Praise and Reviews "This is a must read book... Lindstrom provides fascinating stories taking you into the mental and emotional life of this new generation..." - Philip Kotler, S C Johnson & Sons Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management "BRANDchild will be a valuable addition to our industry's literature." - Lester Wunderman, Chairman Emeritus and founder of Wunderman Cato Johnson "Lindstrom's fascinating tour-de-force may have you staying awake for 60 hours in order to mine the kids-focused marketing wisdom." - Stann Rapp, MRM Partners Worldwide and co-founder of Rapp Collins Tweens (8- to 14-year-olds) are an increasingly powerful and smart consumer group that spent $300 billion across the globe last year and influenced another $350 billion spend through their parents. Based on the world's most extensive study of tween attitudes and behaviours, and now available in paperback, BRANDchild is the first book to look in-depth at the phenomena behind global kids and their relationships with brands. Conducted by Millward Brown, the leading global market research agency, the BRANDchild survey involved several thousand kids from more than 70 cities in 14 countries (throughout Europe, Asia, the United States and South America). Several renowned experts share their unique views on kids' trends and fascinating marketing techniques. Packed with practical advice on how to create kids' brands, including more than 50 previously unpublished case studies, BRANDchild proposes innovative ways of marketing to this young audience.

The definitive book on sensory branding, shows how companies appeal to consumers’ five senses to sell products. Did you know that the gratifying smell that accompanies the purchase of a new automobile actually comes from a factory-installed aerosol can containing “new car” aroma? Or that Kellogg’s trademarked “crunch” is generated in sound laboratories? Or that the distinctive click of a just-opened jar of Nescafé freeze-dried coffee, as well as the aroma of the crystals, has been developed in factories over the past decades? Or that many adolescents recognize a pair of Abercrombie & Fitch jeans not by their look or cut but by their fragrance? In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on how our senses affect our everyday purchasing decisions, global branding guru Martin Lindstrom reveals how the world’s most successful companies and products integrate touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound with startling and sometimes even shocking results. In conjunction with renowned research institution Millward Brown, Lindstrom’s innovative worldwide study unveils how all of us are slaves to our senses—and how, after reading this book, we’ll never be able to see, hear, or touch anything from our running shoes to our own car doors the same way again. An expert on consumer shopping behavior, Lindstrom has helped transform the face of global marketing with more than twenty years of hands-on experience. Firmly grounded in science, and disclosing the secrets of all our favorite brands, Brand Sense shows how we consumers are unwittingly seduced by touch, smell, sound, and more.

More than simply a comprehensive collection of brand success stories, this text will also help businesses and students to easily identify the factors behind these successes, and to place them into a broader business and social context.

Praise and Reviews "the best book on brands yet"- Design Magazine"New exciting ideas and perspectives on brand building are offered that have been absent from our literature."- Philip Kotler, S C Johnson & Sons Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management"Managing a brand without reading this book is like driving a car without your license."- Haesun Lee, Senior Vice President of Marketing, AMOREPACIFIC Co, Korea"Kapferer's hierarchy of brands is an extrordinary insight"- Sam Hill and Chris Lederer, authors of The Infinite Asset, Harvard Business School Press"One of the definitive resources on branding for marketing professionals worldwide."- Vikas Kumar, The Economic Times, India"One of the best books on brand management. Kapferer is thought provoking and always able to create new insights on various brand related topics."- Rik Riezebos, CEO Brand Capital and director of EURIB / European Institute for Brand ManagementThe first two editions of Strategic Brand Management were published to great critical acclaim. The New Strategic Brand Management has been rewritten and fully revised to bring readers absolutely up-to-date with the dramatic changes that have taken place in brand management worldwide.Dealing with the concept and practice of brand management in its totality, it is packed with fresh examples and case studies of brands from all over the world, paying particular attention to global brands. It also looks at the hype surrounding branding and stresses the role of sound business decisions when building a brand. There are several new chapters, including:brand and business buildingthe challenge of growth in mature marketsmanaging retail brands.Plus completely new sections on innovation and its role in growing and reinventing brands, and corporate branding.The New Strategic Brand Management will provide all marketing and brand managers with a thorough understanding of the new rules of brand management and how to put them into practice.

Adopted internationally by business schools and MBA programmes, this book is the ultimate resource for senior strategists, positioning professionals and postgraduate students to understand and overcome the challenges of brand management and strategy today, written by the leading international expert of branding, Jean-Noël Kapferer. The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the reference source for branding professionals and postgraduate students. Over the years it has not only established a reputation as one of the leading works on brand strategy, but also has become synonymous with the topic itself. Using an array of international case studies, this book covers all the leading issues faced by brand strategists today, with both gravitas and intelligent insight. It reveals new thinking on topics such as putting culture and content into brands, the impact of private labels and the comeback of local brands. This updated fifth edition builds on the book's already impressive reputation, including new content that will help students and practitioners stay up to date with targeting, with relevant research and market knowledge to support the discipline. With dedicated sections for specific types of brands (luxury, corporate and retail), international examples and case studies from companies such as Audi, Nivea, Toyota and Absolut Vodka; plus models and frameworks such as the Brand Identity Prism; The New Strategic Brand Management remains at the forefront of strategic brand thinking.

This text aims to clarify for brand managers what they must consider when managing their brands across diverse cultures and markets throughout the world. Each brand has its own particular assets and vulnerabilities and this book provides a framework to be used comparatively across markets to reveal how to extend the brand and realize its true value. Topics include: the brand environment; the brand expression; the brand domain; the brand reputation; the brand affinity; the brand recognition; local brand management; harmonizing a global brand; extending a global brand; and creating a new global brand.