27 The prevalence of line extensions, as manufacturers struggle to maximize the leverage of their brand equity, is undoubted and well documented (Aaker 1991; Ries and Trout 1986; Tauber 1981). Brand owners use existing brand names to reduce barriers to entry for the new line with the implicit assumption that additional profit will be earned as a result. But haunting the parent brand is the spec...

Nowadays children face lots of slogans every single day. A good slogan generates feelings. Of course these feelings, brand names and slogans can be placed in mind of children by marketing experts. The remember rate of slogans is shockingly high, higher than is case of their parents. We can state that well-placed slogans play a very important role in influencing of children. All of these contrib...

What?s in a name? A brand-name drug and its generic counterpart are chemically the same. They may have different names, colors, and shapes, but the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires generic drugs to share several similarities as the brand-name counterparts (more on this later). And, while there are some differences, generics don?t really change the effectiveness of the d...

Ambiguity Aversion And The Power Of Established Brands Author(s): A. V. Muthukrishnan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Luc Wathieu, ESMT This paper investigates situations where a sizeable sub-set of consumers prefer an inferior (dominated) offer made by an established brand to a superior (dominating) offer made by a less-established brand. Established brands are those for which ...

A brand name can be considered a mental category. Similarity-based categorization theory has been used to explain how consumers judge a new product as a member of a known brand, a process called brand extension evaluation. This study was an event-related potential study conducted in two experiments. The study found a two-stage categorization process reflected by the P2 and N400 components in br...

This paper reports on a replication of Alba and Chattopadhyay’s (1986) study of the effects of substantially heightened brand salience upon the recall of competing brand names. Heightened salience was consistently shown to have an inhibiting effect on recall across a variety of experimental conditions. However, in the replication study this salience effect was not observed. Instead a trend in t...

What?s in a name? A brand-name drug and its generic counterpart are chemically the same. They may have different names, colors, and shapes, but the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires generic drugs to share several similarities as the brand-name counterparts (more on this later). And, while there are some differences, generics don?t really change the effectiveness of the d...

tria's touristic programmes, and as a marketing organisation for the entire system and its various sub-systems (provinces, regions, resorts, businesses and other operators in the tourist industry). Within the framework of its cornmunication policy, ANT0 sees its most important role in implementing a consistent policy of high-quality ('brand name policy') for Austria. Apart from developing typic...

What?s in a name? A brand-name drug and its generic counterpart are chemically the same. They may have different names, colors, and shapes, but the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires generic drugs to share several similarities as the brand-name counterparts (more on this later). And, while there are some differences, generics don?t really change the effectiveness of the d...