Facebook and the Metaverse: losing focus on the core?
Facebook founder Mark Zukerberg’s ‘pivot’ to put all his eggs in the metaverse* basket hit the headlines this week, for the wrong reasons. “Zuckerberg’s bet on the [...]
Portfolio focus pays off for Coca-Cola
It was interesting to watch Coca-Cola CEO James Quincy talk about portfolio focus in a CNN interview (1), one year after we posted here on his plans to cut a large number of “zombie brands”. His [...]
Meta: the good, the bad and the ugly of Facebook’s name change
The change of Facebook’s company brand name change to Meta hit the headlines last week. In this post, I take a practical look at the good, bad and ugly aspects of the re-branding. What can we [...]
Brand Portfolio Rationalisation to Currys: “Gear shift, not facelift”
I read with interest the Dixons Carphone group’s planned name change linked to brand portfolio rationalisation. In this post I explore why this change is strategically sound, in contrast to the [...]
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Posted 7 brand building steps that doubled Peloton’s business
In this post, I explore in detail how the brand building of Peloton drove explosive growth, using seven ‘workouts’ from our brandgym Academy Mastering Brand Growth Program. I also [...]
Brand portfolio focus: Coca-Cola “kill the zombies”
Coca-Cola is pursuing brand portfolio focus in response to the Covid crisis, which contributed to a 2nd quarter sales drop of 27%, the biggest quarterly decline in a decade. CEO James Quincy [...]
Brand focus: laying bare why Majestic Wines is focusing on Naked
Majestic Wine Groups’s plan to ditch the Majestic Wine Warehouse brand, close some stores and migrate the whole business to the Naked Wines brand* got a cold reception from investors, with [...]
Effective range architecture: 5 key insights
[Post by Anne Charbonneau, Managing Partner based in Amsterdam] At my local Dutch supermarket yesterday, I stared in utter confusion at the shelf of soya drinks, faced with explosion of possible [...]
Brand Architecture for Business Growth
Brand architecture can be a theoretical and over-intellectual process that takes place in a conceptual vacuum, divorced from business reality. One resulting problem is brand proliferation, where [...]
Focus on the core: Sainsbury’s ditch discount chain
After several recent posts on Tesco focusing on its core business, here and here, today it is the turn of Sainsbury’s to take the headlines. CEO Mike Coupe announced that the company was [...]