Brand Essense

Presenting the reader with practical applications for brand enhancement, this book helps to understand the implement strategies to strengthen brands. It offers a framework for brand management, and provides a flowchart for progressing the brand building process from strategy through tactics to implementation.

Adopted internationally by business schools, MBA programmes and marketing practitioners alike, The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the reference source for senior strategists, positioning professionals and postgraduate students. Over the years it has not only established a reputation as one of the leading works on brand strategy but also has become synonymous with the topic itself. The new edition builds on this impressive reputation and keeps the book at the forefront of strategic brand thinking. Revealing and explaining the latest techniques used by companies worldwide, author Jean-Noël Kapferer covers all the leading issues faced by the brand strategist today, supported by an array of international case studies. With both gravitas and intelligent insight, the book reveals new thinking on a wealth of topics including: brand architecture and diversity strategies; market adaptation approaches; positioning in the private label and store brand environment, and much, much more. Whether you work for an international company seeking to leverage maximum financial value for your brand, or whether you are looking for practical guidance on brand management itself, Kapferer's market-leading book is the one you should be reading to develop the most robust and watertight approach for your company.

Praise and Reviews "the best book on brands yet"- Design Magazine"New exciting ideas and perspectives on brand building are offered that have been absent from our literature."- Philip Kotler, S C Johnson & Sons Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management"Managing a brand without reading this book is like driving a car without your license."- Haesun Lee, Senior Vice President of Marketing, AMOREPACIFIC Co, Korea"Kapferer's hierarchy of brands is an extrordinary insight"- Sam Hill and Chris Lederer, authors of The Infinite Asset, Harvard Business School Press"One of the definitive resources on branding for marketing professionals worldwide."- Vikas Kumar, The Economic Times, India"One of the best books on brand management. Kapferer is thought provoking and always able to create new insights on various brand related topics."- Rik Riezebos, CEO Brand Capital and director of EURIB / European Institute for Brand ManagementThe first two editions of Strategic Brand Management were published to great critical acclaim. The New Strategic Brand Management has been rewritten and fully revised to bring readers absolutely up-to-date with the dramatic changes that have taken place in brand management worldwide.Dealing with the concept and practice of brand management in its totality, it is packed with fresh examples and case studies of brands from all over the world, paying particular attention to global brands. It also looks at the hype surrounding branding and stresses the role of sound business decisions when building a brand. There are several new chapters, including:brand and business buildingthe challenge of growth in mature marketsmanaging retail brands.Plus completely new sections on innovation and its role in growing and reinventing brands, and corporate branding.The New Strategic Brand Management will provide all marketing and brand managers with a thorough understanding of the new rules of brand management and how to put them into practice.

"Aaker on Branding" presents in a compact form the twenty essential principles of branding that will lead to the creation of strong brands. Culled from the six David Aaker brand books and related publications, these principles provide the broad understanding of brands, brand strategy, brand portfolios, and brand building that all business, marketing, and brand strategists should know. "Aaker on Branding" is a source for how you create and maintain strong brands and synergetic brand portfolios. It provides a checklist of strategies, perspectives, tools, and concepts that represents not only what you should know but also what action options should be on the table. When followed, these principles will lead to strong, enduring brands that both support business strategies going forward and create coherent and effective brand families. Those now interested in and involved with branding are faced with information overload, not only from the Aaker books but from others as well. It is hard to know what to read and which elements to adapt. There are a lot of good ideas out there but also some that are inferior, need updating, or are subject to being misinterpreted and misapplied. And there are some ideas that, while plausible, are simply wrong if not dangerous especially if taken literally. "Aaker on Branding"offers a sense of topic priorities and a roadmap to David Aaker's books, thinking, and contributions. As it structures the larger literature of the brand field, it also advances the theory of branding and the practice of brand management and, by extension, the practice of business management.

Suitable for all business students studying strategy and marketing courses in the UK and in Europe, this text also looks at important issues such as the financial aspects of marketing.

Praise for Kellogg on Marketing "The Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University has always been at the forefront of cutting-edge marketing. What a treasure to find such a complete anthology of today's best strategic marketers all in one place. Kellogg on Marketing provides a unique combination of new and proven marketing theories that the reader can translate into business success." —Betsy D. Holden, President and CEO, Kraft Foods "Kellogg on Marketing presents a comprehensive look at marketing today, combining well-founded theory with relevant, contemporary examples in the marketplace. This should be mandatory reading for all students of marketing." —Robert S. Morrison, Chairman, President and CEO, The Quaker Oats Company "The Who's Who write on the what's what of marketing. Now, these preeminent marketing doctors are making house calls. Enjoy." —Robert A. Eckert, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc. "This volume is a fascinating collection of perspectives on what it takes to dominate a marketspace in the New Economy. . . . A clear demonstration of why Kellogg is Kellogg-one of the thought leaders in the discipline of marketing." —Mel Bergstein, Chairman and CEO, Diamond Technology Partners "New economy cases make this text appeal to old economy strategists. We shouldn't be suprised with the quality of this work, given its origin in the Kellogg School." —Ronald W. Dollens, President, Guidant Corporation

Brand Harmony presents a fresh and revealing approach to branding and explains how companies of all types and sizes can achieve dynamic results by orchestrating their customers' total experience. Brand Harmony is a breakthrough concept that aligns everyone in a company to deliver a powerful, harmonious message to customers.Full of common-sense wisdom, Brand Harmony dispels the myths about branding and shows how companies can successfully create Brand Harmony in the minds of their customers by aligning the entire organization to tell one cumulative story. Brand Harmony takes marketing beyond the marketing department by showing how people throughout an organization need to "be the brand" in order to create comprehensive, company-wide messages that customers will understand and believe. Brand Harmony includes 10 how-to exercises based on Yastrow's proven methods and real-life examples which walk the reader through each stage of the branding process.

Brand Planning for the Pharmaceutical Industry is a step-by-step guide, with examples from the pharmaceutical industry directly applicable to your own brand planning. It begins by exploring the definition of branding and why it is of importance, particularly to the pharmaceutical sector. It shows how branding can be successfully integrated into the early stages of the commercialization process for new products, both in theory and in practice.