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When Facilities Managers are tasked with delivering a global brand rollout, Pearce Signs is your strategic and operational partner.
With decades of expertise in global rebrands, we help you:
Deliver corporate signage rollouts at scale, across multiple countries and continents
De-risk projects through detailed site surveys and asset audits
Project manage every installation to strict deadlines and timeframes
Navigate local planning laws, regulations, and global logistics
Maintain brand consistency worldwide with trusted manufacturing partners
Meet sustainability goals through prototyping, recycled materials, and closed-loop sourcing.
When businesses think about their brand, they naturally focus on logos, colour palettes and the brand narratives these convey to their customers, employees and suppliers.
But for large organisations with multiple sites, in some instances located around the world, the brand really comes alive in the physical environment - the signage, wayfinding, place-making and customer-facing spaces. That’s where Facilities Managers (FMs) like you step in.
Your role is pivotal to delivering a consistent brand presence - one that translates across countries and cultures and presents the image, look and emotive feel that your company’s brand stands for.
This guide helps you understand how we can be your strategic and operational partner in delivering a global rebrand - optimising every opportunity to create change while minimising project risk and cost-overruns.
Facilities Managers operate at the intersection of strategy and practicality. They take a brand vision and make sure it works across real-world sites, each with its own quirks, restrictions, and requirements. Without you, the gap between a brand strategy and the on-the-ground reality can quickly widen.
So, if your board and marketing team have started making noises about a global rebrand, it’s critical you’re part of the conversation. Why? Because one of the central elements of keeping a global rebrand on schedule, and within budget, is to conduct site surveys and asset audits - a key part of the process that sits within your domain.
If they’re not spotted at the outset, surprises you uncover could become even bigger problems further down the line, with less room for manoeuvre or contingency. Our blog on why site surveys really matter explains how this forensic foundation process helps to mitigate any risk.
If your global brand partner is skipping on site surveys, this should be an immediate red flag.
Rolling out signage and brand assets across hundreds of sites is no small task. In your role, you juggle timelines, contractors, budgets, and compliance.
As an FM we know that you’re part of a project team that involves liaison between so many different external stakeholders - such as corporate sign manufacturers, project managers, and installation engineers - as well as your own internal teams.
So you need to be part of the wider conversations around timeframes and deadlines, especially if you’re overseeing the installation across multiple sites and/or continents. Our blog on timeframes and deadlines shows how we can be a strategic partner in managing your global rebrand at a regional, national and international level.
Trust is a major element of any global rebrand - so we’re proud to have a portfolio of household name clients that have chosen Pearce to design, deliver and manage these international rollouts.
Modern brand implementation isn’t just about how things look - it’s about how they perform. FMs are responsible for ensuring signage and installations meet safety standards, comply with local regulations, and increasingly, align with sustainability targets. That makes you a key partner in hitting ESG goals as well as brand objectives.
So, if sustainability is a major part of your company’s global rebrand strategy, choosing Pearce Signs as your partner means that you’re working with a global brand activation company with a rigorous approach to ESG accountability. Check out the ESG section of our website to see how we cover every area of sustainability, from carbon emissions tracking and reporting, to ethical materials sourcing and supply chain management.
As an FM, your role doesn’t stop at installation. You’re often responsible for planning maintenance, repairs, and upgrades - ensuring brand assets keep performing for years to come. We never stop at the installation stage either. We like to maintain a relationship with our clients so that we can help with the ongoing evolution of a brand - keeping it fresh, relevant and engaging.
Take a look at how our long term relationship with UK retailer Tesco not only helps maintain its UK estate of stores, but provides us with the opportunity to share new ideas and innovations, from the car park through to in-store wayfinding. Read the case study.
While brand evolution may not be part of your remit, if maintenance and upkeep are a key element of your role it’s important to partner with a global rebrand specialist that understands what keeping a brand fresh looks like on a weekly, monthly and annual basis.
Overseeing a global rebrand also involves many complex conversations with design and branding agencies around the look, feel and consistency of a corporate brand.
By its very nature it can be a challenging process that requires knowledge of brands, the technical aspects of design and engineering, and a whole rule book around brand activation - and the guidelines on what to do, and what, more importantly, what not to do. This is our headache - not yours. Our design, brand and engineering teams have a wealth of experience navigating their way around the finer details of this, as our design intelligence blog explains.
Again - this is our responsibility not yours - but it’s important to understand why logistics experience is critical to the success of any global rebrand.
When a brand has a global presence there are all manner of challenges around ensuring that any rebrand achieves the same high levels of quality and consistency. It only takes one bad installation to derail a brand.
Understanding the logistics of local manufacturing partners, shipping protocols and installation processes across different time zones - while ensuring compliance with import regulations can be all-consuming. Which is where our global logistics experience and project management portal play a key role, ironing out the technical complexities that can add time and cost to key areas of your global rebrand, if not managed competently.
Our 13-site rebrand for iconic aviation business Lear is a great example of how we were able to navigate some particularly challenging permit constraints around their Moroccan location, within a challenging 3 month installation timeframe. Read the Lear case study here.
If your FM responsibilities cover more than one site, or a multi-national estate, you need to be working with a global rebrand specialist that understands logistics, and working across international time zones.
If you’re an FM for a luxury or heritage brand, your role takes on the additional aspect of being brand guardian. Companies in this sector inevitably become even more protective and precious about any new rebrand - particularly if they think it may affect the long term emotional buy-in that their customers have with their brand.
We understand this - we know that a rebrand is a really precious and nervous moment in the development of a business. So we tread carefully to enable you to focus on the site specific and operational aspects of the global rebrand, while we address the challenges of moving a luxury or heritage brand forward, without eradicating the past. See how we manage this in our blog on luxury and heritage branding.
We really do understand that as a Facilities Manager you sit at the crossroads of buildings, brand agencies, designers, and manufacturers.
That’s why FMs within leading organisations trust us to bring clarity and control to the most complex global rebrands. From strategy and surveys to manufacturing and installation, we help you to deliver a seamless rollout that protects brand consistency worldwide.
If you’re preparing for an international rollout, start the conversation with our global rebrand team today - and see how Pearce can help you lead the project, not just deliver it.
Call us today on 0115 940 9620 or email hello@pearcesigns.com
Paul Shilling is Group Managing Director of Pearce Signs and has over 30 years of experience in global rebrands and global brand activation projects. He is currently spearheading a major focus on sustainability within the Pearce Group of companies.
