Brands

Branding: secrets revealed, best practices explained, pitfalls exposed! • The truth about positioning brands and developing brand meaning • The truth about brands as corporate profit drivers • The truth about advertising, pricing, segmentation, and more Simply the best thinking the truth and nothing but the truth This book reveals the 51 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for building great brands–and keeping them great. “I recommend this punchy, provocative book that uses vivid case studies to remind us of 51 truths about brands.” DAVID AAKER, Vice-Chairman, Prophet and Author of Building Strong Brands and Spanning Silos

Product placement has evolved from a novel marketing tactic to a key marketing strategy on a global scale. This work explains the: history and development of product placement; advantages of this form of brand advertising; and methods employed by different brands.

Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the girls obsessed with cosmetic surgery who will do anything to look like women on TV; and those teens simply obsessed with admission into a name-brand college. We also meet the pockets of kids attempting to turn the tables on the cocksure corporations that so cynically strive to manipulate them. Chilling, thought-provoking, even darkly amusing, Branded brings one of the most disturbing and least talked about results of contemporary business and culture to the fore-and ensures that we will never look at today's youth the same way again.

This has long been the one book that students can rely on to get them thinking critically and strategically about branding. This new fourth edition is no exception. THE definitive introductory textbook for this crucial topic, it is highly illustrated and comes packed with over 50 brand-new, real examples of influential marketing campaigns. Bullets: • Summarises the latest thinking and best practice in the domain of branding • All new real marketing campaigns show how branding theories are implemented in practice • Brought right up to date with a clear European and UK focus Undergraduate business and marketing students studying brand management will find this an invaluable resource in their quest to understand how branding really works.

The 54 collected works in this volume provide an opportunity for the reader to determine whether Sidney′s work, individually and/or collectively, qualify as a masterpiece. For me, Sidney has created more individual pieces of his work that merit this status than any other marketing scholar I know. Collectively, the work in this volume is a masterpiece of insight into the social enterprise that is marketing. Again, I don′t know anyone whose career-long program of thought is so extraordinarily rich in imagination and practical value. He challenges, provokes, excites, soothes, and supports us with one or another of his writings. —from the foreword by Gerald Zaltman, Harvard Business School For the first time, the writings of marketing legend Sidney J. are available in this comprehensive collection of significant scholarly essays and studies in the field of marketing. And what a compendium this is! Dennis Rook, a former student of Sidney J. Levy, has compiled the work of this prolific, internationally-recognized and award-winning writer whose ideas began to influence marketing executives in the late 1940s. His ideas continue to impact how we think about marketing′s role in management, how managers develop products and brands, how they understand their consumers, and how corporate and academic researchers investigate marketplace concerns. Brands, Consumers, Symbols, and Research is an exciting and definitive volume that should have a place on the bookshelves of every marketing professional, educator, and student around the globe!

In recent times, the advent of new technologies, the concerns about sustainability, and the new tastes of the youngest generations of luxury consumers have affected the traditional dynamics of the luxury goods markets. These emerging issues have caused significant changes in the marketing of luxury goods. Sustainable development is not a new practice in the luxury market but is of increasing importance. The real challenge is for luxury companies to overcome the residual corporate social responsibility perspective to embrace a real integration of environmental, ethical, and social concerns into the corporate strategy. Integrated output and sustainable processes, the introduction of non-financial reporting as operational practice, and a new orientation to circular economy practices are emerging issues that still today request for a deeper exploration both on the academic and managerial point of view. Digitalization is another relevant issue that is reshaping the business model of luxury companies. Big data, blockchain, omnichannel experience, and digital customer experience represent the main digital challenges that luxury brand companies are facing nowadays. Luxury brands must keep up with these digital demands and sustainability concerns to maintain their position in the global market. Developing Successful Global Strategies for Marketing Luxury Brands upgrades the most relevant theoretical frameworks and empirical research about the marketing of luxury goods. This book is focused on contemporary issues affecting luxury industries such as digital transformation (blockchain, big data, analytics, innovation processes), sustainable development, changes in luxury consumers’ behavior, integration between physical and online channels, and the development of social media marketing strategies. Chapters will cover areas of marketing, management, buyer behavior, and international business, creating a multidisciplinary approach for this book. This book is ideal for scholars, local government agencies and public bodies, managers, luxury business owners, along with practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in emerging issues affecting the luxury market, such as sustainability and digital transformation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Foundations -- 2. Building brands: meaning, value, creation and clothing -- Understanding brand value -- Defining the brand -- Brand constituents -- Being the brand -- Clothing the brand -- 3. Developing the brand: focus, consistency and alignment -- Focus -- Consistency and the delivered promise -- Organizational consistency -- The frontline -- Organizing talent for brand consistency -- Frames for alignment: the VCI model -- 4. Marketing the brand: image extension and cross-border development -- Brand marketing -- Brand extensions: leverage and synergy -- Auditing the brand: the KUBE diagnostic -- Horizontal extensions -- Vertical brand extensions -- Unintended extensions -- Brand architecture -- Branding across borders -- International market entry -- International marketing adaptation -- 5. Understanding Asia: from the inside and out -- Asian hardware -- Asian software -- Asian socio-cultural norms: from the 'outside-in' -- Asian culture from the inside-out -- Corruption: elephants in the living room -- Illustrations -- 6. Brand expressions I: consumer products -- Building and competing -- Frontlining -- Marketing the brand -- CSR, ethics and (re-)gaining trust -- 7. Brand expressions II: services -- The hotel -- The hospital -- The airline -- IFM (integrated facilities management) -- AOS (any other service) -- 8. Postscript: destination Asia -- Revealing -- Building -- Communication -- Delivery -- References -- Index.

The windows of Louis Vuitton's storefronts are magnetic. Onlookers stand with eyes wide in wonder at such spectacles as a colossal roller coaster, a panoply of brightly colored hot-air balloons, or a universe of polka dots. With an oeuvre of over thirty-five displays, creators Faye McLeod and Ansel Thompson bring the windows of one of the world's leading luxury brands to life with unparalleled magic. Featuring an introduction by The New York Times fashion director and critic Vanessa Friedman, these celebrated vitrines are presented as works of art in this hand-bound oversize Ultimate Collection edition, capturing the inspired world that is Louis Vuitton.