+ Batch Subject: (BMM class of 2015) BUILDING Year (TY)

Faculty Name: Vishal Desai

India’s premier M-school

Lesson # 8 BRAND STRATEGIES

Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)

+ TYPES OF BRANDING STRATEGY: Product Branding/Multi-Brand strategy:  In multi-branding strategy the brand is:

• Promoted exclusively so that it acquires its own identity and image and stand on its own

• Allowed to acquire differentiation and exclusivity

• Targeted accurately to a distinct target market or customers because its positioning can be precise and unambiguous

India’s premier M- school P&G D

N Head & Whisper A Ariel Tide Pantene Camay Vicks Old Spice Shoulder R B T E K

R Detergent DetergentShampooShampoo Soap Sanitary Balm After Shave A Napkin M N O I Whiteness Dandruff Clear Sign of

T Cream Hygienic

I High-Tech Healthy& no other shampoo blocked manliness S Detergent shiny hair soap protection

O can deliver with micro nose P ZPTO

India’s premier M- school +  As is evident from the figure P&G has been follower of the multi-brand strategy

 A mega company like HUL also has been an adherent of multi branding

For example:

• HUL’s Soap category

• In terms of positioning

• Lux – beauty soap of filmstars

• Lifebuoy – soap that fight against germ and promotes health

• Rexona – a gentle soap with natural oils to have a good effect on skin

• Liril – freshness soap

India’s premier M- • Same applies to HUL’s detergent and shampoo school categories + Benefits of Product branding: 1)It creates multiple brand entities which is uniquely positioned and directed at a particular segment

For example

• HUL’s detergent brand – Surf Excel, Rin and Wheel offer all possible price points, benefits and utilities linked to different sub-markets

2)A new product is not likely to send negative feedback and associate the brand with the burden of failure

India’s premier M- school + 3)A company following multi-branding is better positioned to venture into unrelated product categories

4)Obtaining, greater shelf-space and leaving little for competitor’s products

5)Saturating a market by filling all price and quality gaps

6)Catering to brand switchers users who like to experiment with different

7)Keeping the firm’s managers on their toes by generating internal competition

8) Organization who use a multi-brand strategy acquire greater market share than they could with fewer brands

India’s premier M- school + Drawbacks of Product branding: 1)Creating individual brands is a costly exercise

2)The new brands do not exploit strength of a company or its existing brands

India’s premier M- school +Line Branding:  Line in the context of product mix refers to various product lines that a firm may have in its total portfolio

For example:

• Philips – line extension has T.V, video and audio, personal care, communication and household appliances

 The brand appeals to distinct market segments who appreciate and like the brand

 Now the customers do not tend to be contended with one product which the brand offers

 Line extension is generally followed for complimentary products.

India’s premier M- school +  Consumers want complimentary products which go hand in hand with the brand concept or application.

For example:

• L’Oreal user wants the brand to offer all contemporary products which enhance beauty – body lotion, deep pore cleansing lotion, lipstick, nail enamels, eye liner,etc

 The products in the line draw their identity from the main brand

 Marketing products as a line under a common brand improves the brand’s marketing power rather than selling them as individual brands

India’s premier M- school L’ Oreal Group

L’ Oreal

Nail Powder Lipstick Eyeliner Foundation Enamel Compact

Products share common concept, complement each other

India’s premier M- school + Range Branding / Mixed Branding:  Line branding restricts the brand’s expansion into nearby territories of complementary products, which complement or support the main product’s usage

 All the products share a common promise which stems from the firm’s or range brand’s area of competence

 The product are tied together by a single brand concept

For example:

• Nestle uses its Maggi brand for its range of fast food – Maggi noodles, sauces, soups, pastas,etc

India’s premier M- school Himalaya Drug Co.

Area of Ayurvedic Concepts Competence Or expertise

Skin Care Health Care Body Care Hair Care Lotions, Face Wash, Ayur Slim Capsules Antiseptic Cream Cleanser Creams Daily health Pain Balm Anti- Dandruff Capsules Muscle and Joint Cleanser Digestive Capsules Rub Hair Conditioner Cough Syrup Hair Vitaliser India’s premier M- school + Benefits of Range Brand Strategy / Mixed Branding:

1)It helps in the formation of brand equity

2)The brand can easily embrace other new products which are consistent with the brand, reducing the cost of introducing new brand in the market

India’s premier M- school + Limitations of Range Brand Strategy / Mixed Branding:

1)The brand can become weak due to overstretching if the brand tends to hang large number of products on it

India’s premier M- school + Umbrella Branding Strategy:

 Umbrella branding has been particularly favored by the companies of the East

For example:

• Korean giant LG uses its name on the product like microwaves, refrigerators, computers, television, air conditioners

• Philips, GE and Canon also follow umbrella branding

• Indian business houses – TATA and Bajaj

India’s premier M- school PHILIPS

Television Irons

Lighting Mixers

Hi-fi Music Monitors system

Medical Shaver equipment

Phones India’s premier M- school +Benefits of Umbrella Branding / Multi – Product Branding Strategy:

1)Umbrella branding is an economical strategy as investing in a single brand is less costly than trying to build a number of brands

2)Using an umbrella brand to enter into new markets allows considerable saving

For example:

• TATA making a foray into the automobile car market

3)Umbrella branding may even make sense in the current marketing environment characterized by information overload and brand proliferation

India’s premier M- school + Drawbacks of Umbrella Branding / Multi – Product Branding Strategy:

1) It is not a consumer consistent strategy

2)With time, market fragments and gets divided into smaller sub-segments

3) Each segment presents its own unique structure of needs and buyer preferences

4) A specialist brand may be needed for precise targeting of a particular segment

India’s premier M- school + 3)A failure in one product category may influence other products/brands because of shared identity

For example:

• If Samsung refrigerators are discovered to be faulty, the message about its defect would travel to other quarters, impacting the brand’s performances in categories like air conditioners, TV and monitors.

4)Umbrella branding is difficult to stretch vertically

For example:

• Maruti Suzuki’s attempt to go to the upper segment with its ‘Baleno’ range did not yield good results

India’s premier M- school +Source / Double branding:

 Source brand strategy combines the firm’s name with the product brand name

 It is hybrid of umbrella brand and product brand strategy

 The product is given a brand name and it is combined with the name of the firm

For example:

• Pulsar – name of the bike

Bajaj – the company name behind it

Both the name enjoys equal importance and are given equal status in the brand’s communication

India’s premier M- school Maruti Suzuki

Maruti Maruti Maruti Maruti Alto Wagon-R Ertiga Stingray

Maruti Maruti Maruti Zen Celerio Ritz

India’s premier M- school + Benefits of Source Branding:

1)The firm’s name brings its equity to the product

For example:

• When Bajaj name is added to a new brand, immediately Bajaj’s repertoire of associations are transferred onto the product

2)The second name provides an opportunity to add something unique to the brands by customization or personalization

India’s premier M- school + Drawbacks of Source Branding:

1)The company image becomes the limiting factor in this branding approach

2) When the product categories are different, double branding may not be the correct strategy

India’s premier M- school + Endorsement Branding:

 Endorsement brand strategy is modified version of double branding

 It makes the product brand name more significant and the corporate brand name is relegated to a lesser status

 The umbrella brand is made to play an indirect role of passing on certain common generic associations

 It is only mentioned as an endorsement to the product brand

 By a large, the brand seeks to stand on its own

 Unlike the product brand, endorsement brand discloses the identity of the maker, making it a small part of the brand India’s premier M- school +  The brand gets the an endorsement that it belongs to specified company

For example:

• Kit Kat gives a signal that it is a Nestlé’s product

• Cinthol’s communication stresses that it is a Godrej product

• Dairy Milk is Cadbury’s brand

India’s premier M- school Cadbury’s

Cadbury’s Cadbury’s Cadbury’s Cadbury’s Eclairs Bournvita Five star Crackle

Cadbury’s Cadbury’s Cadbury’s Perk Dairy Shots

India’s premier M- school + Endorsement branding strategy allows the brand the freedom to take an independent direction

 Unlike the source brand strategy, in endorsement strategy the firm’s name sits back as an assurance of quality

 Thus, endorsement branding strikes a delicate balance between umbrella and product branding

 The marketers can subtly transfer the corporate brand’s equity and at the same time enjoy the freedom to the venture beyond immediate product boundaries

 Therefore, while endorsing a product brand, care must be exercised in finding consistency

 Otherwise the endorsement may just be perceived as hollow

India’s premier M- school + For example:

• Nestle burnt its fingers when it launched Mithai Magic

The product failed as it did not go down well with the Nestle endorsement

India’s premier M- school + Private Labels / Store branding:

 Products marketed by retailers and other members of the distribution chain

 Private labels can be called store brands when they actually adopt the name of the store itself in some way

For example:

• Stop brand of clothes by Shopper’s Stop

India’s premier M- school + Private label brands typically cost less to make and sell than the national or manufacturer brand with which they have to compete

 Thus, the benefit to the consumers of buying private label and store brands is often cost saving

 Whereas, the benefit to retailers selling private label and store brands is their gross margin which is relatively higher as compared to national brands

India’s premier M- school + Objectives:  Creating power brands

Strong logo design offering that synchronies with the consumer’s logic and emotions, providing effective differentiation

 Creating synergy

Well-developed brand architecture provides the synergy of logo design, reinforcing associations, which in turn results in cost efficiencies

For example:

uses the common thread of providing “the best a a man can get” in terms of quality and speed across all product categories

India’s premier M- school + Providing clarity in product offering

This is necessary to ensure a clear-cut identity among consumers

 Leveraging Brand Equity

Make the logo design work harder by increasing the impact

One way is through brand extension

A major function of brand architecture is to provide a strong framework to deal with brand extension opportunities

 Planning future growth

Brand architecture should plan for the brand’s future

India’s premier M- It must be the foundation for making strategic school advances in the marketplace + The Monolithic Structure

This is employed when a firm uses its corporate brand name on all products or services

For example:

• Tata, Philips, Samsung, Videocon, Toshiba

 The Fixed Endorsed Structure

In this the corporate brand remains all powerful but the product is also given a name

It is a slight extension of the monolithic structure

India’s premier M- school + By giving the product a sub-brand, some differentiation is achieved

For example:

• Fiat - Uno, Fiat - Siena, Fiat - Trend, Fiat - Palio

• Maruti Suzuki - Esteem, Maruti Suzuki - Zen, Maruti Suzuki - Wagon R

 The Flexible Endorsed Structure

In this format the corporate brand remains visible but it takes the back seat

The product brand is given the front seat

The sub-brand is hero to the customers

India’s premier M- school + It achieves greater autonomy and identity

For example:

• Godrej endorses all its product brands which are most visible and dominant – Cinthol, Ganga, Fair glow, No.1

• Hamdard – Rooh Afza, Pachnol, Sualin

 The Discreet Approach

Here the product becomes a standalone brand

It is given its own due identity and status

The corporate name does not back it up

For example:

• India’s premier M- P&G employs this strategy – Pampers, Whisper, school Pantene

• ITC – Wills, Gold flake +BRAND ROLES IN THE BRAND PORTFOLIO:  In a brand portfolio, each brand should be unique and should result in maximizing the equity of all the other brands in the portfolio and/or should not harm the equity of the other brands

 Each brand has to be unique and should cater to different segment in the market

 Therefore, while devising a brand portfolio, marketers need to be careful and come out with brands that maximize the coverage of the market and minimize the overlap between brands, so that threat of cannibalization is minimized

India’s premier M- school +  An organization can launch new brands either to satisfy a particular need of the target market or to offset competition

 This result in brands playing a specific role in the portfolio of brands of an organization

 Brands can play the following roles:- 1) Flankers 2) Cash cows 3) Low-end entry 4) High-end prestige 5) Strategic Brands 6) Silver Bulltets 7) Linchpin Brand 8) Sub-brands

India’s premier M- school + Flankers:

 A flanker brand is a new brand introduced into the market by a company that already has established brand in the same product category

 The new brand is designed to compete in the category without damaging the existing item’s market share

 This strategy is also called fighter branding or multi- branding Eg:- Nirma v/s Wheel, Micromax v/s other mobile brands

India’s premier M- school + Importance of flanker branding

 It allows a company to attract new customers from various market segments

 The main brand of a company’s portfolio should target the market segment containing the most customers

 Another brand can then be positioned to convert users from other market segments by using different set of benefits or product characteristics

For example:

• P&G – Tide is an extremely successful laundry detergent

In order to appeal to consumers who desired a lower - cost detergent , P&G introduced Cheer

India’s premier M- school + Advantages:

 Gain more shelf space for the company, which increases retailer dependence on the company’s brands

 Capture “brand switchers” by offering several brands

 Protect the company- giving a product its own unique name means it will not be readily associated with the existing brand. This reduces risk of damage to the existing brand and/or company if the product fails

 Companies with a high-quality existing product can introduce lower-quality brands without diluting their higher-quality brand names

India’s premier M- school +Cash Cows:

 Some brands may be kept around despite dwindling sale because they still manage to hold on to a sufficient number of customers and maintain their profitability with virtually no marketing support

For example:

• Colgate has come out with Colgate Gel, it still sells the Colgate White toothpaste

 Brands with significant customer bases that require less attention than other brands

 The role of cash cow brand is to generate resources that can be invested in other brand for future growth

India’s premier M- school + Lower-end entry and high-end prestige brands:  Many brands introduce brand variants in a certain category that vary in price and quality

 These brands leverage associations from other brands while distinguishing themselves on the basis of their price and quality

 The role of a relatively low-priced brand in the brand portfolio often may be to attract more customers to the brand franchise

For example:

• Volkswagen introduced Polo with an idea of bringing new customers into its brand franchise with the hope of later moving them up to higher priced models of automobiles

India’s premier M- school Flankers: Cash Cows: For example: For example: Colgate, Singer sewing Wheel & Rin (), Machine and Sunlight soap of Unilever

Low-end entry: High-End Prestige For example: For example: Lucera brand of jewelry from Nakshatra and D’Damas Gitanjali Group, Wheel for jewelry from Gitanjali group, Unilever, Tata Nano Surf Excel from Unilever, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Silk

India’s premier M- school + Strategic brand:

 Can be a ‘currently dominant brand also called megabrand, which can maintain or grow its position, or a small brand that is projected to become a major one

 Thus, a strategic brand represents a meaningful level of profit and sales in the future

 Eg: Pepsi or Thumbs Up

India’s premier M- school + Linchpin brand

• As the name suggest, is the top brand or the key player

• It provides a source of differentiation and indirectly influences customer loyalty

For example:

• Dairy Milk is a linchpin brand for Cadbury

India’s premier M- school + Silver Bullet:

 A silver bullet is a sub-brand or branded benefit that is employed as a vehicle for changing, or supporting the brand image of a parent brand

 Because a silver bullet has a role that extends beyond supporting its own business, it deserves extra resources allocation in the form of advertising / or product development

For example:

• Sony Walk-Man – supports innovative miniaturization identity that is central to Sony

• Vodafone Tuesdays, Airtel Hello Tunes.Mc Donald’s Happy Meal

India’s premier M- school + Branded Benefit As Silver Bullet:

• A branded benefit can also play a silver bullet role by supporting the image of the brand to which it is attached

• Thus it can do more than help communicate a functional benefit

India’s premier M- school + Sub Brands:

 Sub brands are brands that are connected to the parent brand and supplement or modify the parent brand’s association

 The parent brand provides the ‘primary frame of reference’ and the sub-brand provides the attribute association

For example:

• Titan Raga, Tata Sonata,Titan Nebula,etc

India’s premier M- school + Sub-brands are further graded into the following

 Sub-brands as co-driver –

• Where the endorser brand and the sub-brand both play a major role

For example

• Nestle Kit Kat – both Nestle & Kit Kat have strong brand equity

 Master brand as drive –

• Here, the parent or Masterbrand primarily drive the success of sub-brand

For example:

• HP DeskJet printer – where primary driver for the sub- India’s premier M- brand, is the parent brand name HP school +BRAND LICENSING:

 Licensing involves contractual agreement whereby firms can use the name, logo, character, and so forth of other brands to market their own brands for some fixed fees

 Essentially, a firm is “renting” another brand to contribute to the brand equity of its own products

 Entertainment licensing has been a big business in the recent years

 Successful licensors include movie title, logo, comic strip character, television and cartoon characters

 For example:

RaOne, Krissh, Tom & Jerry, Chotta Bheem, India’s premier M- Angry Birds school + Merchandise Licensing industry

. Worldwide is estimated at $187billion but in India it is still at nascent stage

. The emergence of organized retail in India has set the pace for new collaborations between Licensors and Indian business houses

. Licensing of brands, designs, characters and celebrities is now becoming popular in India – used as jewellery, apparel, lifestyle accessories, toy, gifts, games etc

India’s premier M- school + Benefits of Licensing For Brand Owners:

 Allow entry into new categories and businesses in which the company may not have core competency

 Provides broader retail presence

 Generates new, ongoing revenue streams at minimal increment cost

 Protects the trademark through registrations and actual use

India’s premier M- school + Benefits of Licensing For Brand Licensees:

 Ease of entry into new product categories or price range

 Alternative to significant investments in brand building

 Better bargaining power with retailers

 Build competitive advantage

India’s premier M- school + Disadvantage

 One danger in licensing is that manufacturers can get caught up in licensing a brand that might be popular at the moment but is really only a fad and produces short lived sales

India’s premier M- school + Corporate trademark licensing:

 One of the fastest growing segments of the licensing industry

 Is the licensing of company name, logo, or brand for use on various, often unrelated products

 In licensing their corporate trademark, firm may have different motivation, including generating extra revenue and exposure, or enhancing their brand image

 However, the risk is that the product will not live up to the reputation established by the brand

 Inappropriate licensing can potentially dilute brand meaning with consumers and marketing focus within the organization

India’s premier M- Eg: Maruti Suzuki,Hero Honda,Parker Pens by school Luxor +CHOOSING A BRAND STRATEGY:  The six strategies discussed above can be labeled as generic strategies of branding

 Each one is driven by its own internal structure and logic

 The benefits and constrain flow accordingly

 One cannot make a blanket judgment about any strategy being the best

 Each strategy comes with its own pros and cons

 Therefore, the branding strategy decision cannot be automatic

 It must be preceded by a systematic analysis of a India’s premier M- school brand’s strategic challenges and a firm’s strengths and weaknesses + Firms can adopt multiple branding strategies depending upon their requirements

For example:

• Nestle – adopts, by and large , an endorsement brand strategy for all its products

• Within the endorsement framework, Maggi takes as an umbrella brand role for its range of products

 It is hard to generalize as to which brand strategy is appropriate

 But the choice of the strategy needs to be used on a thorough understanding of what each of the branding strategy stands for and what are its intentions

India’s premier M- school +Factors for Selecting Branding Strategy:

1)Market Size

• When market size is smaller and is not growing, achieving critical mass is difficult

• In such situations a branding strategy which takes assistance from an established name may be more desirable

2)Competition

• Implies how fiercely the market is contested

• Brands need to shift from generality to specialty

• Specific customer benefits or personality focus needs to be achieved

India’s premier M- school +• Accordingly, branding strategies which are tilted in favor of individual brand’s identity creation may be more appropriate

3) Resources

• Product branding is definitely not an option for a resource starved firm

• Product branding firms like P&G, HUL, etc have deep pockets

• They have resources to create and support product brands

• While the firms in Eastern side of the globe heavily banked upon umbrella branding. These firms, instead created a common equity pool to be used and exploited by products in their portfolio

India’s premier M- school + 4) Product Newness:

• Today’s market environment is characterized by brand proliferation

• When a marketer wants to add a new product which is characterized by its own uniqueness in terms of benefits or attributes, using common brand name is not desirable

• The appropriate branding strategy under these circumstances is not to follow umbrella branding, but to mow towards product branding which concentrates on differentiations

• Brands can evoke a mid-route by combining company name with product name to avoid confusion and establish clarity of image

India’s premier M- school +5) Technology / Innovations:

• Product innovation sometimes embody new technology

• Innovation brings uncertainty, both for the firm and the customers

• Firms marketing innovation have to attend to two tasks:

1)To insulate brand equity in case the innovation fails

2)To communicate its innovativeness

Eg: Kent RO Water Purifier.

Kent Ozone Veg & Fruit Purifier

India’s premier M- school +6)Nature of the product:

• A brand name could be based on functional or attribute of the brand

• The functional brands are rigidly defined by their functions / attributes. Eg: Ezzee conditioner for woolen clothes

• This limits their ability to be globally extended to categories placed at a distance from their core

• However, some brands allow greater scope for umbrella or source branding Eg: Kingfisher and Godrej. v/s Unilever and P&G

• Product category also has to be considered for branding strategy Eg: Tea cannot be given brand name like

Wheel Tea or Cinthol Tea India’s premier M- school +7)Customer Sophistication:

• In different geographic markets, customer sophistication with respect to product class may vary

• Sophisticated customers who appreciate differences among the product within a class are not be dealt with umbrella branding

• The differentiation must be accounted for by the branding strategy

• Greater customer sophistication makes umbrella branding an inappropriate option

• The branding strategy must focus on category differentiation as it exists in customer’s mind

India’s premier M- school +BRAND HIERARCHY:

 “A brand hierarchy is a means of summarizing the brand strategy by displaying the number and nature of common distinctive brand elements across the firm’s product’s, revealing the explicit ordering of brand element”

India’s premier M- school The corporate or the parent Company brand brand of the organization (General Motors) A portfolio of products under Family Brand one brand, generally within one product category ( Chevrolet)

Individual Brand A specific product in that line or a sub-brand (Beat)

Modifier An individual and unique item or a special class (GLX)

Different levels of the hierarchy of General Motors India’s premier M- school + Kapferer Branding system is developed by one of the Europe’s leading branding expert Jean-Noel-Kapferer

 This hierarchy involves moving from top level to the bottom level introducing more brands at each succeeding level which may be easily represented as follows:

1)Corporate (or company) brand (GM)

2)Family Brand (Chevrolet)

3)Individual Brand (Optra)

4)Modifier (GLX)

 The highest level of hierarchy always involves one brand – the corporate or company brand

India’s premier M- school + Some brands highlight their parent company’s name in a subtle manner.

For example:

• P&G owns Vicks, Whisper, Ariel etc – but does not uses its corporate name in any of its line business

 Some other firms combine their corporate brand name with family brands or individual brands

For example:

• Reliance – Reliance Communications, Reliance Energy etc

India’s premier M- school + Finally, in some other cases, the company’s name is virtually invisible and, although technically part of the hierarchy, receives virtually no attention in the marketing program

For example:

• Big Cinemas – a division of Reliance Media Works Ltd

 At the next lower level, a family brand is defined as brand that is used in more than one product category but it is not necessarily the name of the company or the corporation itself

For example:

Kissan Jams, Sauces, Fruit Crushes, etc

India’s premier M- school + An individual brand is defined as a brand that has been restricted to essentially one product category, although, it may be used for several different product types within the category

For example:

• Haldiram’s - Namkeen, Chips, Bhujia Sev, etc

 A modifier is a means to designate a specific item or model type or particular version or configuration of the product

For example:

• Lay’s – regular and baked chips

• Amul – ‘Pasteurized Unsalted’, ‘regular’, and ‘Lite’ versions of butter

India’s premier M-  Different level of the hierarchy may receive differentschool emphasis in developing a branding strategy +BRAND PRODUCT MATRIX:

Product Mix

Brands 1 2 3 4 Brand Line A

B

C

D

Brand Portfolio/Product Line

Product Assortment India’s premier M- school + Brand Line:

 1 Row of the matrix (original + Extensions)

 Brand Portfolio /Product Line

 1 Column of the matrix ( set of all brands in a product category)

 Product Assortment:

 Entire Matrix

India’s premier M- school Brand-Product Matrix

Product Mix

Detergent Shampoo Soaps

Product Breadth/Width (No. of product lines)

Average Depth Product Line Length = Total Variants/ No. of products in product line Total Brands

Product Assortment

India’s premier M- school HUL Detergen Soaps Hair Food Bevera Oral Skin ts Care ges / Care Care Ice Cream s Wheel Liril Clinic Plus Kissan Taj Close-up Ponds Mahal Tea Rin Breeze Sunsilk Knorr Taaza Pepsoden Fair & t Lovely

Surf Excel Rexona Dove Annapurna Lipton

Comfort Lux All Clear Bru

Vim Pears Tresemm Kwalit e y Walls Cif Ponds

Sunlight Lifebuo y Dove

Hamam India’s premier M- school + A brand-product matrix helps to highlight the range of products and brands sold by a firm

 To characterize the product and branding strategy of a firm one useful tool is the brand –product matrix

 A graphical representation of all the brands and products sold by the firm

 It helps identify Gap Areas which can be entered by launching new brands/products.

India’s premier M- school + Corporate Branding

 Aaker defines a corporate brand as a brand that represents an organization and reflects its heritage, values, culture, people and strategy.

India’s premier M- school +Difference between Corporate and Product Brand

 Shift in focus from product branding to corporate branding

 Organizational culture and health comes to fore

 From customer focus to stakeholder focus

 Branding responsibility shifts from team to corporate communications team

 Product brands live in the present where as corporate brands live in the past, present and future

India’s premier M- school