Strategic studio for premium consumer brands navigating structural inflection.
Founder-led. Operator-built. Deliberately few.
What we build.
Our mandates are private by design. These are the systems behind them.
How a brand enters a new category without losing its center. Positioning, naming, portfolio structure. The discipline behind the AlphaTauri extension.
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Brand stretch logic
The range, the tiering, the lifecycle. Product lines engineered to survive margin pressure and international rollout, from first concept to market.
Pricing ladders, channel segmentation, margin discipline. Quality of revenue beats quantity of volume, by design and tier by tier.
Intelligence installed where it creates leverage: product development, merchandising, demand planning. The brand's identity stays off limits.
Moving a brand up the ladder without abandoning the customer who built it. Technical credibility translated into premium permission.
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Performance-to-premium
Scatter is expensive; sequence compounds. We read where demand already lives, anchor the region in one market, and time every move.
The AlphaTauri brand extension we built for Red Bull is taught at London Business School
and Harvard. It received a German Innovation Award.
Tavassoli, N. (2022). Red Bull Spreads its Wings. LBS Case CS 22 016 · Full recognition and sources
Two decades of operating context: premium consumer, performance, luxury retail and global sport.
Operator-led. By design.
CRANCC is led by Murat Acevit, former Chief Product Officer of AlphaTauri and Red Bull Global Consumer Products. He co-built Red Bull's premium fashion venture from launch to profitability and steered product across the group's wider consumer portfolio.
Before that, operating roles at Puma and Intersport International. Product, brand and commercial, always together, never in isolation.
The studio works founder-led, with curated specialist collaboration. Mandates are selected, not stacked.
Founder, CRANCC
Brand Architecture
Positioning, naming and portfolio structure for entering new categories without losing your center.
Product Strategy
Range, tiering, price ladders and lifecycle economics, engineered to scale internationally.
Commercial Systems
Pricing, channel and margin machinery. Installed, not advised, so your team runs it after we leave.
AI Transformation
AI where it creates real leverage. The brand's identity stays off limits, because it cannot be automated.
Executive Sparring
Monthly strategic partnership with founders and CEOs navigating brand, product or commercial inflection.
Two structured sessions per month. Ad-hoc access between.
Six-month minimum. By application.
Strategic Mandate
Defined-scope engagement on a specific structural question: repositioning, brand extension architecture, international expansion, exit readiness.
Founder-led, specialist-supported.
Eight to sixteen weeks.
Venture Partnership
Long-form collaboration with founders building category-defining premium brands.
Hybrid structure: retainer plus equity component.
Maximum two parallel engagements.
The studio's public record of thinking.
Most brand extensions fail on a single misread: what customers actually license the brand to do. An operator's analysis of the mechanics behind successful category moves. Published in English and German.
Read Vol. 01A price ladder is not a pricing exercise. It decides who is allowed into a brand, what the brand means at each altitude, and where its ceiling sits, and the ceiling is set by category authority rather than by ambition. Published in English and German.
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CRANCC is a founder-led strategy studio for premium consumer, fashion and performance brands. We work on brand architecture, product strategy, commercial systems and AI transformation, at the point where growth meets identity.
Founders building category defining premium brands, boards repositioning established names, and investors preparing brands for their next chapter. Mandates are selected, not stacked.
Our mandates are private by design. What we can show publicly: the AlphaTauri brand extension our founder co-led as Chief Product Officer is taught at London Business School and Harvard, and our thinking is published in Signals.
With a written inquiry describing the structural question you are working through. We respond to qualified inquiries within 24 hours and begin with a focused conversation, not a pitch deck.
Executive Sparring runs on a monthly retainer with a six month minimum. Strategic Mandates are scoped and priced per question, typically eight to sixteen weeks. Venture Partnerships combine retainer and equity.
Signals is our numbered editorial series, six editions per year. It documents how premium brands actually behave under category extension, pricing pressure and market entry. It is the studio's public record of thinking.
Strategic conversations begin with clarity.
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