Quite Early One Morning is a brand consultancy that believes in the power of ideas and bringing these to life through well-told and beautifully crafted stories. Ideas that are distinctive, credible, clear and simple. Stories that are intelligent, involving and memorable. Delivered with a rigorous attention to detail, a lightness of touch and a firm grip on reality. From brand strategy and the big brand idea to launch and implementation, Quite Early One Morning can help you achieve commercial success – whether the challenge is creating a new brand or refreshing or repositioning an existing one. Quite Early One Morning helps companies around the world achieve greater clarity. Clarity of purpose and role. Clarity about what makes them different and special. And clarity in terms of how to bring this to life, communicate it and live it. Central to this is helping companies ensure they are consistent and enduring in everything they say and do. The company was founded by Tom Banks who is a strategy consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in advertising, marketing communications, design and branding. He has worked both agency and client side, including FCB, Publicis, Lintas, Wolff Olins, NatWest, Legal & General and Hutchison Whampoa. In 1992, he co-founded the multi-award winning design business, Johnson Banks. He has also collaborated on projects with other award-winning agencies, in particular Neon. His diversity covers automotive, telecomms, broadcasting, professional and financial services, trade organisations and property to airlines, tourism, beauty, food and drink, arts and museums and even celebrity brands. He has advised on all aspects of brand strategy (creation, refresh and repositioning), brand architecture and portfolios, brand identity, engagement, communications and implementation, as well as brand guardianship and management.