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BRANDS 
WITH SOMETHING
OF THEIR OWN

MALFI is a brand consultancy that reads business, behaviour and culture to uncover the ideas, tensions and connections a brand can genuinely call its own.

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Then we give them direction, language and form.

Behind a brand, there is never just an identity.

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There are decisions. Behaviours. Stories. Contradictions. A particular way of doing things.
And a world around it that never stops changing.

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At MALFI, we read business, behaviour and culture to find what a brand can genuinely defend as its own — and turn it into strategy, identity and activation.

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Strategy turns that reading into clarity and direction. Identity gives it language and form. Activation brings it into the world.

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All to build brands that are hard to confuse, easy to choose, and have something no one else can tell in quite the same way.

A DISTINCTIVE WAY OF SEEING

The surface is never the

whole story.

A DISTINCTIVE WAY OF SEEING

The surface is never the whole story

Behind a brand, there is never just an identity.

​

There are decisions. Behaviours. Stories. Contradictions. A particular way of doing things.
And a world around it that never stops changing.

​

At MALFI, we read business, behaviour and culture to find what a brand can genuinely call its own — and turn it into strategy, identity and activation.

​

Strategy turns that reading into criteria and direction. Identity gives it language and form. Activation brings it into the world.

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All to build brands that are hard to confuse, easy to choose, and have something no one else can tell in quite the same way.

WHAT WE DO

Every brand has something it can

genuinely defend as its own.

STRATEGY

Understand before deciding.

Brand Strategy
Brand Audit

Cultural & Trend Intelligence
Trend Reports
Positioning
Experience Principles

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01   MEMORY

LOOK BACK

We understand where you come from.

LOOK AROUND

02   AWARENESS

We read what’s happening across your business, your category, people and culture.

LOOK DIFFERENTLY

03   LENS

We shift the angle until we find a more ownable way to understand the problem.

04   FORESIGHT

LOOK AHEAD

We explore what possibilities this new perspective opens up.

MAKE IT POSSIBLE

05   IMAGINATION

We turn strategy into decisions, actions and experiences that make the brand real.

The Malfi Method

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THE MALFI METHOD

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01   MEMORY

LOOK BACK

We understand where you come from — and what’s worth carrying forward.

02   AWARENESS

LOOK AROUND

We read what’s happening across your business, your category, people and culture.

03   LENS

LOOK DIFFERENTLY

We shift the angle until we find a more ownable way to understand the problem.

04   FORESIGHT

LOOK AHEAD

We explore what possibilities this new perspective opens up.

05   IMAGINATION

MAKE IT POSSIBLE

We turn strategy into decisions, actions, and experiences that make the brand real.

SELECTED WORK

A few stories worth telling

MALFI lives between strategy and creativity, business and culture, instinct and evidence.
 

We like questions that lead somewhere, references that add something to an idea, and brands with something they can genuinely defend as their own.

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ABOUT MALFI

Serious thinking,
without taking ourselves too seriously

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La dolce storia

Storia means both history and story.

What happened. And what we make of it.

Stories behind brands, objects, places, behaviours and things that seem perfectly ordinary — until you look a little closer.

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Culture. Business. People. History.

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And the occasional unlikely connection.

LET’S TALK


What question brought you here?

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