Rebranding Case Study: Moving Multiple Brands To One
In today’s world, name changes are rare. The time, cost and complexity of moving to a new brand name makes it something to avoid if possible.
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In today’s world, name changes are rare. The time, cost and complexity of moving to a new brand name makes it something to avoid if possible.
The marketing discipline is responsible for the creation and management of some of the largest and most important assets of the firm.
In a recent marketing report, Deloitte, the multinational professional services network, shared information from its Global Marketing Trends Executive Survey. At the core of the discussion – Building the Intelligent Creative Engine – How unconventional talent strategies connect marketing to the customer – is how to generate and integrate creativity while needing the analytic skills massive data require. The upshot was CMO’s should build collaborative teams of people with different skill sets. With the inundation...
Companies often have inspiring purpose statements, such as “to bring health through food to as many people as possible” (Danone), “to connect everybody to live a better today and build a better tomorrow” (Vodafone) and “to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, and animal health products” (Merck).
Not that long ago, it would have seemed strange for companies to send their employees into consumers’ homes to observe how they used products and tackled challenges. Now, corporate anthropologists and ethnographers – researchers trained to observe people and cultures – are fairly common, especially among consumer goods companies. The same companies that once led the way in popularizing ethnographic research – customer-centric leaders such as P&G, Intel, Ford, and General Motors – are now...