Conferences and Talks | February, 2010

On Brand – The essentials of building a successful brand

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aisBrandlab’s CEO Aubrey Ghose has been selected by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry to deliver an exclusive master class on branding to senior executives. 11th March 2010. Dubai.
The Business Support Department of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry is hosting the “Essentials of Building a Successful Brand” Training Workshop at Dubai Chamber premises. The training will include a full day session on how business owners and managers can build, manage, promote, and protect their company’s brand.
The full day session will be divided into four modules:
(1) What Makes a Great Brand
(2) Designing Successful Brands
(3) Maintaining & Protecting your Brand
(4) Understanding the Role of Leadership in Branding.
The methodology for teaching will include presentations, review of best practices and cases studies, review of tools, group discussions, and role playing.
All participants will receive a Training Workshop Certificate from Dubai Chamber.
Read more on the Dubai Chamber website.

Uncategorized | January, 2010

BankStation – A bank branch concept that works just like a petrol station!

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In a world where bank branches are on every street corner aisBrandlab have developed a totally different approach to retail banking.

BankStation, a bank that is designed to look, feel and work, just like a petrol station.

Positioned at key locations on main arteries in and around cities, this concept seeks to vastly reduce the numbers of traditional branches a retail bank needs by replacing them with highly visible, highly functional, 24 hour, destination centres designed around the concept of a petrol station forecourt.

BankStation first presented by Aubrey Ghose in May of 2003 at Barcelona’s Marketing Conference Centre and most recently at the World Brand Congress in Mumbai on November 5th 2009, has been received with a mixture of amazement and respect by traditionally hardened bankers marketeers and brand experts alike.

“We have been kicking this idea around for years, whats needed now is a bank with the will, confidence and leadership to bring this concept to life”.
“Its totally in line with our type of Branding, it is strategically differentiating, operationally efficient and in line with our principle of designing a world where we each do far more, with much less, because we calculate that with just one BankStataion a bank would enjoy the same image and operational results and profitability of nine traditional branches, for less then half the cost!” said Ghose CEO and founder of aisBrandLab

BankStation is the IP of aisBrandlab and the concept is currently undergoing aisBrandLab registration world wide because one day, all banks may adopt this approach.

Over the past years aisBrandlab have researched and refined the idea of BankStation to the point where we now have a complete understanding of the design, IT, operational needs and statutory constraints of such a concept, along with the clear benefits of this approach as part of an integrated distribution strategy for any retail bank.

For more information contact jayesh@aisbrandlab.com in MENA.

“By combining our expertise in Financial services with our proven competence in delivering retail design concepts we have become increasingly convinced that this concept is a robust and appropriate strategy for many retail banks around the world. Our Strategists, Architects, Designers, IT specialists and Marketing experts have all contributed to our broad and deep knowledge base for this concept which has yet to be fully implemented anywhere in the world”
Said Jayesh Ravindranauth aisBrandlab > General Manager > Middle East and Asia.

Business, Press | December, 2009

Marketing ROI remains high even during slump

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Emirates Business 24-7
Jayesh Ravindranath, General Manager Middle East & Asia for AIS BrandLab interviewed in the Marketing and Media section.

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Investment in advertising and brand communication continues to remain a positive preposition even in the downturn, encouraging retailers to maintain a steady investment in marketing, reported The Nielsen Company in a survey.

A global survey and research company Nielsen in its special report released in October said that on an average marketing ROI is about 1.09 globally, evaluated over the past 12 months. Return on investment is the amount of sales achieved for every dollar spent on marketing.

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Brand New Work, Emirates NBD - U.A.E. | November, 2009

Emirates NBD launches long awaited brand

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Two years after the merger of Emirates Bank and NBD, the new identity and brand comes online. Featuring a distinctly modular style, ENBD’s newly designed website is clean, crisp and modern.

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Design Issues, Uncategorized | October, 2009

Women’s branches at DIB feel more like spa’s than financial institutions

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Islamic brands are now leading the pack. In many ways, the ethics behind Sharia compliance have kept Islamic brands away from the turbulence others have engaged in. This is an interesting article from Time magazine on women’s empowerment in the Middle East, it portrays different ways of looking at things, of perception, of branding.

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Brand New Work, Choithrams - U.A.E., Food Retailers | October, 2009

Choithrams supermarkets signal change

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The client: Choithram Supermarkets

Choithram Supermarkets is the public face of a large and successful network of companies, T. Choithram & Sons, which was established in 1944 in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, it has developed into an international company spanning Europe, North America, Africa, and the Arabian Gulf.The first Choithram Supermarket and department store was established in the UAE in the 1970s, but the chain is now facing strong competition from new market entrants – local and international.

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Conferences and Talks, MEBA Awards Dubai 2009 | October, 2009

Aubrey on the judging panel of the MEBA Awards

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Aubrey has been invited to the judging panel of the Middle East Business Achievement Awards.

The judging panel is made up of internationally recognised and respected judges from a variety of industry sectors and disciplines.

The panel is carefully chosen to ensure the selection process is fair and objective.

The judges are bound by a strict confidentiality agreement which requires them to declare any conflict of interest in entries and to stand aside from deliberations concerning those entries.

Read more on their website.

Brand Summit 2, Conferences and Talks | October, 2009

Aubrey to participate in Brand Summit 2009

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Aubrey will be opening the 2009 edition of Brand Summit on November 8. On the same day he will be sharing his unique views on “Brands in the new world order”, with a talk entitled “Promises to keep”.
Read more on the Brand Summit website

Brand New Work, Emirates NBD - U.A.E., Financial Services, Our Work | September, 2009

Emirates NBD launches innovative new branches

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The client: Emirates NBD

The merger of Emirates Bank and National Bank of Dubai demanded new branding concepts that would reflect the unification of two great institutions into a single world-class entity, delivering a new way of banking for its customers. As Middle East’s biggest banking group by asset value, Emirates NBD required a distinctively different approach that would introduce not only a new visual presentation but an innovative change in traditional banking environments.

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World Brand Congress 2009 | September, 2009

World Brand Congress 2009 – Mumbai

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Aubrey Ghose, our CEO is part of the International Advisory Board for the World Brand Congress, taking place on November 4th and 5th at the Taj Lands End, in Mumbai. He will be delivering a keynote speach on Branding in the New World Order.

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Food Retailers, Our Work | September, 2009

Al Othaim rebranding with a fresh new identity and dramatic new store formats

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Financial Services, Our Work | September, 2009

From 0 to Brand in one year! – al khaliji bank in Qatar

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When we first started working with al khaliji, in October 2006, there were 5 persons in the meeting room. This was the full staff for what was to become the “next generation bank”. One year later, a full office building and over 450 persons were getting to know what the al khaliji brand was all about.

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aisBrandlab have developed a series of infomercials for al khaliji bank as part of their creation of the new brand Identity, communications and branch design.

The infomercials feature al khaliji staff and are used to both inspire branch staff and communicate directly to customers via interactive screens in the branches.

A real advantage of this type of in-branch merchandising is that the language used in the infomercial can be changed to directly speak to the potential customers mother tongue, whether Arabic, English, Urdu.
David Brown – ais> Creative Director Communications

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Brand New Work, Thuraya | September, 2009

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Luxury Retail | August, 2009

Julia signature stores expand across Spain with a refined identity, fresh new interiors and a focussed merchandising system

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With more than 40 stores across the Iberian peninsula, Júlia asked us to bring their identity and stores up to date and integrate staff training with in-store communications.

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Design Issues | August, 2009

Time for a change – Disney to change their store format

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The value of a Brand – per square foot!

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Interesting article from the NYT on Disney’s intentions to change the landscape of their retail stores. They are turning to the Brand guru – Steve Jobs.
Apple has reported the highest revenue per square foot in shopping malls almost at 500% of what Disney is currently making!! If Jobs and Disney have made successful partnerships in the past (like Pixar) Disney is making a smart move in re addressing their approach to space and customer experience in their stores.

Branding in the new world order, Chapter 3 Collapse of an era | August, 2009

Chapter 3 Collapse of an era

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Collapse of an era

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While brands were built, conglomerates became richer and we all seemed to live in a ‘more is more’ society last seen sometime in the 1980’s. Surely something had to give, right? It certainly did, or as the maxim goes – what one hand giveth, the other taketh away.

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Branding in the new world order, Chapter 2 The Modern History of Branding | August, 2009

Chapter 2 The Modern History of Branding

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The very short version of this discussion would discuss nothing before the 1950s. The Great Depression of the 1930s, following the First World War, left a dent in people’s pockets and curbed the desire of society to spend and consume more than was absolutely necessary. Strangely, the Second World War and its aftermath gave us an increased capacity to produce goods, yet left society with an ingrained desire to be frugal. Conspicuous consumption was a thing of the past and we had all learned to ‘make do and mend’.

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Banking Outlook Middle East 2009, Conferences and Talks | August, 2009

Banking Outlook Middle East 2009

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Aubrey will participate in the Banking Outlook Middle East 2009.

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Brand New Work, The Fridge | August, 2009

The Fridge

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The client: The Fridge

The Fridge is a Dubai music house, providing an eclectic mix of live performers – from Bach to blues, jazz to pop – in a warehouse-based club environment. The Fridge also works as a talent spotter for aspirant musos, and operates as an agent and promoter of events and concerts.

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Branding in the new world order, Chapter 1 A view from the top | July, 2009

Chapter 1 – A view from the top

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As I gaze out of the aircraft window and look down on the beautiful city of Barcelona, I have that feeling of calm that only comes from being separated from the mundane below – a sense of being able to look from afar with clarity at the world and its meaning.

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