"Brand positioning is an attempt to create and maintain a unique representation of the brand in customer’s mind‚ a representation that is expected to stimulate choice of that brand" (Rossiter‚ 2005‚ p.42). Positioning‚ in fact‚ refers to how customers think about different brands in a market. Through brand positioning a company attempts to build a sustainable competitive advantage on product attributes in the consumer’s mind. Nevertheless‚ developing a successful positioning strategy is not easy
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MARUTI SUZUKI – BRAND POSITIONING By: Shweta Amin [ Market Research Analyst ] on February 13‚ 2011 1 Comment What comes to your mind first when u come across the term ‘MARUTI SUZUKI’‚ it always absolutely has to be Maruti 800‚ best known as ‘The Middle class car of India’. BRAND IMAGE:- MARUTI from as a brand itself is seldom looked at‚ as a luxury brand. Maruti as a brand is more linked with the SEC B rather than A. And over past many years Maruti Has maintained and up till certain extent
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Vodafone and Airtel- A study of the brand positioning of two brands from the same product category. VODAFONE Vodafone Essar‚ formerly known as Hutchison Essar is a cellular operator in India that covers 23 telecom circles in India based in Mumbai.Vodafone Essar is owned by Vodafone 67% and Essar Group 33%. It is the second largest mobile phone operator in terms of revenue behind Bharti Airtel‚ and third largest in terms of customers. Segmentation Vodafone segments its target users by Income
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Clean Edge Razor Splitting Hairs in Product Positioning 1 Index 1. Synopsis ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 2. Situation Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………. 3 3. Alternative Evaluation………………………………………………………………………….. 4 4. Position Strategy‚ with explanation……………………………………………………… 5 5. Marketing mix………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 6. Expected Outcomes……………………………………………………………………………… 8 7. Appendices…………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 - 22 2 Synopsis: Based
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Brand Postioning: brand positioning means emphasizing on distinctive characteristic of a product that makes it different from competitor’s product and it appeals to the public. It is the sum of total that differentiates one brand from another. Root Strength: It is the original product‚ value or belief that made a brand great and on its basis brand is now growing. Brand root strength may be a format of a product‚ distinctive features in a product. For example Sony’s first commercial product was
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income adults Benefit Everyone seeks for having pleasure from the icecream Direct Sets of Competition Brand with similar target market and segmentation Panda Magic Golf Bravo Indirect Sets of Competition All other ice creams brands can be seen as indirect competitor of Magnum Even Algida’s Cornetto can be indirect competitor Positioning Map Perceived Quality x Magnum x Cornetto x Bravo x Panda Perceived Price Free Associations Research
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Original Article The anatomy of the luxury fashion brand Received (in revised form): 9th September 2008 Antoinette M. Fionda is a PhD student specialising in Luxury Fashion Marketing at Heriot-Watt University. Previously‚ Antoinette worked in both the Fashion and the Luxury Fashion sectors in a variety of areas from design to management and consultancy. Christopher M. Moore is Chair in Marketing and Head of Fashion‚ Marketing and Retailing at Glasgow Caledonian University. Prior to his
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Strategic Management: YUM! Brands/KFC Changes in KFC Global Positioning Over Past 5 Years: 2008: 2012: Countries to which KFC has expanded from 2008-2012: Turkey‚ Costa Rica‚ Guatemala‚ Kenya‚ Croatia‚ Nigeria‚ and Iraq. Source: “KFC.” Wikipedia: NP. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfc> (Accessed 12 April 2012) For a number of years‚ KFC has based its brand strategy on the functional
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in the world in the year 2008 until 2010. Apple has manufactured few products which are Mac line of computers‚ iPad tablet computer‚ iPod music player‚ iPhone smartphone‚ Apple TV and Software. Based on our assignment‚ we are choosing Apple as our brand and specific to the iPhone 5 product which compare another brand’s product. Apple has manufactured 6 generations of iPhone product which is iPhone 1st‚ iPhone 3G‚ iPhone 3GS and iPhone 5. iPhone 5 is the latest smart phone that produced by Apple. On
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Brand and Fashion assignment 2 Lulu Guinness Brand Positioning “Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offering and image so that they occupy a meaningful and distinct competitive position in the target customer’s minds.”(Kotler‚ 1997.) Lulu Guinness is an accessory designer‚ successful for creating a brand which produces exquisite witty handbags and a range of collections‚ such as umbrella‚ sock‚ hosiery‚ scarves and sunglasses. The brand has a strong reputation for expressing “true
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