Identifiers Of A Brand

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Brands have always been seen as elements that act as identifiers of products and the organizations that make them by various bodies and individuals in the marketing study (Kotler 200, p. 396, American Marketing Association, Wood, 2000). From this view, it can be extrapolated that as long as someone can make his product identifiable via some added visible indicators, he has made a brand. It is by this idea that Keller (2003) writes, “technically speaking, then, whenever a marketer creates a new name, logo, or symbol for a new product, he or she has created a brand” (p.3). This has been the idea for a long time as brands were treated in an off-hand fashion as part of the product (Urde, 1999). However, since brands are the first thing a customer is exposed to before using the product, communication strategies started working toward exposing brands and creating brand image. These strategies aimed to show the customer that the particular branded product offered added value to the customer. The change in the view of brands is seen in de Chernatony and McDonald’s (2003) definition of a succ...

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