Los signos de calidad como denominaciones de origen y otras indicaciones geograficas son elementos de diferenciacion que estan suscitando, desde hace unos anos, gran interes y desarrollo en muchos paises. Ademas de ser figuras de proteccion oficial, tienen un significado comercial similiar al de...

This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics: Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and...

Geographic Indications (GIs) such as Darjeeling Tea, Pampas meat, Basmati rice, and Parmigiano cheese embody unique expressions of culture, tradition, and place. This 6 page summary of the Main Themes of Discussion by the Terra Madre conference participants and the E-Forum departs from the...

Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using...

The authors develop a dynamic approach to measuring the evolution of comparative brand premium, an important component of brand equity. A comparative brand premium is defined as the pairwise price difference between two products being identical in every respect but brand. The model is based on...

The term 'global brand' has become widely used by the media and by consumers. Business week publishes annually its widely known ranking of the 'Best Global Brands' (with Coca-Cola as number 1 in the past years) and consumers on summer vacations purchase brands such as Heineken or Marlboro they...

Purpose - This study investigates whether the influence of selected marketing-mix elements on brand equity differs for different types of brands. The main focus is on price promotions' influence. In addition, the impact of discount-store distribution is explored. Design/methodology/approach -...

This study evaluates brand equity measurements on service delivery of insurance companies in Nigeria. An explanatory research design was employed. A purposive sampling technique was adopted. Structured questionnaire was employed for data gathering exercise. The study surveyed 31 insurance...

Store brands account for 41% of the Spanish market share in 2011, and a further increase is expected in next years due to economic crisis, which makes up an increasingly competitive market with great research interest. In this context, our study aims to analyze which variables have a relevant...

Brand equity has been and will be an area of interest for marketing managers. All marketing efforts are directed toward the development of brand equity. Therefore efforts are taken among the researchers, to understand the concept of brand equity as deep as possible. This paper attempts to...