Abstract
At the time financial markets started recognizing the value of intangible assets and brands marketing academics in the US, in the early-1990s, also attempted to conceptualize the brand as a business asset. The result was the concept of brand equity which capitalized on a financial term to define a marketing concept. The term was made popular by the publications of David Aaker and Kevin Keller. Aaker described brand equity as a “set of assets (and liabilities) linked to a brand’s name and symbol that adds to (or subtracts from) the value provided by a product or service to a firm and/or that firm’s customers.”1 The main asset categories comprised awareness, loyalty, perceived quality, and other brand specific associations. Despite the use of the term equity, the framework consisted of a combination of market research metrics. Aaker later expanded the framework to include metrics from other models, most notably Y&R’s brand asset evaluator and Interbrand’s brand strength assessment. The resulting measurement framework comprised the following metrics:
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willingness to pay a price premium;
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satisfaction/loyalty;
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perceived quality;
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leadership/popularity;
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esteem/respect;
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perceived value;
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personality;
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trust and admiration for the organization;
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differentiation;
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market share;
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price differential; and
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distribution depth/coverage.
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Lindemann, J. (2010). Brand Equity: The Marketer’s View on Brand Value. In: The Economy of Brands. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230275010_5
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