At Futurebrands Consulting, we believe an organic understanding is the key to unlocking brands.

In a vastly underbranded country like ours where most brands are imported ideas, IP is the way of the future. We are India’s first Brand IPR company and in 2010-11, our trademarks’ net sales aggregate grew to approx Rs. 1230 crores, at 33% year on year growth.

We operate on a licensing model and partner with our licensees to expand our brands across new categories, markets and retail formats. Currently, our direct-to-retail license partners include Indus League Clothing Limited, Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, Future Value Retail Limited, and Future Consumer Enterprise Limited.

As brand owners, our driving agenda is to create brands that are made for India. Implicit in our approach is the imperative to unshackle brands from a limited marketing or manufacturing perspective. Our attempt is always to take a broader view when defining our brands, their core proposition to the consumer and their vocabulary while engaging with them. After all, brands like all powerful ideas can only come alive and prosper when they find meaningful expression in our lives. Our growing portfolio of brands across categories bears the testimonial to our point of view on building powerful brands for India.

The Futurebrands Principles: Read more about our approach
How does meaning get produced? Nothing is there by accident. In our eyes, every choice is loaded with meaning. Anything that has been associated with the brand becomes our inventory - shapes, colors, light, texture, language, sound, people…

There is an element of unpredictability to all our enquiries, as these bits of inventory open up our enquiry into diverse realms of popular culture, mythology, language, design, archetypes and identity, to just name a few. At Futurebrands Consulting we set out to look for the meaning hidden within things.

How can brands come alive in our lives? We go digging with an array of cross disciplinary tools and a kaleidoscope of frames and lenses. We unravel the fabric of the brand and its context and then connect it in ways that are new and motivating. Not only does this open up a distinctive space for the brand, it allows the brand to play a powerfully inspiring role in people’s lives.

This role becomes the key to exploring new opportunities & markets, managing change, designing products / experiences and even driving the internal culture of organizations.
What kind of a brand? When we think of brands, it’s always in terms of a ‘world’ or a ‘meaning system’ rather than a set of attributes. Meaning systems are really familiar narratives that populate our world – Angry Young Man, K serials, Disney characters, the Gandhi dynasty are all meaning systems.

At their peak these meaning systems achieve mythic proportions. Each one has a motive, preferred set of actions, choices, aspirations that makes them internally consistent.

Strong brands draw energy from well-entrenched meaning systems – Kinley water spoke to the yearning for lost innocence through its positivity, Wills Filter helped us cross the threshold into white-collar respectability, Onida opened up the world of unequal living.

Our attempt at Futurebrands Consulting is to connect brands with their inherent sources of meaning.

 
The Futurebrands Way: What is a Mental Model?
The standard approach to understand any act of consumption or the lack of it is to set out to identify a comprehensive list of triggers and barriers. What results very often, is a laundry list of possibilities with no definitive course of action. The truth is there are no neat and tidy formulae when it comes to understanding human nature, behavior or the way they relate to the world around them.

Is it about what we retain or about all that we have learned and let go of? Our experience of education is like a long corridor with doors on either side, where substance comes in from one door and exits the other... while we move on relentlessly. Is it about what we put on the table or the carnage that we leave in our wake? Is it about fighting germs or waging a war against our deepest fears?
What we seek to do at Futurebrands Consulting, is to arrive at a sharp, clarifying image of the way people ‘think of’ a category, a fundamental understanding of how things ‘work’ in the consumers’ ‘head’ and to identify all the sources that give meaning to this conception. Our attempt is to present a revelatory image of what defines the rules of engagement for brands and consumers and to do away with all grappling with complexity. We call this revelatory image, a ‘mental model’ of the category we are reading into.

Constructing a ‘mental model’ is not a process as much as it is an approach. There is no one way of getting to it. Therefore, every brand or business demands an enquiry and analyses that is tailor-made to its particular context, character and circumstance. This precise interrogation lies at the heart of our collaboration with you and the customized solutions we bring to the table.

CONTACT US
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WORK SPOTLIGHT
India Entry Strategy
Indian Cultural Lens
Brand System Mapping
Brand Reframing
Category/Constituency Decoding
Brand Conception
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Tanishq:
The cultural context of jewellery

Titan:
Unraveling the soul

Pepsi:
Chote gaon, badi pyaas

idiscoveri:
Representing education in India

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