In the changing market scenario, insurance companies have realized the inherent value of brands and consider them ‘valuable assets’. Brand equity is the value buildup in a brand due to the positive perception of customers. The value of brand equity is the expected future revenue from the branded product as compare to unbranded product as there is proliferation of brands in the market place; ins...

B has emerged as a top management priority in the last decade due to the growing realization that brands are one of the most valuable intangible assets that firms have. Driven in part by this intense industry interest, academic researchers have explored a number of different brand-related topics in recent years, generating scores of papers, articles, research reports, and books. This paper iden...

Recognised the importance of design impressions, design scholars noticed that there are some trends among the brands awareness on consumer atti‐ tudes toward their designs outcomes include products and services. More and more customer services were developed for enhancing the relationships with consumers through social networks, integrated mobile and location-based tech‐ nologies. Some scholars...

Co-branding is often used by managers to reinforce the image of their brands. In this paper, we investigate when a brand’s image is reinforced or impaired as a result of co-branding, and which partner is right for a firm that considers co-branding for image reinforcement. We address these issues by examining the effects of co-branding on attribute uncertainty of partner brands. We conceptualize...

This research introduces a new diagnostic metric to evaluate global branding strategies: image-based “brand–country fit.” The metric measures the extent to which consumers perceive a brand image as consistent with a country image. The authors conceptualize and empirically analyze the brand–country fit for more than 1000 brands and three countries using Young & Rubicam’s Brand Asset Valuator dat...

The contemporary phenomenon of ‘brand’ is addressed within a Peircean semiotic framework, showing ‘brand’ to be an inherently unstable composite of tangible (e.g. product) and intangible (e.g. brand name) values. The professional literature of brand strategy is drawn upon for definitions, and branding work in an Internet-focused ‘New Economy’ consultancy is described. Three phenomena of brandin...

Branding on packaging acts as an important cue to guide consumer choice in the retail environment. From a psychological perspective, branding on packaging serves two important purposes, crucial to decision making: 1) It guides consumersʼ attention, drawing attention to certain brands. 2) It allows consumers to recognise and find familiar brands. The purpose of the present study was to investiga...

this comparative study investigates the iranian exporters and the u.s. importers perception of persian carpet branding strategy in the u.s. market. wong and merrilees conceptual model of international branding strategy (2007) is used as the base model. two separate models for these communities are extracted. results indicated that the two models are different together and with the base model du...

With the growing importance of digital spaces as arenas in which organisations and consumers interact, brand owners can no longer afford to regard digital, online, or i-branding as an optional add-on to branding through other channels. After an introduction, this article reviews some of the principles that need to underpin any brand strategy. The article then reviews the key considerations for ...