Bob's Bitters: A bitters sweet success story

Bob's Bitters is a one-man UK business producing single-flavour bitters for cocktails. As a fledgling business, the agency was asked to create a brand identity and language for the bespoke bitters on a very limited budget that would build brand awareness and increase sales to allow Bob to take the part-time hobby into a full-time business.

Bob's Bitters: A bitters sweet success story

Agency: ElmwoodClient: Bob's BittersCategory: Packaging, Branded - Food & Drink

Executive summary

You're a one-man operation, devoting all your spare time to your passion - creating and mixing single-flavour bitters for London's top cocktail bars. A necessary full time job keeps you busy for most of the day, so fulfilling an order book of 50 carefully hand crafted bottles a month is a big challenge. But you do this because this is your dream and you know that one day you'll make a successful business of this.

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