Two H20X product boxes sitting on large rocks

A stack of black boxes with various fishing gear products

A man carrying a fishing pole and a bag of fishing gear

Three fishing poles on the deck of a fishing boat on a lake

An assortment of brightly colored fishing lures

A man fishing off his boat on a lake surrounded by hills and trees

A zippered black and gray fishing gear bag sitting on an open tailgate

A fishing gear product box covered in water droplets 

Academy Sports + Outdoors is a leading full-line sporting goods and outdoor recreation retailer headquartered in Katy, Texas with 260 stores located in the South. Some of their key categories include outdoor, apparel, footwear, and sports. The retailer wanted to update their private-label fishing line, H2O XPRESS, to attract anglers online and in stores.

Before kicking off a formal rebrand, the AS+O team wanted to assess how customers felt about H2O XPRESS as a brand and fishing category overall.

Tractorbeam created and deployed a custom survey to almost 10,000 customers who had purchased the H2O XPRESS brand within the previous 12 months. These findings informed a name change and guided important positioning and packaging decisions throughout the project.

Customers wanted affordable products (that performed like an expensive brand) to achieve their singular goal: catch fish.

Brand Architecture

Brand Design

Creative Execution

Baiting the hook for a performance fishing brand

Positioning

Naming

Brand Identity

Brand Guidelines

Campaign Development

Visual Merchandising

Packaging

Brand Audit

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Hospitality

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Box of H2OX fishing line on a dark blue background

UI/UX

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Fashion

What appears to be a man covered in chrome looking through a pair of luxury glasses

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Web Development

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Baiting the hook for a performance fishing brand

Positioning

Naming

Brand Identity

Brand Guidelines

Campaign Development

Visual Merchandising

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