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The Brand as Sensory Experience

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This concluding chapter summarizes our ideas and thoughts about sensory marketing. Concepts such as the brand soul, sensors, sensations, and sense expressions are discussed within a sensory marketing framework. At the end of the chapter, best practice with regard to the supreme sensory experience is illustrated using the example of the U.S. grocery retailer Whole Foods.

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© 2009 Bertil Hultén, Niklas Broweus & Marcus van Dijk

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Hultén, B., Broweus, N., van Dijk, M. (2009). The Brand as Sensory Experience. In: Sensory Marketing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230237049_8

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