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<p>During the past two decades research has shown that brands are among a company’s most valuable assets. However, in today’s competitive landscape, it is not enough to just create strong brands. The focus lies rather in managing a range of brand lever-age strategies within complex brand portfolios. Moreover, the majority of today’s established brand concepts do not represent the reality of contemporary brand man-agement. Instead, they tend to be based on dichotomies and simplifications. In addi-tion, there is a lack of criticism towards many of the established brand concepts resulting in the reduction of brand management to a number of static categories and stagnated definitions – thereby missing out on the analysis of important intersec-tional issues between the various categories. This book explores the somewhat for-gotten area of intersection, investigating the territory in-between brands.</p><p>The methods used consist of a literature review covering some of the most influ-ential brand models within the area of brand portfolio and brand leverage as well as an empirical case study including the following seven brands: Adidas, Bang & Oluf-sen, Electrolux, H&M, Microsoft, Peak Performance and W. L. Gore & Associates.</p><p>The findings show that conventional brand management models and terminology do not fully explain common marketplace strategies and practice. As a result, this research introduces a more realistic viewpoint and dynamic framework that is based on convergence and that allows migration and iteration rather than today’s static approach. The framework, named the brand leverage palette, introduces various nuances between different leverage strategies, both adding clarity and offering guid-ance by explaining different migration movements among today’s brand portfolios.</p>

<p><strong>Subject: </strong>This paper is about Brand Extension and if the process differs when a company extends its brand from a service to a product in comparison to an extension from a product to a product. As an example we have analyzed the mobile phone business and the mobile phone operators who launch their private branded mobile phones</p><p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The purpose of this paper is to analyze <em>how companies use brand extension from service to product as a part of their brand extension strategy.</em><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A literature study was done in the brand extension area, but also in the area of brands to have a deeper understanding for the subject. A qualitative study with interviews was combined with a quantitative survey study. On the basis of the theories we could analyze the collected data and fulfill the papers purpose.</p><p><strong> Results: </strong>Important features and differences in services and products were identified and the importance of a strong brand identity before an extension. The consumers showed positive attitudes and reactions towards the companies brand extension strategies through the survey.</p>

During the past two decades research has shown that brands are among a company’s most valuable assets. However, in today’s competitive landscape, it is not enough to just create strong brands. The focus lies rather in managing a range of brand lever-age strategies within complex brand portfolios. Moreover, the majority of today’s established brand concepts do not represent the reality of contemporary brand man-agement. Instead, they tend to be based on dichotomies and simplifications. In addi-tion, there is a lack of criticism towards many of the established brand concepts resulting in the reduction of brand management to a number of static categories and stagnated definitions – thereby missing out on the analysis of important intersec-tional issues between the various categories. This book explores the somewhat for-gotten area of intersection, investigating the territory in-between brands. The methods used consist of a literature review covering some of the most influ-ential brand models within the area of brand portfolio and brand leverage as well as an empirical case study including the following seven brands: Adidas, Bang &amp; Oluf-sen, Electrolux, H&amp;M, Microsoft, Peak Performance and W. L. Gore &amp; Associates. The findings show that conventional brand management models and terminology do not fully explain common marketplace strategies and practice. As a result, this research introduces a more realistic viewpoint and dynamic framework that is based on convergence and that allows migration and iteration rather than today’s static approach. The framework, named the brand leverage palette, introduces various nuances between different leverage strategies, both adding clarity and offering guid-ance by explaining different migration movements among today’s brand portfolios.

Subject: This paper is about Brand Extension and if the process differs when a company extends its brand from a service to a product in comparison to an extension from a product to a product. As an example we have analyzed the mobile phone business and the mobile phone operators who launch their private branded mobile phones Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze how companies use brand extension from service to product as a part of their brand extension strategy. Method: A literature study was done in the brand extension area, but also in the area of brands to have a deeper understanding for the subject. A qualitative study with interviews was combined with a quantitative survey study. On the basis of the theories we could analyze the collected data and fulfill the papers purpose. Results: Important features and differences in services and products were identified and the importance of a strong brand identity before an extension. The consumers showed positive attitudes and reactions towards the companies brand extension strategies through the survey.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate consumer’s attitude towards licensed products in relation to the parent brand, with respect to perceived quality, likelihood to buy and associations’ transferability. Background: Brand licensing has become one of an increasingly popular ways of stretching a brand into new product categories to reach more consumers in new markets. Despite the fact that brand licensing is less risky than building a brand from scratch, the odds that licensed products will fail are still high. That is why, it is interesting to investigate consumers’ attitudes towards brand licensing in fast moving consumer goods sector and see how perceived quality, likelihood to buy and transferability of parent brand associations will impact the licensing strategy. Method: The authors will use quantitative approach; data will be gathered using self-administered questionnaires. Furthermore, the data will be analysed using SPSS, namely by employing Spearman’s correlation. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that perceived quality, likelihood to buy and associations of the parent brand have a positive impact on the licensed products only if there is a high degree of perceived fit between the two product categories. Consumers welcome new licensed product that is in the related product category, however, the consumers appear to be sceptical to the product that is outside of the core market of the parent brand.

Η μελέτη πραγματεύεται το λανσάρισμα στην αγορά ενός νέου προϊόντος μέσω επέκτασης μάρκας. Συγκεκριμένα, γίνεται μια έρευνα αγοράς, κατά πόσο οι καταναλωτές ενδιαφέρονται ή όχι να αγοράσουν το νέο προϊόν που προτίθεται η εταιρία EΒΓΑ να κυκλοφορήσει, το κρουασάν FOLIE με επικάλυψη τη σοκολάτα του παγωτού STATUS. / This study is about launching a new product in the market through brand extension. Particularly,it is a market survey, whether the consumers are interested in buying the new product that EVGA company is planning to release or not.This product is the croissant Folie covered with real chocolate of the STATUS ice-cream.

Sammandrag: Företag strävar kontinuerligt efter att bygga ett välkänt och framgångsrikt varumärke. De strävar efter att tillfredsställa konsumenters behov för att öka varumärkets värde, brand equity. Genom att försöka avgöra konsumenters inställning till ett visst varumärke och deras förhållning till ett utökat sortiment i en ny produktkategori syftar denna uppsats till att diskutera och utforska förändringen av varumärkets brand equity. Vid denna undersökning har H&amp;Ms varumärke och deras nya sportkollektion använts som exempel. Teorin behandlar varumärkets värde, brand equity, utifrån ett konsumentperspektiv samt utvidgning av produktutbud hos varumärken. Konsumenter styr ett varumärkes värde och då studien undersöks från ett konsumentperspektiv, var det av intresse att fokusera på Consumer Based Brand Equitys, CBBEs, fyra olika dimensioner: lojalitet, medvetenhet, upplevd kvalitet och associationer. Genom en kvantitativ enkätundersökning fick respondenterna bland annat svara på i vilken utsträckning de förknippade olika faktorer med H&amp;Ms varumärke och därefter i vilken utsträckning de förknippade samma faktorer med den nya sportkollektionen. Några faktorer som användes var kvalitet, modeinriktat, pris, exklusivitet, känt m.fl. Med det teoretiska ramverket tolkades de empiriska resultaten för att kunna besvara uppsatsens syfte. Resultaten visade, till viss mån, en positiv förändring av värdet för varumärket på grund av den nya sportkollektionen, samt att det finns tendenser till fortsatt överensstämmelse mellan H&amp;Ms varumärke och en sportfokuserad produktkontext.

近年來國內便利商店越開越大，也紛紛以品牌延伸策略推出包羅萬象的產品/服務，與過去將坪效奉為至上準則，且以民生用品販售為主的便利商店發展模式大相逕庭。然而，回顧國內外關於品牌延伸策略的理論研究卻少有針對零售業界的理論模型，更不用說以便利商店產業為研究對象的深入實務探討。因此，本研究希望透過深入訪談與個案分析，歸納出消費者用以評價便利商店品牌延伸活動的評價因子，與探究便利商店業者品牌延伸活動的發展與限制。 透過文獻回顧，本研究提出零售商的品牌延伸策略類型與消費者評價因素為研究架構，配合國內兩大便利商店業者的6個品牌延伸案例為分析對象，以質化研究的個案分析法為主，深度訪談為輔，解構業者在發展不同品牌延伸的背後動機與相關策略活動，並深入了解消費者對於便利商店業者不同品牌延伸策略的看法。 根據研究結果，本研究認為便利商店業者在品牌延伸策略的運用上，應以聚焦核心能力所及範圍為原則，若欲跨足新專業領域，則宜強打配合廠商的品牌，採專業分工方式進行。而消費者在面對便利商店品牌延伸時，則會先經過一涉入程度判定過程，高涉入度消費者在購買決策前會積極蒐集相關資訊，並會和現有產品/服務提供商進行比對，因而面對此類消費者，應以強化品牌概念一致性、透過體驗行銷提高使用轉換率、加強資訊與促銷策略曝光度提高使用誘因，並以強化與配合廠商間的連結來降低認知風險為主要推廣策略；面對以嚐鮮為主要購買決策驅動引擎，並容易隨著口碑起舞的低涉入度消費者，應朝善用數位媒體來增加品牌黏著度，及管理數位口碑來強化口碑影響力，兩大方向著手發展推廣策略。

Today there seems to be an increasing number of products similar to one another, especially on the fast-moving consumer goods market. Due to this recent trend, differentiation is necessary for companies to define their brand in relation to its competitors. One of the possibilities is the implementation of the brand extension strategy. The main objective of this master thesis is to investigate and analyze the effects of different types of brand extension strategies with the focus on the beer market. The first part of the thesis includes a thorough research of primary and secondary data, which provides insight into new trends and factors that influence the brand extension strategy and its success. The second part is more practical and is devoted to a case study of a Czech premium brand called Frisco. Given its increasing competition on the market, Frisco has recently changed its core strategy and extended portfolio.