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Lyle’s Golden Syrup has been named as Britain’s oldest brand, with its green and gold packaging having remained almost unchanged since 1885. The Guinness Book of Records gave the breakfast and teatime sweetener, whose tins bear the image of a lion and a biblical quotation, the prized honor.

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Continuing the engagement of the employees in internal branding, October issue of HRMagazin is running an extensive material on internal branding and its importance for the success of any re-branding efforts .

As the people who deliver the brand promise are employees, making sure they understand and can deliver the brand to customers is vital—especially for companies within the service industry, where the relationship between employees and customers essentially is the product the company sells.

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Corporations must be very concerned with branding and advertising practices that attract customers or retain them, as effective branding and advertising can have postive impact on corporate profitability.

Here are six suggestions that Howard D. Hill, Ph.D., president and CEO of Associates in Education in Orangeburg is proposing to assist corporations (and smaller companies) in maintaining dominance in desired areas of operation:

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Since we talked here earlier about Naming Don’ts, let’s see some DO’s on the matter. Without any doubts, choosing a name is one of the most important decisions a company can make when launching a brand. More than that, when we’re talking about small businesses it seems that the most stressful thing about starting a new company was not manufacturing of products or advertising to customers, but coming up with a name.

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Try to create complementary relationships between your business [tag]name[/tag], its [tag]slogan[/tag], and other communications devices, such as the Web address. Avoid redundant messages. In other words, don’t pick a slogan that simply reiterates your company name.

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Lacoste has coming roaring back from obscurity to become one of the hottest sports/apparel brands around. The company’s US sales grew in the US of 1000% in 5 years. Not bad for a brand that was once languishing under General Mills’s ownership.

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Brand loyalty will diminish as the defining metric of success. Marketing strategies will become more varied.

Brand loyalty reduces customer loss, which improves business growth. You are not replacing lost customers to stay at the same sales volume. Customers must have a favorable attitude toward the product to develop loyalty.

Looking at the future of loyalty-marketing innovation, three major trends will emerge.

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Building a brand requires real understanding, knowledge, talent, correct creative skills, resources, and, of course, time. Some businessmen think the product is the brand. Even a company itself is a brand they cannot recognize. The goodwill, image of the company can create an impact on the whole products or brand which they may not realize. [...]

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Michael Kanellos, editor at large at CNET News.com, has an interesting article providing some advices for nowadays business naming, that even if is focused on tech companies, is still useful for businesses at large: In any event, for you start-up execs, here’s a handy guideline for how not to name your company: 1. Avoid redundancies. [...]

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For the second consecutive year, [tag]Landor[/tag] Associates is proud to announce the exclusive publication of its [tag]Breakaway Brands[/tag] Study in FORTUNE magazine’s September 18th issue, now available on newsstands and at www.fortune.com. The study identifies the ten brands in the United States that have made the greatest percentage gains in business value as a result [...]

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