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Wickwar

Sector Consumer
Disciplines Strategy, Visual Identity, Packaging, Digital

Secured new national off-trade listings with Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Morrison’s.

Established a new national on-trade deal with Weatherspoons for Falling Star and Station Porter, contributing to a 35% year-over-year sales uplift.

Launched a direct-to-consumer ecommerce platform, resulting in a 60% volume uplift off-trade.

Halo were appointed to strategically reposition and redevelop a modern, relevant consumer facing brand for the heritage brewery, telling the Wickwar story to a new generation.

Found nestled in the tiny Cotswold village that lends the Brewery its name, Wickwar is a quintessentially English scene. Rolling farmland and ancient forests frame the landscape, lining the edges of the natural bowl that holds the village at its centre. The bowl was created by a meteor 32million years ago. A fact that becomes central to our story.

After a period of deep discovery and research we defined the strategic brand proposition of ‘Tall Tales from the Tall
Glass’. Because the best stories are told over a pint. The tallest ones after a couple. For Wickwar’s flagship ale ‘Falling Star’, we went back to the meteor story, and wondered aloud whether star dust in the watertable made the beer taste so good? A stretch maybe? But facts shouldn’t get in the way of a good story.

Teamed with a crisp, clean design, and hand-crafted type to deliver our messages, Wickwar is a lesson in visual restraint, letting the words tell the tallest of tales.

The result is a modernist brand telling the stories and myths of olde England. To its biggest audience ever.

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