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Coles Liquor Group unifies brands under Liquorland in major overhaul

Coles Liquor Group has confirmed plans to consolidate its retail brands under the Liquorland banner, following a successful trial. This strategic move will see Vintage Cellars and First Choice Liquor Market retired and brands and rebadged as Liquorland, creating a unified national presence across 984 stores.

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“24 brands to one voice”: Sinch CMO Jonathan Bean explains how brand bloat risked crushing growth—and how smart consolidation saved it

At one point, Jonathan Bean had 24 brands and a single, burning question: Why didn’t anyone know who Sinch was? The answer, it turned out, was hiding in the spreadsheet. Just 7 per cent of the company’s total marketing investment was going toward the Sinch brand. The other 93 per cent was sliced across more than two dozen legacy acquisitions, regional holdouts, and marketing hangovers from another era. That’s when the penny dropped for Bean, Sinch’s global CMO. What followed is part-brand surgery, part-political tightrope — and a cautionary tale for martech firms still clinging to their M&A souvenirs. Because consolidating 24 brands across three continents, with limited budget, in the middle of a global integration effort? That’s not a rebrand. That’s a master class in renewal.

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‘A powerful unlock for the team’: How Freedom Furniture, Wesfarmers Health, REA Group CMOs are riding marketing’s capability crunch, and next for the Australian Marketing Institute’s skills assessment tool and Competency program

The accelerating slew of challenges and pressure coming at marketing teams mean many are fearful of admitting capability gaps – and the pace of change means those gaps are widening. But the CMOs of Freedom Furniture, Wesfarmers Health and REA Group are finding ways to bridge both aspects, arming their staff – and themselves – with a deeper grasp of specialisms like martech, AI and journey mapping while ensuring all core marketing foundations like strategy, brand, commercial acumen, insights and data-driven decision making are covered. And they are not worried about training staff up just to leave. As the Australian Marketing Institute debuts its skills assessment tool, 12 months after launching its marketing Competency Framework, Mi3 got an insight into new-look learning and development loops inside some of Australia’s most progressive marketing teams – and the very human traits instrumental to their success.

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