The development of agribusiness in Russia requires the quality improvement of agricultural products and the market instruments improvement for the purpose of sales growth in all sectors of agricultural products in domestic and overseas markets, providing the efficiency increase of agricultural companies’ activity, the sustainable development and the economic safety of territories in the framework of national projects. The increased attention to the technologies of commodity and corporate branding as tools aimed at improving the competitiveness of agricultural products and producers in modern conditions makes the necessity to use territorial branding relevant. Territorial branding creates a synergistic effect both in ensuring the products quality and the market support for agricultural products. The development of territorial brands of agricultural products is constrained by the insufficient scientific and methodological support, in particular, the brand structure definition. The adaptation of territorial brand models to agribusiness carried out by the authors will help to solve one of the scientific problems and to use it in the practice of territorial branding.

Strategic goals of stable development of territories of all levels at the expense of producing competitive goods and increase in export potential of regional producers, as well as the need to improve quality of life, have justified the necessity of using effective technologies for territory branding, which, in turn, requires theoretic solution of some scientific problems in terminological and instrumental areas of knowledge. Current problems of the regional branding as the branding of special areas have got less attention than national and regional branding, which has led to the lack of common concepts and continuation of terminological discussions, and also searching for universal model of the regional branding. Researches done by the specialists in this area have allowed us to know their views on the definition of the term “regional branding” in relation to the need to develop structural models of brands (different for different regions), to consider commodity brands as preferrable constituent parts of regional brands, to develop integrated model of consumer values which form preferences in selection of food products of well-known brands and brands of local producers. In the conclusion of the present work there is a list of problems to be solved in future studies through interdisciplinary approaches

Development of agricultural production in Russia is seen as an important condition for food and economic security not only in agricultural production territories, but also in the territories where agribusiness is a socially significant industry that provides employment for the population. Agribusiness development requires multifaceted state support for producers, aimed not only at increasing the volume of agricultural production, but also at increasing its competitiveness by improving its quality, as well as creating and promoting regional product brands. The need to ensure effective support for agribusiness based on territorial branding determined the necessity to identify priority areas for food branding. The research conducted by the authors proved the need to carry out factor analysis of consumer perception of quality for food branding.

The evergrowing competition of countries, regions, cities and the increasing demands of the population for the quality of the surrounding environment called for the creation and maintenance of positive image and reputation, the main constituent of which is the branding of territories. Effective use of branding in the economic development of any territory is hampered by the lack of generally accepted scientific definitions of concepts and models of a territorial brand with the unceasing discussions in the scientific and professional circles about approaches to determining the essence of these concepts and models. The prevalence of some theories leads to the conceptual problem, when the territorial brand gets meaningfully different definitions. One of the ways to solve the problem is to use an interdisciplinary approach that integrates relevant theories of economic and sociological sciences. 1. Introduction