Brand Turnaround Specialists · India · Singapore · Germany

WE TURN
BRANDS
AROUND.

When a brand stops growing, loses relevance, or fails to connect — we define the problem, build the strategy, and create the bold breakthrough work that reverses it. Strategic marketing and award-winning creative. One team. Proven results.

Brands we've shaped
Unilever
Kraft Heinz
P&G
SC Johnson
Whirlpool
Meta
Amazon Music
Allianz
BMW
Siemens
Carlsberg
Bitburger
HIVE

HOW WE
TURN BRANDS
AROUND.

A brand turnaround isn't a creative refresh or a new campaign. It's a precise intervention — finding the real reason the brand has stopped working, then building the strategy and creative to fix it.

We do all three in one team. No handoffs between strategy and creative. No briefing chains. No translation loss. Just the sharpest diagnosis, the clearest strategy, and the boldest work — delivered as one.

01

Define the Problem

Most brands in decline are solving the wrong problem. We start by finding the real one. 20 years of commercial marketing across $200M+ P&Ls — we know the difference between a positioning problem, a creative problem, and a category problem. And we know which one to fix first.

02

Build the Strategy

Once the problem is clear, we build the strategy to fix it. Brand repositioning, audience insight, innovation, go-to-market. Commercial thinking at every step. Sharp, specific, and built to move the numbers that matter to your board.

03

Breakthrough Creative

350+ awards. More importantly — brands moved in market. Bold, distinctive creative that shifts perception, rebuilds belief, and gives consumers a clear reason to choose the brand again. Not a refresh. A relaunch. Work that makes the brand impossible to ignore.

350+
Awards & still hungry.
CANNES LIONS
D&AD
ADCArt Directors Club
EPICAAwards
EUROBEST
LIALondon International
CLIOAwards
WEBBYAwards
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Personal Care · India & Thailand Vaseline
The problem

Multi-year share decline in a flat category. Brand had lost cultural relevance with no clear reason to choose it.

The fix

Found a new cultural entry point — pollution protection — rooted in a real, growing consumer anxiety. Repositioned the brand around it with market-specific communication.

Reversed
multi-year share decline
Home Appliances · India Unilever Pureit
The problem

A category-defining product with no profitability path. The brand needed a reason for consumers to trade up.

The fix

Repositioned as a premium innovation play. Launched Ultima — Unilever's first electric purifier — with a full brand and go-to-market strategy built for premium conversion.

1st Profitable Year
4.6% market share in Year 1 · Awarded Unilever's Best Innovation
Spirits · India Sterling Reserve B7
The problem

Mid-market alco-bev brand in steep decline. –20% growth. Consumer belief had eroded. Category getting squeezed from above and below.

The fix

Rebuilt brand belief from the inside out — through insight-led repositioning, innovation, and a large-scale cultural engagement platform that put the brand back in the conversation.

Growth reversal
–20% to positive growth in key markets in 9 months
FMCG · APAC Kraft Heinz
The problem

Zero brand. Zero awareness. New snacking category in a highly competitive, culturally complex market.

The fix

Built the brand from scratch — identity, range architecture, positioning, and full go-to-market. 19 SKUs designed, produced, and launched across APAC in 14 months.

5% MS
eCommerce market share in Year 1 · launched from zero across APAC in 14 months
Insurance · Europe Allianz
The problem

World's largest insurance brand facing a sharp drop-off after sign-ups. Customers weren't cancelling because of price — they were cancelling because they didn't understand what they'd bought.

The fix

Diagnosed the gap between product complexity and customer comprehension. Built a personalised post-signup campaign that explained the right product benefits to the right customer at the right moment.

23%
reduction in cancellations through personalised communication
Coffee · Germany Idee Kaffee
The problem

Idee Kaffee — a beloved German coffee heritage brand losing ground to newer, more modern competitors. Strong product. Weak brand story. Packaging that no longer reflected what made it special.

The fix

Deep consumer insight work uncovered the real emotional connection people had with the brand. Rebuilt the brand narrative around that truth — new packaging, new brand communications, consistent storytelling.

+27%
growth in sales following repositioning and packaging relaunch

WHAT A TURNAROUND
LOOKS LIKE IN
PRACTICE.

Breakthrough Campaign CreationCreative
Social & Digital CampaignsCreative · Marketing
Brand Strategy & PositioningStrategy
Platform Ideas & Big Creative ConceptsCreative
Brand Identity & Visual SystemsCreative
Consumer & Market IntelligenceMarketing
Innovation & New Product StrategyStrategy
Market Entry & LaunchStrategy
Growth & Commercial AdvisoryStrategy

WE KNOW YOUR
CATEGORY.

Deep sector knowledge built over decades — not borrowed from a case study. We've led brands, managed P&Ls, and solved real growth problems in these industries firsthand.

FMCG & Consumer Goods

Category-defining brand building, portfolio transformation, and multi-year innovation pipelines — from local relevance to global ambition.

Financial Services & Investment

Brand repositioning that builds credibility, attracts capital, and earns trust in high-stakes, relationship-driven environments.

Technology & SaaS

Brand foundations and growth marketing for startups and scale-ups — from founder-market fit to category leadership.

Spirits & Beverages

Brand turnarounds and innovation in regulated, media-dark environments. Consumer-first engagement that builds brand belief.

Entertainment & Streaming

Creative campaigns that build cultural relevance, audience loyalty, and lasting brand recall in fast-moving content categories.

Enterprise & B2B

Making complex propositions simple, credible, and worth choosing — for sophisticated audiences who have seen every pitch.

WHY BRANDS
CHOOSE
BRAND HIVE.

  • 01

    We start with the business problem, not the brief

    If you come with a campaign ask, we'll ask: what's the underlying commercial problem? That answer shapes everything — audience, message, channel, creative direction.

  • 02

    Marketing and creative work together from day one

    No briefing chain. Insight becomes execution faster — and execution stays truer to the strategy, because both came from the same conversation.

  • 03

    We've sat in your seat

    We've led P&Ls, managed boards, and launched brands from scratch. We know what it takes to get internal alignment — and what it takes to win in market.

  • 04

    Senior minds on your business, always

    The people you brief are the people doing the thinking. No handoffs to junior teams after the pitch.

  • 05

    We measure what actually matters

    Growth, share, revenue, conversion — not reach metrics that look impressive but don't move the needle on your P&L.

"MOST BRANDS DON'T NEED MORE SPEND. THEY NEED A SHARPER STRATEGY AND BOLDER CREATIVE."

A brand in decline is rarely a budget problem. It's a positioning problem, a relevance problem, or a creative problem. Sometimes all three. More media spend on the wrong strategy just accelerates the decline.

We find the real problem. We fix it — with strategy built on commercial insight and creative built to shift perception. That's a turnaround.

Start the conversation hello@brandhivehq.com

TWO FOUNDERS.
EVERY BRIEF.
ALWAYS.

No account handlers. No layers. When you work with Brand Hive, you get both co-founders on every single engagement.

Roshni Chatterjee
Co-Founder · Business Strategy & Marketing

Nearly 20 years building and reviving brands across FMCG, Consumer Tech, Spirits, and Venture — India, Singapore, Southeast Asia, and Hong Kong.

Led $200M+ P&Ls at Unilever, Kraft Heinz, and Allied Blenders. Turned around brands in multi-year decline. Launched category-defining innovations across FMCG, Tech, and Spirits.

Roshni brings the commercial and marketing lens — translating business problems into consumer insight, brand strategy, and marketing architectures that drive measurable growth.

Falk von Kroge
Co-Founder · Creative Excellence

20+ years of creative excellence and 350+ awards — building campaigns for some of the world's most demanding brands.

Worked with Meta, Amazon Music, Sony, Allianz, and Siemens. Known for creative that earns attention and drives choice — not just recognition. Ideas that build genuine brand equity and are impossible to ignore.

Falk brings the creative solutioning lens — taking the marketing intelligence and finding the sharpest, most distinctive answer. Work that converts attention into preference.

IS YOUR
BRAND READY
TO TURN?

Tell us about the brand and the challenge. We'll come back to you with a considered view on whether we can help.