(Case study — Branding & Packaging & Websites)

Ela Spices

Taking a family spice business from local shelves to customers across India, with a new brand, packaging and online store.

BrandingPackagingE-commerce
Home / Work / Ela Spices 2025 — 2026
From kitchen to doorstep.
Client
Ela Spices
Industry
Food & FMCG
Services
Brand Strategy, Identity, Packaging, Shopify Build
Timeline
10 weeks · Ongoing marketing
(01) The challenge

Great spices, hidden behind packaging that looked like everyone else's.

Ela Spices had thirty years of family recipes and loyal customers in Kerala. But on a crowded shelf their plain packets disappeared, and they had no way to sell to the many customers asking for delivery outside the state.

(02) Our approach

We spent the first week in their kitchen and shop, talking to the family and their regular customers. The story was already there. It just wasn't being told.

  • A brand built on the family's own recipes: warm, honest, and clearly premium.
  • A packaging system for 40 products, with colour-coded ranges that are easy to find on a shelf.
  • A Shopify store with recipes, gift boxes and subscriptions, which their team updates themselves.
  • A launch campaign on Instagram and Google that brought in their first customers outside Kerala.
(03) The outcome

The new brand and store launched in 10 weeks. In the first six months, online orders tripled and now make up more than a third of sales. Two regional supermarket chains have since asked to stock the range.

(04) Colour & type

Colours taken straight from the spices themselves, with a friendly serif for the brand name and a clean sans for everything else.

Turmeric
#E8A317
Pepper
#1E1B18
Cardamom
#2F6B3A
Rice
#F6EFE3
Results
3xOnline orders in 6 months
35%Of sales now online
40Products packaged
2New retail chains
(Client words)

They understood what made our family business special, and made sure everyone else could see it too. Our customers tell us the packaging is too nice to throw away.

Client name
Founder, Ela Spices

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