International Growth Unit

We build
European
growth engines.

Ambitious brands don't hire six agencies to enter Europe. They hire one unit that owns the outcome.

European HQ
Netherlands
Delivery Hub
Poland
Operating since
2008

The brands scaling Europe with IGU

Xiaomi Roborock Dreame Amazfit Anker SOLIX Aiko
01 The Problem

Most brands don't fail in Europe. Their setup does.

Entering Europe usually means assembling a patchwork — PR here, media there, retail, influence, events, creative. Six vendors, six dashboards, six definitions of success.

Budgets buy presence. No one owns growth.

The result is visibility without velocity: spend that looks like progress and rarely becomes revenue.

Six vendors. Zero accountability.
02 The IGU Difference

A different contract with growth.

Traditional agency
  • Reports deliverables
  • Task-based execution
  • Local, one-off campaigns
  • Experiments on your brand
  • Optimises impressions
  • Owns activities
IGU — the growth unit
  • Owns outcomes
  • Strategy fused with execution
  • Global scaling frameworks
  • Proven, battle-tested playbooks
  • Optimises business growth
  • Owns your European P&L
We don't create campaigns. We create market positions.
We don't deliver marketing. We deliver market expansion.
We don't optimise impressions. We optimise growth.
We don't report activities. We own outcomes.
03 How We Work

One engine. Four movements.

01
Diagnose

We audit your real value in Europe against the IGU Index — nine variables, one baseline.

02
Design

Go-to-market strategy, positioning, and a KPI → budget → outcome model you can hold us to.

03
Build

Performance, retail, marketplace, PR, influence, events, creative and production — one team, one plan.

04
Own

Data, attribution and forecasting. Every quarter measured as real point growth on the Index.

Insight → Decision → Action → Result. A repeatable mechanic, not a blind shot.

04 Services

Every capability
European growth requires.

Replace six agencies with a single team that shares one KPI — yours. Deployed together, sequenced by strategy.

Strategy

The commercial thesis for winning Europe.

Market Entry

From zero to first revenue, structured and fast.

Brand Positioning

The place you own in the European mind.

Performance

Demand generation that converts to sales.

Retail

Shelf, space and experience across Europe.

Marketplace

Amazon and beyond, engineered to rank and sell.

PR

Reputation and narrative, market by market.

Influence

Creators who move consideration, not vanity.

Events

Launches and experiences that earn trust.

Creative

Ideas built on insight, not decoration.

Production

End-to-end delivery, on brand and on time.

Analytics

Attribution and forecasting that guide spend.

05 Selected Work

Proof, not ideas.

Xiaomi
Poland · 2020–2025

From price leader to premium icon. Over five years we shifted the narrative from spec sheets to emotion, photography and lifestyle — repositioning Xiaomi as the innovation and premium leader in its category.

The Iga Świątek partnership — timed to her rise — lent the brand mastery, precision and trust, and built one of the country's most engaged fan communities.

#1
premium category share*
3.0M+
engaged community*
5 yrs
of consistent narrative
Roborock
Retail experience · Poland

A network of branded exhibition zones across major shopping centres — translating smart-home innovation into something shoppers could touch, understand and want.

Concept, spatial design, production and on-site execution — owned end to end, tuned to local context.

Dreame

Smart-home category building and premium positioning.

Amazfit · Zepp

Wearables brand narrative for European consumers.

Anker SOLIX

Energy hardware go-to-market and demand generation.

Aiko

Solar technology brand entry across the region.

06 The Framework

The IGU Index.
Your new measure
of success.

Growth is not a coincidence. It's the result of nine variables we audit and optimise — a single, honest score for where your brand stands in Europe.

We calculate today's value, then define your KPI as real point growth over time. That's our goal — and your guarantee.

01
Recognition
02
Communication
03
Innovation
04
Strategy
05
Sales Potential
06
Competitiveness
07
Availability
08
Adaptation
09
Location
07 Where We Operate

Built where Europe does business.

European HQ
Netherlands B.V.

Our strategic and commercial home. Global contracts, partner relations, legal, compliance and finance — the gateway to Europe, English-first, connected to every market that matters.

  • Global contracts & partner relations
  • Legal, compliance & finance
  • Strategy & EU client ownership
Delivery Hub
Poland

Our engine room. Deep talent and efficient scale, plus a 20M+ consumer market that has proven APAC brands before — the place execution actually happens.

  • Creative & performance teams
  • Data & analytics
  • Production & operations
08 Manifesto — The Real OG

We know. So we don't guess.

01
No more tests.

You test when you don't know. We know. We deliver results — we don't learn on your business.

02
Presence is a cost. Growth is profit.

We're not here to be seen. We're here to sell.

03
Zero experiments on the brand.

Every move is earned by data — never by what's trendy.

04
Full responsibility.

We don't report clicks or reach. We answer for your growth.

05
If it can't be measured, it isn't worth doing.

Your KPI is our only oracle.

06
Execution over promises.

We don't just design the path. We build it and deliver on it.

07
Growth is a connected system.

Creativity, insight, local context and hard data — as one.

08
We eliminate chance.

A and B are the result of analysis, not a coin toss.

09
Process, not a blind shot.

Insight → Decision → Action → Result. Documented, repeatable.

10
Proven playbooks.

Battle-tested scenarios that have already brought real growth.

09 Questions
Are you an agency?+

No. Agencies sell activities. We're a growth unit — we take responsibility for a business outcome and run every function required to reach it, under one roof and one KPI.

What exactly do you own?+

Your European growth. We take the KPI, the budget, the execution and the outcome — and report against real movement on the IGU Index, not activity logs.

Do you replace our existing agencies?+

Usually, yes. One unit replaces the patchwork of PR, media, retail, influence, events and creative — with a single team accountable for the whole.

Which markets do you cover?+

Europe-first, across the region from our Netherlands HQ and Poland delivery hub. US expansion follows as a natural extension of the same engine.

Who do you work with?+

APAC brands scaling into Europe — consumer electronics, EV, AI, smart home and DTC hardware. Typically founders, CEOs, CMOs and expansion leaders.

How do we start?+

With an IGU Index audit. We calculate your current value in Europe, define the KPIs, and design the annual growth engine from there.

Let's talk

Ready to own Europe?

Tell us where you want to be in Europe. We'll show you the engine that gets you there.

hello@igu.eu
European HQ
Netherlands
Delivery Hub
Poland
IGUby Open Gate

The European growth unit for the world's most ambitious brands.

Offices
Netherlands — HQ Poland — Delivery
Contact
hello@igu.eu
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Appendix — for the build team, not the public site

Build & Growth Spec

Everything needed to ship this in Framer: sitemap, copy system, SEO, schema, motion, image prompts and component hierarchy. Illustrative metrics are marked with an asterisk (*) — swap for verified figures before launch.

01 · Sitemap & UX structure
/ (single-page)
  ├─ Nav (fixed, transparent → frosted on scroll)
  ├─ Hero — headline + dual CTA + HQ meta + image
  ├─ Capability marquee
  ├─ Trusted by (logo wall)
  ├─ 01 The Problem
  ├─ 02 The Difference (agency vs IGU)
  ├─ Statements (dark)
  ├─ 03 How We Work (4 steps)
  ├─ 04 Services (12-cell grid)
  ├─ 05 Case Studies (Xiaomi + Roborock + grid)
  ├─ 06 IGU Index (9 variables, dark)
  ├─ 07 Structure (NL HQ / PL hub)
  ├─ 08 Manifesto (dark, 10 principles)
  ├─ 09 FAQ
  ├─ Contact / CTA
  └─ Footer

Future pages: /work/[case], /about, /careers, /contact, /insights
02 · SEO
Title (≤60 char)
IGU — Your European Growth Unit for APAC Brands
Meta description (≤155 char)
IGU builds European growth engines for ambitious APAC brands. One unit for strategy, execution and outcomes — from our Netherlands HQ and Poland hub.
OG title / description
We build European growth engines. / Ambitious brands don't hire six agencies. They hire one unit that owns the outcome.
Primary keywords
European market entry, APAC brand expansion Europe, go-to-market agency Netherlands, growth partner for Chinese brands
03 · Schema.org (JSON-LD)
Organization → name, url, logo, foundingDate 2008, address (NL), sameAs
ProfessionalService → areaServed EU + US, serviceType "Market expansion"
FAQPage → mainEntity[] from the FAQ block
BreadcrumbList · WebSite (+ SearchAction)
CreativeWork / CaseStudy → per case (Xiaomi, Roborock)
04 · AI image prompts (per slot)
Hero: Editorial photograph of a European city at blue hour — glass-and-stone architecture, wet reflective streets, a single figure in motion, muted palette, deep shadows, 35mm, cinematic, no text.
Xiaomi: Premium consumer-tech still life meets lifestyle — flagship phone, Leica-grade product photography, warm natural light, minimal set, aspirational not flashy.
Roborock: Modern retail exhibition zone inside an upscale European mall — clean spatial design, smart-home devices displayed, shoppers softly blurred, architectural symmetry.
Netherlands: Rotterdam / Amsterdam business district — bold contemporary architecture, canals, overcast Northern light, restrained and confident.
Poland: Warsaw creative studio / production floor — people working, monitors and data, warm industrial interior, sense of craft and precision.
Direction for all: real photography, no stock clichés, no handshakes, no glowing dashboards, no startup tropes. Muted, editorial, premium. Reserve red for UI, not imagery.
05 · Motion & microinteractions
  • Scroll reveal: opacity 0→1 + 24px rise, 0.9s ease-out (cubic-bezier .16,1,.3,1), staggered 40–80ms per item.
  • Hero headline: line-by-line mask reveal on load; sub + CTAs follow with delay.
  • Nav: transparent → frosted white + hairline border after 24px scroll.
  • Capability marquee: infinite horizontal loop, pause on hover.
  • CTA hover: −2px lift + ink→red fill, 0.25s.
  • Difference / Index cells: hairline grid, cell background lifts on hover.
  • FAQ: native disclosure; +→× rotation, height ease.
  • Respect prefers-reduced-motion: disable transforms, keep opacity.
06 · Type, colour, spacing & mobile
Type
Display: Archivo Expanded 800 (or Neue Haas Grotesk Display / GT America for licensed builds).
Body: Archivo 400–600.
Editorial accent: Newsreader italic.
Colour
Ink #0B0B0C · Paper #FFFFFF · Bone #F4F1EA · Red #F04A2E. Red is an accent only — never a background wash.
Spacing
Section padding clamp(88–168px). Max width 1320px. Gutters clamp(20–64px). 8px base grid.
Mobile
Single column, grids collapse via auto-fit. Type scales with clamp(). Nav → compact + drawer. Tap targets ≥44px. Case images stack above copy.
07 · Component hierarchy & Framer notes
<Nav> · <Hero> { Eyebrow, DisplayHeading, Lead, CTAGroup, MetaStat[], MediaFrame }
<Marquee> · <LogoWall> · <SectionHeader> (index + label + H2, reused)
<CompareTable> { Column ×2 } · <StatementList> · <StepGrid> { StepCard[4] }
<ServiceGrid> { ServiceCard[12] } · <CaseFeature> { MediaFrame, Body, StatRow }
<CaseGrid> { CaseCard[] } · <IndexGrid> { IndexCell[9] } · <OfficeCard ×2>
<Manifesto> { Principle[10] } · <FAQ> { Disclosure[] } · <ContactBlock> · <Footer>
  • Build SectionHeader, ServiceCard, StepCard, IndexCell, Disclosure and StatItem as Framer components with variants + props.
  • Use Framer's Appear + Scroll effects for the reveal; a single Code Override for the marquee and nav scroll state.
  • Break points: Desktop 1320 / Tablet 810 / Phone 390. Set type + padding tokens as Framer variables.
  • Wire CTAs to a contact modal or Framer form; keep hello@igu.eu as fallback.