This document defines and discusses the concept of brand equity. It states that brand equity provides a way to interpret marketing strategies and assess a brand's value. The key elements of brand equity are the assets and liabilities associated with a brand and the value the brand provides to customers and the firm. Assets include brand loyalty, awareness, perceived quality, image and proprietary assets. Brand equity benefits customers by helping them process information and the firm through increased revenue from retention and attraction of customers. Strong brands can leverage their equity through extensions.
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Brand Equity & Branding
This document defines and discusses the concept of brand equity. It states that brand equity provides a way to interpret marketing strategies and assess a brand's value. The key elements of brand equity are the assets and liabilities associated with a brand and the value the brand provides to customers and the firm. Assets include brand loyalty, awareness, perceived quality, image and proprietary assets. Brand equity benefits customers by helping them process information and the firm through increased revenue from retention and attraction of customers. Strong brands can leverage their equity through extensions.
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BRAND EQUITY
Presented by : Prof. Sanjay Kumar Jena
“ Brand equity provides a common denominator for interpreting
Marketing strategies & assessing value to a brand” ‘ Brand equity Brand equity is a set of brand assets & liabilities linked to a brand, its name & symbol, that add or subtract from the value provided by a product or service to a firm and/or to that firm’s customers. The key elements of brand equity are Assets & liabilities Value to the customers Value to the firm Assets & liabilities The assets & liabilities on which the brand equity is based are as follows. 1) Brand loyalty 2) Name & symbol awareness 3) Perceived quality 4) Brand association in addition to perceived quality 5) Brand image 6) Other proprietary Brand Assets like trademark, packaging, patent & performance The pyramid of brand loyalty Committed Buyers Brand equity Is high
Likes the brand-clear
Brand assets
Satisfied buyer with switching
Cost- equity with point of vulnerability Satisfied buyers/habitual buyers-no reason to change, equity diffuse
No loyalty-no equity Brand awareness Top of mind awareness Brand recall Brand recognition Unaware of the brand Brand perceived quality Perceive quality is the benchmark by which the customers evaluate different brands on quality. Brand Association Brand association helps build brand equity by- Helping a customer to process & quickly retrieve product information Differentiate the brand from the competition Providing a customer a reason to buy Helping in creating positive attitudes or feelings towards a brand Providing the basis for product line extensions Type of brand associations that a brand may develop, are: Country or geographical area Product attributes like a herbal beauty cream Intangibles like the image of prompt after sales service (HSBC, Citibank, ICICI) Customer benefits-these could even be psychological Relative price Use or application User or customer Celebrity or person-the beauty soap of the film stars. Lifestyle or personality Product or personality Product class Competitors Other proprietary brand assets Name Patent Channel relationship Value to the customers By interpreting/Processing of information By enhancing customer confidence Value to the firm Brand equity can help a firm’s revenue flow in many ways. It helps in marketing programmes for retaining customers & attracting new ones. Platform for growth & via brand extensions. Leverage in distribution channel due to regular sales competitive advantage Importance of Branding The key to branding is that consumers perceive differences among brands in a product category. Brand differences often are related to attributes or benefits of the product itself. Brand differences may be related to more intangible image considerations. For instances, a number of products that at one time were seen as essentially commodities have become highly differentiated as strong brands have emerged in this category. Some examples are, Coffee (Maxwell house) Bath soap (Ivory) Flour (Gold medal) Pickles (Vlasic) Bananas (Chiquita) Salt (Morton) Water (Perrier) Chicken (Perdue)