Comme des Garçons Brands: A Cultural Perspective Lecturer: Jacob Östberg School of Business Stockholm University Individual take-home exam Anh Helge 3 June 2009 Introduction The current paper discusses how and why a particular brand functions as a cultural resource and how companies benefit from this brand functioning as a cultural resource. The brand selected for the discussion is the Japanese fashion line Comme des Garçons. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part defines
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UNILIVER BRAND EQUITY Strategic Brand Management Assignment Student ID: Table of Contents I/ INTRODUCTION 2 II/ Definition of brand equity 2 III/ BUIDING BRAND EQUITY 2 IV/ CUSTOMER BASED BRAND EQUITY 4 V/ BENEFITS OF BRAND EQUITY 5 V / CONCLUSION 6 APPENDICES 7 REFERENCES 10 I/ INTRODUCTION Brand equity is one of the important ideas in brand management‚ marketing‚ in business practice or academic research. Improving and properly creating brand equity has been focused problem for most
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"Brand positioning is an attempt to create and maintain a unique representation of the brand in customer’s mind‚ a representation that is expected to stimulate choice of that brand" (Rossiter‚ 2005‚ p.42). Positioning‚ in fact‚ refers to how customers think about different brands in a market. Through brand positioning a company attempts to build a sustainable competitive advantage on product attributes in the consumer’s mind. Nevertheless‚ developing a successful positioning strategy is not easy
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Product & Brand Management - case analysis Case: When New Products and Customer Loyalty Collide Submitted by Group - 8 Debabrata Panda – G14016 Ipsita Ghosh – G14020 Reddypalli Sudheer Reddy – G14043 PGDM-GM 2014-15 1 Background This is a classic case of implications of product line expansion leading to erosion of established customer base. Pacer Shoes is a $10 million shoe manufacturing company which is known for its technical excellence in running shoes. Its core customer base
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issues in the case. When expanding the brand globally‚ the existing methods and new methods need to ensure that brand image and core value must not be diluted by too generic target market or vague market position. When expanding the brand into different countries and regions‚ the competition within a specific location and competition between different locations are impossible to neglect. 2. What value propositions does Banyan Tree offer as an experiential brand? By leveraging the natural surroundings
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1.1 BUSINESS INDUSTRY OVERVIEW The fast food industry in Malaysia is saturated with players such as McDonalds‚ KFC‚ Wendy’s‚ Chili’s‚ Nandos and the like. The industry is relatively large in terms of the participating brands in fast food business. Fast food business is categorised according to the food served as well as their facilities and locations. There are restaurants selling specifically burgers‚ pizzas or only chicken‚ Mexican cuisine and many others. According the location‚ some restaurants
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INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW OF A BRAND The word ‘Brand’ has become a part of peoples’ basic vocabulary. The words’ meaning changes when it is used in different contexts. Sometimes it is a noun‚ as in “That is my brand of choice‚” and sometimes it is a verb‚ as in “Let’s brand this campaign.” It has become synonymous with the name of the company‚ the consumer’s experience of the company‚ the consumers experience of the company’s products and the consumer’s expectations. Brands are embedded in peoples’ daily
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Introduction BUSINESS INDUSTRY OVERVIEW The size of the retail industry in Malaysia is big in size as it covers most shops and markets. Malaysia is quite a big country with a sizeable population that forms the perfect customer base that supports business industry. The industry is categorised according to the size‚ location and the types of products offered. According to size‚ there are convenient stores‚ shops‚ supermarkets and hypermarkets. Location wise‚ there are retail outlets and departmental
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Brand Comparisons on Carlsberg and Heineken A Brief Induction of Carlsberg and Heineken Carlsberg is the world ’s fourth largest brewing group ‚ founded in 1847 ‚ is headquartered in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. Carlsberg is also the company ’s major beer brands . Carlsberg is popular in more than 150 countries around the world ‚ to the best quality of all-cause all Carlsberg beer brewing . In time more than 160 years ‚ Carlsberg parties friends to lead one . Whether they come from a sports bar the
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“image” of cool and trendy during these years. Several other models were made‚ but between 60s and 80s the company’s masterpieces remained the Aviator and Wayfarer. Still nowadays when we think about the brand these are the two first models that come up in our minds. In 1999 the brand has been sold to the Italian Luxottica S.p.a for $640million. Today Ray-Ban is an icon for young and cool people‚ the line that connects old-school with the present; models never changed and you can still
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