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Marketing and Brand Management
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Marketing and Brand Management
Introduction
Consultants, researchers and managers recognize the brand management is an important tool for marketing in this global era (Kurtz, MacKenzie & Snow, 2009). In a time of constant continual change in the global marketplace, a brand provides a source of constancy and consistency that a firm offers to customers.
Discussion
A brand name can be extended to countless products in time, and become a source of identity that builds its position in the global marketplace among customers, retailers, and other market participants. Hence, building global brands in the 21st Century is recognized as one of the greatest challenges a firm faces. However, having a successful global brand will help ensure a firm's continued success in the global marketplace (Kurtz, MacKenzie & Snow, 2009). The global war is said to about world brand dominance. This adds an entirely new dimension to strategic brand management.
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English: Rausand, Marvin. Risk Assessment: Theory,...Today, brands should thrive globally to survive locally. A brand's marketing strategy must not only compete with regional or national brands' but also with international competitors' marketing strategies (Kotler & Pfoertsch, 2006).
This research paper will describe marketing and brand management in many aspects. Marketing is not just to sale products but it starts from anticipating consumer's need to consumer's satisfaction. When consumer becomes brand loyal then he or she is already satisfies from the product before buying, that's why brand management is very important for marketing (Kurtz, MacKenzie & Snow, 2009).
Background to the Study
The main subject of this dissertation is this last point of strategic brand management; namely, geographical extension of brands. The aim is to bring together two important trends of the new millennium, strategic brand management and globalization. Today, few firms can escape the necessities...