For more than 125 years, Abbott has brought new products and technologies to the world—from medicines, nutrition and diagnostics to cardiovascular and diabetes care. Following the company’s split into two organizations in 2013, Abbott looked to 50,000feet to revitalize its brand, helping define the brand platform, refresh the look and feel and refine messaging around core pillars of the business.
A global powerhouse like Abbott needs a brand strategy that connects and celebrates the work that is being done within individual business units and across the organization while conveying a single vision and an inspiring purpose for its customers and employees. This is why Abbott came to 50,000feet to engage their internal and external audiences across channels and around the world through strategic messaging and brand experiences that champion Abbott's mission to help people live life to the fullest.
50,000feet provided the brand and creative strategy and developed a compelling and extensible communications platform for Abbott's global team, developing brand positioning, strategic messaging, a visual brand language, communications and tools to help their team achieve their vision for a more connected, global future. To help steward the Abbott brand through cycles of product innovation and company mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, our team helped bring the company’s innovation—and promise—to life.
Working with a company built on pioneering innovation underlines the importance of having a well-architected brand platform for supporting growth. Our work helped 94,000 employees working in more than 150 countries to see themselves in their work and in Abbott's brand expression. We helped to celebrate the breadth and depth of Abbott's innovative solutions and position Abbott as a leader in its respective markets around the work, all while helping to build trust with customer and to continue to attract talent to the company's global network through inspiring communications across channels, media and platforms.
50,000feet provided creative strategy to develop an extensible, compelling platform, working closely with the Abbott team to create positioning that mapped to the brand’s vision for a more connected, global future.
In updating Abbott’s visual brand language, 50,000feet curated photography to convey the humanity of the brand’s mission, capturing everyday moments and reinforcing a connection to people’s lives around the world.
50,000feet designed an integrated advertising campaign that incorporated the brand’s new visual style and highlighted the company’s spirit of innovation, global footprint and commitment to improving lives.
With team around the globe, Abbott needed consistent executive communications that would empower employees to see themselves and their customers in Abbott’s brand expression. Creating branded brochures and presentations in both print and digital, 50,000feet helped ensure that the Abbott message was conveyed clearly across channels and media.
To help introduce Abbott’s new brand platform, 50,000feet created a microsite to share the brand story in a dynamic, user friendly way, raising awareness of Abbott’s impact, core values and capabilities.
50,000feet developed a branded system to telegraph Abbott’s growing portfolio of innovative brands and its forward-thinking approach to bringing new healthcare solutions to the world’s populations. The language is playful and conversational, and the imagery feels technological yet human. The system was designed to extend to and help integrate new acquisitions as well.
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