Brands & Brand Management: Kevin Lane Keller Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College
Brands & Brand Management: Kevin Lane Keller Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College
Brands & Brand Management: Kevin Lane Keller Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College
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What is a brand?
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Brands vs. Products
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Five Levels of Meaning for a
Product
• Core benefit 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
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Importance of Brands to Firms
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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
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What are the strongest brands?
Top Ten Global Brands
Brand 2006 ($Billion) 2005 ($ Billion)
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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
Brand-product matrix
Grow and sustain Brand portfolios and hierarchies
brand equity Brand expansion strategies
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Brand reinforcement and revitalization