1. Outline several factors attributable to the strong brand equity of Swiss Army. 2. How is Swiss Army capitalizing on its brand equity with products and brand extension? 3. What are some of the potential problems for channels of distribution associated with the prospect of Swiss Army stores? Is the probability of these problems high? 1. Factors attributable to the strong brand equity of Swiss Army • Reputation of Switzerland for making high quality products • Good and consistent quality‚
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the company Swiss Army is an illustration of a company that has developed by basing its product expansion on established brand equity. The brand has its roots in its history of knife development from the 1800s. The knife became wildly accepted in the United States when soldiers brought the knives back at the end of World War II. Swiss Army has a strong worldwide reputation built on quality and reliability with 92% brand awareness in the United States alone. Leveraging
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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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Introduction Indomie is one famous brand of instant noodle in Indonesia is produced by PT. Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk.‚ The first time Indomie hits the market was on 1970‚ people doubted that selling instant noodle as one of the staple food in Indonesia‚ but the company proved the people’s judgements were wrong (www.indomie.com). Indomie accounted for approximately 37% of net sales and 39% of income from operations in 1999. The Company produces a wide range of instant noodle products with prices
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UNDERSTANDING BRAND EQUITY ANSWERS TO TEN COMMON BRANDING QUESTIONS Kevin Lane Keller Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College UNDERSTANDING BRAND EQUITY ANSWERS TO TEN COMMON BRANDING QUESTIONS One of the most popular and potentially important marketing topics to arise in the 1980 ’s was the concept of brand equity. The emergence of brand equity‚ however‚ has meant both "good news" and "bad news." The good news is that it has raised the importance of the brand in marketing strategy --
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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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Creating Brand Equity GENERAL CONCEPT QUESTIONS Multiple Choice 1. At the heart of a successful brand is ________‚ backed by creatively designed and executed marketing. a. price b. promotion c. a great product or service d. a great slogan e. a brand concept Answer: c Page: 273 Level of difficulty: Easy 2. The strategic branch management process involves four main steps. Which of the following would NOT be among those steps? a. Measuring consumer brand knowledge
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Brand equity has become a very strong part for every product. Brand equity refers to the marketing effects or outcomes that accrue to a product with its brand name compared with those that would accrue if the same product did not have the brand name and‚ at the root of these marketing effects is consumers ’ knowledge. In other words‚ consumers ’ knowledge about a brand makes manufacturers/advertisers respond differently or adopt appropriately adept measures for the marketing of the brand. Brand
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Brand equity Brand equityis a phraseused in the marketing industry which describe the value of having a well-known brand name‚ based on the idea that the owner of a well-known brand name can generate more money from products with that brand name than from products with a less well known name‚ as consumers believe that a product with a well-known name is better than products with less well known names.[1][2][3][4] Another word for "brand equity" is "brand value". Some marketing researchers have
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the top of the global brands with an estimate value of &78 billion. IBM has closely behind with 71$ billion. Despite those two businesses have totally different of business nature‚ these two firms have a significant common characteristic which is the value of their brand is extremely high. However‚ the value of branding isn’t only reveal in those two firms but the entire market has the common factors which are the most successful firm always has a high value of their brand. Branding is one of the
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