Strategic studio for premium consumer brands navigating structural inflection.

Founder-led. Operator-built. Deliberately few.
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Architectural detail — glass treads, polished concrete, light-shadow tension.
AlphaTauri, the Red Bull brand extension we built, is now a London Business School & Harvard case study and a German Innovation Award winner
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Two decades of operating context: premium consumer, performance, luxury retail and global sport.
Most premium brands fail at the same point — the moment growth meets identity. We work at exactly that point.
Architecture before expression. Structure before scale.
Practice

Four operating layers.
One unified mandate.

We rebuild how a brand is positioned, named, and structured across its portfolio, so it can enter new categories and markets without losing its center.

For founders building category-defining brands. For boards repositioning established names.

We shape what gets built: the range, the tiering, the price ladders, the lifecycle economics. Product lines engineered to survive margin pressure and international rollout.

End-to-end, from the first concept call to the products in market.

Pricing architecture. Channel segmentation. Open-to-buy governance. Margin discipline.

The unglamorous machinery that converts brand equity into P&L. Installed, not advised, so your team runs it after we leave.

We install AI where it creates real leverage: product development, merchandising, demand and assortment planning. The brand's identity stays off-limits, because it can't be automated.

Grounded in dedicated, full-time study of AI strategy and the Chief AI Officer mandate.

Recognition
The AlphaTauri brand extension, which our founder co-led as Chief Product Officer, is now taught at London Business School and Harvard as a benchmark in premium brand stretch.
Tavassoli, N. (2022). Red Bull Spreads its Wings.
London Business School Case CS-22-016.

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About
CRANCC is led by Murat Acevit — former Chief Product Officer at AlphaTauri / Red Bull, with two decades of operating experience across Puma, Intersport International and the Red Bull premium portfolio.
The studio operates through founder-led engagement and curated specialist collaboration. Mandates are selected, not stacked.
Studio review of a garment lookboard during product development.
Inside the work
Built at the table, in the studio, alongside the people who make the product.
Work

Selected operating engagements.

01 Brand stretch logic
02 Product ecosystem
03 Commercial architecture
04 AI integration layer
05 Performance-to-premium
06 Market entry sequencing
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