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An interesting sight at Heathrow today, on the way to a workshop in Poland, was a 21st century shoe-shine stand. I thought this was a nice example of how you…

Ideas on Europe's leading clothing retailer... Gap? H&M? No, the leader is a Inditex, the secretive Spanish company behind the Zara brand, with sales of  €10.4 bn in 2008 and…

Last week it looked like we were going to miss an important pitch meeting in Rotterdam, as all flights from London were grounded by the bloody Icelandic volcano cloud (that…

Our new baby is born...!Monday 26 April, is the official launch of the new brandgym book on Amazon here. So, if you do feel like buying a copy, please try…

A belated blog on Hits and Misses for 2010. Please vote by clicking here. Then we meet back in a year and see how we did.HITS1. Apple's iPad will hit…

I fear that Guinness Black Lager has "brand ego trip" written all over it. Brand ego trips are extensions that are driven by the brand owner's needs, rather then the…

Here we continue the post on why I think Nespresso is the best brand in the world. 5. Unique business model: Nespresso is a system brand, selling a machine and…

... cue drum roll please. I can now reveal the best brand in the world, based on the criteria from last week's post And the winner is.... NESPRESSOI already loved…

This is the 5th post on the new bgym book, done with my co-author, David Nichols who heads up our invention practice.Innovation can be one of the best sources of…

Here are my criteria for the best brand in the world. The benchmark against which other brands should be compared. This is more multi-dimensional that the tables of the world's…