed Application in POP - Current
Éxito is a wholesaler chane that distribute at big scale, it was founded in 1949 by the
Colombian Gustavo Toro Quintero. It is established in 34 colombian cities. Almacenes
Éxito is the biggest wholesaler of the country. The company generates 43 000 direct jobs
in Colombia and the recent acquisition of Carulla-Vivero, this figure reaches 57,000
employees.
Its administrative headquarters are located in the cities of Envigado, Itagüí, Bogota, Cali
and Barranquilla, and distribution centers in major cities.
The French group Casino is the majority owner. In February this year, private pension
funds in Colombia, became partners in the “éxito” of a minority holding, reversing the
pensions of Colombians in the company.
The Grupo Exito as strategic change, has become into a corporation como cambio
estratégico se ha transformado en una corporación multiindustry, multiformat,
multibrand y multibusiness, which consists of its parent company Almacenes Exito
S.A. and its subsidiaries Carulla Vivero S.A. and Didetexco.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almacenes_Éxito
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE LOCAL MARKET?
The grupo éxito, is in the phase of market expansion, within its own service portfolio:
retail trade, other businesses: real estate, finance, insurance, textiles, food, travel and gas
service stations.
New architecture endorsement - Current
Besides being restructured the front of their stores to expand through the construction of
shopping centers and expanding its offer of the hand of the Chilean brand "EASY."
Despite being the company that sold most in the country and to be the largest retail chain,
the French group Carrefour has grown about 25% while the "éxito" grew at a much lower
rate. Carrefour also introduced a renewal in their own brand packaging that gave them a
margin of differentiation in relation to the richness of design compared to other rivals.
Additionally, the stores were expropriated in Venezuela accused of price gouging.
THE STRATEGY OF THE COMPANY, THE BRAND AND THE OTHER
BRANDS
The company given the huge growth in brands, formats and services.
It has taken a prudent position in excess in terms of making a brand audit.
To reflect a complex architecture, inclusive, dynamic, rich in design, to create a powerful
communication language.
Unfortunately, this business group has never been synonymous with excellence in
design. And the implementation of the renovation being carried out, apparently lacks rigor
in planning the introduction of the new identity and apparently had the same deficiency in
the design process in the rebrand.
The company has called its standardization program "brand rationalization plan", with the
premise converting stores “Ley” into the brand éxito, absorving visually.
And with the weak strategy to renew the identity and signage outside the store every time
they open a new one without interest in that region or city is located the store.
The main feature of this case of rebranding, is that all of the photos that appeared here
was taken on the same day, in two stores in the same city in Bogotá.
Diluted almost to the end the efforts of the brand graphic consistency, standardization
and surprise and identification with the audience. And it gives more of a semblance of
tactical reaction to innovations made by the competition that a strategical action.
http://www.almacenesexito.com/Plantillas/Impresion.aspx?Sitio=http://www.almacenesexito.com/prensa/
&Lista=Noticias_Exito&CampoTitulo=Título&CampoContenido=Cuerpo&Dato=89
DEFINITIONS OF THE CONCEPTS OF BRAND ÉXITO
Éxito
- Stores are supermarkets, hypermarkets.
- Meaning "all in one place." Created for
those who want full market and find a
wide range of products "no food."
Éxito Vecino
- Complete market and something more: It is
characterized by its proximity and convenience
in sections deals on consumer goods and fresh.
- Selection of the set and even sections,
according to the group of people it serves.
- The products of "no food" are located in a
space efficient, easy to get in less time.
Being a market in an underdeveloped country, there is not strong competition from hard
discounters, the real strategy is to offer segmented offerings, credit systems and support
the imagination of low prices.
http://www.almacenesexito.com/prensa/Paginas/PTL_02CONTENIDO.aspx?Dato=163&Lista=Comunicados&
CampoTitulo=Titulo&CampoContenido=Cuerpo&DS=La%20nueva%20imagen%20del%20Éxito%20llega%20a
%20la%20capital%20del%20Valle
REBRAND AND APPLICATION
The rebrand of a logo that was 60 years with the company, was fair and necessary.
New architecture endorsement - Current New architecture endorsement - Current
The current result of this renewal, reflecting more as a design exercise and not as an
opportunity to create a visual identity system that would lead to success stand out in their
strategic communications, to strengthen the emotional link with the audience and visually
enhance the existing spaces
The new brand architecture, brand endorsement EXITO, became a lowercase "éxito" It is
unclear if the renewal is the corporate brand or only on the master brand of
hypermarkets.
The services included in the card "éxito" , which like most touchpoints even still mixed the
new and the old identity, the endorsement made on a light Helvetica, name the services
at the same size at the corporative brand hierarchy.
But this is only in some cases, as other applications such as the ""grupo éxito" ", the
campaign of "puntos éxito”, or gas stations, are endorsed with the same typeface but
different size hierarchy Embedded between the stress level and the t in the
wordmark. Sometimes it seems that " seguros éxito" is more important than the same
logo of the "grupo éxito".
Regarding the implementation, if there was strategy, planning was very weak, or too small
to simply be changing the extent that stock-outs of packaging and printed. and visually as
new stores are opened and existing ones to wait for the final.
What kind of consistency reflects the brand identity within the same shelf mixes old with
the new brand as if it was only reflect a change in styling and nothing else.
Where are all the efforts of brand recognition when it confuses the audience.
Rebrand tarjeta éxito - current
Tarjeta ÉXITO - current
Rebrand Puntos éxito - current Puntos ÉXITO - current
Mixed new & old DOB´s - current Package ÉXITO - current
Package éxito - current
Mixed two old brands - current
THE IMPORTANCE OF BRAND AUDITS
The result of this rebrand is a reflection of a renewed focus on functionality and taste of
the design team.
Either touchpoints were not evaluated and planned in the implementation phase.
For this happening that implementation should be encountered organizational and
situational factors do not show that this renewal is to acquire a strategic position, but a
design exercise focused on functionality.
http://www.virtualexito.com/MensajeDeError.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/lobbyanonimo.aspx
Favicon EXITO in site éxito - current
Designer
centered
Human
centered
desing
Funcionality
Rich
Aesthetically
In the corporate portal images do not show pictures of the renewal applications, it is a pity
that the company that sells the most in the country, does not become an example of
design as for example Coca-Cola, Ikea, Pepsi, Fedex, Walmart, Target, Tesco, Sainsbury,
Waitrose, among many others that make each piece printed an emotional link and every
touchpoint a rich experience with the brand.
http://www.almacenesexito.com/prensa/Paginas/PTL_10GALERIA.aspx?DS=Imágenes
STRATEGIC BRAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
While this discipline as the branding was not part of the core essence of ÉXITO warehouse
business in its origins and its growth, now is the time and has the opportunity to begin to
build brands in Latin America as solid and consistent as the centuries-old world, with
brand manuals that are not only printed in pdf or stored inside a desk.
That both the brand audit, as the implementation phase are focused on human and to get
obsessed by the consistency should be the main objective of the branding team, in this
sensitive time of which depends on the success of the "success | éxito".
Mixed two old brands - current