Abstract Due to relaxed regulations and the active attitudes of Taiwan government¡¦s applying international organizations; Taiwanese firms are facing steeper competitions from international brands and transformation challenges. Although Taiwanese firms possess top-tier techniques in several aspects, brands managing are ignored for a long period. With international brands¡¦ experience in marketing, consumers are more likely to purchase foreigner brands instead of Taiwanese brands. For Taiwanese brands, consumers¡¦ attitude will be the prime supporter for branding. Thus, Taiwanese brands should consider on how to boost loyalty of high-brand-identity consumers and to induce low-brand-identity consumers to purchase. The utmost task for Taiwanese brand breeders is to understand the brand identity of Taiwanese consumers. Different alternatives should be planned to focus different consumer types. Consumers¡¦ feedbacks should also be considered for the sustainability of the brands. Due to branding efforts paid by firms and Taiwanese governments, this research served a psychological concept ¡V identity ¡V as a tool in explaining the concept of ¡§overall Taiwanese brands¡¨ and identity of Taiwanese consumers. This research serves ¡§firm side¡¨, ¡§government side¡¨, ¡§consumer side¡¨ and ¡§the latest satisfaction¡¨ as the dimensions in discussing their relation with ¡§Taiwanese brand identity¡¨. Researchers studied several aspects via serving a specific brand as an example. In ¬x¶¶¼y¡¦s research on Taiwanese brand competitiveness, he serves the study as a direction of Taiwanese firms which are intending to develop brands. Yet no previous papers have studied on the topic of brand identity, thus this research is an innovation. The outcomes indicate that consumers possess more positive attitudes toward 3C products than before. Three out of the four independent variables ¡V ¡§brand marketing¡¨, ¡§personal characteristics¡¨ and ¡§the latest satisfaction¡¨ ¡V have significant positive relation with Taiwanese brand identity. On the other hand, the results indicate that modifying effects exist only in (1) ¡§Gender¡¨ and ¡§the marketing popularity of enterprises which owns Taiwan brand¡¨ and ¡§Taiwanese brand identity¡¨, and (2) ¡§Average monthly income¡¨ and ¡§the marketing popularity of enterprises which owns Taiwan brand¡¨ and ¡§Taiwanese brand identity¡¨. The analysis of ¡§demographics¡¨ and ¡§Taiwanese brand identity¡¨ shows that the interviewees¡¦ Taiwanese brand identities possess insignificant differences on five demographic variables.

Taiwan has had a strong OEM electronics industry for over 20 years now, but in a time of narrowing profit margins Taiwan has been trying to move to a more OBM oriented strategy. In this study I have shown that even though Taiwan has been able to create several globally recognizable and –in the eyes of consumers- high quality consumer electronics brands its worldwide image as a country has not improved among consumers. Taiwanese products are viewed as being only slightly superior to Chinese brands. This means that new and established Taiwanese brands don’t have the advantage that Japanese brands have just by coming from a country with a good reputation. Consumers in Europe and North America have less knowledge of the country of origin when it comes to Taiwanese brands compared to Japanese and Korean brands. Because of the bad reputation of Taiwanese products brands are hesitant to associate themselves with Taiwan creation a vicious circle. Taiwan’s rival Korea however has been making progress, it’s brands are more recognizable as Korean and the image of Korean products is also better even though the individual brands are not necessarily rated more favourably by consumers. It’s not recommended for individual Taiwanese brand owners to associate itself with the country as this would in most cases negatively affect its brand value. It’s also found that Chinese, Korean and Taiwanese brands with a high perceived quality are often mistaken as Japanese. It may therefore be helpful to for Asian brands to try to associate themselves more with Japan or East-Asia in general. As for improving the country image of Taiwan, the Taiwanese government should redouble its efforts to improve the country’s image to a level it deserves according to the technological advances made in Taiwan in the past decades.