The Power of Retail Branding


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Retailers of every format, specialty, department, discount, off-price, e-tail, designer, manufacturer, and shopping mall now know that retail power is brand power. To maintain a unique competitive advantage retail marketers must be proactive in the reinvention of their store-as-a-brand, their store and private brands, and most important, their customer as a brand.




Retail Power Plays


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How can retail brand power be built and maintained? What are the implications of this for 'producer brands' like Coca-Cola? How will retailing look in the twenty-first century? This book sets out strategies and implementation programmes for building strong brands in retailing, to create competitive differentiation and superior financial returns. It begins with an analysis of how retail and 'own label' brands have leap-frogged traditional producer brands. The authors argue that this is changing the consumer goods industry. To meet these new challenges, the book sets out action plans and examines branding strategies in a number of different market sectors. It also uses analysis and case-studies from around the world, particularly the USA, Europe and Japan.




Retail Branding


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How to Succeed at Retail


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Who are the world's best retail brands? Is there a formula for success you can learn from? How to Succeed at Retail helps you find the key factors that will make you successful. Building on the process introduced in the international bestseller Retailization, it begins by encouraging you to become 'retail obsessed' and to think strategically, creatively and operationally in a retail context. It then illustrates success in action with 25 winning international case studies that show you some inspirational ways forward. Fast-paced and accessible, it concludes with an operational methodology which can be applied to any and every business. By introducing you to new ideas, winning cases and real tools, How to Succeed at Retail will help you to develop and implement an actionable brand vision. An accompanying website provides access to further case studies, strategies, tools and downloads. Featured case studies: Apple; Assa Abloy; Bose; Courvoisier; Dyson; Easyjet; Gillette; Gooh!; Guiness; Hennes & Mauritz; Holland & Holland; Innocent; Karmaloop; Oliviers & Co; P&G; Peroni; Red Bull; REI; Senseo; Starbucks; Superquinn; Tchibo; Whole Foods Market; Yoyamart; Zara.




Brandstand


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Today's major retail marketers look to the power of branding as their most potent and valuable strategic asset. This fascinating book of case studies demonstrates what really works in effective retail brand management, showing readers a myriad of marketing and creative efforts that help develop a branding story. Filled with over 500 full-color photos, Brandstand identifies, analyzes, and interprets each brand, and presents a new, "how-to-think" rather than "what-to-think" theory about building retail equity.




Building a StoryBrand


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More than half-a-million business leaders have discovered the power of the StoryBrand Framework, created by New York Times best-selling author and marketing expert Donald Miller. And they are making millions. If you use the wrong words to talk about your product, nobody will buy it. Marketers and business owners struggle to effectively connect with their customers, costing them and their companies millions in lost revenue. In a world filled with constant, on-demand distractions, it has become near-impossible for business owners to effectively cut through the noise to reach their customers, something Donald Miller knows first-hand. In this book, he shares the proven system he has created to help you engage and truly influence customers. The StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their companies. Without a clear, distinct message, customers will not understand what you can do for them and are unwilling to engage, causing you to lose potential sales, opportunities for customer engagement, and much more. In Building a StoryBrand, Donald Miller teaches marketers and business owners to use the seven universal elements of powerful stories to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses. His proven process has helped thousands of companies engage with their existing customers, giving them the ultimate competitive advantage. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching you: The seven universal story points all humans respond to; The real reason customers make purchases; How to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and How to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers.




Retail Branding and Store Loyalty


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Marketers and retailers have to understand how to manage different consumer perception levels of retail brands, which have a major determining role on store loyalty across different complex contexts. Addressing these issues, Bettina Berg analyzes first whether corporate reputation and retail store equity have a reciprocal relationship in determining store loyalty. Second, she evaluates whether retail brand equity or store accessibility provides a greater contribution to store loyalty across different local competitive situations. Third, she investigates whether perceptions of format specific core attributes differ in their impact on the brand building process in saturated and emerging markets.​




Retailization


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In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on selling brands ever written, international business experts Keith Lincoln, Anthony Aconis and Lars Thomassen, reveal how the world's most successful brands sell themselves to today's increasingly demanding shoppers and retailers. As the world of mass communications evolves into the world of media of the masses the very concept of the brand is transforming - from branding to the shelf to branding from the shelf. Two years in the analysis Retailization is the largest study ever conducted on how corporations and their brands are dealing (or not dealing) with this new era. The study covering over twenty countries worldwide and interviews with some of the leading brand marketers has drawn on countless examples of both creative execution and retail impact. Retailization shows how to establish a business approach that can better meet the needs of today's shopping Kings and Queens by creating and activating revolutionary selling situations. The central thesis of this book is that corporations must undertake nothing less than a radical reinvention of how they reach their customers to sell their products. The shelf where products are sold is the new centre of the business and communications universe. The answer to how to get the most from this change lies in a radically new business philosophy - RETAILIZATION. Retailization presents an innovative and pragmatic step by step process to help businesses rethink, reimagine and restructure their entire business and brand efforts around the retail strategies and executions that can better meet the needs of today's shopping Kings and Queens. Research shows that we have as little as four seconds to get a shopper's attention. The authors explain what you need to do to guarantee that you own that four seconds from understanding your competitive arena and context to understanding the nature of today's shopper. From there they explain how you can optimize the creation of your products, your retail impact and your communications. Finally, they demonstrate how to activate the process through retailizing your entire organization from top to bottom and we how to verify the results.




Branding a Store


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Branding a Store shows how to build a strong, independent retail brand identity to remain competitive in today's global marketplace. First the book explains the distinction between retail brands and manufacturer brands, and assesses the increasing conflict between the two. The author explains in detail the potential benefits of a strong retail brand for both the retailer and the consumer. It discusses the factors to consider when positioning the brand: assortment; price; convenience; and customer experience. The author considers the three competitive strategies to follow to build a strong, distinct brand identity: increasing sales; cutting costs; and increasing differentiation from the competition. Then he explains the most effective ways to communicate with the consumer. Finally he offers insights into the future development of successful retail brands.




Retail Pricing Strategies and Market Power


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This study of retail pricing strategies presents information on the practices used in a variety of sectors, such as supermarkets, banks and airlines. His analysis rests on several basic concepts which are introduced in the book.