Friday, March 30, 2012

BRAND NAME RECOGNITION

  1. Coca-Cola
  2. Sony
  3. Toyota
  4. Dell
  5. Ford
  6. Kraft Foods
  7. Pepsi Cola
  8. Microsoft
  9. Apple
  10. Honda
as any school child can tell you, coke is number one

and these kids don't even drink sodas anymore

but branding is still thought to be important to big business

heck, just by having that big coke picture in my post

i'll get at least another 1000 hits today... that's big

interestingly, only four of the 10 brands were on

the list 10 years ago when Ford was No. 1

Sony was No. 3, Coca-Cola was No. 7 and

Pepsi Cola was No. 10

dropping off the list were H/P and GE

Sony, which had been in the top position for 7 straight years

has now dropped one spot to number 2

Dell, which had been in the second spot last year

drops two spots to number 4 this year

Coca-Cola was ranked number one for the first time

in the polls 12 year history

“Top of mind association with being “best” is a good position for any brand,” 
said Robert Fronk, Senior Vice President, Brand and Strategy Consulting, Harris Interactive.
“For a truly successful brand relationship though, the objective is not just awareness,
but to foster the ongoing process and outcome of brand engagement,
which requires more custom and sophisticated measures based upon the interaction
of the brand and its desired audience.”  - what the hell did he say???

3 industries are represented on this year’s list

4 of the companies are from the electronics industry

while 3 are each from auto manufacturing and

consumer and package goods

what can we draw from this study...

not much, it was conducted in 2007

and as we know, a lot of sh*t has happened

since then