All brands are not created equal Best Global Brands 2007
If brands are managed correctly they can move seamlessly across geographies, creating demand for their goods and services around the world.
Best Global Brands 2007 Interbrand is delighted to once again publish our
choice and sustaining margins.
annual ranking of the Best Global Brands by brand value, in co-operation with BusinessWeek magazine.
We regard brand valuation as a proactive tool. The process of showing an organization the earnings attributable to
We’re proud that over the course of the past decade our Best
intangibles, assessing the role that the brand plays in purchase
Global Brands study has become the barometer of successful
decisions and the relative competitive strength of the brand
brand management. The environments in which brands
within its markets, focuses attention on building the brand’s
operate, and the challenges and opportunities they face, have
value. Indeed, our experience shows that by simply recognizing
changed dramatically during this time; however, we believe
the brand as an economic asset, like other business assets,
the one constant has been the notion that a brand has the
activity can be created, managed
ability to create significant economic value for the business it
and implemented to enable the brand to grow in value.
serves, and that we can measure the created value. It is now common knowledge that branding is fundamental to Interbrand pioneered the technique of measuring brands as
business success, which is why Best Global Brands
business assets twenty years ago and draws upon a wealth of
is one of the top published business rankings in the
valuation experience and brand expertise in producing this
world. At Interbrand we have always placed great
annual report. In this time, we have conducted some 5,000
emphasis upon the need for a balance between the logical and
valuations for brands around the world. The clearest output of
the creative. Brands, after all, live in our heads and
this exercise is the asset value of the brand to the organization.
our hearts. But ultimately, brands are value generators
But understanding what is driving this brand value is far more
for business. Increasingly, we need to understand how brands
important to the business. The insights gained through brand
deliver value and use this information to better inform business
analytics and measurement focus brand management around
decisions.
the elements that will effectively increase the brand’s value and allow it to fulfill its ultimate potential to the organization and its stakeholders. This reveals how a brand can drive revenue and profitability by influencing
In this year’s Best Global Brands report, we have focused on the business themes that we see as being intrinsically linked to brand value creation. In their own right these themes should encourage business leaders to act, but they also acutely reveal the tenets of growing the economic value of a brand, and thereby help to maximize the intangible wealth of an organization. As ever, we are delighted to lead the debate. We recognize, and indeed relish, the responsibility that it places upon us as an organization. We thank our partners at BusinessWeek for their constant support in providing the platform for broadcasting this study to the business community and look forward to sharing these insights and ideas with you for many years to come.
Regards,
Jez Frampton Group Chief Executive Interbrand
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Appendices
1. Insights on Global Branding
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2. Best Global Brands 2007 Ranking
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3. Lessons from the Risers and Decliners
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4. How We Did It
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5. Why the Ranking is Important
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6. Frequently Asked Questions
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7. About Interbrand
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8. Contacts & Additional Information
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INSIGHTS ON GLOBAL BRANDING Our continued analysis of the world’s most valuable brands enables us to provide insight and diagnosis for any organization that is keen to manage and grow the value of its brand.
goods and services while securing future revenues. This, in turn, impresses the financial communities that enable investments in the future. This is the essence of brand value.
We’ve entitled this study ‘All brands are not created equal’ because even though every brand starts with a notional value of zero, the brands that succeed are born into an environment where they are seen as assets by their organizations. Leaders plan for their success by creating, managing and implementing strong strategic visions that make businesses stand out and command attention. The successful brands recognize and commit to this as a cycle of activity, prospering while they deliver economic value to the brand and their organization.
Whether you work for a global business, an international organization, or a company that is purely focused on its domestic or regional markets, everyone can learn lessons from the Best Global Brands. By studying leading market indicators, such as the MSCI World Index and the S&P 500, we can see that the Best Global Brands index has consistently outperformed the markets by a considerable margin.
The brands in our study are rightly recognized as leaders across the world, but as global brands they face unique challenges. While they have consumers who come from different cultures and geographies, they are driven by a desire to ‘own’ a singleminded global brand positioning. So they’re continuously challenged to sustain brand consistency across diverse geographies, cultures and market segments. In light of this challenge, organizations must commit to, and implement, focused and realistic brand strategies in multiple geographies. This demands that brands transform the information and input they receive along the way into activities that build a global reputation. It requires constant measurement to ensure that actions complement, and holistically push, the brand towards its strategic goals. The rewards are worth the effort. If brands are managed correctly they can move seamlessly across geographies, creating demand for their goods and services around the world. They can create magnetism, attracting the best talent to work for them. Most importantly, they’ll be able to achieve a premium for their
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Such performance may be expected of category-leading companies, but the source of value is interesting and requires a closer look. How do these brands achieve a ranking within the top 100 most valuable brands in the world, and all the economic rewards that go with it?
What drives brand value? As we share our brand valuation process with you, we also want to highlight the insights that we see building brand value for the organizations profiled in this report. Put simply, brand valuation draws together a financial analysis, a role of brand analysis and a brand strength score to arrive at a financial brand value. The resulting value is important, but understanding the themes or forces behind this value is what really drives the brand’s performance. Effective brand management means orchestrating these forces to drive the business forward. To focus the study, we talk about these themes in isolation from one another. In truth, it’s the combination of these themes and ultimately their successful execution that creates value. We have shown particularly strong brands to exemplify each, but in reality a valuable brand will show some strength across all of the identified themes.
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PUT IT AT THE HEART
Brand Management Every organization with expertise in brand management understands the complexity that the execution of great brand management requires. Effective value creation comes to life in the hearts and minds of consumers. More often than not it requires a journey inside the organization: a journey that reveals the characteristics and behaviors that distinguish one organization from another. It requires an understanding that great brands are founded on hard numbers as well as imagination. This combination of analytic and creative business techniques is mirrored in the Interbrand product portfolio, which envelops rigorous business understanding with emotive execution to unlock the true potential of brands. At this point, the brand steps out of the marketing department’s domain and embraces everything the business does. Ultimate responsibility for delivering the brand to stakeholders rests with the whole company. HR, Finance, Operations, Marketing and Sales must all feel a sense of ownership of the brand so that it lives throughout the organization, and that’s why the leadership of the business must be the primary ambassadors for the brand. Great brand management sees the brand as a go-to-market strategy and action driver, not just a planning tool or theory. Each activity the company undertakes should holistically reinforce the idea of the brand itself. So the CEO should take ownership of the brand and act as its steward. Talking about brands in terms of financial value strengthens the bonds between marketing and the modern day demands for accountability to shareholders and business leaders.
Google Google is a particularly good exponent of this sort of brand management. From relatively obscure and humble beginnings, the company has grown dramatically, achieving 45% year over year growth in brand value since 2005. Despite rapidly expanding its offering beyond search to encompass a range of other added-value services (such as news, financial information and geo-mapping), Google has managed to maintain a sincere and consistent feel to everything that it does. But beyond its product portfolio, Google has revolutionized the way it screens employees to ensure that everyone who comes through its door is ‘Google-worthy’. Inevitably, it’s become bigger and more complex, but this has done nothing to dilute the recognition and desire that the business is still held together by Google ‘glue’. This is what makes Google the brand it is. This is why it has been able to break into the world’s 20 most valuable brands within just two years. Yahoo! by contrast, was born with similar potential, but lacks (or perhaps lost) this singular, unifying purpose. Its pursuit of co-branded partnerships may have seemed attractive in purely financial terms, but this detracted from the company’s sense of self, causing the brand to fade.
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Demand Creation Ikea is another great example of Touch Point Development. The product design communicates the simple sense of Scandinavian style at affordable prices; but the store experience, with its themed spaces, restaurants and kids’ areas, further communicates and amplifies the Ikea brand proposition. Ikea’s brand value has risen 15% this year.
We’re exposed to thousands of brand messages every day. Estimates vary as to exactly how many, but what’s undeniable is that a vast surplus of brands are trying to engage with us. Indeed, it’s considerably more than any human being can cope with. So how does one brand successfully reach out and engage with us when another fails to do so? This is the principle of Demand Creation. It’s not simply about communication; it’s about making the right customer desire the brand’s products or services over and above all competitors, today and tomorrow, and ideally encouraging their friends to do the same. In short, it’s about making sure that a brand’s messages receive a warm, favorable and engaged welcome from its audience so that they’re then acted upon.
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Make it clear, make it live and keep it moving Conclusions The fundamentals of brand value creation, exemplified by the top 100 Best Global Brands, show leading global organizations managing their brand’s value as a series of actions and initiatives that promote the brand agenda within the business. Whether these initiatives focus on a communication output or an internal program to engage employees with the brand, all of our evidence suggests that the brand strategy itself has the ultimate impact on the brand’s ability to create and build its value. But brands don’t operate in passive environments. They must live and respond to the world to stay relevant. Markets are dynamic; influences on the brand will constantly change, so any brand strategy needs to articulate its right to own a market position. Brands must manage their way through the influences and forces that determine the ownership of that market position. Brand management is a constant process. Activities are created to achieve distinction. They are managed and implemented, and then their success must be measured and used to influence future strategy. Brand valuation is a great measure of this success, but as our report has shown, each year some organizations do better than others. Those that do best recognize the dynamic needs of effective brand management and hardwire these actions. It becomes a cyclical process where there’s an acceptance that to truly own a strategic position in customers’ hearts and minds, activity must be ongoing and constant. As much as anything, this is an attitude towards understanding and continuous improvement.
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Brands which place high importance on managing the economic value of their intangible assets, and primarily their brands, consistently outperform basic economic measures.
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BEST GLOBAL BRANDS 2007 Ranking
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Best Global Brands 2007
2007 rank
2006 rank
brand
country of origin
sector
2007 brand value ($m)
change in brand value
1
1
coca-cola
us
beverages
65,324
-3%
2
2
microsoft
us
computer software
58,709
3%
3
3
Ibm
us
computer services
57,091
2%
4
4
ge
us
diversified
51,569
5%
5
6
nokia
finland
consumer electronics
33,696
12%
6
7
toyota
Japan
automotive
32,070
15%
7
5
Intel
us
computer hardware
30,954
-4%
8
9
mcdonald’s
us
restaurants
29,398
7%
9
8
disney
us
media
29,210
5%
10
10
mercedes
germany
automotive
23,568
8%
11
11
citi
us
financial services
23,443
9%
12
13
hewlettpackard
us
computer hardware
22,197
9%
13
15
bmw
germany
automotive
21,612
10%
14
12
marlboro
us
tobacco
21,283
0%
15
14
american express
us
financial services
20,827
6%
16
16
gillette
us
personal care
20,415
4%
17
17
louis vuitton
france
luxury
20,321
15%
18
18
cisco
us
computer services
19,099
9%
19
19
honda
Japan
automotive
17,998
6%
20
24
google
us
Internet services
17,837
44%
best global brands 2007
13
2. best global brands
14
2007 rank
2006 rank
brand
21
20
samsung
22
21
23
sector
2007 brand value ($m)
republic of korea
consumer electronics
16,853
4%
merrill lynch
us
financial services
14,343
10%
28
hsbc
uk
financial services
13,563
17%
24
23
nescafé
switzerland
beverages
12,950
4%
25
26
sony
Japan
consumer electronics
12,907
10%
26
22
pepsi
us
beverages
12,888
2%
27
29
oracle
us
computer software
12,448
9%
28
32
ups
us
transportation
12,013
12%
29
31
nike
us
sporting goods
12,004
10%
30
27
budweiser
us
alcohol
11,652
0%
31
25
dell
us
computer hardware
11,554
-6%
32
33
Jpmorgan
us
financial services
11,433
12%
33
39
apple
us
computer hardware
11,037
21%
34
34
sap
germany
computer software
10,850
8%
35
37
goldman sachs
us
financial services
10,663
11%
36
35
canon
Japan
computer hardware
10,581
6%
37
36
morgan stanley
us
financial services
10,340
6%
38
41
Ikea
sweden
home furnishings
10,087
15%
39
42
ubs
switzerland
financial services
9,838
13%
40
40
kellogg’s
us
food
9,341
6%
best global brands 2007
country of origin
®
change in brand value
2007 rank
2006 rank
brand
country of origin
sector
41
30
ford
us
automotive
8,982
-19%
42
48
philips
netherlands
diversified
7,741
15%
43
44
siemens
germany
diversified
7,737
-1%
44
51
nintendo
Japan
consumer electronics
7,730
18%
45
45
harleydavidson
us
automotive
7,718
0%
46
46
gucci
Italy
luxury
7,697
8%
47
new
aIg
us
financial services
7,490
new
48
47
ebay
us
Internet services
7,456
10%
49
new
axa
france
financial services
7,327
new
50
49
accenture
us
computer services
7,296
8%
51
53
l’oréal
france
personal care
7,045
10%
52
50
mtv
us
media
6,907
4%
53
54
heinz
us
food
6,544
5%
54
56
volkswagen
germany
automotive
6,511
8%
55
55
yahoo!
us
Internet services
6,067
0%
56
57
xerox
us
computer hardware
6,050
2%
57
58
colgate
us
personal care
6,025
7%
58
61
chanel
france
luxury
5,830
13%
59
59
wrigley
us
food
5,777
6%
60
60
kfc
us
restaurants
5,682
6%
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change in brand value
best global brands 2007
15
2. best global brands
16
2007 rank
2006 rank
brand
country of origin
sector
2007 brand value ($m)
change in brand value
61
52
gap
us
apparel
5,481
-15%
62
65
amazon.com
us
Internet services
5,411
15%
63
63
nestlé
switzerland
food
5,314
8%
64
73
Zara
spain
apparel
5,165
22%
65
62
avon
us
personal care
5,103
1%
66
68
caterpillar
us
diversified
5,059
10%
67
67
danone
france
food
5,019
8%
68
74
audi
germany
automotive
4,866
17%
69
71
adidas
germany
sporting goods
4,767
11%
70
64
kleenex
us
personal care
4,600
-5%
71
72
rolex
switzerland
luxury
4,589
8%
72
75
hyundai
republic of korea
automotive
4,453
9%
73
81
hermès
france
luxury
4,255
10%
74
66
pizza hut
us
restaurants
4,254
-9%
75
80
porsche
germany
automotive
4,235
8%
76
78
reuters
uk
media
4,197
6%
77
69
motorola
us
consumer electronics
4,149
-9%
78
77
panasonic
Japan
consumer electronics
4,135
4%
79
82
tiffany & co.
us
luxury
4,003
5%
80
new
allianz
germany
financial services
3,957
new
best global brands 2007
2007 rank
2006 rank
brand
country of origin
sector
2007 brand value ($m)
change in brand value
81
85
Ing
netherlands
financial services
3,880
12%
82
70
kodak
us
consumer electronics
3,874
-12%
83
86
cartier
france
luxury
3,852
15%
84
76
bp
uk
energy
3,794
-5%
85
87
moët & chandon
france
alcohol
3,739
15%
86
79
kraft
us
food
3,732
-5%
87
83
hennessy
france
alcohol
3,638
2%
88
91
starbucks
us
restaurants
3,631
17%
89
84
duracell
us
consumer electronics
3,605
1%
90
88
Johnson & Johnson
us
personal care
3,445
8%
91
93
smirnoff
uk
alcohol
3,379
11%
92
92
lexus
Japan
automotive
3,354
9%
93
89
shell
netherlands
energy
3,331
5%
94
96
prada
Italy
luxury
3,287
14%
95
98
burberry
uk
luxury
3,221
16%
96
99
nivea
germany
personal care
3,116
16%
97
94
lg
republic of korea
consumer electronics
3,100
3%
98
90
nissan
Japan
automotive
3,072
-1%
99
new
polo rl
us
luxury
3,046
new
100
new
hertz
us
automotive
3,026
new
best global brands 2007
17
The best brands follow their stakeholders’ journeys so that they provide effective, consistent and appropriate messaging throughout the experience.
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3. lessons from the risers and decliners
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valued at $33.7bn this year, nokia’s 12% increase has been driven by a renewed focus on the brand. consumer insights have steered product design back on course. In short, it has rediscovered the theme of demand creation by focusing on simple, easy-to-use handsets that are sleek and stylish.
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In recent years, handset design has emerged as an increasingly important demand driver. competitors such as lg and samsung have created stylish products and gained market share, some of it at nokia’s expense. the brand’s ‘bounce back’ this year has been driven by a reinvigorated focus on product design and feature innovation. for example, the nokia n95 was hugely successful, integrating mail, web and music in a single handset. It has become the equivalent of the blackberry for the consumer market.
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to maintain its leadership position, nokia should focus on defining a cohesive visual style to differentiate its entire offering, rather than being driven by individual models.
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nokia has not enjoyed quite as much success in the us, where motorola has been the dominant player. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. nokia’s improvement in product and design innovation should challenge motorola’s raZr, but the recently launched apple iphone has the potential to change perspectives. the device has created a lot of excitement and it seems set to be popular with technology-savvy and fashionconscious consumers alike.
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3. lessons from the risers and decliners
mcdonald’s resurgence picks up on all the themes of brand value creation, from demand creation through to brand management, modeling contingencies and planning efficiencies. while the brand is still on a journey, it has done many things right, and this is reflected in its 7% increase in brand value. firstly, it refocused corporately on being a single-brand company, mcdonald’s, by de-emphasizing pret a manger, divesting chipotle and beginning the process of selling boston market. this sense of focus is also demonstrated in the b2c brand through its consistent use of the global advertising theme, ‘I’m loving it’. the mcdonald’s brand continues to reinvent itself in the face of changing consumer preferences towards healthy eating. It has shown that being responsive to customers is critical to success. mcdonald’s is providing healthier alternatives and the nutritional profile of everything it offers. the introduction of new sandwiches, salads and fruit items to the menu has created a ‘halo’ effect that augments the traditional mcdonald’s offering. these items add a healthy ‘accent’ to the mcdonald’s image and create demand.
starbucks customers than parents who are merely there to keep their children company. Its coffee range has been ranked best in class in consumer reports. Instead of expanding its number of outlets (which do still continue to expand at 3-5% per year) the focus has been on improving the total customer experience. the changes have allowed mcdonald’s to open up a clear gap between itself and burger king,2007 which has not gone down the same 17,837 ‘healthy food’+44% road. Google 2006
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but the success is deeper than simply creating demand. the brand has been managed and planned well too. the broader menu, coupled with remodeled/more stylish restaurants, is helping mcdonald’s to shift traditional perceptions of the brand and encourage existing customers to engage with it more frequently. rather than being a place where people go to grab a quick snack on the go, mcdonald’s is trying to attract diners who appreciate better quality, better tasting food and are willing to pay a premium for it. the range of high-quality coffees, for example, is more likely to appeal to
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3. lessons from the risers and decliners
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audi’s success builds on a story of demand creation, brand management and planning efficiencies. by applying a consistent design philosophy based around quality, sophistication and performance, audi has developed a unique, distinctive personality in the marketplace. the brand is considered to be hip, cool and understated. In the mind of the consumer, audi is now a genuine alternative to bmw and mercedes-benz, with the brands going head-tohead in many categories.
with the refreshed a6 and a8 models, audi has succeeded in moving up the value chain and has created a buzz around its top-of-the-range saloon cars. the company also launched an suv at the high-end, which has been well-received.
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the strength of the brand has enabled audi to stretch into the coupe and sports car segments; the hugely successful tt and the new r8 are testament to this. the design credentials of the tt and the performance credentials of the r8 cascade throughout the entire audi range and provide greater clarity to audi’s overall positioning in the marketplace. this portfolio strategy is a model example of how to use marketing and product development resources to efficiently generate brand value.
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audi has recently completed a design overhaul of its entire product line. this is a bold move, which modernizes the range with a consistent look, feel and attitude while still maintaining the valuable equity of “vorsprung durch technik”.
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The design credentials of the TT and the performance credentials of THE R8 cascade throughout the entire Audi range and provide greater clarity to Audi’s overall positioning in the marketplace.
3. lessons from the risers and decliners
burberry has re-established itself as a credible fashion brand for a younger generation. It has successfully refreshed its image, while maintaining true to its ‘british’ heritage. a few years ago the burberry brand in the uk became confused after being adopted by football hooligans and minor celebrities. It quickly acquired associations of thuggishness and became a conspicuous emblem of new wealth, which repelled many of its traditionally loyal customers.
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burberry has achieved this success by carefully managing customer perceptions and experiences at all touch points – in-store, online, through advertisements and sponsorship. It has positioned itself as young, modern and fashionable, while maintaining the ‘british’ essence of its appeal.
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however, since that set-back, the brand has revitalized itself and gone from strength to strength, appealing to new customers in new markets all over the world, regardless of the pr backlash around its factory closure in wales.
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It is a great example of touch point development, modeling contingencies and planning efficiencies.
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the lessons from ford are highly indicative of the themes of value creation. the brand lacks focus on demand creation, and its product range would indicate that it has not planned effectively to have a portfolio that is in tune with the movements of consumer attitudes and behaviors. the ford brand continues its long-term decline demonstrating how an iconic brand can lose its way. despite reasonable success in europe with the focus and mondeo, performance in the core us market has been less impressive and a permanent discount policy has eroded the value of the ford brand. heavy reliance on big suvs, pick-ups and its american heritage increasingly look out of touch with the needs of us car buyers. as gas prices remain high, demand for gasguzzling suvs has waned and the construction of factories in the us by foreign brands means that the “made in america” positioning is no longer differentiated.
29,398 theMcDonald’s mini is an example of a classic car with cult appeal that +7% re-launched2006 itself very successfully. the ford mustang carries an 27,501 equally strong following in the us. In the same vein as the mini, Brand Value the ($m) mustang as a flagship model and use ford could re-launch the momentum to rejuvenate the entire ford brand. 2007
to regain momentum, ford could learn from bmw’s experience. by applying a more holistic approach to managing the brand and sub-brands and using a handful of core principles to guide product design, ford could develop a distinctive positioning that resonates with consumers.
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the gap brand has failed to secure or own a positioning within the apparel marketplace. It is a story that indicates an inability to create demand for its brand. gap continues to feel the pressure from low price suppliers offering the same american staple of t-shirts, jeans and chinos. forays into a more fashionable positioning failed, and the brand was left with an irrelevant positioning and an overpriced product line. In the us, gap has further confused its consumers by offering less expensive, fun-oriented options at old navy and higher quality, more up-market items at banana republic. these 2007 17,837 +44% alternative stores – often located in Google close proximity to gap outlets –12,376 have cannibalized sales. 2006 0
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to regain relevance with consumers, gap could learn 2007 7,730 from other mass-market fashion brands. abercrombie &+18% fitch, Nintendo for example, has used a deep understanding of the consumer 2006 6,559 to make its brand sexier. the company knows what makes its customersBrand ‘tick’ and offers a distinctive Value ($m) look and attitude that genuinely resonates. 1000
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the kodak brand has been too late to read the signals of the marketplace and is therefore another story that highlights a lack of demand creation. the kodak brand still feels rooted in traditional film. the company is trying to reinvent itself as being about digital imaging. unfortunately, a lack of any real point of difference, coupled with a relatively late entrance, has17,837 meant that 2007 +44% Google the brand has struggled to gain a significant foothold in 2006 12,376 the digital market. 0
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despite launching innovative products such as the simple dock interface and, more recently, the printer with very affordable 2007 3,221 print cartridges, consumers have not embraced kodak as a +16% Burberry digital2006 brand because it lacks a cohesive 2,783 promise that the customer understands or cares about.
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pizza hut also tells a tale that lacks demand creation. 2007 17,837 +44% pizza hut is still one of the leading brands in the fast-food industry. as a whole has been under 2006 however, the industry 12,376 pressure as consumer preferences have shifted towards healthier alternatives. Brand Value ($m)
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minor2007 changes to its product range (e.g. vegetarian 3,221 options) +16% Burberry and new services (e.g. deliveries and internet orders), have failed 2006 2,783 in all of its touch to revitalize the brand and it now looks tired points. the chain has struggled to maintain share of wallet Brand Value ($m) against new ‘fast casual’ competitors, which offer higher quality food in more attractive surroundings at a higher price point.
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the motorola story is an interesting one. having successfully created demand for the raZr, it seems to have sat back on its laurels. more efficient planning for the motorola brand itself could2007 have delivered a stronger corporate 17,837 brand, which in its +44% Google own right could return 2006 12,376 more value. 0
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Conclusions The turnaround brands all show a rise in their brand value because they have understood and adopted the theme of brand value creation and the brand management practices associated with this. The principal strength is evidently Demand Creation: a simple theme that requires the brand to move and evolve with consumer attitudes and behaviors and create a motivating strategy that it delivers against. Once demand is created, management processes need to be put in place to ensure the brand lives through all its touch points, and that the business plans ahead effectively and efficiently to build value into its brand. The themes are intrinsically linked, and to master them all takes leadership and an organization-wide commitment to building the value of the brand. As we’ve seen, the rewards are high. Correspondingly, the brands that have suffered a decline in brand value seem to have lost the ability to create demand. They have all been hugely successful businesses and brands in the past and the future is there for them to dictate. The turnaround brands all show a sense of understanding consumers’ needs and desires, and rediscovering the appetite to meet their customer promise. After all, what is a brand if not a promise to the customer? The brands that have failed to do this need to rediscover the connection with their markets and focus on the themes of brand value creation.
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Having foresight helps companies make informed choices about their brand and frees leaders up to make bold moves in the full knowledge of the implications.
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HOW WE DID IT
Criteria For Consideration
Methodology
Using our database of global brands, populated with critical information over the past 20 years of valuing brands and more than 30 years of consulting with organizations, Interbrand formed an initial consideration set. All were then subject to the following criteria that narrowed candidates significantly:
The Interbrand method for valuing brands is a proven, straightforward and profound formula that examines brands through the lens of financial strength, importance in driving consumer selection and the likelihood of ongoing branded revenue. Our method evaluates brands much like analysts would value any other asset: on the basis of how much they’re likely to earn in the future. There are three core components to our proprietary method:
• There must be substantial publicly available financial data • The brand must have at least one-third of revenues outside of its country-of-origin • The brand must be a market-facing brand • The Economic Value Added (EVA) must be positive • The brand must not have a purely b2b single audience with no wider public profile and awareness These criteria exclude brands such as Mars, which is privately held, or Wal-Mart, which is not sufficiently global (it does business in some international markets but not under the Wal-Mart brand).
Financial Analysis Our approach to valuation starts by forecasting the current and future revenue specifically attributable to the branded products. The cost of doing business (operating costs, taxes) and intangibles such as patents and management strength are subtracted to assess what portion of those earnings is due to the brand. All financial analysis is based on publicly available company information. Interbrand culls from a range of analysts’ reports to build a consensus estimate for financial reporting. Role of Brand Analysis A measure of how the brand influences customer demand at the point of purchase is applied to the intangible earnings to arrive at Branded Earnings. For this study, industry benchmark analysis for the role brand plays in driving customer demand is derived from Interbrand’s database of more than 5,000 prior valuations conducted over the course of 20 years. In-house market research is used to establish individual brand scores against our industry benchmarks.
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Brand Strength Score This is a benchmark of the brand’s ability to secure ongoing customer demand (loyalty, re-purchase and retention) and thus sustain future earnings, translating branded earnings into net present value. This assessment is a structured way of determining the specific risk to the strength of the brand. We compare the brand against common factors of brand strength, such as market position, customer franchise, image and support.
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
BRAND VALUE CALCULATIONS
Forecasted current and future revenue specifically attributable to the brand.
ROLE OF BRAND ANALYSIS A measure of how the brand influences customer demand at the point of purchase.
Role of Brand Analysis
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BRAND STRENGTH ANALYSIS A benchmark of the brand’s ability to secure ongoing customer demand (loyalty, repurchase, retention).
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5. WHY THE RANKING IS IMPORTANT Significance of the ranking The Best Global Brands study provides a brand value that is a top-line measure of economic performance driven by the brand, stating what the brand is worth overall and among competitors. Brand value brings to marketing what “revenue goals” or “financial hurdle rates” bring to other aspects of the business. The payoff comes when one looks behind the number – a single number only tells you so much. It’s important to understand what drives brand value: intangible earnings (the cash flow of a business not associated with tangible assets such as equipment or materials), the role of brand (a measure of how much brand influences purchasing decisions) and brand strength (a benchmark of a brand’s relative risk compared to competitors). Understanding the drivers of brand value can inform management action, from overall business strategy to specific marketing tactics. It’s an easy-to-understand metric to help brand owners determine where they are, where they’re going and how to get there. It helps to make branding a more important aspect of global business management.
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It tells you whether you are investing adequately in your brand. Putting an economic value on a brand (overall and by segment) can help make a strong business case for marketing investments, overall and across a company’s portfolio. It tells you whether you have a marketing strategy that positions your brand around the right messages. Your customers make decisions every day between you and your competitor; analyzing the role of brand in those decisions helps focus your strategy on the attributes that differentiate your brand from others and strengthen your relationship with your best customers, ensuring future earnings. It tells you whether you have the right short-term tactics to drive value. By analyzing the strength of your brand, you can target marketing campaigns to the most valuable customers and against your most formidable competitors, driving short-term sales. There are many insights from this ranking, but the core message is clear: brands are important assets requiring proactive and consistent investment, management, and measurement.
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APPENDICES
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The purpose of this section is to address the questions that you might be asking in relation to the Best Global Brands.
Contents What is brand value? Why value brands? How does Interbrand derive the value of brands? What was the basis of the financial assessments? What was the basis for the marketing assessments? What was BusinessWeek’s role in the Best Global Brands ranking? Why are certain brands not on the list? Certain obvious global brands are missing. Were they considered? Within certain large industry sectors there are no brands that appear on the list. Why? A number of insurance companies appear on the league table for the first time – why is this? What % of the branded business needs to be outside the home country to be considered global? Was this the only test for being global? Was there a limit to the number of brands included from any one industry? Are there any brands that have a sufficient brand value but did not make the list? How did you take account of the fact that brands are run through franchisees? What is the relationship between the following terms: brand awareness, brand equity, brand share and brand value? Do the valuations reflect the underlying state of the economy? How should one understand the brand value as a % of market capitalization? How does brand value rank against ad spending? Is it possible to recognize brand value on a balance sheet? What is Interbrand’s view on brands appearing on balance sheets? Why is Interbrand an expert in assessing brand value? Does Interbrand conduct other brand studies? What is the difference between the valuations in Best Global Brands and consulting valuations for clients?
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What is brand value?
How does Interbrand derive the value of brands?
Brand value is the dollar value of a brand, calculated as Net Present Value (NPV) or today’s value of the earnings the brand is expected to generate in the future. Like any other financial value, brand value is at a point in time based on the assumptions and information available at that point in time. Brand value is calculated according to the most widely accepted and used valuation principles. This makes brand value comparable to business – and all NPV-based asset values.
Our valuation approach is a derivative of the way businesses and financial assets are valued. It fits with current corporate finance theory and practice. There are three key elements and they are detailed below:
The valuations of brands appearing in the Best Global Brands (BGB) are calculated in their current use to their current owner. They, therefore, do not necessarily represent the potential purchase, extension or licensing value of the brands. Why value brands? The purpose of these valuations is to demonstrate to the business community that brands are very important business assets and in many cases the single most valuable company asset. We also aim to show that branding and marketing are key business issues that have direct shareholder value impact. Through six years of publishing Best Global Brands in BusinessWeek magazine we have created the world’s most significant and influential brand and marketing study. In fact, PRWeek magazine produced a study that showed the BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands ranking was the third most sought-after benchmark report by CEOs and CFOs.
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Financial Forecasting We identify the revenues from products or services that are generated with the brand. From these Branded Revenues we deduct operating costs, applicable taxes and a charge for the capital employed to derive Intangible Earnings. Intangible Earnings are the earnings that are generated by all of the business’s intangibles such as brands, patents, R&D and management expertise. This is a prudent and conservative approach as it only rewards the intangible assets after the tangible assets have received their required return. The concept of Intangible Earnings is therefore similar to value-based management concepts such as economic profit or EVA (Economic Value Added is Stern Stuart’s branded concept). Based on reports from financial analysts we prepare a forecast of Intangible Earnings for six years. Role of Branding Since Intangible Earnings include the returns for all intangibles employed in the business, we need to identify the earnings that are specifically attributable to the brand. Through our proprietary analytical framework called Role of Branding, we can calculate the percentage of Intangible Earnings that are entirely generated by the brand. In some businesses (e.g. fragrances or packaged goods), the Role of Branding is very high as the brand is the predominant driver of the customer purchase decision. However, in other businesses (in particular b2b) the brand is only one purchase driver amongst many and the Role of Branding is
therefore lower. For example, people are buying Microsoft not only because of the brand but mostly because the company has an installed base of 80% of the market and it would be for most users extremely difficult to switch their existing files to a new software platform. In the case of Shell people buy not only because of the brand, but also because of the location of the petrol stations. For each of the brands (and categories) we have assessed the Role of Branding.
against a notional ideal and score it against common factors of brand strength. The ideal brand is virtually ‘risk free’ and would be discounted at a rate almost as low as government bonds or a similar risk free investment. The lower the Brand Strength the further it is from the risk-free investment and so the higher the discount rate (and therefore the lower the net present value).
The Role of Branding is derived as a percentage – thus if it is 50%, we take 50% of the Intangible Earnings as Brand Earnings. If it is 10%, we only take 10% of the Intangible Earnings.
Published annual reports were used to examine the revenues, earnings and balance sheets of the brand-owning companies. Analyst reports from JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are used as the basis for identifying the specific brand revenues and earnings and for forecasting future earnings.
What was the basis of the financial assessments?
Brand Strength What was the basis for the marketing assessments? For deriving the net present value of the forecast Brand Earnings, we need a discount rate that represents the risk profile of these earnings. There are two factors at play: firstly, the time value of money (i.e. $100 today is more valuable than $100 in five years because one can earn interest on the money in the meantime); and secondly, the risk that the forecast earnings will actually materialize. The discount rate represents these factors as it provides an asset-specific risk rate. The higher the risk of the future earnings stream, the higher will be the discount rate. To derive today’s value of a future expected earnings stream it needs to be ‘discounted’ by a rate that reflects the risk of the earnings actually materializing and the time for which it is expected. For example, $100 from the Coca-Cola brand in five years requires a lower discount rate than $100 from the Fanta brand in five years, as the Coca-Cola brand is stronger and therefore more likely to deliver the expected earnings. The assessment of Brand Strength is a structured way of assessing the specific risk of the brand. We compare the brand
Unlike other brand value league tables, Interbrand does not rely on a single source of marketing information. Using a single brand study would limit the type of information (usually limited to perceptual data) and the type of customer (usually general public) that can be considered. Because many leading brands operate in specific customer segments (especially b2b), only considering the general public can be very restrictive. Instead, Interbrand refers to a wide array of primary and secondary sources which are applicable to each brand. These include amongst others Datamonitor, ACNielsen, Gartner and Hall & Partners. Moreover, Interbrand utilizes its network of brand valuation experts from offices around the world to ensure that the league table considers the brands from a global perspective. What was BusinessWeek’s role in the Best Global Brands ranking? BusinessWeek did not influence the selection of brands or the determination of any of the values. Their role was to publish
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the study and to tie the reported performance of brand value to some of the wider issues affecting these brands. They also provided the specific one-line comments that appear in the table. Interbrand is not responsible for these and they do not necessarily represent our views.
Certain obvious global brands are missing. Were they considered?
Why are certain brands not on the list?
BBC – A unique organization since it’s a government-owned corporation that is not supposed to generate a profit. There are, however, parts of it which are commercial and which do generate profits but these are still the minority of the business.
This is a frequent question especially from companies who would expect their brands to be on the list. There are five reasons: - The brand is not sufficiently global - The brand has a pure b2b single audience and has no wider public profile and awareness - The company does not produce public data that enables us to identify the branded business (the company has multiple brands or has unbranded production) - The brand is not big enough (brand value below $3.0 billion falls below the 100 brand ranking) - The business is driven by a number of intangible factors and it is difficult to separate the brand from the rest
In each case there was a reason why they could not be evaluated based on purely public data.
Red Cross – As a not-for-profit, it’s not possible to value the brand based on an earnings model. This would be true of other global not-for-profit brands such as Greenpeace, National Geographic or Unicef. It is however possible to assess the financial value of such brands but using a different kind of model. Mars – This is a privately held and highly secretive organization. Other privately held brands such as IKEA are included since appropriate financial data are publicly available. Within certain large industry sectors there are no brands that appear on the list. Why? Airlines – There has clearly been significant investment in airline brands (and many of them are, by definition, global) but they are still operating in situations where the brand plays only a marginal role. In most cases, the customer decides based on price, route, schedule, corporate policy or frequent flyer points. The brand may often only have a real impact when all these other items are at parity. We have assessed the brand value for airlines by using internal data to strip out the impact of these other factors. But from purely public information this is difficult to do reliably.
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Telecoms – Although there are many large telecom brands that are highly valuable, at present none of these brands fulfill our ‘global’ criteria. Pharmaceuticals – There are no pharmaceutical brands in this year’s league table. Pfizer and Novartis – which were both included in the 2006 table – have been excluded following a review of our approach. Our review concluded that brands should only be included where they resonate with consumers on a global level. In the pharmaceutical industry, it is the product brand rather than the corporate brand with which the consumer builds a relationship. The lack of global recognition of pharmaceutical companies is fundamentally driven by regulatory differences around the world: in the US, for example, pharmaceutical companies are able to communicate and advertise directly to consumers, whereas in the EU this is forbidden. A number of insurance companies appear on the league table for the first time – why is this? Three insurance companies – AIG, AXA and Allianz – have entered the league table this year. Whilst insurance has traditionally been seen as a commodity product, the major players have invested significantly in differentiating themselves over the last year by using a range of brand-building measures. For example, they have developed centralized brand management functions to ensure global consistency of message delivery and they have used global sponsorship to significantly increase reach and recognition. These measures have raised the profile of the brands, turning them into household names.
the home country to be considered global? In most cases one-third, however if the home country of the brand is small (e.g. the Netherlands) we required a higher percentage. For US brands, the overseas sales ratio can be smaller due to the size of the US market, which is nearly as big as all of Europe. Applying the one-third overseas sales requirement would penalize US brands for being successful in their domestic market. Was this the only test for being global? No, we also wanted evidence that the brand was established in a wide number of markets around the world. At the very least it needed to have a substantial presence in at least one country in each of the following 4 regions: North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. It also needed to be managed consistently as a global brand. As an example, Wal-Mart is a valuable brand however it is not consistently branded as Wal-Mart around the globe. Was there a limit to the number of brands included from any one industry? No, however, one of the requirements of a leading global brand is that it is in fact leading. The mark of leadership is not just about market share but also about behaving as a leader – setting trends, quality standards, authority, etc. Thus, there are brands that are in the top three of their category’s market share but did not make the cut; and there are brands that are not top three that did make the global ranking. The rules described are guidelines and ultimately each brand was assessed for inclusion on its own merits.
What % of the branded business needs to be outside
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6. Answers to the most frequently asked questions
Are there any brands that have a sufficient brand value but did not make the list? There are certainly strong national brands that have a value exceeding $3.0 billion but which did not make the list because they do not meet our global criteria. This would be true of many of the financial services and telecom brands, but also surprisingly true of a lot of food, beer and retail brands. How did you take account of the fact that brands are run through franchisees? This was an issue with all the food retail brands – McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, KFC and Starbucks. We based our valuation on the earnings that the brand owner makes from the brand and an estimate of the earnings that the franchisees make from the brand (what is called a total-system view). As in all other valuations, these earnings were then reduced to take account of a return for the use of the tangible and other intangible assets. What is the relationship between the following terms: brand awareness, brand equity, brand share and brand value? Brand value is the only measure that looks at the economic benefit of the brand to its owner. In other words, it is an end in itself. Brand awareness and brand equity are a means to an end. Brand awareness is simply knowledge that a brand exists, thus brand awareness may prompt customers to consider buying a product. Brand equity is a measure of customer perceptions of a brand; thus it may give a customer reason to prefer a product over the alternatives. Brand share is simply the market share achieved by the brand. Thus brand awareness, equity and share are all measures of what a customer thinks or does, it is not an assessment of the economic value created by those thought or actions. Do the valuations reflect the underlying state of
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the economy? Yes – in two ways. The forecasts are prepared with an overall view on economic growth at a point in time. The formula for converting the Brand Strength Score into a discount rate is tied to the underlying government bond yield. How should one understand the brand value as a % of market capitalization? The market capitalization represents the market’s valuation of all the equity of a company. In theory, the market capitalization is the value of all tangible and intangible assets owned by the company less all the debt owed by the company. The brand value/market capitalization relationship can be read in a number of ways: - If the brand value percentage of market capitalization is low, it suggests that the business is driven by other kinds of assets (tangible and intangible) and that the brand is relatively unimportant. It could also mean that the business is failing to leverage the brand as much as it should be and that investors should be concerned about that. - If the brand value percentage of market capitalization is high, it suggests that the business is driven by the brand and that investors should take care of how the brand is being managed since this will have a very direct effect on shareholder value. It could also mean that the business is under-valued by the market and that they are failing to reflect the true value of all the assets of the business of which the brand is one (but only one). The comparison of brand value to market capitalization is mainly useful for mono-branded businesses as the market capitalization relates to all company assets. For companies that own and operate under many different brands, such as Nestlé and J&J, a comparison with market capitalization
is less useful.
What is Interbrand’s view on brands appearing on balance sheets?
How does brand value rank against ad spending? It is not really appropriate to try to correlate these two. Brand value is a measure of the output from a series of brand investments and initiatives over a long period of time. Advertising is one element in a wide spectrum of communications companies employ. Other communications include sponsorships, online, point of sale, customer service, and so on. In some cases brands are built with very little or no advertising as in the case of Starbucks where retail space and employees are the key communications channels. Is it possible to recognize brand value on a balance sheet? Several accounting standards – such as International Accounting Standards (IAS) 36 and 38, US GAAP, FASB 141, UK FRS 10 – allow and/or require the recognition of acquired goodwill, including brands on the balance sheet. The standards clearly identify brands as intangible assets with an infinite economic life. This means unlike other intangible assets (e.g. patents, databases) or goodwill (e.g. training, workforce) brand value does not have to be amortized through the income statement. However, they are subject to an annual impairment test and their carrying value needs to be reduced if the value declined. The technique is consistent with the way in which Interbrand has assessed brands for balance sheet inclusion – though of course using more extensive and proprietary data.
We support the stance of the different accounting standards which recognize the value of brands on the balance sheet. Interbrand has been leading the debate on this issue for many years. However, current accounting standards allow only for the recognition of acquired brands, not internally developed brands. Also, the impairment test for brands on the balance sheet allows only for a potential value reduction but not increase. The acquisition criterion means that the Gucci brand is recognized on the balance sheet of PPR as an intangible asset while the Louis Vuitton brand does not show up on the balance sheet of LVMH. We conclude that the recognition of acquired brands on the balance sheet is a step in the right direction for providing shareholders with better information about the assets they have invested in. However, it’s still not sufficient, as the value of internally generated brands cannot be disclosed despite making up the vast majority of the most valuable brands around the world. As the need for some formal statement about brand value (and the value of other intangible assets) is becoming increasingly important we would advocate some type of statement in the annual report on the intangible business assets including brands. Whether this happens in the traditional balance sheet or whether it happens in a new ‘Statement of Intangible Value’ would be a secondary concern. N.B. There is a precedent for this in the way in which the Cash Flow Statement was developed to complement, but not replace, the Profit & Loss Account.
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6. Answers to the most frequently asked questions
Why is Interbrand an expert in assessing brand value? In 1988, Interbrand developed and introduced the first valuation of a portfolio of brands that used a brand-specific valuation approach. Since then we have continuously updated and improved our valuation approach to make it the global industry standard of brand valuation. The Interbrand brand valuation methodology is the widest endorsed and used valuation approach around the world. Interbrand alone has valued more than 5,000 brands in all industries worldwide. Our valuations have been endorsed by leading academic institutions including Harvard, Thunderbird, Columbia, Emory and St. Gallen. Our valuation approach has the highest depth of applications including strategic brand management, marketing budget allocation, marketing ROI, portfolio management, brand extensions, M&A, balance sheet recognition, licensing, transfer pricing and investor relations. Our valuations have been audited for inclusion on the balance sheet by all leading accounting firms. Also, many tax authorities and law courts around the world have accepted our valuation approach. Does Interbrand conduct other brand studies? We have established national brand value league tables in Switzerland, France, Spain, Australia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Mexico, Canada and Brazil. These follow an identical valuation process but only look at locally owned brands. A US specific study would be redundant due to the great overlap with the global table – 53 out of 100 are US-based.
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What is the difference between the valuations in BGB and consulting valuations for clients? The valuation methodology is the same, however, the level of detail and the data input significantly differ. The BGB valuations are mostly consolidated top-line assessments based on publicly available marketing and financial data. We recognize segment differences for diversified brands by product or service but not geography or any other classification (e.g. financial services or technology). As the valuations are based on publicly available data, they are only as reliable as the data that the brand-owning companies publish about themselves (in annual reports, analysts briefings, press articles, syndicated market research etc.). Consulting valuations are based on detailed customer segmentations, as well as in-depth marketing and financial analyses. They have a much higher level of accuracy and granularity. The purpose of a consulting valuation goes well beyond assessing financial worth. It identifies and quantifies value drivers, and helps the company to manage its brand to increase the shareholder value of the underlying business. However, if clients undertake consulting valuations we are in a much better position to identify publicly available data that are likely to align the BGB valuation with the consulting valuation. In cases where companies make our consulting valuations publicly available, for example through a note in the balance sheet, these values will also be published as the BGB ranking value.
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