Unlocking the Value of your Brand
A brand connects people with a company and conveys the core messages a company wishes to bring to its stakeholders. This encompasses telling people what the company is about, what it can offer and why it is different from its peers. In short, a brand tells a story about the company to its audience.
Any storyteller can tell you that to spin a good yarn, the story must have a proper structure, an appealing content and an enticing delivery. But even before the preparations can begin, you need to know how your potential audience perceives you, so you can “pitch” your story appropriately. The same applies to business. Renowned writer, professor and management consultant Peter Drucker (1909-2005) said it well when he proclaimed, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” If you want to manage your brand and set the company on a growth path, it is important to first know how well the brand resonates with the target clientele.
A brand audit will reveal what and how stakeholders think of the company, and what they expect from it. It will also show how the brand fares among its competitors. Such findings will contribute to the development of a more content-relevant and compelling brand story.
Having a correctly-positioned brand story is crucial to companies including SMEs. Especially in the very competitive food & beverage industry, you need to get all the story ingredients right.
In this fourth issue, three food & beverage companies offering different specialties and with varying degrees of experience talk about the positive results of unlocking the value of their brand. These brand audit projects were executed by SMU student-consultants who were mentored by project advisers with the requisite domain expertise.
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A “new” look at traditional dishes: New Soon Huat shows the way
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Fast food is not junk food: Yoshinoya shows why
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