Brand value is all the buzz these days, thanks to the recent release of Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report. I preempted the action with a post a few weeks ago called “The Problem with Brand Valuation.” In it I took issue with a specific aspect of most valuation methodologies — a factor to account for […]
We’re about at the midpoint between the release of Forbes’ “The World’s Most Valuable Brands” report back in last July and Interbrand’s “Best Global Brands” report which is due out on September 15th (it usually gets picked up by Businessweek.) You know those studies which report, for example, that Coca-Cola is the world’s top brand, […]
Now that everyone has had a chance to digest BusinessWeek/Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report, I thought I’d offer some suggestions for how to use the results. There’s a risk that if someone doesn’t know what brand valuation really means or what it’s useful for, the conclusions and implications drawn from the report could be off. […]
Why should stockholders care about a company’s brand? That’s the subject of today’s post, the 3rd in a series on the many ways a brand creates value for a company. […]