
In a $4.6 billion deal, Solenis, a privately held global leader in sustainable water treatment and process improvement solutions, acquired Diversey Holdings, Ltd., a $3 billion public company offering cleaning, hygiene and infection prevention solutions.
The purchase of a larger, market-leading global company represented a pivotal moment in the Solenis brand evolution. With this deal, Solenis emerged with a unified presence in over 160 countries and an enhanced product portfolio designed to address the needs of customers in institutional and food & beverage markets in addition to their established pulp & paper, industrial and pool markets.
Harnessing this potential required Godfrey to tackle strategic and operational challenges:
Shape a unified brand:
Bringing together two global brands with a combined legacy of over 218 years demanded a thoughtful approach that preserved their individual equity, drove brand awareness in new and existing markets and supported future growth.
Bridge internal cultures:
With a newly combined team of employees across diverse regions and cultures, the integration presented complexity that went beyond operations. To achieve alignment, the new brand expression would need to bridge cultural differences and establish a shared mission that connected both teams and created momentum.
Tell a story rooted in sustainability:
The new brand narrative needed to integrate each company’s sustainability strengths into one seamless story that would serve as a competitive differentiator globally.
Operationalize the new brand:
Launching the refreshed brand would require bringing consistency and cohesion across communications and touchpoints, including digital platforms, sales tools and marketing materials.
A project this big and bold requires the right data to build a targeted action plan. Our strategy team conducted deep research and collaborated extensively with Solenis and Diversey. That included dozens of internal and external stakeholder interviews and reviewing a lot of internal associate survey responses — more than 4,300 — to uncover the insights needed to shape a cohesive strategy.
Once strategy was finalized, we developed a messaging framework to position the expanded Solenis as a global leader in its existing and new markets. Building on our previous branding work with Solenis, we used sustainability as a narrative anchor that was both grounded in research and would resonate with internal teams, customers and other stakeholders.
In addition, we created brand and product hierarchies to define relationships between Solenis and its existing sub-brands, as well as guide branding relationships for future acquisitions.
Our creative team then brought this stage of the Solenis brand evolution to life. We designed a new logo that combines elements of the heritage Solenis and Diversey logos. The top portion of the logo represents Solenis customers, while the bottom portion represents the brand’s team supporting customers. In the center of the visual, negative space reveals the pathway of opportunity to drive efficiency, make a measurable impact and do what’s right for people and the planet. We also refreshed the brand palette to convey strength, clarity and sustainability.
And, to ensure creative alignment for globally distributed teams, we developed in-depth brand guidelines, a messaging playbook and branded digital assets, including social media post templates.
The creative work included a redesign of the Solenis website to reflect the brand’s refreshed look and feel. In addition, the website portion of the project included extensive work to integrate Diversey’s 120+ websites and related language sites. From content mapping to cookie and privacy compliance integration to migration support, the Godfrey team collaborated with the Solenis and heritage Diversey teams, as well as third-party vendors. We also provided post-launch support, including website updates and CMS training for Solenis and heritage Diversey. The result is a seamless, best-in-class online experience that makes it easy for new and legacy customers and stakeholders to get the information they need.
With bold vision, meticulous planning and dynamic execution, we helped Solenis transform the Diversey acquisition into an inspiring, sustainability-focused narrative of shared purpose and innovation that positions the brand for future growth.
For the website portion of the project, the team migrated seven websites with a total of 4,091 pages, and we continued to migrate sites after the brand refresh launch in July 2024. Our team also implemented 9,464 redirects and rebranded more than 35 website components. When completed, the site achieved a 96 Google Lighthouse performance score (out of 100). And since the first Diversey content launch in March 2024, solenis.com generated an increase of 400,000 monthly page views — that’s a remarkable 250% boost.
We rolled out deliverables, including:
Planning, research & strategy
Iconography updates
Training
Brand rollout planning
Brand guidelines
Brand-at-a-glance sheet
Messaging playbook
Brand PowerPoint template
Brand spirit video
Leadership event support
Video bookends
Social media brand rollout
Public relations rollout support
Social strategy
Social media template audit
Social media template build
Project insight, planning & ongoing support
Technical insight, planning & ongoing support
Solenis website information architecture updates & content mapping
Solenis website design (brand) refresh
Website development updates & CMS training
Diversey content migration support
Cookies and privacy compliance integration
Service and support integration
Search implementation & support
Diversey language sites migration support
Redirects
Websites rebranded
Web pages rebranded
Redirects
Google Lighthouse score
Increase in monthly page views
Godfrey has been a true partner, aligning our shared visions into a cohesive brand identity. From designing distinctive logos to executing extensive website updates, their strategic, creative and development support has helped us firmly establish our dynamic trajectory in a global marketplace that’s ready for proven sustainable solutions.
Katy Abernathy
Vice President, Corporate Communications, Solenis
Branding
Content Creation
Data and Analytics
Landing Pages and Microsites
Research
Strategy
Video
Campaign Planning
Public Relations
Social Media
Identity and Logo Design
Website Design and Development
Search
Internal Campaign
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