User:TrevorWade/sandbox

Landor Associates is a global brand consulting firm founded in 1941 by Walter Landor, who pioneered many of the research, design, and consulting methods that are now standard in the branding industry.

Headquartered in San Francisco, the company maintains 24 offices in 18 countries, including China, Dubai, Paris, India, London, Mexico, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and the United States. Landor is a member of the Young & Rubicam Group network within WPP, one of the largest global communications services companies.

Landor’s work spans the full breadth of branding services, including brand research and valuation, brand strategy and architecture, brand purpose and green design, corporate identity and packaging design, innovation, naming and writing, branded experience, brand equity management, employee engagement, and digital branding.

Origins
The company was founded in 1941 by German immigrant Walter Landor and his wife Josephine (the original “associate”). Walter Landor’s stated intent was to “concentrate on designing everyday products that would make life more pleasant and more beautiful.”

Some of Landor’s earliest designs were beer company logos that earned awards from the Brewers Association of America and the Small Brewers Association. For Arrowhead, Landor created a tilt bottle with two flat sides that could be poured without being lifted from the table. This unique design won several awards, drew media attention, and brought additional business to the firm. It was also selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce to appear in three International Trade Fairs.

From the beginning, Walter Landor favored a client-driven approach. He was one of the first to apply consumer research to package design, and he relied heavily on observing consumers in real-life situations, even soliciting in-store feedback from shoppers regarding label design. In Walter Landor’s philosophy, “The package itself must do the talking.”

As Landor’s reputation grew, its client list expanded to encompass airlines, financial institutions, government agencies, hospitality services, and technology firms, among other businesses. Over time, Landor broadened its consulting services to offer corporate and product naming, brand positioning and architecture, retail environment design, copywriting, internal brand engagement, digital branding, and BrandAsset® Valuator (BAV) analysis in addition to corporate identity and package design.

A floating home
From the 1960s to the 1980s, Landor Associates established its headquarters aboard the renovated ferryboat Klamath, moored in San Francisco Bay. This unusual arrangement was intended to foster creativity among the firm’s employees. Mixing business with pleasure, the Klamath also hosted business symposia, cultural events, and parties that included dignitaries, artists, business tycoons, and celebrities. Although Landor’s business eventually outgrew the ferryboat and moved to larger offices on land, the Klamath has remained its corporate symbol.

Recent years
In 1989 the company was acquired by advertising agency Young & Rubicam and subsequently became part of WPP Group.

In 1994, the Walter Landor/Landor Associates Collection was established at the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The collection contains business records and personal papers belonging to Walter Landor, oral histories, and portfolio materials such as original designer notebooks.

Since 2004, Landor has published an annual survey of brand strength measured over a three-year period. The Breakaway Brands® list is based on data culled from the proprietary BrandAsset Valuator and is regularly cited in business publications including Fortune magazine and Forbes.

In 2012, Landor partnered with Forbes and Penn Shoen Berland to announce a new annual study, the World's Most Powerful Brands.

Work
Among the best-known branding programs and identities designed by Landor are those for Accenture, BlackBerry, BP, British Airways, Charles Schwab, Cotton Inc., Del Monte, Dole, FedEx, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Levi’s, Singapore Airlines, Smirnoff, Tommy Hilfiger, World Wildlife Federation, and Xbox.

Landor has created names for myriad businesses and products, including Agilent Technologies, BlackBerry PlayBook, Crest Whitestrips, Delta SkyMiles, FedEx, Lean Cuisine, Touchstone Films, Vivanta by Taj, and Westin Hotels.

Landor-generated business taglines include “The World on Time” (FedEx), “Food for the Fun of It!” (Frito-Lay), “More you” (Macy’s former advertising campaign”), and “Ideas for life” (Panasonic).

Landor is dedicated to helping not-for-profits build brand identities to enhance their purpose. Clients include 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Cleveland Clinic, Council on Foreign Relations, Global Handwashing Day, Friendfactor, YMCA, San Diego Zoo, United Negro College Fund (UNCF), World Wildlife Fund.

Landor has been honored with many awards for the work it has done over the years. Recently, Landor’s Singapore office was awarded Brand Consultancy of the Year by Marketing magazine (2012) ; its identity for the City of Melbourne was voted third “best Australian logo of all time” by Desktop magazine; its work for Bardot ice cream bars and Yummy Tummy Koalas received bronze Design Lions at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Four Landor-designed corporate identities (Blink, Bardot, DC Entertainment, and ITG) won CLIO awards, and Landor's redesigned corporate website was named "Best Consulting Website" at the Web Awards.