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MKB2706 Brand and
Product Management
Lecture 7: Leveraging
Secondary Associations
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Learning Objectives
• Explain the process by which a brand can leverage secondary associations
• List and describe the methods of linking secondary brand knowledge to a brand
• Discuss the impact of leveraging on both existing brand associations and the formation of new brand associations.
• Describe some of the key tactical issues in leveraging secondary associations from different entities
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Leveraging Secondary Associations
• Brands can be linked to other entities that have their own associations.
• A brand might borrow brand knowledge, and therefore brand equity from another entity- other brands, people, places, things.
An indirect approach to building brand equity by leveraging secondary brand knowledge for a brand.
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Conceptualizing the Leveraging Process
• Linking the brand to some other entity may:
• Create a new set of associations from the brand to the entity
• Affect the existing brand associations
• Most likely to affect evaluations when consumers lack:
• Motivation
• Ability
• Cognitive consistency - What is true for the new association must be true for the brand
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Figure 7.2- Understanding Transfer of Brand Knowledge
Linking the brand to some other entity may not only create new brand associations to the entity but also affect existing brand associations.
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Three Factors of Leveraging
• Awareness and knowledge of the entity
• Meaningfulness of the knowledge of the entity
• Transferability of the knowledge of the entity
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• Fig. 7-1 Secondary sources of Brand knowledge
Brand
Other brands
People Places
Things
Country of origin
Channels
Third party endorsementsCauses
Events
Endorsers
Employees
Alliances Ingredients Company
Extensions
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Secondary sources of Brand knowledge
▪ The main methods by which we can link secondary
brand knowledge to the brand 1. Company
2. Country of origin and other geographic areas
3. Channels of distribution
4. Co-branding
5. Licensing