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Building Strong Brands
Book

Building Strong Brands

Free Press, 1995 plus...


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Well Structured
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

David A. Aaker discusses how you can manage a brand as a strategic asset and a source of competitive advantage. He describes several companies’ work at length, including Saturn, General Electric, Kodak, Healthy Choice, McDonald’s, and many others. Aaker shows how you should consider a brand as a product, a person, an organization and a symbol. Aaker offers an excellent in-depth look at many facets of brand development. However, he sometimes tends to go into extensive detail about slight differences in concepts and definitions. While he writes academically, he provides excellent basic principles you can apply to improve your brand.

Take-Aways

  • Brands’ names or symbols can carry four major assets as well as liabilities. 
  • Brand awareness and recognition reflect how strongly a brand is present in the consumer’s mind.
  • A core identity is a brand’s central, timeless essence.

About the Author

David A. Aaker is a professor of marketing strategy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He has written ten books and more than eighty articles on branding, advertising, and business strategy. He lectures widely and consults for companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan.