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Case Studies / Cobra Biomanufacturing
College Hill

Cobra Biomanufacturing offers a complete range of cGMP biomanufacturing services for making recombinant therapeutic proteins, DNA, viruses and live cells. The Company has recently expanded its facilities to include a biomanufacturing site in Oxford, UK. Operating globally, Cobra is expanding its presence in North America.

Objectives
To increase awareness about Cobra, particularly in North America
Develop a corporate advert for Cobra that would reflect elements of both Cobra’s business and personality

Methods
Northbank researched adverts from Cobra’s key competitors to see how they were positioning themselves
Northbank carried out extensive interviews with Cobra to understand the Company’s key messages and USP’s
Northbank distilled Cobra’s key corporate messages and presented them as a series of advert headlines with photographic imagery
A wide selection of creative concepts was presented to Cobra utilizing different visual vehicles. From these the headline “Capacity to innovate” was chosen and, following exploration of this idea, an image of an innovative/creative child was selected to reflect this headline. A child image was selected over others as it introduces a human element, an open mind and an ability to devise creative solutions that will achieve goals
Northbank crafted copy for the advert

Results
The advert made a splash in the June issues of GEN and the Bioprocessing Journal and appeared in both journals bonus distributions at BIO2004, San Francisco
Cobra’s North American sales team has attributed a four-fold increase in sales enquiries to the advert

August 2004

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