Branding L5 Flashcards

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What are the key questions and issues regarding branding?

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  • How important are brands?
  • History of brands
  • Managerial significance
  • What makes branding strong?
  • How do brands fit together?
  • Social and cultural significance
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Where do brands originate from?

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The Norwegian work Brandr = to burn, water/printer marks, 1920s mass production, railways, newspaper industry

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What is significant about the 2018 Interbrand Best Global Brand Rankings?

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Car companies continue to fall down the global rank and tech companies now dominate the top 10.

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Are brands important today?

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  • Brands can be products, services, people or places
  • Branding permeates all aspects of society
  • Must be added value
  • Signifies relationship
  • Provide an emotional relationship
  • Influence taste perception
  • Important for backlash
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What makes a strong brand?

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  • Quality product
  • Being 1st in the market
  • Unique positioning
  • Strong communication
  • Respect for stakeholders
  • Time and consistency
  • Authenticity
  • Respect for the environment
  • Relationship with consumers
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What is the paradox between brands having a functional benefit and a symbolic meaning?

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Brands are symbols and marketing is becoming the process of adding, maintaining and enhancing symbolic meaning and of turning products into brands as the ultimate source of competitive advantage

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How does Brakus et al (2009) define a brand?

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A label, designating ownership by a firm, which we experience, evaluate, have feeling towards and build associations with to perceive value

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What is the brand equation?

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Brand = product/service + attributes + values + experience

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What is changing about branding?

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Era of customisation, consumers can get exactly what they want and when they want

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What does the strategic development of a brand. involve?

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Having an idea, forming a tone of voice that evokes brand values and identifying the brand role to put out the brand belief

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What is a brand image?

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A set of mental representations, both cognitive and affective, that a person or group of persons hold toward a brand

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What is the difference between brand image and brand identity?

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The sender holds the brand identity and a signal is transmitted e.g product/communication, other sources might influence this as well as competition and noise and then the receiver gets the brand image

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What is the definition of brand identity?

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  • Represents the true self of the brand
  • Based on the brand’s vision, aim and nature
  • Included in a document i.e brand charter which defines what must stay and what is free to change
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What is Kapferer’s (1986) brand identity prism?

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Picture of sender at the top, picture of receiver at the bottom, externalisation on one side and internalisation on the other.

Physique, Personality

Relationship, Culture

Reflection, Self Image

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How do functional and symbolic brands sit in terms of cognitive/emotional and high/low involvement?

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Symbolic brands have high involvement and are more emotional than cognitive.

Functional brands have low involvement and are more cognitive than emotional

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What is Keller’s Brand Equity Model?

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A pyramid with resonance at the top representing relationships, judgements and feelings representing response, performance and imagery representing meaning, salience representing identity

17
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What caused the rise of brand?

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  • 1980s recession

- Phillip Morris buys Kraft, Nestle buys Rowntree’s (1988)

18
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What is the function of brands within companies?

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  • Source of value
  • Less risky if brand is strong: potential for future profits, comp adv, premium pricing, loyalty
  • New Product Develop allows for brand/line extensions
  • Saves searching time
  • Brand symbolism and social role of brands
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What are the characteristics that define a strong brand?

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  • Emotion level
  • Esteem
  • Relevance
  • Differentiation (all communicated through positioning)
  • Risk reduction (awareness/quality)
20
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What are the classic models of consumer behaviour?

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Evaluation of alternatives: look to reduce cognitive effort and use decision heuristics

Purchase: extent of planning, choice of outlet

Outcome of purchase: expectancy disconfirmation model (Szymanski and Henard, 2001), how much we learn from a purchase outcome will depend on our motivation and cognitive bias

21
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How do consumer’s view brands?

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Stella (inspiring, distinctive, relevant, credible)

Good

The Rest

22
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What is the cultural impact of brands?

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  • They are cultural shortcuts
  • Replaced traditional artefacts
  • They fit and adapt to lifestyles
  • Erosion of boundaries between the arts and commercialism
  • Brand saturated nature of popular culture
  • Social meaning
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What is brand attitude and how is it calculated?

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Increasingly recognised as important element. Expectancy-value model of attitude:

Attitude to object = sum of all things they believe about it x how important each thing is to them

A = ∑ab

24
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Who controls brands?

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Difficult as customers have a degree of control e.g Chavs buying Burberry

25
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What are anti brand activists according to Holt (2003) and Thompson et al (2006)?

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  • They raise consumer consciousness about excesses and exploitations of corporate capitalism
  • They create brand image that directly competes with corporate brand image
  • Critical light shed on marketing practices
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How has branding changed to become what it is today?

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  • Now an individualistic culture
  • Consumer democracy focuses on self
  • Blurring of public/private sector
  • Must be relevant, differentiated and engaging
27
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What is brand positioning?

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Who you arena what you stand for

28
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What are brand extensions?

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  • Use of established brand names to enter new product categories or classes (Keller and Aaker, 1995)
  • Two types of brand extensions: vertical (same category)/horizontal (different category)
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What are vertical brand extensions (Sullivan, 1990)?

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  • Where a product is introduced into the same category

- Normally at a different price/quality point

30
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What are horizontal brand extensions (Sullivan, 1990)?

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Where an existing brand introduces a new product in a similar or completely new category

31
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What is the brand extension matrix?

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Line extension (existing brand name, existing product)

Brand extension (existing brand name, new product)

Multibrands (new brand name, existing product)

New brands (new brand name, new product)