EP 146 . 23 Oct 19
Building Bharat Flooring & Tiles brand
With Saurav Roy
In the episode
- SR: After 17 years of brand building, how do you define an intangible thing called “brand”? What all parameters do you engage while dealing or building a brand with any client? Market share vs Loyalty? After-sales vs Honesty and more…? We can start by telling us this and set some context to the overall conversation.
- SR: How do you differentiate between branding and giving just a facelift?
- SR: I am sure it must have been relatively easy to make a brand 20 years back. What has changed in the last 15-20 years of w.r.t brand building? How do you make your client’s brand heard in this noisy world of today?
- FV: What made you engage with Ideaspice? How did it all begin? What was your brief like given to Saurav?
- SR: Can you share what was the process of brand building for BFT, a company which has been established in 1922. How did it all come about?
- SR: The new brand looks vintage yet very contemporary. What do you think – What characteristics make it look like that?
- FV: What made you lock on this variation? I am sure there must have been multiple iterations.
- SR: What was the process of sharing the brand guidelines? BFT has multiple sub-brands like Heritage, Terrazzo, and more…
- SR: What all departments/verticals you plunged into to find the nuances of this old company/factory. And then what were the steps so that the new brand seeps into the entire ecosystem and each employee feels a part of the new brand?
- FV & SR: What learning would you like to share since we hardly get a chance to hear, client and agency talk face to face. How many brands should indulge in the creative freedom of agency and how much agency should keep upping about the overall progress to maintain excitement yet pacifying with trust.
- FV: Can you live with the new brand for the next 100 years?
- SR: What would you change if given a second chance?
About Saurav Roy
Roy graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He is the design director for Idea Spice Design – an international design consultancy based out of Dubai and Mumbai. Ideaspice is primarily focused on business design and placemaking, Roy has been working with entrepreneurs and retail center developers for the past 17 years. He is also the co-founder of Knot And Tuft – a design platform that brings designers together to create handmade carpets. He is also the co-founder of Halffry – a monthly platform that brings creators from various fields to talk about their process and their passion.
