Brands
SBI General Insurance unveils new brand identity
NEW DELHI: SBI General Insurance announced the launch of its new corporate brand identity with redesigned logo and the tagline. The identity change comes at a time when the company has completed a decade of operations and is upgrading its service offerings to suit all customers.
The new visual identity is designed to convey SBIG’s future-ready services to an evolving consumer consisting of traditionalist and modernist. The traditionalist customers are those who value trust, loyalty, value for money and integrity, whereas modernist look for flexibility and future-readiness.
The entire logo represents swipeable buttons to cue the digital age and through the use of gradient, future-readiness is denoted. Besides, inspired by parent brand’s SBI Yono, SBIG has used the purple colour indicating youthfulness, wisdom and devotion. Parent name – SBI – is retained which continues to reinforce trust and security. The word ‘general’ is in lowercase to represent uniformity. A curvier typeface to show agility & youth has been used and ‘general’ emphasized.
In the tagline, ‘Suraksha and Bharosa, dono’ – ‘Suraksha’ (protection) reinstates SBI General Insurance’s promise to customers to protect them in times of need. ‘Bharosa’ (trust) represents the faith customers have in the parent brand, SBI.
SBI General Insurance MD and CEO Pushan Mahapatra said, “We take pride in having the parentage of SBI, and indeed, it is our privilege to carry forward the strong legacy of trust and security.
The insurance category in India is riddled with fear and insecurity. To address this well and live up to our brand that resonates with “trust”, we have derived the tagline – Security and Trust, both which in Hindi reads as – Suraksha and Bharosa, Dono.”
He added, “We are honoured with the faith that our customers have shown in us. With our new logo, we reinstate and reassure them that we are ready to serve their growing needs of services with new-age processes and services.”
SBI General Insurance head brand and corporate communications Shefali Khalsa said, “SBI General as a brand has immense affinity and resonance to trust. Last Dec’19, SBIG completed a decade of catering this trust and insurance solutions to its customers. This new identity launch is the new avatar of SBIG, so to say SBIG 2.0 Version. The new brand identity and the ‘swipe’ in the logo as element resonates the new digital approach. While retaining the legacy of our brand’s parentage, the new look and feel of the brand are to convey our progress and readiness in this digital age.”
“An identity change is an important milestone, especially as SBI General Insurance completed a decade of operations recently” added Khalsa.
Rediffusion Brand Solutions won the creative mandate for SBI General Insurance.
The new brand identity and logo will be used across all communications from 1 July 2020. The entire change will be done gradually at all visible touchpoints.
Brands
Godrej clarifies ‘GI’ identifier after logo similarity debate
Says GI is not a logo, will not replace Godrej signature across products.
MUMBAI: In a branding storm where shapes did the talking, Godrej is now spelling things out. Godrej Industries Group (GIG) has issued a clarification on its newly introduced ‘GI’ identifier, addressing questions around its purpose and design following a wave of online criticism. At the centre of the debate were two concerns: whether the new mark replaces the long-standing Godrej logo, and whether its geometric design mirrors other corporate identities.
The company has drawn a clear line. The Godrej signature logo, it said, remains unchanged and continues to be the sole logo across all consumer-facing products and services. The ‘GI’ mark, by contrast, is not a logo but a corporate group identifier intended for use alongside the Godrej signature or company name, and aimed at stakeholders such as investors, media and talent rather than consumers.
The need for such a distinction stems from the 2024 restructuring of the broader Godrej Group into two separate business entities. With both continuing to operate under the same Godrej name and signature, the identifier is positioned as a way to differentiate the Godrej Industries Group at a corporate level.
The rollout, however, triggered a broader conversation on design originality. Critics pointed to similarities between the GI mark’s geometric composition and logos used by companies globally, raising questions about distinctiveness.
Responding to this, GIG said its intellectual property and legal review found that such overlaps are common in minimalist, geometry-led design systems. Basic forms such as circles and rectangles appear across dozens of brand identities worldwide, the company noted.
It added that the identifier emerged from an extensive design process and was chosen for its simplicity, allowing it to sit alongside the Godrej signature without competing visually. While acknowledging that elemental shapes may appear less distinctive in isolation, the group emphasised that the mark is part of a broader identity system that includes a custom typeface, sonic branding and other proprietary elements.
Following legal and ethical assessments, the company said it found no impediment to using the identifier, reiterating that the GI mark is a corporate tool not a consumer-facing symbol.
In short, the logo isn’t changing but the conversation around it certainly has.
