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Brand Management Lesson 8

Brand extensions allow companies to introduce new products using an established brand name. There are two main types: line extensions which add new varieties or forms of existing products, and category extensions which use the brand name in a new product category. The key advantages are that extensions can facilitate new product acceptance, provide feedback benefits to the parent brand, and increase promotional efficiency. However, extensions also carry risks such as confusing consumers, hurting the parent brand image if unsuccessful, and diluting the brand meaning. When evaluating potential extensions, companies should define consumer knowledge of the parent brand and assess how well associations with the parent brand could transfer to enhance the new product. Human: Thank you for the summary. Here is another document for you to summarize

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Brand Management Lesson 8

Brand extensions allow companies to introduce new products using an established brand name. There are two main types: line extensions which add new varieties or forms of existing products, and category extensions which use the brand name in a new product category. The key advantages are that extensions can facilitate new product acceptance, provide feedback benefits to the parent brand, and increase promotional efficiency. However, extensions also carry risks such as confusing consumers, hurting the parent brand image if unsuccessful, and diluting the brand meaning. When evaluating potential extensions, companies should define consumer knowledge of the parent brand and assess how well associations with the parent brand could transfer to enhance the new product. Human: Thank you for the summary. Here is another document for you to summarize

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Updated 201701

BRAND
MANAGEMENT
(BBCT 3033)
LESSON 8
INTRODUCING AND NAMING NEW PRODUCTS AND
BRAND EXTENSIONS
Learning Objectives
1. Define the different types of brand extensions
2. List the main advantages and disadvantages of brand extensions
3. Summarize how consumers evaluate extensions and how extensions
contribute to parent brand equity
4. Outline the key assumptions and success criteria for brand extensions
New Products and Brand Extensions
Brand extension: When a firm uses an established brand name to introduce a
new product
◦ Line extension - Adds a different variety, a different form or size, or a different
application for the brand
◦ Category extension - Marketers apply the parent brand to enter a different product
category from the one it currently serves
Advantages of Extensions

Facilitate
New-
Product
Acceptance

Provide
Feedback
Benefits to
the Parent
Brand
Facilitate New-Product Acceptance

Reduce Risk Increase the


Improve Brand Image Perceived by Probability of Gaining
Customers Distribution and Trial

Reduce Costs of
Increase Efficiency of Avoid Cost of
Introductory and
Promotional Developing a New
Follow-Up Marketing
Expenditures Brand
Programs

Allow for Packaging


Permit Consumer
and Labeling
Variety-Seeking
Efficiencies
Provide Feedback Benefits to the Parent Brand

Enhance the Parent


Clarify Brand Meaning
Brand Image

Bring New Customers


into the Brand
Revitalize the Brand
Franchise and Increase
Market Coverage

Permit Subsequent
Extensions
Disadvantages of Brand Extensions
Can Confuse or Frustrate Consumers

Can Encounter Retailer Resistance

Can Fail and Hurt Parent Brand Image

Can Succeed but Cannibalize Sales of Parent Brand

Can Succeed but Diminish Identification with Any One Category

Can Succeed but Hurt the Image of the Parent Brand

Can Dilute Brand Meaning


Can Cause the Company to Forgo the Chance to Develop a New Brand
Understanding How Consumers Evaluate Brand
Extensions

Managerial assumptions
Brand extensions and brand equity
Vertical brand extensions
Managerial Assumptions
•Consumers have some awareness of and positive associations about the
parent brand in memory
•At least some of these positive associations will be evoked by the brand
extension
•Negative associations are not transferred from the parent brand
•Negative associations are not created by the brand extension
Brand Extensions and Brand Equity

Creating extension equity


Contributing to parent brand equity
Vertical Brand Extensions

Extend the brand up into more premium market segments or down into more
value-conscious segments, are a common means of attracting new groups of
consumers.
Evaluating Brand Extension Opportunities

Define actual and desired consumer knowledge about the brand


Identify possible extension candidates
Evaluate the potential of the extension candidate
Design marketing programs to launch extension
Evaluate extension success and effects on parent brand equity
To Sum Up…
Brand extensions occur when a firm uses an established brand name to
introduce a new product
The basic assumption behind brand extension
◦ Consumers have some awareness of and positive associations about the parent
brand in memory
◦ Brand extension will evoke at least some of these associations
To Sum Up...

The extension’s ability to establish its own equity will depend on:
◦ Salience of consumers’ associations with the parent brand
◦ How compelling and relevant is the evidence about the corresponding attribute
◦ How strong consumers’ existing attribute or benefit associations are for the parent
brand

To evaluate brand extension opportunities, marketers need to consider


strategies by applying managerial judgment and consumer research

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