Rebrandingen definieras som en förändring av hur en organisation uppfattas av konsumenterna vilket även kan beskrivas som skapandet av ett nytt namn, ny symbol, ny design med syfte att skapa en ny differentierande position i minnet hos intressenterna. Att överleva och lyckas som organisation handlar mycket om ens förmåga att utvecklas gradvis och därför är rebranding en viktig del av ett företags strategi. När företagets ledning eller varumärkesplattform förändras, ofta när organisationen varit verksam under lång tid, är det viktigt att anpassa varumärket efter de nya riktlinjerna. Detta för att kunna bibehålla organisationens varumärkesrelevans. Denna studie använder sig av Sollentuna Golfklubb som case. Golfklubben startade på 60-talet och sedan dess har deras varumärke inte uppdaterats. Det har dock hänt mycket sedan dess - golfens image som sport har förändrats, golfklubbens ledning har bytts ut och organisationen har tagit fram en ny visionsplan. Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats var att med Forskning genom design utreda hur Sollentuna GKs varumärke kunde förnyas, en såkallad rebranding, med avsikt att bibehålla golfklubbens varumärkesrelevans. Utifrån fem faser uppdaterades och omarbetades Sollentuna Golfklubbs varumärkesplattform och varumärkesidentitet. Genom tre olika värderingar - workshop med kund, värderingsintervju med yrkesmän från branschen och en värdering med författarna, kunde en slutsats dras. Arbetet mynnade slutligen ut i en varumärkesmanual där alla varumärkesplattform och varumärkesidentitet inkorporerades. I den slutgiltiga varumärkesplattformen och varumärkesidentiteten finns det en röd tråd som löper genom hela varumärket. Genom en rebranding av hela varumärket säkerställs därför Sollentuna GKs förmåga att bibehålla sin varumärkesrelevans på marknaden i nuläget.

The dissertation explores the causes of party relabeling by focusing on four party systems: South Korea, France, Taiwan and the United States. The existing literature on political parties considers one of their primary functions to be providing a brand name. As a result, party name change has been viewed as an anomaly caused by internal and external shocks that disturb the status quo equilibrium or a phenomenon symptomatic of unstable, weakly institutionalized party systems. However, party name changes are not as rare as assumed in the existing literature. Therefore, my dissertation addresses the following questions: When and why do parties change names? What are the characteristics of a party system that hamper the development of brand-name party labels? I theorize that the combination of the following three factors increases the likelihood of party relabeling: (1) prominence of personalistic party cues, (2) strong levels of political attention in the electorate, and (3) high degree of governmental centralization. These three factors encourage vote-, office-seeking motivations in the party so greatly that the party is willing to do whatever it takes to win including such a radical strategy as relabeling. In order to test the proposed theory, I closely examine South Korea and France, where parties commonly replace their labels, in comparison to Taiwan and the United States whose parties do not change labels, respectively. These four cases are chosen because they allows cross-case and within-case analysis that is crucial for a comparative case study to gain internal and external validity. I utilize various types of data – both qualitative and quantitative in investigating these cases. My dissertation will contribute to a broad range of literatures in party politics as well as in East Asian politics. By providing a new theoretical model on this understudied phenomenon, I contribute to a better understanding of the role of party labels and initiate more active discussion over party strategy and party branding. Furthermore, by examining Korean and Taiwanese parties in depth, my dissertation provides a systematic analysis on the studies of East Asian politics.

<p>Varumärken och företagsnamn är en viktig del i företagens verksamhet och utgör en av de största tillgångarna som ett företag har att tillgå. Ett starkt varumärke är inget som förvärvas över en natt, utan utkräver resurser för att byggas upp. Med detta färskt i minnet kan det därför anses som destruktivt att genomföra ett namnbyte. Trots detta har företagsnamnbyten blivit allt mer förekommande. Vanligtvis sker ett namnbyte på grund av en orsak i företagets omgivning, såsom en fusion eller en verksamhetsbreddning mot en ny marknad. Denna studie behandlar ett annorlunda sorts namnbyte, benämnt interndrivet namnbyte, där inte någon av de reguljära orsakerna till ett namnbyte är applicerbar. Istället genomförs namnbytet som en konsekvens av en intern vision inom företaget om att det nya namnet i sig självt är mer fördelaktigt.</p><p>För att avgöra kunders uppfattning om och anpassning till ett interndrivet namnbyte studeras kunderna till ett företag mitt i uppe i en namnbytesprocess. Studien visar att interndrivna namnbyten innehar en risk i att företagets kunder inte förstår varför namnbytet sker. Av denna anledning riskerar även anpassningen till det nya namnet att brista. Det räcker inte med det faktum att kunderna känner till namnbytet, de bör även förstå varför och inse namnbytets fördelar för att en anpassning skall ske. Därmed avgörs ett interndrivet namnbytes framgång till stor del i hur den externa kommunikationen hanteras. Vidare visar studien att det är viktigt att ta hänsyn till hur stark kundernas relation är till det tidigare varumärket och varumärkets uppbyggda förtroende.</p>

Background: Recent years, M&amp;As have increased sharply. Brand as one of the most precious assets has unavoidably been taken into consideration in these deals. Company can gain great benefit when handle acquired brand properly. Responding to rebranding issue, a clear designed rebranding strategy is considered a solution to deal with it, and brand architecture can be a useful tool to help adjusting the relationship between acquiring and acquired brand.  Aim: The purpose of this research is to explore how firms can strengthen its corporate brand after acquired a strong product brand through proper rebranding strategy and well designed brand architecture. Definitions: Brand: a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of them, intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition. Rebranding: the creation of a new name, term, symbol, design or a combination of them for an established brand with the intention of developing a differentiated (new) position in the mind of stake holders and competitors. Brand architecture: the relationship among and between corporate, company (subsidiary), and product brands. Such relationships embrace products and services, or a mixture of the two across the hierarchy of brands. Results: There are possible options that companies can strength its corporate brand by acquired product brand, when company take brand integration strategy. Moreover, choosing suitable brand architecture during brand integration process is very important for a company

Problem: Rebranding in the services is a recent trend, which brings focus to the impor-tance of the employees in this process. Their attitudes, perceptions and views need to be considered by the management when creating the internal communication strategy related to the rebranding in order to direct the employees to the desired brand image. This raises the problem as how employees perceive the management`s rebranding efforts. Purpose: This study aims to focus on how rebranding is executed and communicated in-ternally to the employees of the company. It is interesting to find out how the employees evaluate the communication strategy that the management implements and how they perceive the new image of the company. In order to get insight to the internal rebranding process the correlation between the perceived image by the employees and the components of the internal communication strategy is presented. Methodology: The empirical approach is a case study of the Bulgarian telecommunication company Vivacom. The research includes two interviews with the management of the company and a questionnaire based on the interviews and the relevant literature, which was sent to the employees of the company. Moreover, company`s documentation and website were used to complement the information. Conclusions: The results helped us identify the decisions that the management made re-garding the rebranding and the internal communication. The quantitative data indicated the relatively positive attitudes and views of the employees for the management`s rebranding efforts. They also showed good knowledge and awareness of the new brand elements.

In the era of globalization, countries compete with each other for attention, respect and trust of potential consumers, investors, tourists, media and governments of other nations. Branding is the most powerful tool that a nation can utilize for effective differentiation strategies and for creating competitive advantage over other nations. Unfortunately, not every nations or destination marketers have a broad understanding of the concept of branding and how a country can be successfully branded. Hence, this study has proposed a model that could be used as a valuable guide for country branding. Also the model is recommended for countries struggling with image crisis; on the mission to improve the image internationally. Nigeria is a good example of countries with image crisis; it is one of the most populated countries in the world with a population of about 160 million inhabitants and growth rate of 2.553percent annually. Despite the abundant resources (e.g. coal, petroleum, natural gas etc.) that the nation is endowed with, it is quite disappointing that the population below poverty line is still at the alarming rate of 70percent of the total population. The mismanagement and poor leadership of the nation characterised by corruption, fraud, embezzlement of public fund etc. has culminated into serious image crisis that is slowing down the potential for investment and economic growth. However, there has been series of image rebranding campaigns but no tangible achievement has been recorded. It is quite questionable though, if image rebranding will provide the kind of future that Nigeria envisaged, considering the socio-political situation and the economic imbalance; compounded by the obvious fact that the nation has no known brand. Therefore, this paper argues that there is need to redirect the effort invested on image rebranding to the creation of a unique and competitive brand for the country. It was established from the study that a nation’s brand is capable of improving the reputation of the nation as well as stimulate the expectation of the target audience. However, it was also established from the study that a wrong approach to branding could mislead the target audience and attract negative publicity. Hence, as a contribution of the study to the field of branding, a model was proposed as a functional guide for country branding. Also, considering the abysmal performance of Nigeria’s image in the international community and to strengthen the argument that brand creation is required for the country; an experimental application of the proposed model was conducted using Nigeria as the case country. The first phase of the model suggested a major improvement in the society; this is required to further enhance the strengths of the country and to motivate the much needed community participation and confidence in the brand creation. It is the conclusion of the study that a strong nation brand can offset the image problem if it is built on something concrete, genuine, and uniquely identifiable with the country, capable of connecting to the cognitive psychology of the target audience.

Varumärken och företagsnamn är en viktig del i företagens verksamhet och utgör en av de största tillgångarna som ett företag har att tillgå. Ett starkt varumärke är inget som förvärvas över en natt, utan utkräver resurser för att byggas upp. Med detta färskt i minnet kan det därför anses som destruktivt att genomföra ett namnbyte. Trots detta har företagsnamnbyten blivit allt mer förekommande. Vanligtvis sker ett namnbyte på grund av en orsak i företagets omgivning, såsom en fusion eller en verksamhetsbreddning mot en ny marknad. Denna studie behandlar ett annorlunda sorts namnbyte, benämnt interndrivet namnbyte, där inte någon av de reguljära orsakerna till ett namnbyte är applicerbar. Istället genomförs namnbytet som en konsekvens av en intern vision inom företaget om att det nya namnet i sig självt är mer fördelaktigt. För att avgöra kunders uppfattning om och anpassning till ett interndrivet namnbyte studeras kunderna till ett företag mitt i uppe i en namnbytesprocess. Studien visar att interndrivna namnbyten innehar en risk i att företagets kunder inte förstår varför namnbytet sker. Av denna anledning riskerar även anpassningen till det nya namnet att brista. Det räcker inte med det faktum att kunderna känner till namnbytet, de bör även förstå varför och inse namnbytets fördelar för att en anpassning skall ske. Därmed avgörs ett interndrivet namnbytes framgång till stor del i hur den externa kommunikationen hanteras. Vidare visar studien att det är viktigt att ta hänsyn till hur stark kundernas relation är till det tidigare varumärket och varumärkets uppbyggda förtroende.

The purpose was to investigate how the retailer ICA could transfer its brand equity when rebranding its low price private label product Euroshopper. The study also had the intention to look at the outcome of the rebranding process through examining how customers’ brand perception and their behavior was influenced by the rebranding. What made it interesting to conduct this study was that there has been a lack in research that considers rebranding and the role of brand equity in such a process. Brand equity is a very important asset for companies, since it creates value for the customers that they use as information base when making decisions. A quantitative survey was conducted and the conclusion from it is that strong brand equity can be transferred to a product that once had a negative image and that perception can be replaced by a stronger brand image.

Background: The number of acquisitions is continuously increasing andthey are often an important source for competitive advantage. Meanwhile, acquisitions can be a hazardous investment and many do not succeed in creating the expected value. When seeking value creation, corporations can occasionally rebrand in the company. However, the challenges associated with corporate rebranding are sometimes inevitable. Therefore, a developed understanding of the challenges associated with corporate rebranding is required by investigation. Purpose: The purpose of the research is to investigate the corporate rebranding, from the aspect of customer satisfaction, brand equity and customer mindset. Moreover, the relationship between customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and brand equity will be examined. Execution: A quantitative research method is applied where empirical data is collected through structured interviews with customers of Circle K. The findings will be utilised for the data interpretation and analysis, as well as for the conclusion of the research. Conclusion: Rebranding does not result into a negative customer mindset or brand equity. However, the research shows that the rebranding has a positive influence on the customer satisfaction, and that there is a positive relationship between customer satisfaction and loyalty. In turn, the customer loyalty is proven to affect the brand equity positively. The customer satisfaction of the new brand decreased compared to the original brand. Conversely, the difference in customer loyalty between the original and new brand cannot be proven and therefore there is no negative connection between loyalty to the original brand and loyalty to the new brand.

Czech Tourist Authority, CzechTourism, decided in 2011 to start a longterm process of destination brand rebranding.The aim of this thesis is to evaluate and analyze the effectiveness of the activities carried out so far in all steps.The thesis is divided into several parts, the first part concentrates on brand and image of the country, the second part is focused on corporate identity, the content of the third chapter is a theory about rebranding. Practical part contains a sum of activities and events throughout the history of the country affected the brand as well as the reasons for the rebranding and problem areas. In conclusion various steps of CzechTourism and designs of visual identity are evaluated and analyzed and a few next steps are recommended.