Cultures of Commodity Branding

Branding water

Branding is a key strategy widely used in commercial marketing to make products more attractive to consumers. With the exception of bottled water, branding has largely not been adopted in the water context although public acceptance is critical to the implementation of water augmentation projects. Based on responses from 6247 study participants collected between 2009 and 2012, this study shows ...

Branding down to the core: branding not-for-profits.

Many not-for-profits do not view their organization as a brand. After all, the reason for being lies in the purpose. Branding is something corporate businesses do to justify their existence. But what is an organization's purpose? And what if everyone in the organization does not agree on that purpose over time or across departments? How can an organization formalize a strategy if it isn't sure ...

Branding: a harmful practice.

Thus, there is an urgent need to abolish this practice. Branding is a criminal offence under Indian Penal Code-324. Extensive education programs explaining its harmful effects aimed at rural illiterate masses including people involved in carrying out branding are required. All physicians need to be aware of this possibility while seeing a child with inexplicable burn scars, lest it might be lab...

Corporate Branding in Marketspace

Novel drugs--novel branding.

There has been increasing use of a number of different novel psychoactive substances (often referred to as ‘legal highs’) over the last few years. The drug that has received the most publicity is mephedrone. However, there were 41 new substances detected in Europe in 2010. These novel psychoactive substances are often purchased from Internet-based suppliers and are commonly marketed under broad...