Designing and Implementing Brand Architecture Strategies

Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e
By Kevin Lane Keller, Ambi M. G. Parameswaran and Isaac Jacob
Copyright 2015 Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.
CHAPTER: 11
Designing and
Implementing
Brand
Architecture
Strategies
Define the key components of brand architecture.
Outline the guidelines for developing a good brand portfolio.
Assemble a basic brand hierarchy for a brand.
Describe how a corporate brand is different from a product

brand.
Explain the rationale behind cause marketing and green

marketing

Learning Objectives
Developing a Brand Architecture

Strategy

Step 1: Defining Brand Potential
The brand vision
The brand boundaries
The brand positioning

Three important characteristics:
Brand extension is a new product introduced under an

existing brand name.
Line extensions: New product introductions within existing
categories
Category extensions: New product introductions outside
existing categories
Equity implications of each extension needs to be understood
in terms of:
Points-of-parity
Points-of-difference

Step 2: Identifying Brand Extension

Opportunities
New products and services must be branded in a way to

maximize the brands overall clarity.
Branded house and house of brands strategy.
Sub-brands: Brand extension in which the new product

carries both the parent brand name and a new name.

Step 3: Branding New Products and

Services
To Sum Up

Brand Portfolios

Figure 11-3: Possible Special Roles

of Brands in the Brand Portfolio

Flankers
To create stronger points-of-parity with competitors brands.
Fighter brands must not be so attractive that they take sales

away from their higher-priced comparison brands.
If they are connected to other brands in the portfolio, they

must not be designed so cheaply that they reflect poorly on
other brands

Protective or Fighter Brands
Cash Cows
Due to their sustainability without any kind of marketing.
Milked by capitalizing on their reservoir of existing brand

equity .

Despite dwindling sales, some brands are retained:
Sub-brands leverage associations from other brands while

distinguishing themselves on price and quality.
Role of a relatively low-priced

customers to the brand franchise.
Role of a relatively high-priced brand: To add prestige

and credibility to the entire portfolio.
brand:
To
attract

Low-End, Entry-Level or High-End,

Prestige Brands
To minimize overlap and get the most from the portfolio, each
brand-name product must have:
Well-defined roles to fulfill for the firm.
Well-defined positioning indicating the benefits it offers to

consumers.

To Sum Up
Brand Hierarchies

Levels of a Brand Hierarchy

Corporate or Company Brand Level
Corporate image: The consumer associations to the

company or corporation making the product or providing the
service.
Relevant when the corporate or company brand plays a

prominent role in the branding strategy.

Highest level of hierarchy
Used in more than one product category but is not

necessarily the name of the company or corporation.
Also called a range brand or an umbrella brand.
If the corporate brand is applied to a range of products, then

it functions as a family brand too.
If the products linked to the family brand are not carefully
considered, the associations to the family brand may become
weaker.

Family Brand Level
Restricted to essentially one product category, although

multiple product types may differ.
Customization of the brand and all its supporting marketing

activity.
If the brand runs into difficulty or fails, the risk to other

brands and the company itself is minimal.
Disadvantages of difficulty, complexity, and expense of

developing separate marketing programs.

Individual Brand Level
Brands should distinguish according to the different types of

items or models.
Modifier: Designate a specific item or model type or a

particular version or configuration of the product
Function
of modifiers is to show how one brand variation

relates to others in the same brand family.
Help make products more understandable and relevant to
consumers.

Modifier Level
Product Descriptor
Helps define the relevant competition in consumers minds.
In the case of a truly new product, introducing it with a

familiar product name may facilitate basic familiarity and
comprehension.

Helps consumers understand what the product is and does.
Designing a Brand Hierarchy

Designing a Brand Hierarchy

Figure 11.7: Branding Strategy

Screen

Corporate Branding

Corporate Image Dimensions

Many intangible brand associations can transcend the

physical characteristics of products.
Provides valuable sources of brand equity and serves as

critical points-of-parity or points-of-difference.

To Sum Up
Managing the Corporate Brand

Brand Architecture Guidelines

Key aspect of managing brand equity is adopting the proper

branding strategy.
Brand architecture strategy for a firm identifies which brand

elements a firm chooses to apply across the various
products.
Brand-product matrix is a graphical representation of all the

firms brands and products.
A firm may offer multiple brands in a category to attract

different market segments.

To Sum Up
A brand hierarchy reveals an explicit ordering of all brand

names by displaying the number and nature of common and
distinctive brand name elements across the firms products.
Corporate or family brands can establish a number of

valuable associations to differentiate the brand.
Firms now employ cause-marketing programs designed to

align their brands with a cause of importance.

To Sum Up

Thank you.

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Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e

By Kevin Lane Keller, Ambi M. G. Parameswaran and Isaac Jacob

Copyright 2015 Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.

Define the key components of brand architecture.

Outline the guidelines for developing a good brand portfolio.

Assemble a basic brand hierarchy for a brand.

Describe how a corporate brand is different from a product

Explain the rationale behind cause marketing and green

Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e

Copyright 2015 Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.

Copyright 2015 Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.

Developing a Brand Architecture

Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e

Step 1: Defining Brand Potential

The brand vision

The brand boundaries

The brand positioning

Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e

Copyright 2015 Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.

Three important characteristics:

Brand extension is a new product introduced under an

Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e

Copyright 2015 Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.

Step 2: Identifying Brand Extension

New products and services must be branded in a way to

Branded house and house of brands strategy.

Sub-brands: Brand extension in which the new product

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Step 3: Branding New Products and

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Figure 11-3: Possible Special Roles

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To create stronger points-of-parity with competitors brands.

Fighter brands must not be so attractive that they take sales

If they are connected to other brands in the portfolio, they

Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e

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Protective or Fighter Brands

Due to their sustainability without any kind of marketing.

Milked by capitalizing on their reservoir of existing brand

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Despite dwindling sales, some brands are retained:

Sub-brands leverage associations from other brands while

Role of a relatively low-priced

Role of a relatively high-priced brand: To add prestige

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Low-End, Entry-Level or High-End,

Well-defined roles to fulfill for the firm.

Well-defined positioning indicating the benefits it offers to

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Copyright 2015 Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd.

Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity, 4e

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Levels of a Brand Hierarchy