Vol. 2 (8)‚ 2012‚ 434-443 RESEARCH ARTICLE RESEARCH ARTICLE Brand Awareness and Customer Preferences for FMCG Products in Rural Market : An Empirical Study on the Rural Market of Garhwal Region 1 Anupam Jain and 2Meenakshi Sharma* ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the brand awareness in rural area and to study the interest of consumers in branded products of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). The brand awareness is showing increasing tendency everywhere and Garhwal Region
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original formula. While licensing agreements also aimed to specify how the Heineken brand should be marketed‚ Heineken could not influence how a licensee marketed its own brands. At the end of 1993‚ Heineken‚ being the market leader in Netherlands‚ was viewed as a mainstream brand. Outside the Netherlands‚ however‚ Heineken had consistently been marketed as a premium brand. Sales volume was declining and the brand image needed some revitalization. In January 1994‚ senior managers at Heineken headquarters
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dimensions of a nation brand will be explained and the overall strategies will be criticised by integrating Dordevic’s six dimensions into Switzerland. The paper will conclude with propounding suggestions towards the weakest dimension of branding Switzerland that is; culture and heritage. 1. LITERATURE REVIEW Fan (2010) defines the nation branding as an integrated mixture of export‚ place‚ political and cultural branding. All those components gather around and generate a nation brand. According to him
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The brand profile is a summary description which should quickly enable all those involved with the brand to understand who you are targeting‚ what you are offering‚ and how you wish to position the brand. Ideally it should be something you could put on a card and put on the desk of everyone involved in your business. The components of a brand profile are usually something like the following: Description of the solution/brand Benefits that customers will perceive from it Target market that will
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Brand Advertising as Creative Pubiicity ANDREW EHRENBERG South Bank University ehrenba@sbu.ac.uk NEIL BARNARD South Bank University RACHEL KENNEDY University of South Australia HELEN BLOOM Consultant HelenBloom@ compuserve.com Our view of brand advertising is that it mostly serves to publicize the advertised brand. Advertising seldom seems to persuade. Advertising in a competitive market needs to maintain the brand’s broad salience—being a brand the consumer buys or considers buying. This turns
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BRAND WARS: WHEN BIG BRANDS PLAY DIRTY “In business as in life‚ you don’t get what you deserve‚ you get what you negotiate.” Chester L Karrass. Today companies do not sell on the basis of their products. The features or benefits provided by the product is a small cog in the whole machine of the customer interaction process adopted by the company. The product sells on the basis of its power to convince customers‚ to appeal to customers and to attach a certain sentiment with the customers. This
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Brand Antecedents of true BrAnd LoyALty Jooyoung Kim‚ Jon d. Morris‚ and Joffre swait ABSTRACT: We examine a model of six latent constructs and propose that true brand loyalty can be explained as a result of five distinct antecedents: brand credibility‚ affective brand conviction‚ cognitive brand conviction‚ attitude strength‚ and brand commitment. Data from experimental conditions with manipulations of eight product classes and two involvement levels lend support for the proposed model‚ demonstrating
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was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay‚ Inc. PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to a broader range of food and beverage brands‚ the largest of which include an acquisition of Tropicana in 1998 and a merger with Quaker Oats in 2001—which added the Gatorade brand to its portfolio. As of January 2012‚ 22 of PepsiCo’s product lines generated retail sales of more than $1 billion each‚ and the company’s products were distributed across more than
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the major goals of marketing is reaching the brand loyalty phase to a customer. Brand loyalty would be the commitment of a consumer to continue purchasing and supporting the company/brand. Companies benefit from this because they have a constant customer who would spread the word about the company and will be willing to pay higher prices for a certain product or service. Brand Loyalty Most people if not everyone is loyal to a certain brand or service. When a company offers good customer
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IKEA has created a global brand focused on low prices and contemporary designs. In 2009‚ Interbrand ranked IKEA 28th on its list of the top 100 global brands (# 35 in 2008 indicating 10% increase in brand value over just year). IKEA’s success is attributed to its vast experience in the furniture retail market‚ its product differentiation and cost leadership. The brand Ikea has become iconic in consumers’ minds. CEO‚ Anders Dahlvig‚ states “the awareness of our brand is much bigger than the size of
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