The Brand Gym: A Practical Workout to Gain & Retain Brand Leadership

The Brand Gym: A Practical Workout to Gain & Retain Brand Leadership

by David Taylor (Author), David Nichols (Author)

Synopsis

This refreshingly simple, practical guide demonstrates howbrand management can boost business performance. It is the idealinspiration for creating growth in today's tough economic times.Following the template of the highly successful original version,the book consists of a programme of 8 "workouts" that will helpmarketers raise their own game in key areas such as: insight,portfolio strategy, positioning and innovation. The tools andtechniques in the book have been road-tested on over 100 brandgymprojects out of the last 8 years, making this book extremelypractical. * Based on the inside stories of brand leaders who have achievedsuccess: Tesco, T-Mobile, Unilever and Proctor and Gamble. Thesecompanies share their tips, tricks and warn of the traps toavoid. * 50% of the content is new or updated with the latest thinkingon "recession proof branding", how to win when times are tough,communication briefing, growing the core business and new researchwith marketing directors on the key success factors of brandleaders. * The authors are most influential, appearing in The Guardian,Marketing, Brand Strategy, Market Leader and TheMarketer. The CIM have called David Taylor one of the"World's 50 most important marketing thinkers".

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 16 Apr 2010

ISBN 10: 0470686197
ISBN 13: 9780470686195

Media Reviews
the book is well written, comprehensive, tackles the common pitfalls of brand management and inspires fresh perspectives. (B2B-Marketing.com, June 2010). A refreshingly simple, practical guide to how brand management can boost business performance. (Moving Money, September 2010).
Author Bio
David Taylor and David Nichols are Managing Partners of the brandgym, a network of senior brand coaches that help teams to create a clear brand vision and the action plans to turn this into growth. Clients include SAB Miller, Tesco, Unilever, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, Kerry Foods and RSA Insurance.
Taylor has been named one of the world s 50 leading marketing thinkers by the CIM. He is the author of three other brandgym books published by John Wiley: Brand Stretch, Brand Vision and Where s the Sausage? He also writes brandgymblog.com, one of Europe s top 10 branding blogs. David started his career in brand management with P&G before doing an MBA at INSEAD. He then started and grew the Paris office of Added Value, where he met David Nichols.
david@thebrandgym.com

David Nichols is a leading expert on innovation and the author of the brandgym book Return on Ideas a practical guide to making innovation pay, in addition to Brands & Gaming published by Palgrave Macmillan. He started his career at OC&C Strategy consultants, moving on to the marketing consultancy Added Value where he was Managing Director of Australia and then the UK. He has a first class degree in Aerospace Engineering from Bristol University and is an aerobatic pilot in his spare time.
davidn@thebrandgym.com