Brand Growth Barriers

This book will help businesses identify, understand and overcome the barriers to and in their own brands. It features case studies from well known brands, in a range of categories, as well as useful checklists for daily business.

How can a brand - whether products or services, B2B or B2C, big or small - get back onto a growth track, even in economically difficult times? According to the two brand leadership experts Ralph Krüger and Andreas Stumpf, this can only be achieved by systematically overcoming growth barriers. In this book they present their Brand Growth Barrier Model, which makes it possible for businesses to identify, understand and overcome the barriers to and in their own brands. Case studies from well known brands of different categories, useful checklists for daily business and a clear, practical Question and Answer System on all relevant issues make this book an indispensable guide - not only for marketing experts but also for chief executives and responsible parties in sales and controlling.

Presents the Brand Growth Barrier Model to systematically identify, understand, and overcome growth barriers Case studies from well-known brands of different categories to clearly understand the underlying theory Checklists for quick reference Clear and practical Question and Answer system to help marketeers focus on main tasks? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Ralph Krüger and Andreas Stumpf were Brand Managers at Procter & Gamble for several years before they founded their own company Advanced Marketing Consulting in Frankfurt in 1999. Together with their team, the authors advise and support numerous national and international enterprises from the consumer goods and finance industries such as Bayer, Beiersdorf, Deutsche Bank, Nestlé, Pepsico, SCA and Wrigley, as well as companies active in B2B marketing and sales such as Bosch or Heraeus Kulzer. The authors' core competence lies in the systematic development of growth strategies based on their own brand leadership approach to generate sustainable growth for brands.

Inhalt

The wonderful world of growing brands.- Requirements of growth-oriented brand management.- Identifying growth barriers.- Understanding growth barriers.- Overcoming growth barriers.- Planning, forecasting and monitoring growth.- Checklists and Questions.