Tenet Partners wins premier awards for its evolution of the Bluetooth® brand

New York, NY (October 9, 2025) – Tenet Partners, a leading brand and strategy consultancy, has been recognized with three 2025 Transform Awards North America for its collaboration with Bluetooth® to evolve the organization’s brand.

The brand evolution earned recognition for excellence in both strategy and design, earning:

  • Silver – Best Brand Development Project to Reflect a Change of Mission, Values or Positioning
  • Bronze – Best Brand Evolution (Corporate)
  • Bronze – Best Visual Identity from the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Sector

The awards, given by Transform Magazine, honor the very best work in the field and are one of the largest awards competitions in the industry and the only awards program in the region to celebrate the transformative power of rebranding and brand development.

The Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group), the not-for-profit that oversees the development of Bluetooth technology standards and the licensing of Bluetooth technologies and trademarks, was looking to redefine its brand and reflect the breadth of its application to connect not only consumer, but also commercial and industrial users.

On the foundation of the powerful the Bluetooth name and logo, used by more than three billion people globally, Tenet Partners helped Bluetooth articulate a renewed purpose and positioning while evolving the iconic identity for the next generation of connectivity.

“Bluetooth is one of the most recognized brands in the world, and this project demonstrates the power of strategic evolution to embrace new futures,” said Hampton Bridwell, CEO of Tenet Partners. “We’re proud to have worked alongside this iconic brand to express its remarkable purpose with clarity and confidence.”

“They challenged us on our assumptions and delivered results that exceeded our expectations,” said David Hollander, Vice President, Marketing, Bluetooth SIG. “We saw a 12x increase in engagement across social channels during the launch period. If you’re willing to bring Tenet into the heart of your process, they’ll bring insight, creativity and momentum that you can’t get elsewhere and will move your brand forward. We’re thrilled the Transform Awards has also recognized the impact of our work.”

About Tenet Partners

Founded 50 years ago and headquartered in New York City, Tenet Partners is one of the leading brand strategy firms in the United States. Tenet operates at the intersection of insight and foresight, giving business leaders and marketers the power to bridge to new futures through imagination and creativity. With predictive brand techniques that span research, analytics, strategy, design and digital, Tenet helps its clients dimensionalize the businesses they’re building to capitalize on new opportunity and turn visions into reality. www.tenetpartners.com

Read the case study.

About the Bluetooth SIG

Formed in 1998, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the not-for-profit membership organization that oversees Bluetooth® technology, the most widely deployed wireless standard in the world. The Bluetooth SIG is a unique blend of an international standards development organization, product certification body, patent and trademark license administrator, and industry trade association. In partnership with its more than 40,000 member companies, the Bluetooth SIG is continually enhancing the technology to redefine what is possible using wireless communication. www.bluetooth.com

For more information

Jessica McHie
Business Development and Marketing
Tenet Partners
+ 1 212 329-3166
jmchie@tenetpartners.com

###

Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Repositioning one of the world’s most impactful technology brands

Bluetooth is like air—invisible, yet essential

Bluetooth is one of the best-known and most trusted wireless technologies in the world, found in billions of devices and myriad applications. It is everywhere, and an essential part of today’s world.

The familiar Nordic rune symbol of the Bluetooth logo is instantly recognizable. What’s less well known is the global organization behind the technology—the Bluetooth SIG—working behind the scenes to protect and advance Bluetooth as a universal standard for wireless connectivity.

Tenet Partners helped put the Bluetooth SIG on a course to change that in 2025, with a multiple award-winning rebrand.

Protecting the Bluetooth brand while taking it in a new direction

When one of the world’s most iconic brands needs to go in a new direction, it creates a tough challenge: How to take something of immense value and advance it without losing what makes it great.

The need to change was driven by new uses for Bluetooth technology. Long associated with consumer devices and audio, Bluetooth technology is now found in unexpected places including building systems, locator tags, medical devices, retail and industrial settings. The world of Bluetooth has changed, and that called for a new story.

Shifting the focus of the Bluetooth brand

Working in close collaboration with the Bluetooth SIG, Tenet Partners uncovered the true meaning of Bluetooth technology: world-changing impact and empowerment for consumers, commercial users and the thousands of device manufacturers around the world that are members of the Bluetooth SIG. This change from the existing emphasis on technology features and functionality to the experiences that Bluetooth creates gave the familiar Bluetooth name and symbol a new meaning.

Connection is the Bluetooth brand’s unifying idea

As the team worked together, resonant ideas rose to the surface. That like air, Bluetooth is everywhere—invisible, yet something that connects and strengthens us all. That through the essential connection that Bluetooth technology provides, the world can be made better.

Creating a new atmosphere for Bluetooth

These ideas were the inspiration for what was to follow: a powerfully evocative and flexible visual and verbal identity, with atmospheric and connective elements unlike anything Bluetooth had seen before.

The brand’s feel and tone also shifted, from a functional and engineering-oriented expression towards a higher-order, more experiential one that casts Bluetooth in a whole new light.

A re-energized Bluetooth, ready for the future

The new Bluetooth is a launching point that brings fresh energy to the brand to energize and guide SIG members, staff, and the entire Bluetooth community—together, creating a better world through connection.

Headquarters 11 West 42nd Street
Penthouse Floors 31/32
New York, NY 10036
212 329-3030

Boston
Columbus
Los Angeles

A hexagon-shaped badge from Clutch, with the text 'Top Branding Company' on top and '2024' on the bottom