Construction & engineering group
Multi-brand business
A multi-brand construction and engineering business was brought onto a single digital strategy without losing the specialism that made each division competitive.
A construction and engineering group operating several trading brands across contracting, consultancy and specialist services had grown largely through acquisition. Each brand arrived with its own website, its own agency history and its own idea of what marketing meant.
The result was a digital estate that worked against itself. Group brands competed for the same search terms, brand presentation varied wildly in quality, and there was no way for a client of one division to discover the capability of the others.
The board wanted a coherent group presence that supported cross-selling and tender credibility, without flattening the specialist identities that won work at brand level.
Bring separate brand web presences into one governed, consistent system.
Remove keyword and messaging overlap between group brands.
Make full group capability visible to every client of every division.
The first phase was an audit rather than a redesign. We mapped what each brand actually sold, who bought it, and where the group was cannibalising its own visibility. Several divisions were bidding for identical terms and paying twice to reach the same buyer.
From that we built a group architecture: a parent presence carrying credibility, capability and tender-facing content, with brand sites positioned around distinct service territories. Each division kept its specialism and its language; none of them kept the overlap.
Content and SEO were planned at group level and delivered at brand level, so authority accumulated across the estate instead of being split across competing domains. Structured, well-organised capability content also made the group far easier for AI search tools to summarise accurately — increasingly the first place procurement teams look.
Finally we put governance in place: shared components, shared standards, and a clear rule for where new acquisitions sit in the structure so the problem does not rebuild itself with the next deal.
Parent and brand-level structure mapped across the group.
Keyword cannibalisation identified between group brands.
Shared content standards applied across the estate.
The group stopped paying several times over to solve the same problem. Clients of one division can now see the capability of the whole group, tender teams have credible capability content to point at, and every new acquisition has a defined place in the structure rather than another orphaned website. Marketing became a group asset instead of a set of local overheads.
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