of Company Gap‚ Inc. is an apparel retailer consisting of five brands: Gap‚ Banana Republic‚ Old Navy‚ Piperlime and Athleta. The Gap was founded in the early 1970’s for a period sold Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans. Gap entered the international markets in the late 1980’s and reached the peak of its success in the 1990’s. Gap was the largest pure apparel company in the world‚ with a growing international empire and significant brand recognition for each of its companies. However Gap’s period
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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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formats. 47% of global respondents agreed that humorous ads resonated the most. But when I started writing this post about using humor in marketing campaigns it struck me that it hasn’t been done that often or that well by brands. It is especially true for the B2B brands. So it stands reason that the few companies that have nailed it stand out far above the crowd. What can we learn from their successful blend of comedy and sales? Cisco Tim Washer is the creator of Cisco’s ‘The Perfect Gift
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other. The fairly new‚ and steadily rising name of the Brand Ambassador is now the epitome of many product lines. GC Marketing Services states‚ “a capable Brand Ambassador should be the walking and talking embodiment of the product that they are representing‚” (Cicchetti‚ 2011). What does a Brand Ambassador do exactly? Many of us might depict one as a celebrity endorsing a product. You might recall famous athletes as sponsors of name brand shoes‚ clothes‚ cars‚ etc. You might think they are similar
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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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2.0 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND BRAND PERSONALITY A brand personality can be defined as the set of human characteristics associated with a given brand. Thus it includes such characteristics as gender‚ age‚ and socioeconomic class‚ as well as such classic personality traits as warmth‚ concern and sentimentality. Brand Personality like human personality‚ is both distinctive and enduring. For example‚ one analysis found Coke to be considered real and authentic whereas Pepsi was
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Founded in 1907 by French chemist Eugene Schueller‚ who developed an improved and innovative hair dye called Aureole‚ L’Oreal has become a multi-brand‚ multi-billion dollar company in the last century. Today‚ L’Oreal boasts twenty-five global brands and claims €17 billion of consolidated sales in 2007 (L’Oreal). In addition to the L’Oreal brand‚ other popular brands include Garnier‚ Maybelline‚ Lancome‚ Georgio Armani‚ Ralph Lauren‚ Redken and Diesel (Adage). L’Oreal was ranked sixteenth in the U.S
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Pacific Brands is Australasia’s leading manufacturer and wholesaler of apparel and home and sporting consumer brands including Berlei‚ Bonds‚ Clarks‚ Dunlop‚ Everlast‚ Grosby‚ Holeproof‚ Hush Puppies‚ King Gee‚ Slazenger‚ Sleepmaker and Tontine. Pacific Brands has substantial scale with sale of $A1.5billion and 7000 employees‚ and was the second largest MBO completed in Australia at the time of completion. ‘Catalyst Investment Pty Ltd 2010 case study‚ Pacific Brands Nov 2001 to April 2004’ Globalisation
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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 Analysis 1. What product/brand have you selected? - I have selected Maybelline Volum’ Express mascara for my product to analyze. Purchase Decisions 2. What is the thought process that you go through when you purchase that brand? - When I purchase this particular mascara‚ I begin to look at all of the different types of mascara that they have… I think to myself‚ do I want the length‚ waterproof or not waterproof. Then I begin to look at the prices. 3. Is this a high involvement decision
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