Hitachi ABB Power Grids

A multi-site global company sign rollout for Hitachi following its acquisition of a majority shareholding stake in ABB Power Grid.

A successful global brand implementation transforms complex, multi-region logistics into one cohesive identity the world over.

Client: Hitachi ABB Power Grids, formed after Hitachi’s acquisition of ABB Power Grids.
Scale: Multi-region rollout across EMEA, Americas, and Asia; 16 key installations delivered.
Scope: Site surveys, permissions, manufacturing, and signage installation.
Challenge: Ensure global brand consistency amid varied local regulations and site conditions.
Approach: Used vetted local partners under a unified global project-management framework.
Result: Seamless, compliant, and consistent global brand implementation across continents.

Overview

Company acquisitions almost inevitably lead to a corporate rebranding and a subsequent corporate identity signage roll-out, and this was the case with ABB Power Grid following the acquisition by Hitachi of a majority stake in the business.

We were responsible for a range of sites across Europe, the Middle East, America and Asia.

Challenge

With any project on this global scale, our challenge is to work within the wider timeframes of the larger project, and collaborate with the company’s design teams to ensure complete compliance with brand guidelines and designs, while ensuring an expert installation.

Solution

What Pearce always brings to the table is our project management expertise, engineering and technical knowhow, and our obsession with consistent quality.

With these 16 installations we were responsible for pre-site surveys, designs, securing local planning permissions, manufacture and installation.

A critical part in any multi-site project such as this is the pre-site survey as this is essential to de-risking every possible element of the project, from issues such as cost control and external conditions (heat, wind, rain), and site access.

“With our locally-placed manufacturers, each of whom are assessed for their ability to meet our exacting production standards, we’re able to ensure consistent quality with every sign that we engineer and make. We also draw on local expertise to help us navigate planning regulations, all of which are built into our larger project management blueprint to ensure we deliver on time.”

A multi-site global company sign rollout for Hitachi by Pearce Signs.

Corporate rebranding and a company sign roll-out delivered by Pearce for Hitachi.

Pearce delivered project management expertise, engineering and technical knowhow for the Hitachi signage programme.

Pearce delivered 16 installations including pre-site surveys, designs, securing local planning permissions, manufacture and installation.

Consistent quality and production standards with every sign delivered by Pearce.

Local expertise enables Pearce to navigate any planning regulations required for the signage installation.

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