Analysis of Brand Management Research and Studies

This assignment provides an in-depth examination of brand management research and studies. It features a list of references to various papers and books on the topic, including articles from journals such as the Journal of Product & Brand Management, Journal of Fashion Marketing & Management, and Town Planning Review. The references cover topics like consumer engagement in online brand communities, nation branding, place brand practitioners' perspectives, brand management in small and medium enterprises, and more. Aaker's Brand Equity Model is also discussed. This analysis aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.

Brand Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1. Introduction........................................................................................................................3
2.Main body............................................................................................................................5
3.Conclusion...........................................................................................................................7
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
1. Costa Coffee's brand portfolio strategy..............................................................................7
Branded House.......................................................................................................................8
House of Brands.....................................................................................................................8
2. Illustration of the hierarchy management of brands within Costa Coffee's portfolio........8
3. Strategies used for managing the equity of the brand within Costa Coffee's portfolio......9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
Define and explain Brand extension and Line extension.....................................................11
1. Strengths of the brand that can get leverage.....................................................................12
2. Weaknesses that may need attention providing some possible suggestions....................13
3. Collaborative and partnership agreements.......................................................................13
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
Different types of techniques for measuring and managing brand value.............................14
1. Brand value.......................................................................................................................14
2. Brand Awareness..............................................................................................................15
3. Market share.....................................................................................................................16
4. Consumer attitudes...........................................................................................................16
5. Purchasing intent .............................................................................................................17
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Brand management refers to maintain and improve a brand so that the name is associated
with the positive outcomes. This includes a large number of aspects such as cost, customer
satisfaction and competition. This is generate on the foundation of marketing but focus on the
brand directly and concentrate on how the brand remain favourable towards customers. The
present report is about Optimum Impression Ltd, which is an advertising company (Arai, Ko and
Ross, 2014) . This report will generate an article which include Aaker Brand Equity Model
(CBBE Model). Apart from this, for rest of the tasks, a well known company that has been taken
Costa Coffee, which is a British multinational coffee house found in 1971 by Bruno Costa and
Sergie Costa. Along with this, the report will also show brand portfolio, extension and leverage.
At last, the report will be end up with the assignment, which will focus on managing the over all
brand value of the company.
TASK 1
Article : Brand is Power
To - Board of Directors of ‘Optimum Impression Ltd’
From - Marketing manager
Date - February 14 , 2019
Subject - Brand is Power
1. Introduction
Brand – A brand name is the name of the unique product, service, or idea. Branding is
the process of spreading and creating the name of brand. Branding can be applied to the entire
firm identity as well as to a single product and names of services. This can be defined as a
unique design, a combination of words that a company carries for developing its unique
identity. In present world, it has been identified that brand is a product, concept and also service
which is publicly different from other services or products so that it can easily communicated.
Generally, it is protected from the use through others with the help of securing service or
trademark from authorized agency. In other words, brand can be understood as a concept which

helps consumers in identifying a company's products and services with the help of logo, design
of the organisation. It is the duty of managing director to create right symbol so that the
customers can easily identify the name and product of the company when the individual sees
the designed statement of the company (Song, Hur and Kim, 2012) .
Brand equity – Brand equity is the combination of brand awareness, loyalty, associations
and perceived quality. It is the commercial value of a brand which is a result of customer’s
perception about the brand name of specific product or service (Buil, De Chernatony and
Martinez, 2013) . In other words, it can be defined as the market image which has been derived
from the recognition of a brand among customers. It can be created by the companies for their
products by making them unique, memorable, good in quality and easily recognisable. It is a
type of element which can help the organisations to identify their brand image in the market and
among competitors. If the customers are not having good experience with the brand than it may
create bad brand image in their mind that may affect the image of a company.
Some of steps through which a successful brand can be made are given below:
Step 1: Find out Target Audience: The main foundation for building the brand is to
determine the target audience as the company can't be everything to everyone. So, while
building a brand, it is to keep in mind that where the individual is trying to reach, and should
adapt the mission and message to meet the needs.
Step 2: Define Brand Mission: The management of the company shall prepare a mission
statement for short- term and long-term goals. Everything related to the company such as logo,
tag-line, voice and message, all should reflect the mission.
Step 3: Research Competition : In this, the role of managing director is to examine the
overall competition and measure what they are producing for their targeted audience. This can
easily help in developing a successful brand with an ease because after examining the situation,
company can easily make changes in their products for the betterment of their business
(Chauhan and Pillai, 2013) .
Step 4: Create Value Propositions: In this, managing director of the organisation needs to
understand the external and internal environment and try to create effective strategy which will
aid in creating proper values along with creating an unequalled brand of the company. The
marketers of a company have to always focus on what makes their brand valuable and unique.
This is possible with the help of proper communication channels with customers.

Step 5: Determine Brand Guidelines: In this, Brand guide lines set rules and regulations on
the way in which companies interact with their target audience. It is suggested to every
organisation to set definite pattern for visual elements and structure of the company. At last, in
the end, companies have to prepare a specific marketing strategy to market the brand.
Organisations should supply branding in every piece of communication (Da Silveira, Lages and
Simões, 2013) .
Marketing department has a vital role to play in promoting the brand to huge number of public.
The advertising activities done by it increases the brand awareness which impact the company
operations and sales in a positive way. The role of marketing in creating brand equity are as
follows:
 Defining and managing the brand.
 Management of conducting various marketing initiatives.
 Development of marketing and promotional plan.
 Monitoring the whole process and taking corrective steps to improve the results.
 Managing internal communications of employees.
 Conducting customer and market research.
 Maintaining cordial relationship with vendors and agencies.
2.Main body
Hershey’s is an American company that has been working into the chocolate factory
since 1894. It is headquartered in Pennsylvania and considered as one of the largest
manufacturing company in chocolate. Hershey’s chocolate is available across the United States.
Hershey’s production of chocolate mainly focuses on four main flavours which are milk, white,
dark and gold. Hershey’s chocolates are manufactured using 100% farm fresh milk which
makes the milk chocolate so well. The Cocoa that is used in the production is sourced from
various growing regions of the world. Due to their huge products and their taste, Hershey’s is
considered as one of the top Cadbury competitors. However,a question arises about Hershey's,
about the packaging because a worm can not get into the package unless and until it has been
packed properly. This is still discussed by the people. The outcome of this has destroyed its
huge brand image which affected its sales in a very negative way.
Customer-Based Brand Equity (CBBE) model: This model will help Hershey's to enhance

their brand equity and will help to build strategies for enhancing overall reputation of
organisation. 4 levels of CBBE model are discussed below:
Level 1- Brand identify: Hershey's consume more on advertising their services and products
so that they can uphold within market for long time.
Level 2 – Brand Meaning: It comprises of two sections which are as-
 Brand performance : Performance of a company helps to decide the brand performance.
Hershey's also produce best products but focus is on their own reputation.
 Brand imagery : Customer's mind is important element which plays a critical role in
Brand imagery (Buil, De Chernatony and Martinez, 2013). Just like Hershey's provide
an innovative image of their products.
Level 3 – Brand Response: When audience buys their services or products, they have
certain expectation against business brand. If customer's expectations are met, then they are
satisfied and have better view related to brand.
Level 4 – Brand Resonance: Organisations have built good image of themselves as they
have good reach to their customers. It is confined to connections, engagement of customers,
behaviour and many more. Hershey's must focus on their image this lead them to reach new
heights.
Strengthen brand equity : Brand equity is the financial benefits that a company gets by
charging premium prices for its products on the basis of its brand image. If an organisation is
willing to strengthen brand equity than it is essential for the company to implement following
strategies this may help to set a proper and effective brand equity(Dolbec and Chebat, 2013).
Brand extension refers to using an already famous or established name in new product
line. It is not compulsory that, expansion will be of same products, it can have different
products as well. It is assumed that new products will improve brand image by lowering the
risks and providing category opportunities. To restore the lost brand name, Hershey's
introduced many new items in its existing product lines of chocolates. One of the reason for
brand extension is to shift the attention in the public eye from the incident that destroyed it's
brand position in the market.
Brand reinforcement is an activity to maintain brand equity by making the customers
buy products of a particular brand on a repetitive basis together with attracting new consumer.
It is an effort to keep the existing brand alive in the market.

Brand revitalisation is a strategy of marketing department to bring back the brand
equity of that product whose brand image has been ruined. Customers are made aware about the
product with improved quality and added benefits. To gain the lost brand image, Hershey's
launched Public Relations program with an initiative towards education (Carah, 2014).
Together with this, it upgraded its packaging to double layer along with heat-sealed covered
aluminium foil.
3.Conclusion
Branding refers to a memorable logo which increases the goodwill of the company
and market share if used as a marketing tool. Branding is not about making the good impression
on the customers but also to tell the clients and customers to know what to expect from the
organisation. Importance of branding as a marketing tool- In this scenario, some importance
are shown below: Keep New Competition Away : Barriers or hurdles related with competitors can be
decreased by existing organisations if different segments are created and organisation
will reach to new height with help of segments.
 Develops customers orientation related to service which is behind the brand : It is
responsibility of marketing manager to promote services and products. For this, it is
essential for organisation to follow advertisements and conduct market research. These
are essential for the success and growth of brand.
TASK 2
1. Costa Coffee's brand portfolio strategy
A brand portfolio is the group of brands under a company's control. Single brand can
have a small business or just one shop, while large and multinational corporations may have
dozens of well-defined brands in their portfolios. Here, the two main portfolio management
strategies are discussed by Costa Coffee -
Passive Portfolio Management Strategy : This strategy is opposite to active management
portfolio, and this focuses on maximising the diversification with little expectational inputs. This
portfolio management strategy basically reflects a market index of the organisation. Costa
Coffee's, the kind of approach mainly stays enclosed by different styles and considering different
stock selections like aggressive portfolio, market theory, and so on. This is beneficial in

maintaining and improving the brand equity of costa coffee (Dessart, Veloutsou and Morgan-
Thomas, 2015) .
Active Portfolio Management Strategy: Actively managed investment fund consist of an
individual portfolio manager or a team of managers which is actively making investment
decisions for the fund. The main purpose of portfolio manager in an actively managed fund is to
beat the market. So this strategy can help Costa Coffee in beating the rivals at marketplace.
Branded House
With a branded house strategy, the Costa coffee is the brand. The sub-brands of this firm
are costa coffee- Fresh & Ground, Coffee- Vending, Coffee-cakes and exports. This builds a
very strong brand, both easily recognizable and memorable.
House of Brands
This is totally opposite of a Branded House. As the descriptor implies, sub-brands are
featured or promoted, rather than the company or corporate brand. Hierarchies within the
company are more complex. Many HOB businesses are consumer products or holding
companies, which acquire brands, especially large, global brands with established equity.
2. Illustration of the hierarchy management of brands within Costa Coffee's portfolio
The name of a brand is an quality attached to any product or person. This has intangible
nature and expected to communicate with certain messages or feelings to the target audience.
Whereas, the brand management hierarchy is about treating the growth and performance of a
brand in business (Rosenbaum-Elliott, Percy and Pervan, 2015) . It has been analysed that, Costa
Coffee can get support from hierarchy management with the help of developing different
techniques that can easily differentiate them from its rivals with a unique brand name. This
hierarchy engages in determining the design of logo and brand image in line with data is search
out with the help of market research.

(Source: Product Portfolio, 2018)
Management hierarchy of Costa Coffee
 Umbrella brand : These brands are the brands name that are utilized by a range of
different merely related products. This brand is sometimes refereed to as family branding.
This brand strategy is a marketing practice that involves marketing many related products
under a individual brand name. In this same brand product are included in the
marketplace for targeted audience.
 Endorsed sub brands : This brand subject area is made up of single and well-defined
product brands. In present context, signs linked with business where bidding a famous or
a common person so that right approach of promotion may lead firm to raise profit
margins and can enhance customer base of Costa coffee company (Dinnie, 2015) .
3. Strategies used for managing the equity of the brand within Costa Coffee's portfolio
For every individual company, it is necessary to focus on organisation's portfolio when it
co0mes to manage the brand equity. In present context, Aaker Brand Equity Model is being used
by Costa Coffee which was developed by Professor David Aaker which is enclosed with a
number of factors, which are mentioned below -
Illustration 1: Product Portfolio

Brand Loyalty This is the currency of the brand as described
in this model. In this the higher loyalty helps
firm to reduce the marketing costs. The loyalty
of brand attract the new customers and needs
time to response competitive threats. The main
purpose of a company is the brand loyalty
determines when budgeting. This keeps the
customers coming back to contribute to the
bottom line of the company.
Brand Awareness This is the extent to which a brand is defined
among the public. To build the brand equity,
brand awareness is the first step which is
needed and other parameters come in next. The
brand awareness helps the brand to get into the
consideration (Gundala and Khawaja, 2014) .
This is an anchor to which other associations
can be attached. This has the visibility which
helps to gain the consideration. Brand
awareness is crucial when the company
launches the new product or service and also
this drives customers decisions when they
compare the rivals companies.
Brand Associations The brand associations are triggered by the
brand. This is the extent to which brand
associations play a vital role in the process of
buying or purchasing, and create positive
attitude. The brand associations has huge
number of brand extensions in the market.
Each brand needs an association with its
customers (Aaker Brand Equity Model, 2019) .

In present time, customers are desire more than
just a product or service and they want human
interaction.
Perceived Quality Perceived quality refers as the perception of
customers related to the overall quality of a
product or services. This is the extent to which
a brand is considered to provide the best
quality products. Perception with regard to the
product gives an extra edge over the actual
product features. The quality offered by the
brand is a reason to purchase it. In this,
customers are unaware of the factors involved
in pricing a product . Such as the estimated or
actual cost of production.
TASK 3
Define and explain Brand extension and Line extension.
Brand extension - Brand extension is also known as brand stretching, which is a
marketing scheme in which a firm markets a product with a well-developed representation by
using the same brand name in a different product concept, to enhance and leverage brand equity
of an organisation. The new launched product called a spin-off.
Line extension - The line extension of a product is the use of developed product brand
name for a new item in the same product class. This occur when a company initiate additional
items in the same product class under the same brand name with a new flavours, colours, forms,
etc.
Difference between Brand Extension and Line extension
Brand Extension Line extension
The Brand extension is important, when
organisation want to spread out the risk of their
portfolio. Eg : Brand extension is when
The Line extension is important to boost sales,
once organisation have a well-known brand
name.

organisation sell coffee under the name "X",
and then that selling coffee-cakes under the
name "Y".
Eg :Line extension is when organisation
introduce a new product category, like if
organisation is selling coffee and start selling
Tea.
1. Strengths of the brand that can get leverage
Costa Coffee is a famous British multinational coffee house company which is
specialised in its own way to satisfy the needs and demands of their customers. Apart from this,
Brand leverage is the strategy to take the use of existing brand name to assist company's entry
into a new but related product category by communicating rich product information to the
customer (Hanna and Rowley, 2013) . For example- The manufacturer of coffee maker uses its
brand name strength to launch coffee vending machine. Here, in spite of coffee and vending
machine belonging to different category, the strong relation is made between two items that the
brand name has a powerful impact on customer of both categories. In present context, it has been
analysed that Ristretto which is big on flavour drink made with the help of coffee and steamed
milk is being considered as one of the leading selling branded product of Costa Coffee in all over
the world and some of its strengths are given below:
 Strong brand leveraging render customers with a sense of information.
 The brand leverage include positive brand features and attitudes towards a new product
class. This will increases customer satisfaction for the company.
 Strong leveraging comprehend instant identification to the brand. This increases the sales
and profits.
 The size of Ristrettos product gets wider which gives more choices to consumer to
choose from various products, this increases the market share of the company.
 Ristrettos has exclusive feature in machine of coffee which is nit available in existing
coffee bone appliances (Heding, Knudtzen and Bjerre, 2015) .
 In Ristrettos introducing a brand-leveraged product cost is less than introducing a new
product. This increases growth of the company.
 The main strength of the organisation is that, it has excellent brand name and brand
visibility.
 The organisation has wide range of products and have reputation for value of money.

2. Weaknesses that may need attention providing some possible suggestions
With the context of today's time, some of weaknesses that has been observed of Ristretto
coffee cafe is that health conscious people do not consumes it because of high caffeine range.
Price of the product could be more than what the customers are expecting. Ristretto has launched
Diet coffee and Zero Sugar coffeeat a price which is above nominal, this has impacted its profits.
A proper balance should be strike for brand leveraging because this may affect the market sale of
existing products. Therefore, Ristretto is least famous among young generation in all over United
Kingdom. It has also impacted the profitability of Costa Coffee's. It is required for Costa Coffee
to modify product on the basis of needs different customers so that proper benefits can be gained
and achieved by this company. Also a wide market research should be conducted by Ristrettos to
get the precise knowledge about demands and requirements of people across UK. Price should be
which the majority of customers are willing to pay. For example – The customer of Ristretto is
recommending that they want some green bean, as the customer drink ristrettos made with a
Rancillio Silvia with an 18g VST basket. They like different flavours in our coffee – some like a
fair bit of acidity, and some prefers less acid. Most customer like ristrettos to have good body
and it's a plus if it can be syrupy too.
The Ristrettos should fulfil the demand of customers, so that the goodwill of Ristrettos
can be enhanced in the marketplace. The more weaknesses of Ristrettos is that it have few
number of stores, and in current time, it is present in a limited number of countries. Ristrettos has
inefficient marketing strategy.
3. Collaborative and partnership agreements
Firstly should understand the meaning of Collaboration agreements which are entered
between two researchers engaged in research and technical nature work. In similar way, on the
other hand, partnership agreements are entered between partners who have mutual interests to
carry business and make profits. Costa has come a long way since the first shop was set up in
1971 by the Costa brothers. This has declared plans to significantly expand its estate on the back
of strong sales growth, and now Costa Coffee is doing business at international level, these are
two sections on which company have kept its focus on and these are brand extension and
leverage. In present context, brand extension is an instance of using an constituted brand name or
trademark on new products, so as to enhance the sales of costa coffee, and on the other hand,
Brand leveraging is the plan of action to use the power of an existing brand name to assist a

company's entry into a new but related product class by communicating valuable product
information to the customer, and this can be considered as a technique that helped Costa Coffee
in collaborating with Kraft Brew UK Partnership and they have developed Tassimo machines
and Costa cappuccino, Ristretto, latte and Americana single-serve discs are going to be available
in Costa stores. Before, entering into such agreements, it should conduct a diligence examination
in order to ascertain the property of such agreements (Hutter and et. al., 2013) . This agreement
have led them in improving productivity, profit margins and sales at the same time and by this
they are easily attaining their business goals and objectives.
TASK 4
Different types of techniques for measuring and managing brand value.
1. Brand value
Brand value is also be considered as brand equity, which is a phrase used in the industry
of marketing, this defines the importance of having a well known brand name and the owner of
that can produce more revenue by brand recognition. Brand value of a company can be advised
as net present value of an organisation's cash flow which is linked with its products and services
that company have offered to their customers. The brands of any company has their own value
and the market leadership and profitability of any product of organisation is measured by their
brand value. Costa Coffee which is already having a good name and currently owns 4000 coffee
house stores in approx 32 countries, and more than 2400 of these stores are in UK along with self
service machines of coffee (Hwang and Kandampully, 2012) . But, it is also mandatory for the
company to focus on its goals and objectives by maintaining and improving its brand value
through different steps like Gross Profit Differentiation which is being considered as one of
ascertained brand value with the help of gross profit differential approach. In present technique,
value that Ristretto is having can be equalised to price which similar companies are offering of
same segment. For example- Costa has recently opened new store. They knows that the store has
been busy but wants to know how they are doing financially. They decides to figure out their
gross profit on the product they sold. In accounting software, costa is able to pull up the total
dollar amount for net sales and costs of goods sold. Net sales for the quarter are $15,000. Cost of
goods sold for the same accounting period is $8,695. The gross profit is :
Gross profit = net sales – COGS

Gross profit = $15,000 - $8,695
Gross profit = $6,305
This is truly said that, if the value of a brand has positive brand equity, then the company can
charge more for their product than their competitors products.
There are six steps of brand audit described below-
Identify the competition- It is important for the organisation to assess competitive
landscape of brand and identify competitors of the brand. IN context of Costa Coffee it is
important to research the competitors and analyse the strategies and plans for gaining profits.
Gather assets- In this case relevant assets of each brand are considered of the brand. Costa coffee
collects various assets like brand visualisation including sales, websites and marketing collateral.
Analyse visual identity- A research must be conducted to know logos, colours, typography and
imagery of each brand. Costa coffee can identify patterns of different brands, and find
opportunities for differentiation within the competitive landscape. Determine positioning- the
visual identity and verbal language of every competitor brand with own brand is important.
Costa coffee should know about strategies, plans and ideas of marketing.
2. Brand Awareness
Brand awareness is the level of customer consciousness of a company. This evaluate the
ability of a potential customer to not only observe the image of a brand but also associate with a
particular company's product. This can also be considered as an effective approach extent to
which consumers stays much more familiar with the qualities or image of a particular brand of
goods or services (Rauschnabel and et. al., 2016) . This can be understood with an example of
Costa Coffee that have developed all of their services and products wrapping things in red
colour. This has helped company's brand name in getting staying people's mind with its colour.
From starting of Costa Coffee, both Bruno and Sergio have decided to keep their focus on red
colour whether they are promoting, producing new product base line and so on. This has helped
the costa coffee company in enhancing their sales and also this has increases the profitability of
the organisation. Through brand awareness costa has came to know about their success and
failure, and also the whole marketing causes can be build by promoting brand awareness
(Jugenheimer, Sheehan and Kelley, 2015) . To manage the strong brand image, company should
do more and more advertisement by using various modes such as digital, social media, bill

boards, hoarding etc. In order to understand the brand awareness in depth, there are a range of
techniques that can be used, which are as follows:
Brand Recall : It is basically the extent which is being used by a company like Costa
while promoting its products like Coffee-cakes where brand name is recalled as a member of a
brand, product or service class, as distinct from brand recognition.
Infographics : This is also one of the effective brand awareness technique which could
be used by Costa, as Infographics are a bright and colourful way to display interesting marketing
data and statistics.
3. Market share
Market share mean by the portion of a marketplace which is controlled by a particular
product or a company. Costa is leading with 39 percent of market share in UK, as this is the
largest coffee chain in United kingdom. In 2016, Costa Coffee was being ranked as the number
one coffee brand based company which is having around 2100 stores in all over United Kingdom
and in other sections as well. Along with this, Costa is leading Starbucks by 25 percent of market
share and Cafe Nero with 11 percent of share. Apart from this, Pepsi example can also been
taken where in United kingdom, it is leading beverage brand that is having around 34% in UK in
beverage sector. As coffee shops are growing across the UK, therefore, for costa it has been
seamed to be difficult to grow their business in maturity market. To measure and mange the
market share, company should analyse the share of its competitors to implement approaches and
strategies for increasing customer satisfaction. This will help them to gain a competitive
advantage which ultimately increase their sales and profits. A company's market share is
the percentage it controls of the total market for its products and services. Market share of an
organisation is calculated by measuring the percentage of sales or percentage of units a company
has in the overall market.
4. Consumer attitudes
This can also be understood with the product performance and buying behaviour of
famous brand of chocolate – Cadbury, which is consumed by the people of all ages. This forms
to be one of the biggest confectionery brand critically keep on evaluating the attitude, taste and
preferences of its consumers consistently, as all marketing starts with the consumer and they are
the one who decide what to purchase, for whom to purchase, why to purchase and how much to
purchase, so as to bring necessary modification or product innovation as per their demands. In

present context, Cadbury uses a technique that is continuously helping them in improving
customer's attitude towards its products and services offered by the company. This technique is
Scaling techniques where managers of this company tries to measure minds of customers and
also manages attitude, preferences and perceptions considering pre-determined set of brands
relating to its products (Kapferer, 2012) . So to measure, the company should make strategies
that creating a strong brand image which will make it competitive. The various techniques to
measure Consumer attitudes are as follows - Simple attitude scale, semantic differential, graphic
scales, etc.
5. Purchasing intent
The willingness of a customer to buy a certain product, this means to purchase intent of a
customer. In present context, an example can be taken of Lakme which is an Indian cosmetics
brand that is selling cosmetic based products and services to its customers (Lundqvist and et. al.,
2013) . Firm have used measuring techniques and managing purchase, with the help of predictive
modelling technique. This includes a proper procedure and helps in taking effective use of data
mining and probability. This help Lakme to increase their profitability and productivity as they
consist of good range of data.
On the other hand, a Net Promoter Score can be utilised in order to measure customer
experience that they had just after using the purchased product of Rolex i.e. Pearl-master watch
of Rolex, this basically assist in predicting the overall growth of business. This proven metric
transformed the business world and now provides the core measurement for customer experience
management programs the world round.

CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been concluded that Brand management is crucial to
maintain and improve a brand so that the name is associated with the positive outcomes. This is
generate on the foundation of marketing but focus on the brand directly and concentrate on how
the brand remain favourable towards customers. The report has described each section to
enhance the growth of business organisation. Brand equity can easily be maintained with the
help of Aaker Brand Equity Model (CBBE) model and profit can be maximised with the help of
following the brand values and brand awareness by investigating the needs and requirements of

customers and through building effective relations with them. At last the evaluation of various
techniques for measuring and managing organisation has been described such as brand and
purchase intent, brand value and awareness, market share, etc.

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