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BRAND EQUITY MODELS ARE
ļ‚” AAKER MODEL
ļ‚” KELLER'S MODEL
ļ‚” BAV MODEL
ļ‚” BRANDZ MODEL
The Aaker Model, created by David A. Aaker, a marketing professor at
the University of California-Berkeley and a management consultant at
Prophet, is a marketing model which views brand equity as a combination
of brand awareness, brand loyalty and brand associations, which add up
to give the value provided by a product or service.
Aaker defines the brand equity as the set of brand assets and liabilities linked to the
brand - its name and symbols - that add value to, or subtract value from, a product
or service.
BRAND EQUITY = BRAND AWARENESS + BRAND LOYALTY + BRAND ASSOCIATION +
PERCEIVED QUALITY + OTHER PROPRIETARY ASSETS
ļ‚” Reduced marketing costs : hanging on to loyal customers is cheaper than
charming potential new customers
ļ‚” Trade leverage : loyal customers represent a stable source of revenue for the
distributive trade
ļ‚” Attracting new customers : current customers can help boost name awareness and
hence bring in new customers
ļ‚” Time to respond to competitive threats : loyal customers that are not quick to
switch brands give a company more time to respond to competitive threats
The extent to which people are loyal to a brand is expressed in the
following factors
ļ‚” Anchor to which associations can be attached : depending on the strength of the
brand name, more or fewer associations can be attached to it, which will, in turn,
eventually influence brand awareness
ļ‚” Familiarity and liking : consumers with a positive attitude towards a brand, will talk
about it more and spread brand awareness
ļ‚” Commitment to a brand.
ļ‚” Brand to be considered during the purchasing process : to what extent does the
brand form part of the evoked set of brands in a consumer’s mind
The extent to which a brand is known among the public,
which can be measured using the following parameters
ļ‚” The quality offered by the product/ brand is a reason to buy it
ļ‚” Level of differentiation/ position in relation to competing brands
ļ‚” Price : as the product becomes more complex to assess, and status is at play, consumers tend to
take price as a quality indicator
ļ‚” Availability in different sales channels : consumers have a higher quality perception of brands that
are widely available
ļ‚” The number of line/ brand extensions : this can tell the consumer the brand stands for a certain
quality guarantee that is applicable on a wide scale
The extent to which a brand is considered to provide good
quality products can be measured on the basis of the following
five criteria
ļ‚” The extent to which a brand name is able to ā€˜retrieve’ associations from the consumer’s brain : such
information from TV advertising
ļ‚” The extent to which association contribute to brand differentiation in relation to the competition : these
can be abstract associations, such as ā€˜vitality’, or associations with concrete product benefits, such ā€˜will
leave your washing cleaner’
ļ‚” The extent to which brand associations play a role in the buying process : the greater this extent, the
higher the total brand equity
ļ‚” The extent to which brand associations create positive attitude/ feelings : the greater this extent, the
higher the total brand equity
ļ‚” The number of brand extensions in the market : the greater this number, the greater the opportunity to
add brand associations
Associations triggered by a brand can be assessed on
the basis of the five following indicator
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