Love food, wine and the magic of a perfect pairing? So do we.

Communications and marketing strategies that take in the bigger picture:

• Developing strategies that connect the dots between your business goals, your market and your next move.

• Providing strategic counsel and advice for leadership teams and boards.

• Planning for annual and project-based communications and marketing that translate thinking into action, with clear KPIs.

• Delivering projects from plan to implementation, so strategy doesn't stall on the page.

Pictured: Strategic market management is at the core of our success for clients.

Elevating visibility and articulating credibility, personality and position:

• Undertaking brand development research including focus groups, stakeholder engagement and brand awareness surveys.

• Developing your brand story and messaging that defines, refines or refreshes your brand so you are known, understood and appreciated.

• Developing naming, brand architecture and identity for new brands or sub-brands.

• Developing brand narratives that are clear, distinctive and easy to say out loud.

• Rolling out new brands across selected channels.

• Rebranding businesses to better match their offer and ambition without losing what’s important.

• Ongoing brand management to keep positioning and messaging consistent.

Pictured: Brand development for the wine industry in Marlborough.

Media coverage of the good stories in the relevant media:

• Building relationships with journalists and media to secure coverage.

• Identifying the stories that will genuinely interest customers, communities and media.

• Supporting product, business and seasonal announcements.

• Media training for spokespeople, so they're confident and on-message when it counts.

• Preparing for and responding to crisis and issues.

• Strategising thought leadership and profile-building – award entries, speaking opportunities and commentary – to build credibility even when there's no news to announce.

Pictured: Getting the attention the Marlborough Wine & Food Festival deserves.

A digital presence that gets you found, and keeps people engaged once they arrive:

• Building new websites and refreshing existing sites for greater user experience, engagement and storytelling.

• Providing SEO and AEO strategies to ensure you're found by traditional search and AI-driven search alike.

• Ongoing site management and optimisation – content, technical maintenance and conversion improvements – to keep your site working hard for you.

• Developing PPC, Google Ads, retargeting and display advertising to drive qualified traffic and support campaign performance.

• Building your Google Business Profile, local listings and promoting online reviews to strengthen your presence.

• Tracking analytics and conversions, so you always know what's actually working.

Pictured: Website landing page for Wine Marlborough to support the positioning work completed for the region’s sauvignon blanc campaign, Unmistakably Marlborough.

Social media strategy and implementation. Storytelling, engagement and campaigns that hit your KPIs:

• Planning and managing Meta advertising (Facebook and Instagram) by a team who knows the platforms inside out. Plus other social advertising channels where they fit your strategy.

• Creating audience and platform strategies to define your audience and where you’ll find them.

• Developing and planning content pillars that keep you ahead of the rest.

• Delivering full-service campaigns – from set-up to fully managed end-to-end – depending on how hands-on you want to be.

• Managing organic social media – content creation, posting and community engagement to build your presence day-to-day.

Pictured: Cutting through the noise of social media with compelling messages that resonate.

Compelling, original and authentic content:

• Preparing a visual strategy that decides what to shoot and why, before a single frame is captured.

• Developing a distinctive visual language for your brand, so every piece of content is instantly recognisable as yours.

• Organising photography, video and graphic development that captures your brand consistently, wherever people encounter it.

Pictured: Visual content and story telling carried the narrative for the Unmistakably Marlborough campaign.

Event ideation to marketing and PR support that drives ticket sales:

• Developing event concepts and a narrative that meet a stated need.

• Building event marketing and PR plans.

• Working alongside event organisers to implement marketing and communications based on event goals.

• Building event campaign websites.

• Delivering destination marketing that sells tickets and brings punters in.

• Identifying interesting stories and working with media for positive event coverage.

Pictured: Another sell out crowd at the Seafood Saturday event in Nelson.