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From behind-the-scenes supplier to a premium retail brand on the national shelf.

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Ocean Legacy had years of expertise as a premium crab supplier to restaurants. Retail consumers had never heard of them.

The transition from B2B foodservice to consumer-facing retail required more than a new logo. It required a brand system that could earn trust on crowded grocery shelves. oak&air built that system from the ground up.

Services

Brand Strategy
Identity
Packaging
Web Design
Marketing

From behind-the-scenes supplier to a premium retail brand on the national shelf.

stawell logo

Ocean Legacy had years of expertise as a premium crab supplier to restaurants. Retail consumers had never heard of them.

The transition from B2B foodservice to consumer-facing retail required more than a new logo. It required a brand system that could earn trust on crowded grocery shelves. oak&air built that system from the ground up.

Services

Brand Strategy
Identity
Packaging
Web Design
Marketing

Date

Apr 2019

Client

Ocean Legacy

Industry

Seafood CPG

Timeline

4 Months

The Challenge

Proven product quality, zero consumer brand recognition.

Ocean Legacy's wild-caught crab had earned a reputation in restaurant kitchens. But retail shoppers don't buy from kitchen reputations. They buy from what they see on the shelf. Without a consumer-facing brand system that communicated freshness, trust, and premium quality at a glance, the product was invisible.

The Solution

A retail-ready identity built to compete at the premium level.

We built a complete brand system for the consumer market positioning, visual identity, packaging, and web. The packaging was designed to communicate provenance, quality, and trust in a single shelf moment. Photography and messaging aligned to the premium positioning that the product had always deserved.

The Process

B2B heritage, B2C ambition. One brand system.

The work started with repositioning defining what Ocean Legacy meant to a consumer audience versus a restaurant buyer. From there, identity and packaging were built as a system designed for retail. Web and marketing materials carried the same signal to buyers, brokers, and consumers.