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← Work06/Narrate—JAL · Brand · Corporate Communications · ORM

Brand, Communications & Reputation

ORM response 24h+ → 4–6h · +75% engagement

Building brand systems and public narratives that make complex organisations easier to understand and trust.

Context
Jindal Aluminium, an industrial manufacturer with more than 50 years of history, whose brand, stories, media presence and reputation had to hold together across channels, teams and sites.
Role / scope
Brand governance · narrative strategy · corporate communications · reputation / ORM · implementation coordination

Status

Coordinated · Measured

Evidence

  • Measured brand visibility: +65%
  • Measured social engagement: +75%
  • Measured online sentiment: +40%
  • ORM response time reduced from 24+ hours to 4–6 hours
01

Brand governance

How do you evolve an established industrial brand without losing the equity built over decades?

People already knew the name. What was missing was consistency: the identity looked different depending on who produced the piece. The work was making it usable for every team, story and application.

Brand guidelines / the system
The logo / usage rules

I wasn't designing the logo. I was helping make the new brand usable.

Translate→
Systemise→
Coordinate→
Adapt→
Scale
02

Narrative

Aluminium is a technical product. The stories are about what it makes possible.

Material→
Application→
Possibility

One material. Many stories.

Heritage & scale
Mobility
Sustainability
Innovation / aerospace
03

Public narrative

From business activity to public story.

Business activity→
Relevance→
Angle→
Narrative→
Media→
Public story
56th Inception Day

An anniversary isn't a story. What 56 years means today is.

The narrative connected legacy with manufacturing leadership, engineering capability and future relevance.

Print coverage

Coverage across business, trade and industry media.

Business Standard · The Financial Express · Construction World · ET Energy World · Aviation & Defense · Construction Business Today · AI Circle · The Fourth Voice, and others.

04

Content system

A steady content system: explainers, films, milestones and capability stories.

Selected social content · @jindalaluminium · @jindalnaturecure

05

In the real world

A brand becomes real when people encounter it, which means vendors, materials, approvals and deadlines.

Employee event
Standee / signage
Collateral
Requirement→
Brief & scope→
Vendor→
Technical review→
Approval→
Production→
Delivery
06

Measured outcomes

Brand visibility
+65%
Social engagement
+75%
Online sentiment
+40%
ORM response time
24+ hrs to4–6 hrs

Brand, reputation and communication as operating disciplines.

Notes

  1. Brand, engagement, sentiment and ORM figures come from internal performance reporting and are not attributed to a single intervention.

The full walkthrough, with the working files, is available in an interview.

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