DHL
Best foot forward: Telling your story to a global audience

DHL Logistics underwent a huge amount of change following the integration of Deutsche Post World Net making it one of the biggest employees worldwide. Given the dramatic change and with such a culturally diverse workforce, the organisation urgently needed to communicate to employees how they fitted into the new company, how the company was structured and what individuals could do to help their part of the business.

So the Building the Best brochure was produced. We were tasked with planning the content, writing the copy, commissioning illustrations and designing a booklet which could be understood by everyone from senior managers to warehouse employees and drivers.

The 28-page booklet is packed full of facts, figures and case studies highlighting DHL Logistics' structure and achievements. Key statistics are displayed inside panels shaped as planes, delivery vans, envelopes and other aspects of the logistics business to make them appeal to the audience.

And we managed to bring together Pele, Bruce Lee, Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe - or at least iconic images of them - to inspire DHL Logistics employees to show as much determination as these legends in their own jobs.

We also carried some short, engaging case studies, which were supported by attention-grabbing images and facts and figures, as well as a snapshot of the rest of the DHL family.

All this, and more, was included in a bright and lively A6 booklet using visual storytelling to get the message across to 150,000 employees worldwide and translated into 22 languages.

It all added up to an engaging booklet small in size, but big on impact.

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