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01 · Brand Strategy & Social · 2025

Repositioning a legacy B2B brand for consumer visibility.

Union Jack Elevator is a Singapore lift company with thirty years of B2B credibility and almost no consumer-facing presence. We asked: what if the brand stopped chasing tenders and started educating the people who actually ride in lifts?

Role

Marketing & Strategy
Group of 4

Brief

Major Project
Repositioning campaign

Year

2025

Outputs

Campaign blueprint
Content calendar · KPIs

01Context

Union Jack Elevator (UJE) is a Singapore-based vertical transportation company with strong B2B credibility among contractors but almost no consumer-facing visibility. The brief was to develop a marketing campaign that addressed weak brand awareness, low social media presence, and a real educational gap among homeowners and residents around lift safety and modernisation.

02Research

We conducted primary research across two audience segments — homeowners and architects (decision-makers), and residents (daily lift users) — using both surveys (n=72 across both groups) and qualitative insights.

  • 78% of residents were unfamiliar with lift safety.
  • 75% had been stuck in a lift.
  • 77% of those affected experienced fear that lingered.
  • 73% of homeowners still defaulted to international brands despite local options being competitive.

The numbers pointed away from a hardware-led pitch and toward something more human: safety education the brand could own.

We stopped selling lifts and started teaching people how to ride them safely.

03Approach

From the research we built Lift the Future — a three-month campaign repositioning UJE not as a hardware vendor but as a safety educator. Rather than chase tender wins, we focused on building brand loyalty in the local market through Instagram and TikTok content across four pillars.

  • Sustainability — predictive maintenance and regenerative drive content, aligned with Singapore Green Plan 2030.
  • Fun facts — lift history and engineering, building topical authority.
  • Gen Z humour — for the residents who are also the next generation of homeowners.
  • Resident testimonials — to address the 77% who said lift fear lingered.

Every content decision tied back to a research finding. The "what to do when stuck in a lift" slide post directly addressed the 75% who had experienced it. Locked Reels (gated educational content) created a soft conversion path on the homeowner side, paired with a tri-fold physical brochure.

04Outputs

  • Three-month content calendar across Instagram and TikTok
  • Locked Reels, interactive slide posts, role-play skits, resident testimonial series
  • Tri-fold homeowner brochure for the physical conversion journey
  • ESG-aligned recommendations: predictive maintenance dashboards, AI-driven content automation
  • KPI framework: 15–20% IG follower growth, 500+ views per Reel
  • Budget breakdown — total SGD 2,000

05Outcome

Deliverable

A repositioning the vendor could run on Monday — three months of content, a clear KPI frame (15–20% IG growth, 500+ views/Reel), and a total SGD 2,000 budget. Proof that the lever was a strategy shift, not a bigger spend.

If I ran it again → With a live budget, I'd A/B test the locked-Reel gate before routing the homeowner funnel through it — the conversion assumption is the one thing paper couldn't validate.