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Mountain Valley Honey

Refining a family-run honey brand across packaging, web and ongoing marketing.

  • Identity
  • Packaging
  • Web
  • Campaign
  • Print
A wooden gift crate of Mountain Valley Honey jars — Mānuka, Native Bush, Kāmahi, Beech Honeydew, Autumn Gold and Kānuka — resting on autumn leaves.

The problem

Mountain Valley Honey needed a more polished and consistent brand presence across packaging, digital and marketing touchpoints. The owners were preparing the business for long-term growth and eventual sale, so the work needed to make the brand feel more established, trustworthy, giftable and commercially attractive without losing its family-run character.

The idea

The brand’s difference was not simply the honey. It was the care behind it: how the business looked after its bees, customers, staff and product.

That idea shaped the packaging, website, copy direction and ongoing marketing work.

My role

I led creative implementation across label design, website design, ongoing print and digital marketing, social media assets, email marketing and website updates. Noknok acted as the marketing department for the business, and I led much of the creative implementation of the agreed strategy.

The outcome

The business sold within three years of the brand and marketing work beginning, and the new owners retained me to continue supporting the brand.

What this shows

This project shows my ability to steward a brand over time, maintain consistency across many touchpoints, and implement creative work in a commercially practical way.

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