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Introducing & Naming New Products & Brand Extensions
Presented By: SUHAS NOEL SHIVANAND
Leverage the Brand:Firms are seeking to build power or mega brands that establish a broad market footprint, appealing to multiple customer segments with multiple products all underneath the brand umbrella.
Ansoffs Growth Share Matrix:Current Products New Products
Current Markets
Market penetration strategy
Product development strategy Diversification strategy
New Markets
Market development strategy
Brand Extensions: When a firm uses an established brand name to introduce a new product
Brand extension classification Line extension Using a sub-brand to target a new market segment within the same product category Category extension Using the parent brand in a different product category
Advantages of Extensions: Facilitate new product acceptance1.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Improve brand image Reduce risk perceived by customers Increase efficiency of promotional expenditures Avoid cost of developing a new brand Allow for packaging and labeling efficiencies Permit consumer variety seeking
Advantages of Extensions (Cont.) Provide feedback benefits to parent brand 1. Clarify brand meaning 2. Enhance the parent brand image 3. Bring new customers into brand franchise and increase market coverage 4. Permit subsequent extensions
Disadvantages of Extensions:1. 2. 3. 4. Can confuse or frustrate consumers Can fail and hurt parent brand image Can succeed but cannibalize sales of parent brand Can succeed but diminish identification with any one category 5. Can dilute brand meaning 6. Can cause the company to forgo the chance to develop a new brand
Understanding How Customers Evaluate Brand Extensions: Managerial
assumptions :-
1. Consumers have some awareness of and positive associations about the brand in memory 2. At least some of these positive associations are evoked by the brand extension 3. Negative associations are not transferred from the parent brand 4. Negative associations are not created by the brand extension
Successful Extensions: Must create points-of-parity and points-of-difference in
extension category Must recognize competitive reactions
Must enhance points-of-parity and points-of-difference of parent brand Must maximize the advantages and minimize the disadvantages of brand extensions
Successful Category Extensions:1) Ivory shampoo and conditioner 2) Vaseline Intensive Care skin lotion 3) Visa travelers checks 4) Sunkist orange soda 5) Colgate toothbrushes 6) Mars ice cream bars 7) Arm & Hammer toothpaste 8) Dove shampoo and conditioner 9) Hershey chocolate milk 10) Porsche coffee makers 11) Fendi watches 12) Jeep strollers
Unsuccessful Category Extensions:1) Campbells tomato sauce 2) LifeSavers chewing gum 3) Cracker Jack cereal 4) Bic perfumes 5) Ben-Gay aspirin 6) Kleenex diapers 7) Levis Tailored Classics suits 8) Nautilus athletic shoes 9) Dominos fruit-flavored bubble gum 10) Smuckers ketchup 11) Cadbury soap 12) Ben-Gay aspirin
Brand Extensions Example 1:Levis Jean SegmentsBrand Levi Strauss Signature Levi Strauss Signature Authentics Levis Redtab Levis Silvertab Levis Red Levis Vintage Price Range $19 - $23 $24 - $25 $25 - $50 $25 - $58 $49 - $68 $80 - $325
Example 2Brand DefinitionsMoisturizer Lotion Medicinal Vaseline Intensive Care Purity Body care Pump bottle Baby care Fragrance
Related CategoriesSoap, Face cream, Skin cream Sunburn, Aftershave, Baby Antiseptic, First-aid cream, Hemorrhoid cream Cotton, Gauze, Sterile pads Emery boards, Muscle toner, Cotton swabs Liquid hair net, Mustard, Glass cleaner Diapers, Powder, Oil Perfume, Room deodorizer, Deodorant
Design Marketing Programs to Launch Extension:They are:1. Choosing Brand Elementsa) b)
Logo Trademark
2.
Designing Optimal Marketing Programa) b) c)
Building Brand equity Consumer perceptions of value must guide pricing decisions Firm must integrate marketing communications by mixing and matching communication options
3.
Leveraging Secondary Brand Associationsa)
Additional fortification like linking to other entities