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Comprehensive corporate signage design to support Hikma’s global rebranding ambitions

Hikma – Corporate signage design

Comprehensive corporate signage design to support Hikma’s global rebranding ambitions

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“Better Health. Within Reach. Every day” is the new brand platform for generic pharmaceutical company Hikma, who celebrated its 40th anniversary. The company’s new positioning and visual identity are aimed at bringing the company together as a “unified global enterprise brand” and was created by global brand and marketing consultancy, Prophet.

Supporting internal teams

Our role was to support Hikma’s internal teams and help bring the new identity and messaging to life across multiple facilities around the world. However, due to budget and time constraints, the client’s strategy was to develop new corporate signage design centrally and distribute guidelines and specifications to international teams – to implement with local contractors.

A pragmatic approach

To make this happen effectively, we employed one of Hikma’s key principles of “simple and modest design’ to guide our own approach. We kept sizing modular, plus fabrication techniques and materials were stripped back and made as pragmatic as possible. We chose paint, vinyl and illumination options – making sure they were available from global OEM suppliers with distribution networks in Hikma’s key regions. This ensured the product family was easy to reproduce to an acceptable quality by virtually any signage contractor in the world.

Whilst it was important to reproduce consistently high-quality signage, selecting where it should be placed and what it should say – across a diverse estate of large manufacturing facilities, high-end offices, and R & D facilities – was a different kind of challenge. Our team’s experience in interpreting and producing wayfinding guidelines to help local teams make the right choices for their individual sites was critical.

Endpoint's corporate signage design project - member of staff at Hikma's office

Brand launch

We were also grateful for the opportunity to test our thinking when we were asked to implement the new facilities branding at Hikma’s UK and US headquarters, as part of the brand launch programme.

Overall, this was a fast-paced project which saw us balance design ambitions against the practical constraints of a tight budget and unknown supply chain. Progress is encouraging; the brand launch was successful and the rollout at Hikma’s facilities is seen as a major improvement and has great internal feedback.

“I want to thank the whole team for a wonderful job. London looks beautiful. We have had such great feedback. Thank you so much for doing such a fabulous job for us!”
Brooke Clarke Global Head of Group Corporate Affairs at Hikma Pharmaceuticals plc
Endpoint's corporate signage design project - member of staff at Hikma's office

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