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Activating Brand Purpose & Sustainability

Activate Your Brand & Drive Behavior Change At Retail

Brand Activation For Good

Brand Activation for Good is a series of design sprints that have been developed in consultation with some of the world’s largest brand owners and retailers to create breakthrough creative and commercial innovation that drives purchase intent.

So whether it's packaging, logos, visual identity systems, marketing collateral, retailer activations or brand experiences – we can help you drive alignment, create campaigns, develop toolkits and commercial selling stories that are on brand, on budget and at speed – without the need for protracted meetings, rounds of revisions or ivory tower conversations.

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Coupled with the testing, it really brought to light the challenges we are facing and helped define the most impactful way to reach our shoppers through packaging, design and retail activation.

Danielle JohnsonDirector of Shopper Marketing, Grove Collaborative
Brand Activation For Good — thought leadership and framework overview

Case Study: Grove Collaborative.

A retail activation designed for Target, that put sustainable packaging choice directly in shoppers' hands.

Grove Pick Your Bottle campaign headline slide

The Campaign

Pick your bottle and win the battle against dirt and plastic waste

Grove Pick Your Bottle — the brief slide

The Brief

How can we convince moms that they can clean their home effectively while cleaning the planet?

Grove Pick Your Bottle — the idea slide

The Idea

Pick your bottle and win the battle against dirt and plastic waste

Grove Pick Your Bottle — activation mechanics slide

How It Worked

This earth day, choose the only bottle that wins the battle for a safe, clean home and a plastic free planet

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The Framework

The Retail Activation for Good Framework — mapping the path to purchase

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Deliverables

Stakeholder interviews, landscape assessment, intention-action gap mapping, retail activation toolkit and sell sheets

After each sprint you will have…

  1. A Big Idea and activation strategy that maps back to purpose, sustainability strategy and the commercial drivers of your brand and business
  2. Identified and prioritized the biggest intention-action gaps along the path to purchase – to drive the right behavior change at the moments that matter for your customers
  3. Developed a range of potential designs, ideas, activations and experiences (that can all be tested in less than a week)
  4. A commercial selling story and sell-in video to pitch those ideas to customers and key stakeholders
  5. A robust tactical plan and toolkit

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Ominchannel retail activations, partnerships, digital campaigns, and experiential programs designed to drive both impact and sales.

Both. We can originate fresh ideas or collaborate to evolve existing concepts or programs.

Depending on scope: campaign toolkits, creative assets, and playbooks for internal and retail teams to use and deploy. We generally don't handle campaign management and implementation.

Yes. We often run concept and claims testing using our own white label testing platform to choose the best idea or refine messaging before we move to development or roll-out.

Yes. Retail Activation for Good if a workshop specifically designed to make sustainable shopping more accessible, aspirational and rewarding at point of purchase.

We align sustainability commitments and claims with customer category strategy and shopper purchase drivers.

By combining insights from our research with proven frameworks like the 5Rs workshop and flywheel of impact

Typically 8–12 weeks, depending on complexity.

Yes. We work across B2B, retail, and direct to consumer driven categories and markets.

Both — we can lead or integrate with your existing agency partners.