MNC BRAND AND PRODUCT PROFILE Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlours founded by Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins in the year 1953. It is the largest franchise with more than 6000 locations in 35 countries. Its major markets are located in UK with 2800 outlets and in Japan with 800 outlets. Its headquarters is in Massachusetts USA. Baskin-Robbins is the King in ice cream marketing; they created a unique positioning for its brand by introducing interesting new flavors. They allow
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Editor’s Introduction: Brand Management Francesca Dall’Olmo Riley Introduction The study of brands and brand management has historically attracted a great deal of interest among practitioners and academics. Early‚ seminal research on brands includes the studies by Gardner and Levy (1955)‚ Levy (1959)‚ Martineau (1959) and Allison and Uhl (1964). Since then‚ the number of brand related journal articles and of brand management books have increased exponentially‚ particularly in the last 20
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reproduced without written permission from the author. Brand awareness and brand image Chuck Chakrapani Building brand equity To build brand equity‚ we need to start with the building blocks of brand equity. They include brand awareness‚ and brand image or the associations that a brand evokes. Brand awareness Brand awareness has two components: breadth and depth. Let us first consider depth . While a consumer may be aware of many brands‚ all brands are not equal in terms of awareness. The depth of
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Page Introduction 3 What is Brand Equity? Role of Brands The Scope of Branding Theoretical Perspectives 4 Brand Equity Models Brand Asset Valuator Brand Resonance Pyramid Building Brand Equity Measuring Brand Equity Managing Brand Equity Conclusion
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Brand Equity A brand represents a “name‚ term‚ sign‚ symbol‚ or design‚ or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition.” Without a recognizable brand‚ a product is but a mere commodity. It’s more than just a name‚ term‚ symbol‚ etc. – a brand is everything that one company’s particular offering stands for in comparison to other brands in a cate-gory of competitive products. As the value
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Brand Wars "To be‚ or not to be: that is the question" To rise as the new prodigy or to remain imbecile - An issue churning in the minds of all the ’brand owners’. Brand Wars have been going on for decades but it has taken a completely new outlook in the recent years. The fierce battle between brands of the same genre continues as one tries to rise over the others as superior to lead the market. Looking back at the 70’s we can see the brawl between the two highly popular brands Pepsi and Coca-Cola
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AN ANALYSIS OF BRAND SWITCHING BEHAVIOUR SUBMITTED BY ABSTRACT: A proposed integrative approach measured consumer response to various incentives to switch brands. The response measure consisted of both actual behavior (i.e.‚ switching behavior) and an evaluative measure‚ which underlies the behavior. Self-perception theory was utilized to assess consumer switching behavior in response to intrinsic versus extrinsic motives. The integrative approach
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Brand Loyalty One of the most desirable traits that marketers would like to see in the consumers they are positioning their product towards is loyalty to their brand. Brand loyalty can be defined as “the extent of the faithfulness of consumers to a particular brand‚ expressed through their repeat purchases‚ irrespective of the marketing pressure generated by the competing brands.” (Business Dictionary‚ 2012) An expression of brand loyalty from consumers can help companies to experience significant
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Process Why do you buy the things you do? How did you decide to go to the college you’re attending? Where do like to shop and when? Do your friends shop at the same places or different places? Marketing professionals want to know the answers to these questions. They know that once they do have those answers‚ they will have a much better chance of creating and communicating about products that you and people like you will want to buy. That’s what the study of consumer behavior is all about. Consumers
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Multiple Choice 1. Ikea‚ the Swedish furniture chain‚ insists that all its stores carry the basic product line with little room for adaptation to local tastes. If research of the U.S. market showed that Americans preferred larger beds than their Swedish counterparts‚ which of the following strategies would be advisable to Ikea? a. standardization. b. new product development. c. adaptation. d. withdraw from market. e. lower prices to encourage
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