Brand Proposal

Doğuş needed a holistic brand architecture approach to turn its clutter into a strategic advantage.

Founded in 1951, Doğuş Group is one of the leading business conglomerates of Turkey. The Group is a corporate leader in the region, active in eight core businesses: financial services, automotive, construction, media, tourism, and services, real estate, energy, and entertainment.

Growing primarily through M&A’s, Doğuş Group is a successful “serial acquirer.” That said, such rapid growth brings forth significant problems. As the Group became larger and larger, its brand architecture became more and more complicated.

In the absence of a unifying, strategic direction, the Group’s brand guidelines were routinely bent. Different nomenclatures were used. Eventually inconsistent, and even conflicting messages of Doğuş started to confuse its stakeholders.

Going forward, Doğuş needed a holistic brand architecture approach to turn its clutter into a strategic advantage. The Group sought I Mean It’s advice for auditing its existing portfolio and come up with alternative solutions.

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After the brand audit, we prepared three different corporate identities for the company to choose from.

The first alternative features the letter O as a sunrise.

This abstraction of the letter O into a sunrise is connected to the company’s name, “Doğuş”, which means “rise” or “birth” in Turkish.

The second alternative is inspired by the power of a spiral.

Spiral structures can be seen everywhere, from coffee swirling in a teacup to the core of our earth and the very cosmos itself. The spiral symbolizes growth and transformation, and is embedded within the mysteries of our universe.

The third alternative featured a simple iconic solution centered around the letter “D”.

This solution offers variations depending on the different industries Doğuş’s works take part in.