Brands & Brand Management: Kevin Lane Keller Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College

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CHAPTER 1:

BRANDS & BRAND MANAGEMENT

Kevin Lane Keller


Tuck School of Business
Dartmouth College

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What is a brand?

• Definition: “a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination


of them, intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or
group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition.”
American Marketing Association (AMA),

• Brand Elements: Different components of a brand that identify and


differentiate it are brand elements.

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Brands vs. Products

• Product: anything we can offer to a market for attention,


acquisition, use, or consumption that might satisfy a
need or want.

• May be a physical good, a service, a retail outlet, a


person, an organization, a place, or even an idea.

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Five Levels of Meaning for a
Product
• Core benefit level

• Generic product level

• Expected product level


.
• Augmented product level

• Potential product level

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Importance of Brands to Consumers
• Identification of the source of the product
• Assignment of responsibility to product maker
• Risk reducer
• Search cost reducer
• Promise, bond, or pact with product maker
• Symbolic device
• Signal of quality

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Reducing the Risks in Product
Decisions

Functional risk.
Physical risk
Financial risk
Social risk
Psychological risk
Time risk

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Importance of Brands to Firms

• To firms, brands represent enormously valuable pieces


of legal property, capable of influencing consumer
behavior, being bought and sold, and providing the
security of sustained future revenues.

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Importance of Brands to Firms

• Identification to simplify handling or tracing


• Legally protecting unique features
• Signal of quality level
• Endowing products with unique associations
• Source of competitive advantage
• Source of financial returns

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Can everything be branded?
• A brand resides in the minds of consumers.
• Consumers perceive differences among brands in a
product category.
• Even commodities can be branded:
– Coffee (Nestle), bath soap (Lux), flour (Iwisa), beer
(Castle), salt (Morton), oatmeal (Jungle), pickles
(Branston), and even water (Perrier)

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An Example of Branding a Commodity
• De Beers Group added the phrase “A Diamond Is
Forever”

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What is branded?
• Physical goods
• Services
• Retailers and distributors
• Online products and services
• People and organizations
• Sports, arts, and entertainment
• Geographic locations
• Ideas and causes

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Importance of Brand Management

• Brands are vulnerable, and susceptible to


poor brand management.

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What are the strongest brands?
Top Ten Global Brands
Brand 2006 ($Billion) 2005 ($ Billion)

1. Coca-Cola 67.00 67.53


2. Microsoft 56.93 59.94
3. IBM 56.20 53.38
4. GE 48.91 47.00
5. Intel 32.32 35.59
6. Nokia 30.13 26.45
7. Toyota 27.94 24.84
8. Disney 27.85 26.44
9. McDonald’s 27.50 26.01
10. Mercedes-Benz 21.80 20.00

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Branding Challenges and Opportunities
• Savvy customers
• Brand proliferation
• Media fragmentation
• Increased competition
• Increased costs
• Greater accountability
• Regulation

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The Brand Equity Concept
• No common viewpoint on how it should be conceptualized
and measured
• It stresses the importance of brand role in marketing
strategies.
• Brand equity is defined in terms of the marketing effects
uniquely attributable to the brand.
– Brand equity relates to the fact that different outcomes result in
the marketing of a product or service because of its brand name,
as compared to if the same product or service did not have that
name.

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Strategic Brand Management
• It involves the design and implementation of marketing programs
and activities to build, measure, and manage brand equity.
• The Strategic Brand Management Process is defined as
involving four main steps:
1. Identifying and establishing brand positioning and values
2. Planning and implementing brand marketing programs
3. Measuring and interpreting brand performance
4. Growing and sustaining brand equity

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Strategic Brand Management Process

Steps Key Concepts


Mental maps
Identify and establish Competitive frame of reference
brand positioning and values Points-of-parity and points-of-difference
Core brand values
Brand mantra

Plan and implement Mixing and matching of brand elements


brand marketing programs Integrating brand marketing activities
Leveraging of secondary associations

Brand value chain


Measure and interpret Brand audits
brand performance Brand tracking
Brand equity management system

Brand-product matrix
Grow and sustain Brand portfolios and hierarchies
brand equity Brand expansion strategies
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Brand reinforcement and revitalization

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