Tag Archives : Brands

Trend Watchers Predict More Brands to Cater to Emerging Markets

Trend Watchers Predict More Brands to Cater to Emerging Markets

Trendwatching.com is a London-based trend-spotting firm and their assessment is that an increasing number of Western brands will launch new products or even new brands dedicated to consumers in emerging markets in 2011. Brazilian, Indian, and particularly Chinese consumers can expect to see more products next year that are specifically tailored to their [...]
StumbleUpon Goes ‘Pro’, Come Year 2011

StumbleUpon Goes ‘Pro’, Come Year 2011

As the year 2011 comes knocking on our door, the world of technology is gearing for a lot of expected and unexpected moving and shaking of the tech community. To kick off the new year, one of the foremost discovery engines on the Internet, StumbleUpon, has now announced that, the company will soon be providing various businesses, publications and brands [...]
Brands Play an Important Role in Lives of Preppies

Brands Play an Important Role in Lives of Preppies

In the kind of social attire we live, our personality is gauged by our professional excellence and monetary status. If someone entered your driveway in Rolls Royce, you are bound to pay that extra attention unless you are a Hilton heiress yourself. Edelman and StrategyOne team recently published a report which suggested that for rich brats, choice [...]
Keep your Brand Alive

Keep your Brand Alive

The key to a very successful brand launch is keeping the promise made to the customers. Delivering what the brand promises is the first step in winning the trust of the target customers. Setting a high expectation and not matching the same only backfires. Successful brands of our times like the search engine giant, Google has managed to deliver just [...]
Microsoft (and not Google) Becomes UK’s Most Popular Consumer Brand!

Microsoft (and not Google) Becomes UK’s Most Popular Consumer Brand!

According to the latest Superbrands survey Microsoft has become UK’s top consumer brand and Google has gone down to third place this year. This is quite interesting since Google had the top spot last year. Rolex has come from way far behind and taken second place. The other top 10 brands include Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola, Lego, Apple and Encyclopedia [...]
Coke and Pepsi Following Each Other on Twitter!

Coke and Pepsi Following Each Other on Twitter!

Is this is end of brand rivalry between Coke and Pepsi? Or they are just following each other on Twitter and using social-media to build their own brand images? The truth is both Pepsi and Coke are sending RTs (Re-Tweets) and it has been recorded on the blog of Amnesia Razorfish, the digital agency which began the whole tweeting game between the two [...]
Mercedes-Benz New Campaign to Appeal to Reason

Mercedes-Benz New Campaign to Appeal to Reason

Mercedes-Benz USA is launching new campaign for its new 2010 E-Class model car which costs around $48,000. Well, it is difficult to sell cars during the times of recession, so Mercedes-Benz is investing some $75 million on a campaign which will project the new technology as the unique selling point. The new campaign will purely target the reason and [...]
Add Value to your Brands, Beat the Economic Crisis

Add Value to your Brands, Beat the Economic Crisis

With recession around the corner, many marketers are having a tough time convincing the consumers to spend like before. Retailing sector shows a grim picture and so is the overall scenario with increase in the number of pink slip handouts. What’s the common way to beat the recession? Cut down on the marketing expenditure, Cut costs in new product [...]
Want Success? Attach a Social Value to Your Brand!

Want Success? Attach a Social Value to Your Brand!

When it comes to the branding strategies of any products or services, we look for emotional or rational element attached to it. Being the most important decision of any marketer, the branding strategies need to be in place right from the start. The big question is that why some old brands fail when the new ones succeed? Google, Facebook, Blackberry, [...]
Private Label Winning The Market Share

Private Label Winning The Market Share

Package goods brands face great threat from the private labels. With the consumers spending lesser and lesser, the growth of the private labels can reach a dizzying high. Marketers are now concerned about their strategies and pricing tactics to prevent from further losing out in their market share to private labels. Marketers are of the view that it [...]