Co Branding

The strategic management and development of brands continues to grow in importance for most businesses and the last decade has seen more and more brand owners turning to co-branding as a way of adding further value to their brand assets. The synergy that can be created by two well-matched brands working together in harmony can be considerable and enhance both profitability and the valuation of the brand for both parties. However, the challenges presented by co-branding are considerable, getting the strategy right for a single brand is hard enough, but once two brands are brought together the challenges increase considerably. The brand personalities must be complementary. This is the first book to explore this important area.

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The exchangeability of products has led to the producers need to differentiate themselves from other offers. Due to the flood of advertising on TV, on the radio, in magazines or on hoardings, people usually do not perceive all these stimuli anymore. A well-known brand can help a company to attract new customers and to keep customers loyal. Since there are already many well-established brands for most product categories, some producers have tried to improve their market position by using co-branding. Puma uses Gore Tex material. Ferrari and Fila have developed a sports shoe together and even Coca Cola, one of the world s most well-known brands, has launched a new co-branded product with the beer producer Diebels called Dimix . Already in 1998 co-branding was said to have a 40% annual growth rate in the US. This paper focuses on a new trend among co-branding companies: multiple co-branding. Co-branding one s product not only once, but with several well-known brands one after another or simultaneously in independent agreements is a relatively recent marketing strategy. It has to be said that even for co-branding in general there are only very few empirical studies giving evidence of co-branding s effects on the consumer, but so far it seems that multiple co-branding has been ignored completely. We could not find any sources, giving special attention on this new, growing phenomenon. Therefore, we decided to do some research of our own in this field. To analyse if multiple co-branding helps companies to strengthen their brands and to defend their market position against competitors, we will examine how consumers evaluate this strategy. The central questions that we try to answer are the following: Q1: Do consumers perceive multiple co-branding? Q2: How does multiple co-branding influence the consumer s attitude towards the brand that uses this multiple co-branding strategy? A consumer survey via e-mail was conducted in order to gain insight into consumers view of brands using multiple co-branding. The coloured chocolate lenses Smarties and the ice cream Langnese Cremissimo served as examples in our questionnaire since they have created new products together with many other brands. The findings shall give some useful advice to companies concerning aspects, which have to be taken into account when opting for a multiple co-branding strategy. Disposition The introduction will be followed by the theoretical part, which is [...]

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Firms are continuously looking for new opportunities to exploit and leverage their existing brands to achieve business growth. In the past, companies have leveraged their ‘most important asset’ (brands) through brand and line extensions. Nowadays, the most recent trend for capitalizing on brands is called ‘Co-Branding’ in which two or more brands are presented jointly to the consumer, forming a new product or service offering. This new branding strategy promises many benefits, especially for companies operating internationally with strong global brands. This study is about the perception of ‘fit’ between two partner brands in a co-branding venture. Previous studies have already identified that a perceived fit between partner brands leads to a positive evaluation of the co-branded offering by consumers. But why are some brands perceived as fitting together by consumers and others are not? To answer this question, this study investigates which factors (e.g. similar price level, target group, product category) lead to a perceived fit between partner brands by consumers.

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Firms are continuously looking for new opportunities to exploit and leverage their existing brands to achieve business growth. In the past, companies have leveraged their ‘most important asset’ (brands) through brand and line extensions. Nowadays, the most recent trend for capitalizing on brands is called ‘Co-Branding’ in which two or more brands are presented jointly to the consumer, forming a new product or service offering. This new branding strategy promises many benefits, especially for companies operating internationally with strong global brands. This study is about the perception of ‘fit’ between two partner brands in a co-branding venture. Previous studies have already identified that a perceived fit between partner brands leads to a positive evaluation of the co-branded offering by consumers. But why are some brands perceived as fitting together by consumers and others are not? To answer this question, this study investigates which factors (e.g. similar price level, target group, product category) lead to a perceived fit between partner brands by consumers.

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