Presenting our new brand — Sber, the brand uniting a universe of services

Our company’s mission remains unchanged: to inspire confidence and reliability, making people’s lives better, helping them realize their aspirations and dreams.

Today’s Sber is a whole universe of services for human life and businesses, which helps us accomplish our mission.

Only yesterday Sber was just a bank, while today we’re becoming an assistant helping people deal with their vital tasks. Every day. And that is why our widely known motto “Sber.Always there for you!” is relevant more than ever.

Why do we change? To stay close and useful, we need to do more than just respond to people’s current needs. We want to go where new needs arise. So that something that is not obvious today could become a daily habit tomorrow. And that is why we are entering new industries. We make them more convenient, more familiar, and more accessible. We strive for the comfort of every person, the success of every business that is our customer. Therefore, yet another slogan of ours and one of the pillars of our new positioning is also the motto Sber.For Life.

We need a new brand for our new role in human lives. Sber is the one.

The Sber brand has evolved significantly. The ecosystem’s umbrella logo presented today had earlier been successfully used for services like SberMarket, SberCloud, SberAuto, SberHealth, SberLogistics, and SberFood to receive a warm welcome from our customers.

Thus, nearly all Sberbank ecosystem services are have been united under one recognizable umbrella brand, Sber.

The new logo reflects a certain continuity with the previous corporate identity. However, now the two main elements (the incomplete circle and the branded check mark) embody the idea of new opportunities, with the check mark symbolizing a radar, which stands for searching and creating new things, and a clock-face, symbolizing time saving and filling it with meaningful matters. At the same time, the logo is perceived as a sign of confirmation and task completion through the Check sign (“done”) that is recognizable in the digital world. The color gradient transition symbolizes the idea of diversity of the ecosystem offerings.

Sberbank embarked on designing its new brand and corporate identity in 2017-2018 when the company set course for building an ecosystem and faced the need to reflect the changes in its corporate design.

The rebranding has been done in partnership with international branding agency Landor & Fitch and with active participation of Russian design studios Shuka, Paratype, Superdesigners, Media.Work, etc.

Further injections into the new brand adoption will be made within the next few years. No radical investments for these purposes are planned. During phase one, all our digital and electronic channels and web sites will change, ATMs will be replaced as they are aging, signs at branches will be replaced within a few years. The current plastic cards will be valid until their expiration date without additional costs. Printed materials will also be replaced with new ones when the need arises.

Even advertising will be focused on promoting our new and current products and services as much as possible. Image advertising is not set to receive substantial injections. The only significant additional investment is the replacement of roof constructions across our key branches in large cities. Our rough estimate for the introduction of the new brand in addition to our regular efforts stands at about RUB2.5 bn within the next five to six years.

Sber Chief Design Officer Anastasia Butrym said: “In the modern world, an entity’s design language is fundamentally important, so our goal was to create a style that would reflect the innovative nature of our services and products and be familiar at the same time. The new brand style was created from a large number of meticulously designed details, each playing a role in building emotional connection with our customers.”

Sberbank is Russia’s largest bank and a leading global financial institution. Sberbank holds almost one-third of aggregate Russian banking sector assets, it is the key lender to the national economy and the biggest deposit taker in Russia. The Government of the Russian Federation represented by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation is the principal shareholder of Sberbank owning 50% plus one voting share of the bank’s authorized capital, with the remaining 50% minus one share held by domestic and international investors. Sberbank has customers in 18 countries. Sberbank has the largest distribution network in Russia with about 14,000 branches, while its international operations – subsidiary banks, branches, and chapters – include the UK, US, CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, India, China, and other countries. The bank holds general banking license No. 1481 issued by the Bank of Russia.

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