We build brands with soul.

5forests is an award winning digital marketing agency working with independent lifestyle and luxury brands. We help passionate brands achieve audacious goals with a customer-first approach to growth and communication. And we have the strategy and technology chops to help our clients flourish.

If you are looking for a marketing partner who can unlock your business potential, we would love to know you.

Lush oil painting of table covered in green velvet tablecloth and ripe pomegranates, grapes, stone fruit, oysters, and gourds. — Abraham Mignon, “Fruits and oysters”, 1660-1679, adapted. Original from The Rijksmuseum.

Your job: delight your customers.

You wake up with the sun each day to pour your heart into a dream. To produce your life’s work, carry on your family’s heritage. To share your story, and make the world a little more beautiful. Funny, it’s not that much different from what we do.

5forests is globally-recognized for our work with the wine, food, travel, and luxury sectors. We support lifestyle businesses who are ready to embrace new possibilities and transform your bottom line. We know that pretty pictures mean nothing if they don’t help you grow. And we bring strong data, expert knowledge, and strategic understanding to your project.

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Fine art painting of fat man in a chair dressed in brown velvets. He has a broad smile and holds a jug of wine and a sword.

Wine, Beer & Spirits

Illustrated garden with rows of plantings, red roofs, and precise walkways. Bordered by columns of flowers.

Travel & Tourism

Illustration of dark red plums in two stacked columns

Food & Beverage

Two panels of fabric design. Top panel is red and orange flowers atop green and black leaves, on a bright orange background. Bottom panel is red and black flowers with green and blue leaves on white background.

Sustainable Luxury

abstract watercolor painting in blacks, yellows, purples and greens.

Sustainable Finance & Law

“5forests exceeds my expectations every day. I feel like I’m their only client—even though I know I’m not.”
— Janie Brooks Heuck, Managing Director, Brooks Wine

horizontal cross section of painting featuring overlapping circles, squares, and triangles in pinks, reds, blues, greens, and yellows — Ukranian artist Joseph Schillinger, Area Broken by Perpendiculars, 1934 (adapted). Original from The Smithsonian Institution.

Our job: help you achieve your goals.

Ecommerce here, insights there, analytics, newsletters, social media, digital advertising, search engine optimization… how are today’s independent brands supposed to stay informed and find the time to tackle the ever-increasing demands of online growth? It’s just not possible.

5forests helps lifestyle brands adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of today’s digital experience. By combining well-informed strategy with powerful insights, our approach to digital marketing services enhances customer experience, optimizes channel performance, and ultimately leads to greater revenue and profits.

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Deep space photo of opalescent nebula with irregular orange and red borders. The near-infrared image shows a bright white star with eight long diffraction spikes at the center. A large transparent teal oval surrounds the central star. Several red shells surround the teal oval, extending almost to the edges of the image. The red layers, which are wavy overall, look like they have very thin straight lines piercing through them.

Strategy

Painting of American farmer and his wife. He is holding a pitchfork and looking directly at painter. She is wearing a brown dress with cameo brooch, facing slightly toward farmer.

Marketing

Series of electric tube illustrations, green with bright red-orange accents.

Technology

“Working with Polly and her team at 5forests has been a game changer for us.”
— Pauline Vicard, ARENI Global

Print shows bird's-eye view of Beaumont's Bleroit monoplane arriving in Rome during the Paris-Rome air race, 1911. Illustrated in graphic novel style. — Gamy, Paris–Rome. Beaumont le gagnant sur monoplan Blériot, moteur Gnome, magneto Bosch, 1911. Original from Library of Congress.

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“The website paid for itself in a month.”
— Avi Leibzon, Sweet Wine Club

A unique 1/1 generative art created from the name of the 9th President William Henry Harrison. Character code values in the name were used to modulate circular bands along with unique generative algorithm to create this unique and beautiful art piece. — GenerativeArt, William Henry Harrison, 2022.

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“We look forward to continuing to grow and evolve with 5forests. We’re always looking for the next great thing we can do together.”
— Janie Brooks Heuck, Managing Director, Brooks Wine

Are you ready to grow, too?

Let us help. Contact us today.