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Sports Apparel Industry

ProLaps

Performance Wear for Peak Leonida.

Product Category
Sports and Activewear
The kit for the person who does sport, is about to do sport, or wants to look like they did sport recently.
Brand Name
Inadvisable and Committed
The name has been flagged by three separate marketing consultants. The brand has retained it on each occasion.
Market Position
Mid-Range Sportswear
Between the Binco basics and the luxury end. The Vice City gym-to-street category.
Real-World Parody
Nike

Leonida Profile

ProLaps is the sports brand of Leonida. The name is the immediate conversation. The brand is aware. The brand named itself ProLaps knowing what it sounds like and has never issued a statement addressing this. The Vice City marketing team either thought very hard about it or not at all, and the outcome of either is the same product.

The performance apparel range covers everything from gym basics to the kind of technical outerwear that Vice City marathon runners wear while running past Horny's and looking at the menu. The quality is above Binco, which is the standard the customer checks before purchasing.

ProLaps branding appears at Vice City sporting events alongside Buff Beer, which creates a visual pairing that communicates something specific about the Leonida relationship between fitness and drinking. The brand has not addressed this adjacency. The events continue to feature both.

Visual Impact Log

Trailer 1
ProLaps storefront in a Vice City commercial area. Sportswear display in the window. The name legible on the fascia from the pavement.
Trailer 2
ProLaps sponsorship at a Vice City running event. Branded barriers at the start line. Buff Beer branding adjacent on the same structure.

Market Ecosystem