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Stanley Black & Decker is a Fortune 500 American manufacturer of industrial tools and household hardware with a roster of world recognized brands such as STANLEY®, DEWALT®, CRAFTSMAN®, BLACK+DECKER, and IRWIN®. The company puts special emphasis on driving breakthrough innovation and digital excellence across their entire business – a mindset that has infiltrated their sports sponsorship team.
Through their multinational partnerships, they strive to extend the power and impact of their brands to their fans and audiences around the globe by utilizing partnerships to increase brand awareness, brand affinity and influence sales.
But until about two years ago, Stanley Black & Decker’s sponsorship team relied on partner reports and did not have any performance data on their own to determine how successful their sponsorship partners did.
They turned to Relo Metrics in order to get sponsorship intelligence so they could see exactly how much value their sponsorships generated across linear broadcast and digital platforms in real-time, and in turn, to ensure their sponsorship performance was aligned with their broader business objectives. With Relo Metrics, Stanley Black & Decker is able to more effectively collaborate with and maximize their rights holder partnerships throughout the season.
The company now uses a highly agile, insight-driven approach to sponsorship measurement, allowing them to:
Here’s how the sponsorship team achieved this.
Stanley Black & Decker has sponsorship assets all over the world, from the Pitch Level LED signage at FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium to the spoilers on Kalitta Motorsports’ drag cars.
In each of those cases, though, the company had to rely on end-of-season reports in order to better understand how their assets were performing.
They wanted their own insights so they could spot opportunities and have effective conversations with partners around makegoods and optimizations.
Stanley Black & Decker’s sponsorship team reached out to Relo because they wanted to leverage the near-real-time insights the Relo Metrics platform can deliver.
Those insights gave them a holistic view of their sponsorship performance across many partners, assets and media channels, all in one central location. With Relo Metrics, Stanley Black & Decker immediately gained access to:
“Using Relo’s platform to first identify the issue, we were able to work with the team to shift the positioning of our signage, saving us $1.3M in potentially lost sponsor media value. If we had not been using the Relo platform, we may have missed this opportunity.”
Tony Merritt, VP of Marketing Sponsorships at Stanley Black & Decker
For the past 2 years and counting, Stanley Black & Decker’s sponsorships team has been able to more effectively justify and expand their investments, maximize partnerships and create order within their own department. In many cases, the Relo platform has even helped them save money by tracking activations in near-real time so that they could increase spend in high-performing areas and move money out of low-performing areas.
By tracking and optimizing the media value equivalency over time, the company has been able to increase sponsorship performance year over year.
An example of how this works comes from the company’s investment in signage with teams in the English Premier League. At one team’s stadium, Stanley Black & Decker had placed a DEWALT® logo on a Static Board behind the goal. However, due to camera angle change, the goal posts were obscuring the logo, which was spotted by reviewing Broadcast images within Relo Metrics’ platform.
“Using Relo’s platform to first identify the issue, we were able to work with the team to shift the
positioning of our signage, saving us $1.3M in potentially lost sponsor media value. If we had not been
using the Relo platform, we may have missed this opportunity.” says Tony Merritt, VP of Marketing
Sponsorships at Stanley Black & Decker.
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