Designing a Brand Hierarchy We all know the recession has drastically impacted consumer behaviors‚ but we may often overlook its direct impact on brands themselves. The recession has changed the way marketers manage their brand portfolios as they try to do more with less. As such‚ marketers are taking a closer look at how then can stretch existing brand equity across a greater number of products‚ often taking a parent brand/sub-brand approach. We generally see four different sub-brand approaches
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Brand Extensions are an important brand growth strategy The popularity of ‘Brand extensions’ rose since 1990s‚ with the increase in competition and the high costs of developing new brands (Chernatony & McDonald‚ 2002). This concept has been derived by marketers to optimize sales and profits by launching new or modified products under the parent brand name. In definition ‘Brand extension’ is using the leverage of a well-known brand name in one category to launch a new product in a different category
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customer’s brand loyalty on the basis of brand attitudes towards a specific product depends on the product’s relevant benefits provided by the company‚ the brand’s perceived ability to provide the benefits as well as on the uniqueness of the product. Beauty soap is a necessary product. Customers purchase the product normally for skin friendliness‚ less use of quantity‚ anti-bacteria etc. benefits. Some beauty soaps including Lux‚ Meril‚ Keya are available in Bangladesh. All of these brands are exposed
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CHOOSING BRAND ELEMENTS TO BUILD BRAND EQUITY Brand elements‚ sometimes called brand identities‚ are those trademarkable devices that serve to identify and differentiate the brand. The main brand elements are brand names‚ URLs‚ logos‚ symbols‚ characters‚ spokespeople‚ slogans‚ jingles‚ packages‚ and signage. Independent o f the decisions made about the product and how it is marketed‚ brand elements can be chosen in a manner to build as much brand equity as possible. That is‚ according to the customer-based
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The Impact of Brand Personality on Brand-Aroused Feelings Dr Karen Miller School of Management and Marketing‚ University of Southern Queensland‚ Toowoomba‚ QLD‚ Email: Miller@usq.edu.au Brand managers are increasingly using brand personality to differentiate and uniquely position their brand without really knowing its effects. This study begins to addresses this gap by examining the effects of brand personality on brand-aroused feelings across the product categories of sport shoes‚ mobile phones
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Brand identity specifies the facets of brands’ uniqueness and value. The common element sending a single message amid the variety of products‚ actions and communications. Brand positioning is the main difference creating preference in a specific market at a specific time for its products. For existing brands‚ identity is the source of positioning‚ or the angle used by the products of that brand to attack a market in order to grow their market share at the expense of competition. What is the organisation’s
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Proposal & Literature Review By Maria Kohutova Future Brand of Slovakia An investigation of perception of Slovakia as a tourist destination in UK Supervisor Giles Forbes Submission: 22. April 2010 * Research Proposal Research topic ‘Future Brand of Slovakia - An investigation of perception of Slovakia as a tourist destination in UK’ is the name of research topic. Reason for choice and aims Nowadays the building of brand is a one of the most popular trends‚ included: branding of
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After our topic was chosen‚ we had to choose three brands that we felt the general public have heard of and have purchased these sneakers. Our brands were Nike‚ Adidas and Puma. Once we had our brands‚ we had to discuss our objectives and from which company’s perspective were we conducting research for. We chose the brand Nike‚ as it has one of the most recognized symbols in the world. Our research was conducted as though we were working for the brand manager of Nike‚ in an approach to analyze Nike’s
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BRAND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND THE ROLE OF BRAND ACQUISITIONS A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Interdepartmental Program in Business Administration (Marketing) by Yana Kuzmina B.S.‚ Moscow State Technical University (Russia)‚ 2001 M.B.A.‚ Southeast Missouri State University‚ 2004 August‚ 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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people say brand‚ the brands that come to mind straight away would be Coca-Cola‚ Nike or even Versace. The dictionary defines a brand as ‘a kind or variety of something distinguished by some distinctive characteristic’. However‚ in marketing terms it is defined as ‘a name‚ term‚ sign‚ symbol or design‚ or a combination of these‚ intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or group of sellers of a product or service’ (Kotler‚ Brown‚ Adam‚ Burton‚ Armstrong‚ 2007). A brand can be defined
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