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Lanham Act

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Protect it or lost it

You must protect your trademarks

Some countries allow counterfiting

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4 branding options

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Family brand

Individual (free standing) brand

Licensing

Generic

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Manufacturer Brands

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Also called national brands

Created/owned by producers

Attract business to stores

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Dealer Brands

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Also called private brands or private labels

Created/owned by intermediaries

Creates higher margins

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FTC = Label rules

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FTC ACT of 1914 held that false, misleading or deceptive labels or packages constitute unfair competition

Both federal and state laws regulate labeling

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FDA regulates food and drug labels

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Open dating (expiration codes)

Nutritional labels

Nutritional labeling and education act of 1990 - requires sellers to provide detailed nutritional info

FDA also regulates terms like low-fat, high fiber and light

Hot issues: serving sizes, nutrition and gmo labeling

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Environmental packaging

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Recyclable materials

Biodegradable materials

Compact packaging

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Ethical issues of packaging

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Display packaging

True to size packaging

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3 types of convenience products

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Staples

impulse

emergency

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2 types of shopping products

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homogeneous

heterogeneous

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product

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need-satisfying offering of a firm

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Components of a product

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Excellent service

Physical good with the right features

useful instructions

convenient package

trustworthy warranty

familiar name

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service

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not physical - they are intangible

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Quality

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A product’s ability to satisfy a customer’s needs or requirements

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Consumer Product classes

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Convenience products

Shopping products

Specialty products

Unsought products

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Business product classes

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Installations

Accessory equipment

Raw materials

Component parts and materials

Maintenance, repair, and operating supplies

Professional services

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Conditions favorable to successful branding

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The product is easy to label and identify by brand or trademark

The product quality is easy to maintain and the best value for the price

Dependable and widespread availabilty is possible. When customers start using a brand, they want to be able to continue using it

Demand is strong enough that the market price can be high enough to make the branding effort profitable

There are economies of scale. if the branding is really successful, costs should drop and profits should increase

Favorable shelf locations or display space in stores will help. This is something retailers can control when they brand their own products

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5 levels of brand familiarity

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  1. rejection
  2. non-recogniton
  3. recognition
  4. preference
  5. insistence
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Characteristics of a good brand name

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Short and simple

Easy to spell and read

Easy to recognize and remember

Easy to pronounce

Can be pronounced in only one way

Can be pronounced in all languages

Suggestive of product benefits

Adaptabele to packaging/labeling needs

No undesriable imagery

Always timely

Adaptable to any advertising medium

Legally available for use (not in use by another firm)

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How do you protect a brand name?

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U.S. common law and civil law protect the rights of trademark and brand name owners

Lanham act - spells out what kinds of marks can be protected and the exact method of protecting them

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4 different approahces to branding

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family brand

individual brand

lisecenced brand

generic products

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Battle of the brands

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The competition between dealer brands and manufacturer brands, is just a question of whose brands will be more popular and will be in control

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Packaging can enhance the product

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Can make the product easier or safer to use

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Warranty

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Explains what the seller promises about its product

It may actually reduce the responsibility a producer would have under common law

Must be clearly written

Warranties lessen consumer risk

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product assortment
the set of all product lines and individual products that a firm sells
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product line
a set of individual products that are closely related
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individual product
a particular product within a product line
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Branding
The use of a name, term, symbol, or design - to identify a prodcut
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brand name
a word, letter, or a group of words or letters
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Trademark
includes only those words, symbols, or marks that are legally registered for use by a single company
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service mark
the same as a trademark except that it refers to a service offering
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Brand familiarity
Means how well customers recognize and accept a company's brand
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Brand rejection
Means that potential customers wont buy a brand unless its image is changed
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Brand nonrecognition
Means final consumers dont recognize a brand at all -even though intermediaries may use the brand name for identification and inventory control
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Brand recognition
Means that custoemrs remember the brand
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Brand preference
Which means that target customers usually choose the brand over other brands, perhaps because of habit or favorable past experience
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Brand insistence
Means that customers insist on a firm's branded product and are willing to search for it
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brand equity
the value of a brand's overall strength in the market
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family brand
the same brand name for several products
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licensed brand
a well-know brand that sellers pay a fee to use
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individual brands
seperate brand names for each product when its important for the products to each have a seperate identity
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generic products
products that have no brand at all other than identification of their contents and the manufacturer or intermediary
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Manufacturer brands
brands created by producers
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Dealer brands aka private brands
Brands created by intermediaries
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Packaging
involve promoting, protecting, and ehnancing the product can be important for both sellers and customers
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Universal product code (UPC)
To speed handling of fast-selling products, government and industry representatives have developed a universal product code that identifies each prouct with readable by electronic scanners
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Federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
Requires that consumer goods be clearly labled in easy-to-understand terms to give consumers more information
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Magnuson-Moss Act
Says that producers must provide a clearly written warranty if they choose to offer any warranty
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Consumer products
meant for the final consumer
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Business products
Products meant for use in producing other products
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Convenience products
Products a consumer needs but isn't willing to spend much time or effort shopping for
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Staples
Products that are bought often, routinely, and without much thought
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Impulse products
Products that are bought quickly and unplanned because of a strongly felt need
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Emergency products
Products that are purchased immediately when the need is great
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Shopping products
Products that a customer feels are worth the time and effort to compare with competing products can be homogeneous or heterogeneous
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Homogeneous shopping products
Shoppig products the customer sees as basically the same and wants the lowest price
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Heterogeneous shopping products
Shopping products the customer sees as different and wants to inspect for quality and suitability ex. furniture, clothing, and membership in a spa
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Specialty products
Consumer products that the customer really wants and makes a special effort to find
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Unsought products
Products that potential customers dont yet want or know they can buy
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New unsought products
products offering really new ideas that potential customers dotn know about yet
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Regular unsought products
products- like gravestones, life insurance and encyclopedias that stay unsought but not unbought forever
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derived demand
the demand for business products derives from the demand for final consumer products
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expense item
a product whose total ost is treated as a business expense in the year it's purchased
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capital item
a long-lasting product that can be used and depreciated for many years
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installations
Such as buidlings, land rights, major equipment - important capital items
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Accessories
Short-lived capital items - tools and equipment used in production or office activities
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Raw materials
Unprocessed expense items - such as logs, iron, ore, and wheat - that are moved to the next productino proces with little handling
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Farm products
Grown by farmers
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Natural products
products that occur in nature
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Components
Processe expense items that become part of a finished product
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Supplies
Expense items that do not become part of a finished product 3 types: 1. maintence, 2. repair, and 3. operating supplies
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Professional services
Specialized services that support a firm's operations usually expense items
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New-Product Development Process
1. Idea generation 2. screening 3. idea evaluation 4. development 5. commercialization
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PSSP Hierarcy of Needs
Physiological needs safety needs social needs personal needs
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product life cycle
Describes the stages a really new product idea goes through from beginning to end 1. market introduction 2. market growth 3. market maturity 4. sales decline
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Market introduction
Sales are low as a new idea is first introduced to a market
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Market growth
Industry sales grow fast - but industry profits rise and then start falling
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Market maturity
Occurs when industry sales level off and competiton gets tougher
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Sales decline
New products replace the old
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Fashion
The currently accepted or popular style Fashion-related products tend to have short life cycle
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Fad
An idea that is fashionable only to certain groups who are enthusaistic about it
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New product
One that is new in any way for the company concerned
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The federal government agency that policies antimonololyy laws
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Consumer Product Safety Act
Set up to encourage safety in product design and better quality control
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concept testing
getting reactions from customers about how wll a new-product idea fits their needs
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Product managers or brand managers
Manage specific products - often taking over the jobs formerly handled by an advertising manager
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Total quality management (TQM)
The philosphy tha everyone in the organization is concerned about quality, throughout all of the firm's actitivies, to better serve customer needs
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Pareto chart
A graph that shows the number of times a problem cause occurs, with problem causes ordered from most frequent to least frequent
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fishbone diagram
visual aid that helps organize cause and effect relationships for things gone wrong
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empowerment
means giving employees the authority to correct a problem without first checking with management
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Can a product enter in any phase of the life cycle?
A given firm may introduce or drop a specific product during any stage of the product life cycle
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New Product Development Process
Idea generation Screening Idea evaluation Development Commercialization
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2 things a new product development process tries to do
1. move quickly 2. avoid expensive new-product failures
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