The influence of brand extensions on the parent brand is important to seen has explored the effects of actual experience with them despite the fact that perceptions based on experience are imunderstand because they may change its core beliefs and thus either enhance or jeopardize its positioning. However, previous research has focussed on portant determinants of product knowledge (Smith and Swi...

As more and consumers are becoming aware interested in socio-political issues, brands changing the way they advertise by communicating their stance on key issues advertising campaign; a strategy called woke advertising. Through this strategy, taking up responsibility of creating lasting positive impact meaningful contribution to society. However, instead serving desired purpose, some these adve...

OBJECTIVE To examine, for dominant Australian cigarette brands, brand identity (overriding brand vision), brand positioning (brand identity elements communicated to the consumer), brand image (consumers' brand perceptions) and brand equity (financial value). DESIGN Tobacco industry documents, articles from retail trade publications since 1990, and current brand advertising from retail trade p...

Competition in the service industry is intense. To deliver value-added services, more companies are focusing on consumers as a powerful means of establishing firm performance through dialog, participation, and engagement. However, scant research has been conducted to examine whether customer value co-creation can boost brand equity, particularly among SMEs. To address these shortcomings in the ...

the image of a brand is the first word or image that is evoked in the mind of costumers immediately after hearing the brand name. the purpose of paying attention to the brand image is to ensure the proper mentality of consumers toward the brand. the components such as suitability, services, brand, variety, quality, and atmosphere form the brand image. the relationship between the brand image an...

Despite possessing the adequate purchase potential for the fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs), the poor are not reckoned as a viable market by the FMCG marketers and as a result, the purchase preferences of poor are largely unexplored for the concerned products. The present paper bridges the gap subsisting in the pertinent literature by exploring the purchase behavior of poor consumers in the r...

Firms often enter cross-category advertising brand alliance strategies with the goal to increase their market share by association with popular but noncompeting brand allies. However, firms are often not aware of the effects of these alliances on consumer perceptions of participating brands. This research explores the factors moderating brand attribute inferences following exposure to a cross-c...

The key premise underlying this work is that when consumers form relationships with brands they use norms of interpersonal relationships as a guide in their brand assessments. Two relationship types are examined: exchange relationships in which benefits are given to others to get something back and communal relationships in which benefits are given to show concern for other’s needs. The concept...

BACKGROUND Tobacco companies use colour on cigarette packaging and labelling to communicate brand imagery, diminish health concerns, and as a replacement for prohibited descriptive words ('light' and 'mild') to make misleading claims about reduced risks. METHODS We analysed previously secret tobacco industry documents to identify additional ways in which cigarette companies tested and manipul...

Abstract The aim of this study was to find the appropriate type of translation of English brand names Iranian consumers prefer, i.e. phonetic, semantic and phonosemantic types of translation. Also, it was aimed at examining the type of font size Iranian consumers tends to see on packages of English products. To this end, the distinction between male and female participants as well as the partic...