"When a brand listens to their consumers in online spaces by using data, they better understand what they like; then they can build relationships with consumers and also provide content around the topics their consumers love"

— JR Little in Listening Brands — How Data is Rewriting the Rules of Branding

"Business is always personal. We are—inside and outside of our work—reflections of our life experiences. And these events shape the way we think and behave"

— JR Little in Listening Brands — How Data is Rewriting the Rules of Branding

Choosing the right bottle!
Cultural appreciation of wine reflects the diversity of the wine regions, the savoir-vivre and culinary habits.
Quality products incite moderate consumption patterns, as it is only by savouring wine moderately and slowly...

Choosing the right bottle!

Cultural appreciation of wine reflects the diversity of the wine regions, the savoir-vivre and culinary habits.
Quality products incite moderate consumption patterns, as it is only by savouring wine moderately and slowly that its unique complex flavours and character can be fully appreciated and enjoyed.

The wine sector and its economic operators, make an invaluable economic, social, agricultural and environmental contribution.
Wine regions across the world produce an endless variety of superb products.
While wine remains a natural product, technological innovations have provided better hygiene and control of the production process, contributing to the production of wines suited to contemporary consumers’ palate.
Today, with the overall consumption of wine declining, consumers increasingly choose higher quality wines to be enjoyed in moderation as part of a modern, sustainable and healthy lifestyle.

In 2011, the European wine sector founded the Association “Wine in Moderation – Art de Vivre” with the mission to coordinate the European and global implementation of the “Wine in Moderation” Programme. The vision behind that programme is to secure responsible and moderate wine consumption patterns.

The association has selected the communication agency, Page in extremis, as a strategic partner for ensuring a stronger alignment between the messages developed by the Association and their visual expressions.

Page in extremis is a strategic communication agency, involving an experimented multidisciplinary team, building brands and strengthening reputations for leading corporations, institutions and associations.

Located in Brussels, Page in extremis is a communication partner who can translate your communication needs into effective communication media, to offer you specialised services going from corporate and institutional branding to the development of digital and classic media and to give a clear idea of who you are and what your aims are.

More information:

http://www.inextremis.be

"Build Clear, Simple Messages
Keep it simple, clear, and relevant to the audience. The fundamental rule of activities tell and benefits sell holds true here. Don’t get caught up in going on and on about what you do; rather, focus on what the audience wants to know and what they will derive from it"

— J. S. Daw, K. D. Merenda, C. Cone and A. Erhard in Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding — Seven Principles to Power Extraordinary Results

"While discovery is often focused on the present or the past, pinpointing problem areas and creating a focus for innovation, the ideation phase is clearly future-oriented. Here everything is possible. So whereas perhaps the boundaries of creativity are narrowed during other stages, in ideation boundaries should be wide and subject to challenge participants"

— N. Ind, C. Fuller and C. Trevail in Brand Together — How co-creation generates innovation and re-energizes brands

"Flexibilities implies a greater willingness on the part of the company to accommodate opposing points of view. There is no rule that says companies and customers must agree all the time. What is absolutely essential, though, is to demonstrate that the company is aware of opposing opinions, that it is listening, and having listened that is willing to reconsider its own beliefs, values, and actions"

— G. Balla in Collaboration and Co-Creation — New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation

Toast to the new logo of the WiM Association!
WiM is an association founded in 2011 by the European wine sector to coordinate the European and global implementation of the programme “Wine In Moderation”.
WiM works to promote moderation and...

Toast to the new logo of the WiM Association!

WiM is an association founded in 2011 by the European wine sector to coordinate the European and global implementation of the programme “Wine In Moderation”.

WiM works to promote moderation and responsibility in wine drinking as a cultural and social norm, safeguarding the central place of wine in the gastronomic and cultural heritage of our societies while preventing and reducing alcohol abuse and the related harm.

As the communicator of their quality products and, as part of the self-regulation approach, the wine sector is the constant supporter of responsible communication and has defined a set of communication standards particular to the wine products.

The goal is to inform and educate about the inherited values of the wine culture as well as the social and health risks connected with excessive alcohol consumption and misuse thereby helping to make informed and responsible decisions about drinking compatible with a healthy lifestyle.

Today, WiM aggregates 18 members — among them, national associations, institutes and leading wine companies — highly respected for their excellence and their social responsibility commitment.

The WiM logo is a component of the communication strengthening coming from the collaboration between WiM and the strategic communication agency, Page in extremis.

Page in extremis has over 21 years experience in guiding organisations on the road to defining and articulating their uniqueness. The multidisciplinary communication agency team translates your organisation core idea into brilliant and adequate visual systems.

Based in Brussels, the communication agency Page in extremis can help you define the essence of your brand and formulate its differences in a very positive relationship with its environment and all its stakeholders.

Page in extremis builds brands and strengthens the reputation of leading organisations, European associations and corporations.

For more information:
www.inextremis.be
www.inextremisbranding.be

"It amuses me that whenever I run a successful campaign with great web copy, I find a few dozen copycats mimicking certain parts of my work. Invariably, however, they merely copy the words but fail to duplicate the strategy or tactic behind the words, which is what really makes the copy effective"

— M. Veloso in Web Copy That Sells (third edition)

"Brand equity and brand value are often used as synonyms. But that is wrong. While the brand value describes the monetary value of a brand the equity is a set of soft factors that increases or decreases utility associated with a product and changes the purchasing decisions of prospective customers"

— M. Burger in Brand Equity and Brand Value — Explanation and Measurement

"For old brands, as for old people, memory becomes an increasing issue. When a brand forgets what it is supposed to stand for, it runs into trouble. The most obvious case of brand amnesia occurs when a venerable longstanding brand tries to replace its original formula with New Coke. The results were disastrous"

— M. Haig in Brand Failures — The truth About the 100 Biggest Branding Mistakes of All Time

"We each begin each day sipping or gulping a certain brand of coffee, showering with a specific brand of soap, eating a particular brand of yogurt topped with a selected brand of naturally healthy cereal. Nothing gets between us and our brands"

— L. Sartain and M. Schumann in Brand from the Inside — Eight Essentials to Emotionally Connect Your Employees to Your Business

"Our goal is to inspire you to champion brand transformation from within your business, working together instead of in silos, to create a seamless, consistent, authentic experience for employees and customers"

— L. Sartain and M. Schumann in Brand From The Inside — Eight Essentials to Emotionally Connect Your Employees to Your Business

"Brands, like heroes, are complex and are driven by a number of values. Finding the single value that is most true within an organisation, the one that both consumers and employees will emotionally connect with, is one of the most difficult challenges facing any brand manufacturer or provider. Management, given its rational proclivities, needs the right tools to mirror the single most important value that distinguishes their brand against the backdrop of competitors"

— J. Signorelli in StoryBranding — Creating standout brands through the power of story

"Central to the company’s turnaround, its subsequent success, was Harley’s commitment to building a brand community: a group of ardent consumers organised around the lifestyle, activities, and ethos of the brand"

— S. Fournier and L. Lee about Harley-Davidson in Getting Brand Communities Right (HBR On Strategy Marketing)

"The brand’s backstory describes when, where, and why the story takes place. It also identifies the reasons for the story being written in the first place, as it defines the problems and opportunities for the main characters of our story: the brand hero and its beneficiary, the prospect. The backstory is often referred to in marketing circles as the situation analysis"

— J. Signorelli in StroryBranding — Creating standout brands through the power of story