Brand redesign to compete

Much more than an oil mill

Luz de Alba is a company that produces organic virgin olive oils that also has an innovative project in the areas where it has olive trees. In Argamasilla de Alba (Ciudad Real), they have built six rural lodgings with the aim of attracting tourists interested in the world of oil, who can understand first hand the manufacturing processes of the olive juice. Integrating the different dimensions of the project, adjusting its positioning in the market and establishing a plan to communicate the brand were the challenges that Luz de Alba had on the table and for which it had Fandom’s help.

Showing brand values

Luz de Alba has as a fundamental characteristic the ecological certification of both the crops and the oil production and bottling process. This ecological character is combined with an extraordinary attention to the purity of the product and a spirit of spreading the oil culture: they want to show the advantages and benefits of the product to their sector. Fandom carried out a brand audit to see brand’s possibilities in the market, the necessary positioning adjustments, the brand architecture and the strategic lines of action.

One of the fundamental points was to establish with Luz de Alba what would be the axes of its brand communication, those ideas that must be transmitted in every contact. The result was to turn Luz de Alba towards the flavor of yesteryear combined with innovation at the highest level. This dichotomy of using avant-garde techniques and tools to recover the traditional essences of the oil was combined with a greater connection to local roots playing with the trick of competing globally from the local.

Redesign of the brand

From its origins, Luz de Alba used a logo composed by the anagram LA and an illustration of a fictitious firefly made from the petals of the olive tree flower.

In the case of the logo, the investigation pointed out a proximity problem with a more established brand. In the case of the illustration, the impossibility of reproducing it easily, advise against its use. However, it was necessary to create a continuous design still related to the jobs that the brand have done. That meant keeping the firefly-butterfly as the image of the brand.

The design of the new identity consisted of giving the imagotype a more iconographic feeling, more recognizable, and maintaining a brand emblem with sufficient strength and character. After several exercises we opted for a very schematic and recognizable butterfly that worked with the colors of the brand. Colors that, precisely, were also renewed taking as reference all the shades of the process of olive’s maturation.

El brillo de la Mancha

Along with the visual identity job, Fandom developed a rich verbal identity in which we worked from the positioning statement, the brand promise, the key messages, the tone, the texts of the web and, in short, all the expressions verbal of Luz de Alba so that, in addition to the image, the brand would always transmit, in each situation, the appropriate messages.

The axis of verbal identity was placed in the claim “El brillo de la Mancha”, in which a reference was made to the aspiration of Luz de Alba to become a reference within the ecological productions of Castilla La Mancha and to compete in the global market from the local. The logic narrative of Luz de Alba was established based on the following causal relationships: we recovered the flavor of yesteryear thanks to cutting-edge techniques with which we maintain extreme care for the environment and this allows us to recover the traditional essences of the oil, situating La Mancha at the head of the regions that produce organic virgin olive oils of the highest quality.

On the rhetorical level, this slogan plays at the metonymic level with the reference to oil with the word brightness and metaphorically with the meaning of reference or guide. The brightness of La Mancha, therefore, is the oil itself and also the activity of Luz de Alba, which stands as a reference in that geographical demarcation and also as a benchmark in the olive sector.