A softened view of a CarNext branch's glazed facade at dusk, the wordmark lit above the entrance canopy.

CarNext

50

Sites rebranded

10

European countries

1

Brand identity across every site format

Audit

Led specification, site by site

Sector
Automotive
Location
Europe — 10 countries
Project type
Multi-site rebrand
Service scope
Site audits & assessments
Concept application
Product specifications
Manufacturing & installation

CarNext needed a new brand identity implemented across 50 sites in 10 countries, each with its own format and its own operational constraints.

Consistency was the point, but a template applied blind to 50 different buildings produces installations that fit none of them.

GLIMMA combined central coordination with local delivery, translating the design into detailed, buildable specifications for each individual site.

Delivered a consistent brand rollout for CarNext across 50 sites in 10 European countries.

The challenge

Fifty sites, ten sets of local conditions

CarNext needed a new brand identity implemented across multiple countries and site formats, each with its own operational constraints.

The challenge was maintaining consistency while adapting to local conditions and delivering efficiently at scale, across 50 sites in 10 countries.

Ten countries means ten regulatory contexts, ten supply situations and fifty buildings that were never designed to carry the same signage.

The CarNext.com wordmark on a gray branch facade, the orange brand shape cutting across it behind a security fence.
A CarNext directional totem at a site entrance, listing showroom, service and rental routes above a parking sign.
A CarNext showroom mural advertising its 14-day money-back guarantee, a car parked beneath it.
A CarNext branch by daylight, the orange brand shape cutting across its facade above parked cars.
The approach

Audit every site, specify every site.

GLIMMA combined central coordination with local delivery, translating design into detailed, buildable specifications for each individual site.

Site audits and assessments came first, so each location was specified against what was actually there rather than against a generic drawing.

Fifty sites across ten countries means maneuvering around local constraints, not designing as though they are not there.

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The solution

One identity,
fifty buildable specs.

A CarNext branch facade, the orange brand shape cutting across it above a parked SUV.
An orange CarNext directional totem sign against a blue sky at a branch entrance.

GLIMMA delivered site audits and assessments, concept application development, product specifications, and manufacturing and installation across the network. Each site got its own specification derived from one central concept — so the brand stayed identical while the installation detail answered to the building it was going on.

01

Site audit

Every one of the 50 sites surveyed and assessed.

02

Assessment

Local constraints and site formats recorded per location.

03

Concept application

The central identity applied to each site type.

04

Product specification

Detailed, buildable specifications drawn per site.

05

Manufacturing

Production coordinated centrally against those specifications.

06

Installation

Local teams installing to one set of standards.

07

Consistency check

Each site signed off against the central concept.

A CarNext showroom mural promoting full maintenance-history visibility, seating arranged beneath it.

Site audits turn one brand identity into 50 buildable specifications — not one template applied 50 times.

Cars on a CarNext showroom floor beneath a mural advertising a fixed, all-in price.

Central coordination with local delivery is what keeps 10 countries reading as one network.

The impact

One network,
one recognizable brand.

The programme established a strong and consistent brand presence for CarNext.

The business gained one recognizable identity across a network with very different local operating conditions.

Because every site was specified from its own audit, the installations fit the buildings they went on — consistency in the brand, accuracy in the detail. CarNext’s European network now stands as one identity after rollout — 50 sites, 10 countries, one identity.

50

Sites rebranded

10

Countries covered

1

Consistent brand across the network

Why us?

A template is not a specification

Fifty sites across ten countries means having to maneuver local constraints at every location.

GLIMMA’s site-audit-first approach turned each site into a detailed, buildable specification rather than a generic template — so CarNext got both consistency and installations that actually fit each site.

GLIMMA continues to support CarNext in maintaining brand consistency across its European site network.

Site audits. Fifty locations surveyed before a single specification was written.

Product specification. Buildable detail per site, derived from one central concept.

Central coordination. One program across 10 countries, delivered locally.

Manufacture and install. Production and installation managed through to sign-off.

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