The Power Of Retail Branding

Retailers of every format, specialty, department, discount, off-price, e-tail, designer, manufacturer, and shopping mall now know that retail power is brand power. To maintain a unique competitive advantage retail marketers must be proactive in the reinvention of their store-as-a-brand, their store and private brands, and most important, their customer as a brand.

Few marketers would challenge the power of retail branding or its significance as a marketing discipline but little has been written about it and even less is understood. So what is the difference between product branding and retail branding? How do retail brands originate and how do they become effective? The answers to these questions can be found within and they rely heavily on the author's 25 years experience in retail branding and design to explain its complex and holistic nature. Retail Branding deals with the modernization of retail brands and how the theory behind the brand is translated into a finished design. It is a brilliant combination of practical information, creative insight and successful retail branding initiatives.

When we think of brands, we think of "producer brands' such as Coca-Cola or Marlboro. In Retail Power Plays, Andrew Wileman and Michael Jary examine what they see as the biggest challenge, and the biggest opportunity, facing retailers in the U.S. and Europe; the development of strong "retail brands." They analyze the battle between retail and producer brand power, suggesting that the retail brands are now catching up, and put forward strategies and implementation programs to help brand managers build and sustain their brands in response to these dramatic changes.

How can retail brand power be built and maintained? What are the implications of this for 'producer brands' like Coca-Cola? How will retailing look in the twenty-first century? This book sets out strategies and implementation programmes for building strong brands in retailing, to create competitive differentiation and superior financial returns. It begins with an analysis of how retail and 'own label' brands have leap-frogged traditional producer brands. The authors argue that this is changing the consumer goods industry. To meet these new challenges, the book sets out action plans and examines branding strategies in a number of different market sectors. It also uses analysis and case-studies from around the world, particularly the USA, Europe and Japan.

Today's major retail marketers look to the power of branding as their most potent and valuable strategic asset. This fascinating book of case studies demonstrates what really works in effective retail brand management, showing readers a myriad of marketing and creative efforts that help develop a branding story. Filled with over 500 full-color photos, Brandstand identifies, analyzes, and interprets each brand, and presents a new, "how-to-think" rather than "what-to-think" theory about building retail equity.

Presents a study on how corporations and their brands deal with this era. This book shows how to establish a business approach that can better meet the needs of shoppers by activating revolutionary selling situations. It articulates that corporations must undertake a radical reinvention of how they reach their customers to sell their products.

Retail Marketing and Branding, 2nd Edition looks at how retailers can make more out of their marketing money with retail best practices in branding and marketing spend optimization. The second edition of Retail Marketing and Branding includes the following updates: * New and updated case examples * Updated figures and examples throughout * New interviewers with recent experiences * Additional chapters