Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Are you at start-up speed?


Most companies build one brand and ride it for decades.
KK Group built three in under ten years—KKV, The Colorist, and X11—each one targeting a different slice of Gen Z’s lifestyle.

This isn’t brand building the old way. It’s portfolio thinking at startup speed.

What brand builders can learn:

  • Product: Each brand has its own core category—KKV for lifestyle, The Colorist for beauty, X11 for streetwear—but all share a common thread: trend velocity. They ride what’s hot and kill what’s not.
  • Price: Mid-tier, impulse-friendly. The kind of price that feels like a treat, not a transaction.
  • Distribution: Always IRL, always Instagrammable. Malls, not marketplaces. Stores designed as experiences—not shelves.

KK Group doesn’t scale just one brand. It scales a system—shared supply chains, design language, and retail intelligence.

In a way, they treat each brand like a startup, backed by retail venture capital logic: test fast, fail cheap, double down on what pops.

It’s not branding as a monolith. It’s branding as a multi-brand ecosystem, each one feeding insights to the next.

Are you testing enough?

Let us help. Call us now at +60378901079 or visit us at roar-point.com

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