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Hook – draw in the reader Authenticity is interestingly applied to advertisements. John Grant, author of "The New Marketing Manifesto," states, "Authenticity is the benchmark against which all brands are now judged." General statement on the concept or topic It has become the dominant lens through which consumers decide to buy something, just as quality and price were previously. Nowadays, customers are becoming more discerning, very aware of artifice and hungry for something authentic.…

Individual report 1- Introduction: Tobacco packaging is a crucial promotional vehicle which helps to generate brand awareness, increase brand appeal and foster positive attitudes towards smoking, with the ultimate goal for tobacco companies to maintain and increase market share and possibly also market size. (Wakefield M, Morley C, Horan, 2002). The pack has become the key marketing driver and limited edition packs appear to be central to this. As a Dutch design agency director explains,…

Word-of-mouth communication is a process of sharing information between consumers on specific products, services, brands, or companies with noncommercial intention (Higie, Feick, & Price, 1987; Litvin, Goldsmith & Pan, 2008). It not only shapes consumers' attitude and behaviors towards a product or service (Brown and Reingen, 1987), but it also has more significant impact on consumer behavior rather than mass media and radio advertising in certain circumstances (Engel, Blackwell, and Kegerreis,…

Introduction McCracken (1989) said that a celebrity endorser is as “ any individual who enjoys public recognition and who uses this recognition on behalf of a consumer good by appearing with it in an advertisement” (McCracken, 1989, p. 310). Bergkvist and Zhou made a change to this definition in 2016 and said that “a celebrity endorsement is an agreement between an individual who enjoys public recognition (a celebrity) and an entity (e.g., a brand) to use the celebrity for the purpose of…

If you have only equity financing (which either uses funds injected into the business or equity raised through share offerings), you won’t benefit from any of the tax deductions that debt financing provides, and if you only have debt financing, your financial leverage will be greater but your overall profits…

customer’s mind and that it reflects knowledge and recognition of the brand under numerous varied situations. Many researchers have stated that brand awareness is carrying strategic significances, as those largely contribute to the conclusion of brand equity and customers’ buying behaviour. Fur-thermore, Baker et al (1986) said that high brand awareness leads to higher levels of sales and bigger customer base. Brown and Hoyer (1990) strengthened the study of brand awareness…

Background The Cheesecake Factory is an upscale casual dining concept that offers over 200 menu items including appetizers, pizza, seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, pasta, specialty items, salads, sandwiches, omelets and desserts, including approximately 50 varieties of cheesecake and other baked desserts. Grand Lux Cafe and RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen are also upscale casual dining concepts offering approximately 200 and 75 menu items, respectively. The mission statement of the company is…

MYER’s brand management, proactive recommendations are designed to maintain and enhance MYER’s customer-based brand equity over time. 5.1 Consistency between CBBE and firm’s perception of brand equity To begin with, as it is mentioned in the inventory part, “finding wonderful” was one of the firm’s primary perception of brand equity meaning from 2014. In terms of customer-based brand equity meaning, positive impression of “good atmosphere” and “various of products” is mostly in consistence with…

launched at low capital costs (www.business.govt.nz). Thereafter, it is purely funded from its profits as it is continually established. In this way, the business will not have to bear the burden of debt or give part the company’s ownership through equity. However, the disadvantage of this source of financing arises from the fact that it poses limitations of the business because the chameleon shoes provided cannot supersede the company’s profits even when there is high demand thus a hindrance in…

In this modern day, to identify the merchant item or a service, a brand is needed. Name, design, term, sign or design, or a combination of these makes a brand. Besides, the essentialness of branding is to add value to the product or service (Kotler, Armstrong, and Harris, 2013). The Coca Cola Company is a very huge company with a massive number of brands, for instance, Coca Cola, Sprite, Coca Cola Life and Fanta (Coca Cola, 2016). Based on research, Coca Cola market capital is 192.8 billion U.S…