Brompton House

Baking joy into a sweet treat brand to engage and diversify business and consumer audiences. Warmly welcoming people to the home of sweet treats, we brought the Brompton House brand to the forefront of minds and shelves. Baking moments of joy into the brand, Brompton House now has a clear, fun and consistent identity capable of increasing brand awareness and capitalising on market share.


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Brand guidelines

Sector

Consumer goods Food & drink

Location

Spain UK

Buyers for and in supermarkets desire food products that taste great. But with fierce competition on the shelves, and tightening purse strings, customers are increasingly reaching for products that better communicate the value they’ll get from their purchase.

Over the past two decades, Brompton House has produced great-tasting, low-cost baked goods. While their products continue to be a snacking favourite in many households — a staple feature in cupboards and lunchboxes across the UK — their brand and website communications were pushed to the back of the shelf.

Their team approached us to bake the Brompton House values and joy that customers experience through their tasty snackable products into the brand. Through a refreshed, simplified brand identity and website that clearly communicates personality in their offering — both to customers in the aisles and those in buying teams — we served up moments of joy online and in-store.

The lead message evolved from simply being the home of baked goods, into ‘the home of sweet treats’. This new hero statement enables the business to confidently branch out into other product categories and ranges, such as chocolates and breakfast goods while setting customers up for equally sweet visual and verbal messaging.

It was clear from our creative workshop with the family-run business, that quality, reliability and, well… family, are at the heart of the business and brand. Their pride in bringing moments of joy through sweet treats has been mixed into the brand with a warm and playful tone. It was time to ‘pump up the volume’ so their brand could be authentically heard.

A series of tongue-in-cheek descriptions for each product and unique illustrations also act as little moments of joy and enable the toolkit to be as rich as Brompton House brownies. Introducing ellipsis to emulate a short moment of pause for the reader, similar to the moment when people bite Brompton House sweet treats, this device also suggests a little trail of crumbs…

The home of sweet treats. Brompton House's slogan in red-defined typography underneath a smattering of product illustrations.
Boxed sweet treats with their corresponding colours like black on yellow for All Butter Sweet Hearts
Detail is everything for us, and UnitedUs really pay attention to detail — their team has consistently impressed us. From the very beginning, they made the effort to understand the values at the heart of our organisation, joining us at our headquarters in Madrid for creative workshops and deeply listening to perspectives from our team.

Paz Ripollés, Design & Marketing Manager

Your sweet treats have volume. Why not your type?

Removing the antiquated country estate illustration and rough texture from the original logo, we created a new simplified brand mark to feature the Brompton House brand name. Dropping unnecessary text, this fresh, clean logo uses two colours and removes superfluous decoration to create a brand mark optimised for digital and works across all scales. As clear in large in-store POS displays as it is on individual product packaging.

With major players in the sweet snacks category heavily relying on colour for brand presence (just think of a particular chocolate brand’s purple), owning a singular colour was fundamental to the visibility of Brompton House. Leveraging the heritage of their signature red, we planted a prominent flag amongst the competition to welcome customers to the home of sweet treats.

Always fresh. Brompton House's classic bold typography with illustrations of a fantasy brownie and double chocolate chip muffin
Initially tasked with updating our website, UnitedUs opened our eyes to the value of evolving our wider brand. Although the prospect of transforming our brand initially felt overwhelming, we put our trust in UnitedUs to creatively deliver the work. The imagery, messaging and assets they created better communicates our brand and enables us to stand out for all the right reasons.

Ignacio Lopez Salazar

Boxed Brompton House Belgian Chocolate Chip Brownies on a dining room table.
Two girls around ten years of age, smiling, laughing and sharing white chocolate brownies
A close-up of the word 'muffin' with an annotation reading 'Our very own muffin top' pointing to the tittle or dot of the 'i'
A phone open on the Choc Chip Muffins website page resting on a bed of many Brompton House Choc Chip Muffins
A series of phones open on a series of the new Brompton House website pages. Red background dotted with branded oval stickers at the borders.

A type of joy

VC Henrietta as display type provides fun and boldness with the ability to pump up the volume through an extruded form. This type embodies moments of joy, such as the tittle on the ‘i’ rising like the dome of a freshly baked moist muffin.

Euclid Circular provides a versatile yet precise type with character, so whether communicating key ingredients onscreen or a supporting message on OOH posters, the brand can showcase its simple dedication to quality that customers love.

Bringing the brand to life online, we developed a website communicating to consumer and business audiences. Lifestyle photography shots of cheerful children having fun provide familial personality, showcasing the enjoyment of Brompton House products on screen. But the brand’s playfulness didn’t stop there, we tapped into Midjourney to create 60s, 70s and 80s stylised imagery, producing tongue-in-cheek campaigns that appeal to the minds of parents and grandparents alike.

With a website that baked in Brompton House’s goodness, we also streamlined the process for inbound requests and queries — creating a more professional experience for potential buyers and an easier process for customers to give feedback.

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