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Grounds for Success: How Schultz Reached the Top
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| “I can’t give you any secret recipe for success, any foolproof plan for making it in the world of business,” says Schultz. “But my own experience suggests that it is possible to start from nothing and achieve even beyond your dreams.” |
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Grinding Out Success: How Kroc Made McDonald’s A Golden Triumph
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| “We provide food that customers love, day after day after day,” said Kroc. “People just want more of it.” |
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Lesson #1: Build a Brand with No Bounds
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| Simon Fuller’s specialty is not that he finds particularly outstanding talent and introduces it to the world. Rather, Fuller’s gift is that he is able to take almost anyone and build them up into a brand – a brand that the world cannot resist. |
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Dubai's Gallery One reveals $15m global expansion plans
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| Dubai-based retailer Gallery One is seeking $15m in investment to help launch over 100 stores worldwide as part of an aggressive expansion plan outside the Middle East region, its CEO has said. |
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Building a Global Brand
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| In addition to taking advantage of outstanding growth opportunities, there are several factors driving the increasing interest in taking brands global…
•economies of scale (production and distribution)
•lower marketing costs
•laying the groundwork for future extensions worldwide
•maintaining consistent brand imagery
•quicker identification and integration of innovations (discovered worldwide)
•preempting international competitors from entering domestic markets or locking you out of other geographic markets
•increasing international media reach (especially with the explosion of the Internet) is an enabler
•increases in international business and tourism are also enablers |
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2009 Global Brand Trends letter
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| In 2009’s letter, brand guru Stanley Moss muses about the state of branding during an economic crisis, accountability and outcome, the study of failure and obsolescence, green branding, the luxury category, brands in the BRIC nations and quiet brands. There’s a brief section on new terminology. The letter ends with new thoughts in answer to the question, “What is a brand?” |
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2008 Global Brand Trends letter
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| A yearly letter authored by Stanley Moss, reviewing the state of international branding. This year's letter addresses sustainability, CSR, place branding, social networking, the cult of celebrity, the luxury category, measurement. The letter concludes with different points of view on the question "What is a brand?" |
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The Carnival of African Enterprising Part 2
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| In the last part of The Carnival of African Enterprising we present more views from bloggers about Africa in the 21st Century.
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Rethinking the G Word
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| The next time someone is tempted with the brilliant idea to employ the word -or prefix- “global” in your brand messaging, tread softly. It’s currently a term so laden with history and controversy that it has similar properties to nitroglycerine: a useful tool for moving great masses at the appropriate distance, or alternately, something that if mishandled could easily blow up in your face. When a mainstream national magazine like Newsweek publishes a five-page article entitled “Globaloney”1 replete with color photos and informative charts, it’s time to re-evaluate where the terminology is headed, especially with regard to branding. Global brand strategies are one thing, but calling them that is another. |
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Ikeas brand reputation
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| At least one global Swedish brand has a brand reputation greater outside its home country than within. |
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THE TRUTH ABOUT BRANDING
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| Brand. Brand. Brand. Every company today wants to be a brand company. “We are a brand experience company,” or “we have just completed a rebranding campaign” seems to be the new, must-have mantra of organizations. This trend is almost overwhelming and far too often severely misguided. |
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Branding Research
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| Coca-Cola did not become the powerful brand that it is today just because. From Coca-Cola to McDonald’s to Nike, all of the companies with some of the most powerful and memorable brands in global history became so memorable precisely because they engaged in a careful and well-planned out strategy of branding research. If you want your company to become a recognizable brand, you can’t just sit back and let it happen. You need to get out there and make it happen. |
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Check Your Brand Positioning in 5 Minutes
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| Understanding brand positioning is very important if you want to correct misconceptions and off-brand opinions of your brand. You may have every intention of analyzing your brand to make sure that it is in a position of strength by participating in scientific research to that end. But first as a litmus test, you might find it useful to do a little under the radar analysis to get a quick feel of your stake holder's opinions regarding your brand positioning. We are going to casually ask them. |
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Corporate consequence, trust and thought leadership
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| We live in an era of corporate consequence. Companies are being held to account and the consumer is becoming more responsible in who they choose to buy from and what they choose to buy.
The consumer are wields a lot of power in terms of brand influence courtesy of social media channels online. Given this and the aftermath of the global economic crisis, many companies are struggling to imprint that most valued brand attribute on their publics - trust.
This article outlines one way companies can overcome this.
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What Do You Stand For? What is Your Brand?
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| Your brand isn’t just a logo or a marketing scheme. Your brand is the promise of the value your customers will receive. A strong brand not only builds relationships – it nourishes them. So how do you develop a brand that works for you by heralding a clear, compelling message people want to hear? |
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Do Bean Counters Understand Brand Value?
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| A company's brand has real value. Brand makes up 48% of Coca Cola's brand enterprise value. But outside of the Fortune 500, do CFO's and financial managers of small to medium size companies understand brand value? |
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Global Citizenship in the 21st Century
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| A perspective from a young person about global citizenship and how it will affect leadership at a global level. Having in mind that many entrepreneurs are coming together locally to build global products/businesses, it's important to understand where the world is moving.
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Your Brand is More than a Logo or a Tagline
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| Many people in business believe their logo and slogan make up their corporate brand. And while they are integral to a company’s image, there is so much more to what a brand really encompasses.Your company's brand is its evidence of distinction. Your company's brand strategy is the adoption of that brand by everyone in the company and the process by which the promise of that brand is delivered to your customers. |
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