Suntory Oceania – Corporate Brand

One Global Brand. Localised For Oceania, Unified For The First Time.

Foundation, Experience, Brand, Market Positioning & Fixed-Term Support
The outcome

A complex, multi-billion dollar partnership unified under a single, high-performance brand architecture tailored for the local Australasian market.

100%
Stakeholder alignment
Unified leadership across ANZ and Japan in one cycle.
Zero
Equity leakage
Preserved +125 years in brand prestige during definition and rollout.
1500+
Employees aligned
Flagship digital and brand system deployed to staff.
What we delivered
Stakeholder workshops
User research & testing
Brand & positioning strategy
Research reports
Websites & digital
User interface design
Social content
Experience & UX audits
Brand identity systems
Annual reports & publications
Analytics implementation
Accessibility testing
Strategic logic

Distilled 125 years of global heritage and multi-region stakeholder insights into a singular strategic truth. By identifying the cultural connective tissue between Japan and Oceania, we replaced change friction with total leadership alignment, immediate operational readiness and a unified corporate brand for internal/external rollout.

The work
An aerial view of ocean waves meeting a curved blue line, with the headline “Bringing the best of Suntory together in Oceania.”Three pattern panels in shades of blue, labelled water, wood grain and wind, each made of fine flowing lines.The Suntory Oceania website’s “Our Alcohol Brands” page, with a row of Japanese whisky and gin bottles above a curved wave edge.