Made for Trade

The Made for Trade brand has remained largely unchanged for several years. Think worked with the business to modernise their in-house brand Korniche, the business recognised the need to refresh the brand in line with this and stay ahead of the market. The rebrand needed to continue to hold its ‘Trade’ roots and hold true to the philosophy of ‘Made for Trade provide the best products, with the best service, at the best prices.’

Over time, the business had developed its positioning through a market approach of Engineering, Design and Innovation. The business wanted the brand to retain its historical context whilst looking to the future.

Similar to the Korniche rebrand, the Made for Trade brand followed the same script style typography. The brand aimed primarily at trade customers needed elevation to match the quality of their products.

We conducted a discovery session to fully understand the brand proposition. Throughout this process, we shared examples of ‘simple and honest’ brands to emulate, like B&Q. The output was a creative brief for the redesign, key considerations were to retain the MFT monogram for brand recognition purposes, with one eye on potentially keeping an element of the new Korniche brand style. This was a particularly challenging brief due to emotional attachment to the brand within the business. As such, we presented multiple design iterations before selecting one.

The final design was developed into brand guidelines, a website and a full suite of marketing collateral.

Launched at the Trade show in May and was really well received in the industry.