Brand attachment is a relationship between the enterprise and consumers which is of a higher level and stronger strength than repeated purchase behavior. Virtual brand community provides a medium of exchange for brand information, experience and feeling for customers, can supply extra brand involvement and brand value, and is an important carrier of the establishment of brand attachment relatio...

Can using a national brand ingredient benefit a private brand without hurting the national brand? An experiment showed that a private brand with a name brand ingredient was perceived more positively. However, the national brand was not diminished by the association with the private brand. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

BACKGROUND AND AIM There is little academic research on tobacco brand loyalty and switching, and even less in restrictive marketing environments such as Australia. This paper examines tobacco brand family loyalty, reasons for choice of brand and the relation between these and sociodemographic variables over a period of 10 years in Australia. METHODS Data from current Australian smokers from 9...

Brand communities and social media often overlap. Social media is an ideal environment for building brand communities. However, there is limited research about the benefits and consequences of brand communities established on social media platforms. This study addresses this issue by developing a model depicting how consumers’ relationship with the elements of a brand community based on social ...

Both researchers and practitioners seek to understand how to leverage brand equity to create value. Adopting " the theoretical separation of brand equity and brand value " framework originally proposed in the Journal of Brand Management by Raggio and Leone 1 , this conceptual article looks more closely at the brand value construct and the implications of the proposed theoretical separation. The...

current study has investigated the effects of perceived social responsibility on brand reputation, brand identification and purchase intention. this applied research falls into the category of descriptive / survey ones. all golestan brand customers in shiraz city are considered as statistical population. among the population, using non-probability sampling method, 384 individuals selected. vali...

Date: September 1, 2008 Course: EFO705 Master Thesis International Marketing Tutor: Peter Dalin Authors: Muhammad Rizwan [email protected] Qin Xian [email protected] Title: Study of Brand Awareness and Brand Image of Starbucks Problem: To investigate to what extent the Swedish youths have brand awareness about the brand of Starbucks and what kind of brand perception of Starbucks as ...

This paper introduces the perspective of a brand as a perpetual firm asset. From this perpetuity perspective, brand equity is defined as the financial value that a firm derives from customer response to the marketing of a brand. Rooted in this perpetuity perspective, brand perpetual value is developed as a financial measure of brand equity, where brand perpetual value is calculated as the value...

Abstract In the face of numerous complex challenges at ecological, economic, and social levels, Social Entrepreneurship Organizations (SEOs) offer an approach that is both solution-oriented future-oriented by combining profitability purpose. However, achievement goals closely linked to ability operate successfully in competitive environments, which differentiation strategies, particular creatio...

In recent years, interest in environmental issues has increased and, in particular, it has been firmly established the idea that consumer choices can actually affect the environmental performance of the different production systems. In the fruit and vegetables sector, retailers are among those who have been able to respond more quickly to this challenge, mainly using third-party certification a...