Etain
Investing in everyday wellness.
When their much-loved grandmother, Frances “Granny Franny” Keeffe, sought treatment for ALS, the Peckhams saw the impressive therapeutic benefits of cannabinoids first-hand. So when New York state legalized their usage years later, the family founded Etain: the state’s first women-and family-owned medical marijuana company. Committed to the highest quality standards, it is a true “seed-to-sale” enterprise, operating everything from cultivation to production to retail distribution.
In anticipation of the legalization of recreational cannabis use state-wide, Etain tapped 50,000feet with translating the founders’ vision into its next chapter as a wellness brand, expanding its role beyond a clinical offering.
Insight
From the beginning, we operated under a primary directive: the brand refresh should not attempt to gain new recreational customers at the risk of alienating Etain’s existing base of medical users. Therefore, we took an anthropological approach, searching for overlapping behaviors and values between the two segments. We found two promising areas: the cadence of usage and the importance of product quality—dosing precision in particular.
Idea
Unlike habit-forming substances, cannabis lends itself to a stable cadence of daily use. Meanwhile, Etain’s high quality resulted in a premium price point, making professionals a likely target audience—who also need highly reliable oil purity and dosing, i.e., can’t risk too much THC content during working hours. 50,000feet’s idea was to position Etain as part of a daily wellness routine, akin to skin care or practicing mindfulness: “Take a Moment with Etain.”
Impact
The success of the idea was immediate, garnering not only positive media impressions but attracting a significant number of new customers while staying true to the company’s therapeutic users.
Brand Identity
The full logo conveys a sense of joy, expressing the uplifting and vibrant qualities of the brand. The re-designed logo—whether interpreted as a flower, sun, leaves or droplets of oil—symbolizes transformation through daily moments.
With a vibrant and values-oriented story to attract a wellness-driven consumer audience, 50,000feet and Etain beautifully elevated everyday cannabis use. The brand tagline “Take a moment with Etain” embodies a spirit and belief that reminds customers to enjoy a fuller lifestyle when investing in their health and well-being with Etain products.
Website
In tandem with establishing the brand, 50,000feet launched a consumer-focused website to set the tone for Etain’s new flagship store in Midtown Manhattan and its positioning in the thriving wellness space.
While fully activating the new Etain visual identity and voice, the digital experience also solved several more practical challenges—from accommodating regulatory requirements around marketing to helping visitors unfamiliar with cannabis understand the benefits of different product formulations and delivery systems.
Packaging
When developing packaging for Etain’s product lines, we worked to strike a balance between the clinical and wellness aspects of the brand. The packaging had to convey the premium quality of their products and communicate a clear differentiation of the different product lines.
Using vividly-colored, immersive macro photography to communicate the quality and purity of the oil, the system emphasized the brand’s differentiators and broadened its appeal by side-stepping the cannabis subculture themes embraced by many competitors.
Motif Campaign
After the success of its new brand identity, Etain tapped 50,000feet to assist with the go-to-market social campaign for its new oil vaporizer system and with naming for the new delta-8 THC product that would debut alongside it.
Whereas its original vape pens used “510” threaded oil canisters—which could be cumbersome to manually twist on and off—its new device used magnetic oil-filled pods that effortlessly slid into place. Launched on cannabis enthusiast holiday 7/10 (i.e., “oil” spelled backwards), the social campaign featured CGI animation built on top of the brand's familiar oil bubble theme.
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