Brand identity development

Abstract

The paper studied the concept of "brand identity" as a planned brand image that defines the direction for all marketing activities of a company. The authors developed an algorithm for constructing a system of characteristic features of the brand strategy, harmoniously combined with the corporate and business strategy which includes the market situation analysis, an analysis of economic conditions and activities of the organization, analysis of marketing affords, analysis of the marketing strategy, the brand strategy selection, the brand positioning choice, brand identity development. Based on the well-established brand identity models such as The Brand Identity System (D.A. Aaker, USA), The Brand Identity Prism (J.-N. Kapferer France), L. De Chernatoni’s model (UK), 4D Branding (T. Gad, Sweden), The Brand Wheel (Bates Worldwide, USA), The Brand Platform (Young & Rubicam, USA) the authors have discussed the current approaches to the brand identity creation depending on which market (customer or B2B) a firm participates in perform and its capacity to serve the interests of both corporate and individual customers. The proposed approaches are needed for successful brand management.

Global Challenges of Digital Transformation of Markets Volume II

“…Krasyuk, Yanenko, and Nazarova 2020). One of such solutions, with the help of which it is possible to attract customers to the trade enterprise, is the use of innovative digital trading technologies (Ianenko, Ianenko, Kirillova, et al 2020;Ianenko, Stepanov, and Mironova 2020).…”