Al Habib
From Brand Transition to Brand Continuity
The strategy connected the credibility of the parent healthcare brand with a warmer, more accessible expression of pharmacy, wellness, and everyday care.
Al Habib
Al Habib
A NEW NAME.
WITHOUT LOSING THE TRUST BEHIND THE OLD ONE.
The challenge was not simply to redesign a pharmacy brand. It was to manage a transition in customer perception without disrupting the trust and commercial continuity the business had already built.
Middle East Pharmacies was preparing to transition into Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Pharmacies, bringing the pharmacy business more directly under the identity and reputation of the wider healthcare group.
But changing an established retail healthcare brand carries risk. Customers already had familiarity, habits, and expectations around the existing pharmacy experience. A sudden change could create confusion or make the transition feel disconnected from what people already trusted.
At the same time, simply applying the parent identity would not be enough. The pharmacy needed to benefit from the strength of the Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib name while developing a distinct expression appropriate for a more accessible, everyday healthcare and wellness experience.
The strategic question became: How could the pharmacy inherit the trust of the parent brand without losing its own relevance as a retail healthcare experience?
INHERIT THE TRUST.
BUILD A DISTINCT PHARMACY EXPERIENCE.
The strategy connected the credibility of the parent healthcare brand with a warmer, more accessible expression of pharmacy, wellness, and everyday care.
The strategic direction focused on preserving the strongest equity of Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib while creating a pharmacy identity with a clear role of its own recognizable elements from the parent brand were retained to maintain continuity and reassurance, while the pharmacy expression introduced more natural visual cues associated with health, wellness, accessibility, and growth.
The iconic 'H' remained an important link to the wider group, while green and subtle natural forms helped create a more approachable pharmacy language.
The result was a brand that felt immediately connected to Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib, but clearly designed for the pharmacy experience.
FROM BRAND TRANSITION TO BRAND CONTINUITY.
The name changed. The trust moved with it.
The transformation of Middle East Pharmacies into Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Pharmacies was built around one principle: change the identity without breaking the trust.
By combining the equity of the parent healthcare brand with a distinct pharmacy expression, the new identity created a stronger connection between institutional healthcare credibility and everyday customer care.
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