The Brand Value Chain A value chain is the whole series of activities that create and build value at every step Definition: A value chain is the whole series of activities that create and build value at every step. The total value delivered by the company is the sum total of the value built up all throughout the company. Michael Porter developed this concept in his 1980 book ’Competitive Advantage’. Description: The significance of the value chain: The value chain concept separates useful activities
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creates and complements integrated business‚ brand and marketing strategies. Strategic brand value: Advancing use of brand equity to grow your brand and business Michael Leiser Received (in revised form): 25 April 2003 Keywords: brand equity profiling‚ brand equity management‚ strategic brand drivers‚ price premiums‚ customer loyalty‚ brand extensions‚ financial performance Abstract Businesses that intend to reap the benefits of using brand as a driver of business success need to begin
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Case study on low cost airlines (RYANAIR) Preliminary questions: 1. What are your first impressions regarding Ryanair? 2. How would you characterize its marketing strategy? Ryanair (ISEQ: RYA‚ LSE: RYA‚ NASDAQ: RYAAY) is an Irish low cost airline‚ with headquarters at Dublin Airport and its largest operational bases at Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport. Ryanair operates 182 aircraft on 729 routes across Europe and North Africa from its 31 bases.[1] The airline has been characterised
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In April 1986‚ the Ryan brothers announce that Ryanair will offer service between Dublin and London‚ a route dominated by Aer Lingus and British Airways. AL and BA offer a range of tickets with varying restrictions and varying classes of service‚ but the least expensive‚ unrestricted round-trip fares were priced at IL208‚ far higher than the IL98 that Ryan Air announced. Ryanair’s strategy to launch a single far no restriction ticket at such a low price will gain market share quickly as well as possibly
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frequently refer to ’brand values’ as if everyone knows what we mean. It is assumed that there is a general understanding that a brand stands for something and what it stands for must have a value. These values can be critically important or small inconsequential things but above all they are the things which give the brand its worth and differentiate it from all others. Through these brand values a product or service is enhanced beyond its functional purpose. In this context the brand provides the consumer
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Apple’s iPhone with the launching of Android as a platform for smartphone. Google’s goal is to reach as many people as possible on the web‚ because the more users on the Web‚ the more advertising Google can sell. DISCUSSION 1. Google core brand value: 1.1. User Friendly Google is a business. The revenue google generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from
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The Value of Brands White Paper White Paper: The Value of Brands: Evaluating Heineken’s Global Branding Strategy Tim Glowa July 31‚ 2002 Tim Glowa is President of North Country Research Inc.‚ (www.ncResearch.com) a Calgary based strategic marketing science company. He can be reached via email at Tim@Glowa.ca © 2002 Tim Glowa July 31‚ 2002 © 2002 Tim Glowa -1- The Value of Brands White Paper Table of Contents Abstract ............................................
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Examining Ryanair’s Launch Strategy Ryanair was set up in 1985 by Cathal and Declan Ryan‚ as one of the first independent airline servicing the Dublin-London (Luton) route. Ryanair launched its service focusing on delivering first-rate customer service and lowest – simple‚ single – fare @ I£ 98‚ compared to I£ 208 full fare and I£ 99 discounted fare offered by competition‚ Aer Lingus and British Airways. Ryanair Executives believe that Aer Lingus and British Airways’ flights are typically 60-70%
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Assessment of Ryanair’s launch strategy One possible reason why Ryanair chose to enter the Dublin-London route is because the route was reputed to be quite lucrative for both Aer Lingus and BA. It is easy to see why this route is lucrative because the least expensive fare for both carriers were priced at I£208 but operating expenses per passenger was only I£155.1. Ryanair’s publicized fare of only I£98 will help it to attract more passengers than both carriers given that it cost only half the
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added to its beauty bars. Because of this‚ women flocked to the brand in hopes of trading in their dry skin for soft‚ smooth skin. Exhibit 1 shows a brand association map for the Dove brand prior to the introduction of “The Campaign for Real Beauty.” As shown in the Exhibit‚ a lot of Dove’s associations are in the functional category or teetering between functional and emotional. This is because of the way Dove introduced itself – the brand was so determined to set itself apart from its competitors because
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