A full seasonal refresh of 9,400 products in eleven days, on brand in fourteen markets.
Meridian's in-house studio used to spend a quarter on the autumn catalogue. Now one brief per category runs the whole range through the studio, with packshots, lifestyle imagery and localised copy landing in approvals the same week.
Two photo studios, four agencies and a translation vendor produced the season, and every market re-shot or re-wrote a share of it. The brand team saw most assets after they were live.
Meridian loaded its brand kit, product library and market glossaries into a studio on its own domain. Category managers brief the content agent once. It plans the asset list per SKU and market, routes packshots to a photoreal image model with product geometry locked, and sends copy through the market voice profiles.
The autumn range went from brief to approved in eleven days. Agencies now work inside Meridian Studio rather than around it, and the brand team signs off before anything ships instead of after.
“The studio carries our name. Our agencies use it, our markets use it, and for the first time the whole season looks like one brand.”