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Good­bye Bor­ing, Hel­lo Fresh New Brand

Kum & Go con­ve­nience stores recent­ly began an exten­sive rebrand­ing process. To bring their new brand vision to life, Lat­i­tude was tasked with tak­ing con­cep­tu­al mar­ket­ing designs for the new stores and devel­op­ing a com­plete archi­tec­tur­al sig­nage package.

Kum & Go’s Com­pre­hen­sive Sig­nage Pack­age Cre­ates New Brand Experience

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Kum & Go con­ve­nience stores recent­ly began an exten­sive rebrand­ing process. To illus­trate their high-qual­i­ty cus­tomer ser­vice, fam­i­ly-owned roots, and exten­sive fresh food offer­ings, the com­pa­ny uses the amper­sand to sym­bol­ize their brand and how cus­tomers get more from their stores.

To bring their new brand vision to life, Lat­i­tude was tasked with tak­ing con­cep­tu­al mar­ket­ing designs of their new store design and devel­op­ing a com­plete archi­tec­tur­al sig­nage pack­age. The cen­ter­piece of Kum & Go’s new mar­ket­place store design is an ele­vat­ed food expe­ri­ence. Fea­tures include an open kitchen lay­out, out­door patio seat­ing, free wifi, and an expan­sive beer cave and growler station.

DESIGN GOALS

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Kum & Go want­ed a clean, sim­ple look to suit the mod­ern style of the new stores. It was also essen­tial to bring the amper­sand and their brand col­ors, fonts, and art­work into the design.

In addi­tion to fol­low­ing the new brand style, the archi­tec­tur­al sig­nage pack­age had to direct cus­tomers to their point-of-pur­chase and fresh food offer­ings with wayfind­ing sig­nage solu­tions. It also need­ed to inform guests about the free wifi, acces­si­ble seat­ing, LEED ini­tia­tives, and com­pa­ny history.

SIG­NAGE PRODUCTS

From the sig­nage at the pumps and on the exte­ri­or to the inte­ri­or sign plan, every­thing works togeth­er to wrap the Kum & Go cus­tomer in a con­sis­tent brand mes­sage. For exam­ple, all of Kum & Go’s new stores are LEED cer­ti­fied, with a series of signs that teach cus­tomers the many ways Kum & Go ful­fills their com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty. Latitude’s com­plete archi­tec­tur­al sig­nage pack­age includes dimen­sion­al let­ter­ing, large for­mat envi­ron­men­tal graph­ics, point-of-pur­chase, code, and infor­ma­tion­al­ly brand­ed graphics.

PROJECT SCOPE

There are 25 – 30 new stores being devel­oped each year with loca­tions from Iowa to Col­orado and Wyoming and south to Mis­souri and Arkansas. With the quick pace of the new store con­struc­tion, Lat­i­tude pro­duces and installs sig­nage for each new store with­in a one month timeframe.

Prod­uct Types or Prod­uct Name(s):

  • Brushed Alu­minum Intac Series
  • Large For­mat Envi­ron­men­tal Graphics
  • LF Series Letters
  • PAP Series overheads

Ser­vice Offering(s):

  • Val­ue Engineering
  • Design Devel­op­ment
  • Man­u­fac­tur­ing
  • Instal­la­tion