What is Brand? American Marketing Association defines Brand as "Name‚ term‚ symbol‚ sign‚ or design or a combination of them‚ intended to identify a seller or a group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competitors". Thus a brand identifies the seller or maker. A brand is a complex symbol that can convey up to six levels of meaning viz. Attributes‚ Benefits‚ Values‚ Culture‚ personality and User. Scott Davis suggests visualizing a Brand Pyramid in constructing the image of brand
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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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February 2014 ProQuest Table of contents 1. Discordant retail brand ideology in the House of Barbie.............................................................................. 1 Bibliography...................................................................................................................................................... 23 12 February 2014 ii ProQuest Document 1 of 1 Discordant retail brand ideology in the House of Barbie Author: McGrath‚ Mary Ann; Sherry
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Factors behind the brand switching in telecom industry The issue of Customer’s switching to other service providers have been the cause of intensive research from many years now and have given rise to many theories.Due to the increased competition in the telecommunication industry it has become extremely important for the companies to pay attention towards retaining of the customers.This research study particularly investigated the causes of customer switching behavior.A prolific way to gain the
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Background Yum Brands Incorporated is the world’s largest fast-food‚ or quick-service restaurant (QSR)‚ company in terms of restaurants‚ which numbered over 37‚000 at the end of 2010. It currently operates five restaurant chains‚ but by the end of 2011‚ that number will decrease to three: KFC‚ Pizza Hut‚ and Taco Bell. The remaining two chains‚ A&W and Long John Silver’s‚ will be sold in the 4th quarter of 2011 to companies formed by their franchise holders. As of November‚ 2011‚ Yum is in the
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Best v Worst Brands From the statistics gathered from the research group and the surveys‚ we have concluded that Nike is the best brand and the Reebok is considered to be the worse brand. For the consumers‚ it was not the feel or the style of the shoe that was the reasoning for the dislike in the product‚ it was the lack of promotions and the lack of competition it gave the marketing giant known as Nike. Many felt that they never knew when new Reebok products were being released and they were not
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Answers are hi-lighted yellow. Company A’s nationally advertised brand is Brand X. Contribution to profit with Brand X is $40 per case. Company A’s re-proportioned formula is sold under a private label Brand Y. Contribution to profit with Brand Y is $30 per case. Company A’s objective is to maximize the total contribution to profit. Three constraints limit the number of cases of Brand X and Brand Y that can be produced. Constraint 1: The available units of nutrient C (n) is 30. Constraint 2:
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CONCEPT OF BRAND COMMUNITY: BUILDING COMMITMENT IN THE CHARITY SECTOR ABSTRACT The paper introduces a model of brand community development that is extended to the nonprofit sector; a sector that has just recently begun to embrace relationship marketing. It is believed that brand communities represent a unique form of relationship marketing‚ with benefits that are particularly compelling for nonprofits. Indeed‚ the paper reveals that many of the characteristics of brand communities
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Legal Why joint R esearch indicates that almost 70% of all joint ventures fail. Joint ventures (or JVs)—whereby two or more parties combine their resources in a joint business undertaking—can be a great way for start-up and established companies alike to obtain needed money or expertise‚ introduce new products or services to an existing market or bring existing products and services to a new market. So why do these relationships have such an alarmingly high failure rate? And what can you do
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Kapferer’s Brand-Identity Prism model Type of model: Author(s): Domain: Brand model (structure model) J.N. Kapferer Identity and image Figure 1: Six dimensions of brand identity In his so-called Brand Identity Prism‚ Jean-Noël Kapferer identifies six aspects of brand identity: (1) physique‚ (2) personality‚ (3) culture‚ (4) relationship‚ (5) reflection and (6) self-image. These six aspects are divided over two dimensions: a. The constructed source vs. the constructed receiver: a well-presented
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