Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: 1. Opening perspectives: brands and brand management -- 2. Developing a brand strategy: Customer- based equity and brand positioning -- Brand resonance and the brand value chain -- 3. Designing and implementing brand marketing programs: Choosing brand elements to build equity -- Designing marketing programs to build equity -- Integrating marketing communications to build brand equity -- Leveraging secondary brand associations to build brand equity -- 4.Measuring and interpreting brand performance: Developing a brand equity measurement and management system -- Measuring sources of brand equity: customer mind-set -- Measuring outcomes of brand equity: capturing market performance -- 5. Growing and sustaining brand equity: Design and implementing branding architecture strategies -- Introducing and naming new products and brand extensions -- Managing brands over time -- Managing brands over geographic boundaries and market segments -- 6. Closing perspectives: Closing observation --