{"id":3460,"date":"2025-05-29T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/?page_id=3460"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:03:31","slug":"hall-woodhouse-business-strategy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/work\/hall-woodhouse-business-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"A business strategy for British regional brewery Hall & Woodhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A business strategy for British regional brewery Hall & Woodhouse<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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They have exceptionally smart and dedicated people, who treat all briefs with great enthusiasm and with a unique approach to suit your needs and address your specific business challenge.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A new marketing head tasked with rejuvenating an old brand<\/h2>\nGwen Risdale, Head of Beer Marketing:\n\n\u201cWhen I joined\u00a0Hall & Woodhouse<\/a>, my immediate task was twofold. Restore the 240-year Badger beer brand to its former glory \u2013 and in doing so assist in the development of a broader business strategy for Hall & Woodhouse\u2019s Beer Company division.\n\nBeing new to the business and having two significant tasks ahead of me I had to think wisely about who to partner with, to get the best results within a tight timeframe and on budget and to ensure my own reputation within a new organisation\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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My advice is no matter what your brand or business challenge, run it past Incite and they will give you a honest answer to whether they can help or not, and I\u2019d bank on it being the former.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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From the very start, we worked very closely with Gwen to give her the reassurance she needed, and we provided her with a senior and consistent team. Using our consultancy process, we synthesised over 40 pieces of market data that culminated in a two-day workshop that delivered robust three-year business and brand strategies in six weeks.<\/p>

New opportunities that had not been previously considered<\/h2>

Gwen Risdale, Head of Beer Marketing:<\/p>

\u201cThe impact of having embarked on this project with Incite has been significant for the business in terms of identifying long-term where to play and how to win. We have identified new opportunities never considered before and have had our previous thinking challenged.<\/p>

My advice is no matter what your brand or business challenge, run it past Incite and they will give you an honest answer to whether they can help or not, and I\u2019d bank on it being the former. They have exceptionally smart and dedicated people, who treat all briefs with great enthusiasm and with a unique approach to suit your needs and address your specific business challenge. A highly recommended (research) partner with outstanding business strategy thought leadership.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Incite team live up to their name. They are true partners in the way they approach working with the team and create an environment where everyone is able to contribute and innovate.\nTheir workshop style approach ensures that everyone buys into the outcome and actions. Project deliverables have never just been a tick box exercise and they truly come up with tools\/outputs\/ideas that can be taken forward in a pragmatic way. \nIf they had a Google review page - it would have over 1,000 five star reviews. If they were a restaurant, they'd have a double Michelin star. That is genuinely how it feels to work with them.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWe loved working with the STRAT7 Incite team on this large, strategically important innovation project. They brought passion, enthusiasm and smart thinking in bucket loads, challenging us, but also collaborating with us at every stage of the way. I\u2019m genuinely sad that it\u2019s over but also excited for where the outputs take us now, unlocking consumer led growth and new ways of thinking in our business. \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSTRAT7 Incite have been a true partner. They are constructive in challenging our thinking, committed, have an in-depth business understanding and act as true trusted advisors helping to manage internal stakeholders and their buy-in to the approach.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSTRAT7 Incite have been a delight to work with; they brought significant expertise to guide our approach and importantly, a creativity to our activation that addresses sustained behaviour change across our organization\u200b.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIt has been a pleasure working with the team. They demonstrate strong commercial acumen, expertise in analytics, and a quick response time. We can always rely on them to answer our business questions, making them very dependable. Thank you for the excellent work.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Rejuvenating an old brand A business strategy for British regional brewery Hall & Woodhouse They have exceptionally smart and dedicated people, who treat all briefs with great enthusiasm and with a unique approach to suit your needs and address your specific business challenge. A new marketing head tasked with rejuvenating an old brand Gwen Risdale, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3578,"parent":68,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3460","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions\/5053"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incite.strat7.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}