This document discusses how to choose brand elements that build brand equity. It explains that brand knowledge depends on initial brand element choices, marketing programs, and other associations. Good brand elements are memorable, meaningful, likeable, transferable, adaptable, and protectable. Examples of different types of brand elements are provided like names, slogans, logos, symbols, characters, URLs, packaging and their role in building brand awareness and associations. Guidelines are given for selecting each element type to achieve brand objectives.

1. Choosing Brand
Elements to Build
Brand Equity
Chapter 4

2. Brand knowledge structures depend on:
• The initial choices for the brand elements
• The supporting marketing program and
the manner by which the brand is
integrated into it
• Other associations indirectly transferred to
the brand by linking it to some other
entities

3. .
• Memorable
• Meaningful
• Likeability
• Transferable
• Adaptable
• Protectable

4. .• Memorability
• Meaningfulness
• Likability
• Transferability
• Adaptability
• Protectability
Marketer’s offensive strategy
and build brand equity
Defensive role for leveraging
and maintaining brand equity

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6. .Brand elements should
inherently be memorable
and attention-getting, and
therefore facilitate recall or
recognition.
Example
A brand of propane gas
cylinders named Blue
Rhino featuring a powder-
blue animal mascot with a
distinctive yellow flame is
likely to stick in the minds
of consumers.

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• Brand elements may take on all
kinds of meaning, with either
descriptive or persuasive content.
Two particularly important
criteria
 General information about the nature
of the product category
 Specific information about particular
attributes and benefits of the brand
Example
Fair & Lovely, by name it revels that
the cream would be related to
fairness & Skin.
Slice or Frutein, It shows that it
consists the gradient of fruit

15. .• Do customers find the
brand element
aesthetically appealing?
• Descriptive and
persuasive elements
reduce the burden on
marketing
communications to build
awareness.
Example: Tag Heuer, Lexus,
Rado

16. .• How useful is the
brand element for
line or category
extensions?
• To what extent does
the brand element
add to brand equity
across geographic
boundaries and
market segments?
Like:
Nivea : there are
several brand by the
name of tata

17. .• The more adaptable and
flexible the brand element,
the easier it is to update it
to changes in consumer
values and opinions.
Example,
logos and characters can be
given a new look or a new
design to make them
appear more modern and
relevant,

18. .
• Marketers should:
• Choose brand elements
that can be legally
protected internationally.
• Formally register chosen
brand elements with the
appropriate legal bodies.
• Vigorously defend
trademarks from
unauthorized competitive
infringement.
Like:
Xerox protected its name

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Elements
Slogans
Brand
names URLs
Logos
Symbols
Characters

20. .
.• Like any brand element, brand
names must be chosen with the
six general criteria of memorability,
meaningfulness, likability,
transferability, adaptability, and
protectability in mind.

21. Brand value: $104.3 billion (20%)

22. Brand value: $56.7 billion (4%)

23. Brand value: $54.9 billion (9%)

24. Brand value: $50.7 billion (5%)

25. Brand value: $47.3 billion (26%)

26. Brand value: $39.4.4 billion (5%)

27. Brand value: $34.2 billion (2%)

28. Brand value: $30.9 billion (-4%)

29. Brand value: $29.5 billion (53%)

30. Brand value: $28.4 billion (16%)

31. Brand value: $27.9 billion (6%)

32. Brand value: $27.9 billion (+3%)

33. Brand value: $26.9 billion (+4%)

34. Brand value: $25.6 billion (+17%)

35. Brand value: $24.2 billion (+0%)

36. Brand value: $23.5 billion (+8%)

37. Brand value: $23.1 billion (+21%)

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40. Brand value: $21.1 billion (+1%)

41. Brand value: $19.6 billion (+28%)

42. Brand value: $19.3 billion (+0%)

43. Brand value: $18.3 billion

44. Brand value: $18.2 billion (+14%)

45. Brand value: $18.1 billion (+13%)

46. .
.• Brand awareness
 Simplicity and ease of pronunciation and
spelling
 Familiarity and meaningfulness
 Differentiated, distinctive, and uniqueness
• Brand associations
 The explicit and implicit meanings
consumers extract from it are important
 In particular, the brand name can reinforce
an important attribute or benefit
association that makes up its product
positioning.

47. .• Define objectives
• Generate names
• Screen initial candidates
• Study candidate names
• Research the final candidates
• Select the final name

48. .• URLs (uniform resource locators) specify
locations of pages on the web and are also
commonly referred to as domain names.
• A company can either sue the current owner
of the URL for copyright infringement, buy
the name from the current owner, or register
all conceivable variations of its brand as
domain names ahead of time.

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50. .• Play a critical role in building brand equity
and especially brand awareness
• Logos range from corporate names or
trademarks (word marks with text only)
written in a distinctive form, to entirely
abstract designs that may be completely
unrelated to the word mark, corporate
name, or corporate activities

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52. .• A special type of brand symbol—one that takes
on human or real-life characteristics
• Some are animated like Pillsbury’s Poppin’ Fresh
Doughboy, Peter Pan peanut butter’s character,
and numerous characters such as Commander
Safeguard, and Telefun
• Others are live-action figures like Ronald
McDonald.

53. .• Slogans are short phrases that
communicate descriptive or persuasive
information about the brand.
• Slogans are powerful branding devices
because, like brand names, they are an
extremely efficient, shorthand means to
build brand equity

54. .
• “Melts in your mouth, not in your hands”
(M&M’s)
• “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you
don’t” (Almond Joy/Mounds)
• “Where’s the beef?” (Wendy’s)
• “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” (United
Negro College Fund)
• “Can you hear me now?” (Verizon)
• “Thanda Matlab Coca Cola
• Jahan Mamta Wahan Dalda
• Naam hi Kafi Hai (Waves)
• Kion Kay Dawlance Reliable Hai

55. .• Jingles are musical messages written
around the brand. Typically composed
by professional songwriters, they often
have enough catchy hooks and choruses to
become almost permanently registered in
the minds of listeners—sometimes
whether they want them to or not!
• Jingles are perhaps most valuable in
enhancing brand awareness.

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57. .• From the perspective of both the firm
and consumers, packaging must
achieve a number of objectives:
– Identify the brand
– Convey descriptive and persuasive
information
– Facilitate product transportation and
protection
– Assist at-home storage
– Aid product consumption

58. .
.• Our sense of taste and touch is very
suggestible, and what we see on a
package can lead us to taste what we
think we are going to taste.

59. .• Long after we have bought a
product, a package can still lead
us to believe we bought it because
it was a good value.

60. .• Studies of 48 different types of foods
and personal care products have
shown that people pour and consume
between 18% and 32% more of a
product as the size of the container
doubles.

61. .• One strategy to increase use of mature
products has been to encourage people to
use the brand in new situations, like soup
for breakfast, or new uses, like baking soda
as a refrigerator deodorizer.
• An analysis of 26 products and 402
consumers showed that twice as many
people learned about the new use from the
package than from television ads.

62. Caffeinated Energy Drink

63. Kitchen Sponge

64. Nike Stadium Shoe Box

65. Six Feet Under DVD Box

66. Fruit Juice Packaging

67. Milk Carton

68. Anti
Theft
Lunch
Bags

69. Yoghurt

70. Tea Hanger

71. Milk with Expiration indicator

72. Flower Pills

73. Coconut Water

74. Cigarette Packaging

75. Laundry Detergent

76. Pills

77. Rellena Wool

78. .• The entire set of brand elements makes up
the brand identity, the contribution of all
brand elements to awareness and image.
• The cohesiveness of the brand identity
depends on the extent to which the brand
elements are consistent.