BrandZ 2008 Report
BrandZ 2008 Report
BMW | ICBC | Louis Vuitton | American Express | Wells Fargo | Cisco | Disney | UPS
Tesco | Oracle | Intel | Porsche | SAP | Gillette | China Construction Bank | Bank of China
Verizon Wireless | Royal Bank of Canada | HSBC | Mercedes | Honda | L’Oréal | Pepsi
Home Depot | Dell | Deutsche Bank | ING | Carrefour | NTT DoCoMo | Target | Siemens
Banco Santander | Accenture | Orange | BlackBerry | Chase | Nike | Canon | AT&T | Starbucks
Goldman Sachs | Samsung | Nissan | Marks & Spencer | Amazon | Yahoo! | Morgan Stanley
Tide | T-Mobile | Zara | Chanel | IKEA | Ariel | Movistar | MTS | Esprit | TIM | Motorola
BMW | ICBC | Louis Vuitton | American Express | Wells Fargo | Cisco | Disney | UPS
Tesco | Oracle | Intel | Porsche | SAP | Gillette | China Construction Bank | Bank of China
Verizon Wireless | Royal Bank of Canada | HSBC | Mercedes | Honda | L’Oréal | Pepsi
Home Depot | Dell | Deutsche Bank | ING | Carrefour | NTT DoCoMo | Target | Siemens
Banco Santander | Accenture | Orange | BlackBerry | Chase | Nike | Canon | AT&T | Starbucks
Goldman Sachs | Samsung | Nissan | Marks & Spencer | Amazon | Yahoo! | Morgan Stanley
Welcome to the third annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands Ranking.
We congratulate all companies with brands in this year’s BrandZ Ranking. Being one of the world’s most valuable brands
demonstrates strong brand and business management.
Companies are beginning to recognize that brands are among their most valuable assets. Brands account for about
one-third of the value of Fortune 500 companies. Companies that own brands in the BrandZ Top 100 have
significantly outperformed the stock market when compared to the S&P 500.
The BrandZ Ranking is the result of Millward Brown Optimor’s robust brand valuation methodology. Ours is the first
brand ranking to combine analysis of financial data with primary research findings. We do this because brand value
depends on consumer sentiment as well as on a company’s ability to translate that sentiment into shareholder value.
The primary research data comes from BrandZ, the world’s largest repository of brand equity data, based on annual
studies by Millward Brown. To date, we have interviewed more than 1 million consumers and business-to-business
customers around the world about thousands of brands. Over the past ten years, BrandZ data has accurately predicted
market share growth for all brands covered in the study.
Millward Brown Optimor values market-facing brands, meaning product and service brands that people and businesses
buy as opposed to brand portfolios or corporate brands.
The BrandZ Ranking is comprehensive. We value and rank the top 100 brands as well as the top brands in 16 categories.
Our brand ranking goes beyond Brand Value. We also calculate the degree to which brand equity plays a role in generating
earnings (Brand Contribution); and how much the brand is expected to grow in the short term (Brand Momentum).
The new edition of the BrandZ Ranking provides actionable information that we hope companies will use
to better understand, and grow, their brands. If you would like to know more, please visit our Web site at
www.millwardbrown.com/mboptimor.
Dr Joanna Seddon
CEO of Millward Brown Optimor
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Executive Summary
This year’s BrandZ Ranking proves that brands are becoming ever more powerful in driving shareholder value.
The combined value of all brands in the BrandZ Top 100 increased by 21%, from $1.6 trillion in 2007 to $1.94 trillion
in 2008, more than twice the increase experienced the previous year. Google tops the list again with a brand value of
$86.1bn, followed by GE at $71.4bn, and Microsoft at $70.8bn.
The biggest risers in the ranking include Apple at $30bn with the biggest dollar increase in the Top 100 list, and
BlackBerry, that entered the BrandZ Ranking at number 51 thanks to a brand value increase of 390%.
Interesting trends from this year’s BrandZ Ranking include: Top 10 Most Powerful Brands
BRAND BRAND VALUE
RANK BRAND VALUE ($M) CHANGE
1. Established Asia vs Emerging Asia — Chinese brands continue to get 1 Google 86,057 30%
stronger according to the new BrandZ Ranking. Seven brands in this 2 GE (General Electric) 71,379 15%
year’s Top 100 come from mature Asian economies: Japan, Korea, and 3 Microsoft 70,887 29%
Hong Kong. Their aggregate brand value increased by only 7% in the 4 Coca-Cola (*) 58,208 17%
last year (to $111bn). In contrast, the value of the four Chinese brands 5 China Mobile 57,225 39%
that made this year’s BrandZ Top 100 increased by 51% (to $124bn). 6 IBM 55,335 65%
China Mobile, Bank of China, China Construction Bank and ICBC are 7 Apple 55,206 123%
only just starting to expand beyond China so they have considerable 8 McDonald’s 49,499 49%
2. Continued Rise of the BRICs — Emerging markets play a key role in Source: Millward Brown Optimor (including data from
brandz , Datamonitor, and Bloomberg)
driving growth for international brands, for example Apple and Gucci. *The brand value for Coca-Cola includes the values of both
In addition, the new BrandZ Ranking shows that domestic brands Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Diets and Lites
3. Technology Boom — The technology sector (including mobile operators), which accounted for 28 of the Top 100
brands, outperformed all other categories in this year’s BrandZ Ranking, with a brand value growth of $187.5bn.
This is more than half of the Top 100’s total increase.
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About the BRA NDZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands Ranking
Driven by primary research insights, the BrandZ Ranking provides actionable information to help marketing, finance,
and business professionals manage and grow their brands. The primary research comes from WPP’s BrandZ, the
world’s largest brand equity database for which Millward Brown has interviewed over 1 million consumers and business-
to-business customers about thousands of brands worldwide.
The BrandZ Ranking provides sector and geographic coverage of market-facing brands, including brands in Apparel,
Beer, Cars, Fast Food, Financial Services, Luxury Goods, Mobile Communications, Motor Fuel, Personal Care, Retail,
Soft Drinks, and Technology. It covers brands in developed markets currently driving world GDP, and emerging markets
whose share of world GDP is expected to grow in the future.
Millward Brown Optimor has refined the BrandZ Ranking over the past three years. The 2008 edition of the ranking
includes brands in 31 countries representing 85% of the world’s GDP. We conducted additional research to value
deodorant and spirits brands, and improved our methodology for valuing soft drinks brands to take into account the
relationship with bottlers.
The BrandZ Ranking is calculated on a calendar year basis, so the data used for the ranking covers the period
1 January to 31 December 2007.
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Brand Value is the financial value of a brand, defined as the sum of all earnings that a brand is expected to generate.
For the purpose of the BrandZ ranking, Millward Brown Optimor values brands in three steps:
1. Establish a company’s intangible earnings and allocate them to individual brands and countries of operation,
based on publicly available financial data from Bloomberg, Datamonitor (www.datamonitor.com) and Millward
Brown Optimor’s own research.
2. Determine the portion of intangible earnings attributable to brand alone, as opposed to other factors
such as price. This metric, known as Brand Contribution, reflects the share of earnings from a product or
service’s most loyal consumers or users. For this second step, we use research-based loyalty data from the
BrandZ database.
3. Project the brand value forward based on market valuations, the brand’s risk profile, and its growth poten-
tial. Data for this step is sourced from the BrandZ database, Bloomberg and Millward Brown Optimor’s own
research. Using these growth inputs, we create the final metric available from the BrandZ ranking, Brand
Momentum, the index of the brand’s short-term growth potential.
Corporate Earnings
‘Branded’ Earnings
‘Branded’
Value
Step 1: Step 2: Step 3:
Intangible Earnings Brand Contribution Brand Multiple
Intangible corporate Portion of intangible Brand earnings
earnings allocated to earnings attributable multiple.
each brand by country, to brand.
based on company and Calculated based
analyst reports, industry Directly driven by on market valuations,
studies, revenue BrandDynamicsTM brand growth potential
estimates, etc. Loyalty Pyramid and and VoltageTM as
Category Segmentation measured by
collected wihin the BrandDynamics.
BRANDZTM study.
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For the first time this year, we have been able to compare the performance of the BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful
Brands as a portfolio against the performance of the stock market. Bearing in mind the challenging economic condi-
tions being experienced in some parts of the world, it is particularly interesting to see the role that brand plays in driving
value. To take account of the economic developments during the first quarter of 2008, we calculated this portfolio up
to the beginning of April.
In order to do this, we created a portfolio of all the brands in the Top 100 that are publicly listed and frequently traded
(i.e. not illiquid). The Top 100 Most Powerful Brands portfolio is benchmarked against the S&P 500. For each of the three
years that the ranking has been running, we changed the portfolio to reflect that year’s Top 100 brands. We can see from
the chart, that investing in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands results in a five-fold increase in performance.
To understand the importance that brand plays in this, we created a Strong Brands Portfolio. We isolated those brands
in the Top 100 for which brand contributed over 30% of earnings. These brands represented about two-thirds of the
BrandZ Top 100 each year. When we compared the performance of this portfolio to the S&P 500 index, we discovered
a seven-fold increase.
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+22.1%
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+14.8%
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+3.0%
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-10%
The difference in performance between both the Top 100 and the Strong Brands portfolios demonstrates the power
of brands. This is particularly relevant when the economy is in a downturn, because strong brands can help to protect
businesses from risk.
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Sector Highlights
In addition to the Top 100 Ranking, Millward Brown Optimor developed 2008 rankings for 16 product categories including
spirits (new for 2008) and personal care (which now incorporates deodorants). We also separated financial institution
brands from those in the insurance category.
Below is an overview of key trends in each category. Refer to page 16 for full category rankings:
Apparel (+23%)
Sports and online retailing are the driving force behind the apparel industry, contributing to growth in footwear and
clothing. Consumers are increasingly happy to wear sports brands whether they play sports or not. Global sporting
events like the World Cup and the Olympics have thrust the industry into the limelight. In China, an interest in Western
sporting events and an increase in disposable income created opportunities for Western sports brands. Retailers are
focusing on online channels as more and more consumers turn to e-retailing
Beer (+24%)
Smoking bans, shrinking core markets, and competition from alternative alcoholic beverages weakened Western
beer markets. The World Cup and an unusually hot summer softened the blow. Beer companies turned their focus
to emerging markets that continue to drive substantial growth for the category. Domestic beer brands from emerging
markets are also growing. The success of Brazilian brands Skol and Brahma exemplify this trend. In developed markets,
local beer brands faced stagnant volume sales as opposed to imported beers that experienced strong growth. In the
U.S., preference for imported premium beers and healthier options led to the development of a “luxury imported light”
range whose sales were twice as strong as those of regular imported beers. As a whole, brewing companies are consoli-
dating in order to retain market share at home and expand abroad.
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Sector Highlights
Cars (+7%)
The automotive industry suffered from hikes in the price of crude oil and raw materials, fluctuations in exchange rates,
and structural changes in the demand for automobiles. The automotive industry is likely to continue to grow in emerging
markets such as Asia and Latin America. In mature markets, car companies will need to incorporate new technologies
to attract consumers and generate growth. The BrandZ Ranking proves this: car brands that offered new designs, fuel
efficiency, and green models did better than the competition.
Coffee (+18%)
The global coffee sector has experienced slow but positive growth in 2007 leading to good results for most brands.
Innovation, a trend favoring premium ranges, and increased demand for Fairtrade products helped keep up the sector.
Coffee consumers this year tended to shift away from instant and choose ground instead.
Insurance (+23%)
Leading insurance companies are embracing major changes to the way that they do business to position themselves for
future success. This trend results from unprecedented volatility in the market, a changing consumer base, and tougher
regulations. New markets will drive profits as demand slows down in developed markets. In North America, Europe, and
Japan, assets are shifting from equities to annuities and other fixed-income products because of the ageing population.
China is a compelling target for insurance companies thanks to looser regulatory barriers, a growing middle class, and
an ageing population in need of retirement security. Insurers are powerful advertisers. Collectively, they spent $2 billion
on advertising last year, surpassing the beer, entertainment, and soft drink industries.
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Sector Highlights
Luxury (+24%)
The global luxury brands category is worth roughly $400bn. This number is likely to grow to $2 trillion by 2010, fueled
by an emerging group of consumers, especially in emerging markets looking for “new luxury.” “New luxury” refers to
products and services that deliver even higher levels of quality, taste, and aspiration. Luxury brands are extending into
leisure and construction through the development of branded hotels and residential complexes. In established markets
luxury brands are under pressure to be socially and environmentally responsible. A recent report by the WWF criticized
luxury brands for being “slow to recognize their responsibilities and opportunities”.
Retail (+10%)
Retailers are going “green”: Wal-Mart pledged to bar products that contribute to global warming; Tesco promised to
create a “carbon calorie counter” for every product it sells; and Marks & Spencer intends to make its business carbon-
neutral within five years. Health continues to be an important trend, with many food retailers now displaying nutritional
information on product labels. Like apparel companies, retailers are developing e-tailing channels to respond to consumer
demand for convenient ways to shop. Retailers are also making their services more flexible by improving their
multi-channel offers.
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Sector Highlights
Spirits (NEW)
“Premiumization” of spirits brands is driving growth for the category as many companies innovate and extend their
brands upwards. The European spirits sector is trading at a higher relative valuation today than in more than a decade.
This success results from higher earnings and bigger marketing investment by spirits brands. In the U.S., the spirits
sector also delivered growth in the premium segments. Profits and sales of spirits brands are also accelerating in
emerging markets. A challenge common to all brands in the spirits category is stricter advertising restrictions, especially
around young consumers.
Technology (+33%)
Growth in the technology category is driven by innovation, and increasingly, by the brand experience. Strong technology
brands include not only consumer facing brands such as Apple and Google, but also software, B2B and professional
services brands The software industry enjoyed a double-digit revenue growth.
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37 Honda 16,649 8%
38 L’Oréal 16,459 34%
39 Pepsi(2) 15,404 15%
40 Home Depot 15,378 -16%
41 Dell 15,288 10%
42 Deutsche Bank 15,104 14%
43 ING(3) 15,080 31%
44 Carrefour 15,057 29%
45 NTT DoCoMo 15,048 11%
46 Target 14,738 27%
47 Siemens 14,665 61%
48 Banco Santander 14,549 20%
49 Accenture 14,137 34%
50 Orange 14,093 42%
51 BlackBerry 13,734 390%
52 Chase 12,782 14%
53 Nike 12,499 21%
54 Canon 12,398 9%
55 AT&T 12,030 30%
56 Starbucks 12,011 -25%
57 Goldman Sachs 11,944 45%
58 Samsung 11,870 -7%
59 Nissan 11,707 5%
60 Marks & Spencer 11,600 22%
61 Amazon 11,511 93%
62 Yahoo! 11,465 -13%
63 Morgan Stanley 11,327 1%
64 UBS 11,220 -3%
65 eBay 11,200 -13%
66 H&M 11,182 28%
67 Wachovia 11,022 10%
68 Ford 10,971 -13%
69 Chevrolet 10,862 -3%
70 Budweiser(4) 10,839 9%
71 Colgate 10,576 37%
72 Harley-Davidson 10,401 1%
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NOT E S
(1) Coke’s value includes both Coke and Diet Coke
(2) Pepsi’s value includes both Pepsi and Diet Pepsi
(3) ING’s value includes both ING Bank and insurance
(4) Budweiser’s value includes both Bud and Bud Light
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1 Porsche 10
2 Hermès 10
3 Christian Dior 10
4 Fendi 10
5 Louis Vuitton 10
6 Rolex 10
7 Prada 10
8 Chanel 10
9 China Merchants Bank 10
10 Burberry 10
1 Louis Vuitton 5
2 Porsche 5
3 Hermès 5
4 Gucci 5
5 Cartier 5
6 Tide 5
7 Chanel (*) 5
8 Rolex(*) 5
9 Hennessy 5
10 Armani(*) 5
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UK
# B RA N D BRAND VALUE $M BRAND CONTRIBUTION BRAND MOMENTUM
1 Nokia 43,975 3 5
2 BMW 28,015 4 7
3 Louis Vuitton 25,739 5 10
4 Porsche 21,718 5 10
5 SAP 21,669 2 6.5
6 Mercedes 18,044 4 6.5
7 L’Oréal 16,459 4 7
8 Deutsche Bank 15,104 1 2.5
9 ING 15,080 2 5
10 Carrefour 15,057 3 4.5
11 Siemens 14,665 2 4.5
12 Banco Santander 14,549 2 1.5
13 Orange 14,093 2 4
14 UBS 11,220 2 5.5
15 H&M 11,182 2 4.5
16 Hermès 9,631 5 10
17 BBVA 9,457 2 4.5
18 Gucci 9,341 5 10
19 Cartier 9,285 5 10
20 T-Mobile 8,940 2 7
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1 Nokia 43,975 3 5
2 Vodafone 36,962 2 4.5
3 BMW 28,015 4 7
4 Louis Vuitton 25,739 5 10
5 Tesco 23,208 4 7
6 Porsche 21,718 5 10
7 SAP 21,669 2 6.5
8 HSBC 18,479 2 5
9 Mercedes 18,044 4 6.5
10 L’Oréal 16,459 4 7
11 Deutsche Bank 15,104 1 2.5
12 ING 15,080 2 5
13 Carrefour 15,057 3 4.5
14 Siemens 14,665 2 4.5
15 Banco Santander 14,549 2 1.5
16 Orange 14,093 2 4
17 Marks & Spencer 11,600 3 9.5
18 UBS 11,220 2 5.5
19 H&M 11,182 2 4.5
20 Hermès 9,631 5 10
North America
# BRA N D BRAND VALUE $M BRAND CONTRIBUTION BRAND MOMENTUM
1 Google 86,057 3 5
2 GE (General Electric) 71,379 2 10
3 Microsoft 70,887 3 7.5
4 Coca-Cola 58,208 4 9
5 IBM 55,335 2 8.5
6 Apple 55,206 3 9
7 McDonald’s 49,499 3 7
8 Marlboro 37,324 3 6.5
9 Wal-Mart 34,547 2 8.5
10 Bank of America 33,092 2 6
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Asia
# B RA N D BRAND VALUE $M BRAND CONTRIBUTION BRAND MOMENTUM
Category tables
>APPAREL
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1 Budweiser 5,853 3 3 5%
2 Bud Light 4,986 3 3 13%
3 Heineken 4,594 4 4 24%
4 Corona 4,449 4 7.5 35%
5 Stella Artois 4,199 4 8 43%
6 Guinness 3,078 4 7 13%
7 Miller Lite 2,468 3 8 17%
8 Skol 1,920 4 8 50%
9 Amstel 1,618 3 2.5 27%
10 Beck’s 1,545 3 4.5 49%
11 Cruzcampo 1,332 4 4.5 23%
12 Kronenbourg 1664 1,183 3 2.5 16%
13 Coors Light 1,163 3 5.5 13%
14 Labatt’s 1,107 2 4 56%
15 Baltika 1,086 5 5 21%
16 Carlsberg 1,009 3 3 36%
17 Brahma 944 4 7 58%
18 Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) 885 3 5 37%
19 Foster’s 834 3 5 32%
20 Molson 515 3 4 11%
>CARS
BRAND BRAND BRAND BRAND VA L U E
# B RA N D
VA L U E $M CONTRIBUTION MOMENTUM CHANGE
1 Toyota 35,134 3 5 5%
2 BMW 28,015 4 7 9%
3 Porsche 21,718 5 10 62%
4 Mercedes 18,044 4 6.5 1%
5 Honda 16,649 3 4.5 8%
6 Nissan 11,707 2 3 5%
7 Ford 10,971 2 2.5 -13%
8 Chevrolet 10,862 2 4.5 -3%
9 VW (Volkswagen) 7,143 3 4 2%
10 Lexus 5,759 3 7 6%
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>INSURANCE*
BRAND BRAND BRAND BRAND VA L U E
# B RA N D
VA L U E $M CONTRIBUTION MOMENTUM CHANGE
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> M O B I L E O P E R ATO R S
BRAND BRAND BRAND BRAND VA L U E
# B RA N D
VA L U E $M CONTRIBUTION MOMENTUM CHANGE
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1 BP 6,346 2 6.5 7%
2 Shell 4,959 2 4 6%
3 Mobil 1,847 1 0.5 1%
4 Exxon 1,420 2 5 -5%
5 PetroChina 1,373 4 10 10%
6 Esso 1,078 2 3.5 1%
7 Texaco 1,034 2 2.5 9%
8 Lukoil 851 3 7.5 5%
9 Chevron 840 2 4.5 1%
10 Aral 750 3 6 8%
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> R E TA I L
BRAND BRAND BRAND BRAND VA L U E
# B RA N D
VA L U E $M CONTRIBUTION MOMENTUM CHANGE
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>SPIRITS*
BRAND BRAND BRAND BRAND VA L U E
# B RA N D
VA L U E $M CONTRIBUTION MOMENTUM CHANGE
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> B OT T L E D WAT E R
BRAND BRAND BRAND BRAND VA L U E
# B RA N D
VA L U E $M CONTRIBUTION MOMENTUM CHANGE
1 Evian 768 3 6 8%
2 Perrier 673 3 5 19%
3 Aquafina 623 3 7.5 -8%
4 Volvic 510 3 5.5 20%
5 Pure Life 455 4 10 26%
6 Dasani 447 3 8 -4%
7 Poland Spring 355 2 9.5 -1%
8 Levissima 331 3 5 39%
9 Vittel 303 2 3.5 13%
10 Contrex 271 3 6.5 11%
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What is the BRA NDZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands ranking?
The BrandZ Top 100 ranking is a global study that identifies the most powerful brands as measured by their dollar value.
Developed by Millward Brown Optimor, the BrandZ Top 100 was first published in the Financial Times in April 2006.
The BrandZ Top 100 is the first brand ranking to combine financial data with primary research data (from BrandZ) and
to consider a brand’s short-term growth prospects (1 year) when calculating brand value. It is also the first ranking to
analyze strong brands that operate in only one country and to focus on market-facing brands.
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What sources did Millward Brown Optimor use to calculate brand value?
The valuations in the BrandZ Ranking are based on data from three resources: financial data and projections for all
companies featured in the ranking are publicly available and sourced from Bloomberg; primary research data on brand-
related indicators is derived from the BrandZ database, the world’s largest brand equity database for which Millward
Brown has interviewed 1 million consumers and business-to-business customers across 31 countries to compare thou-
sands of brands; data used to analyze category performance was sourced from Datamonitor (www.datamonitor.com)
and company financial reports.
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The BrandZ Ranking is about understanding each individual brand within a company’s portfolio and what drives it. As a
result, we evaluate a company’s brands individually instead of calculating an aggregate and abstract brand value for the
parent company.
The BrandZ Ranking provides broader category coverage than other rankings, and includes categories such as retailers
that are often neglected by the competition. Our ranking offers detailed brand valuations within sectors so executives
can compare their brands to competitors.
In addition to brand value, our ranking offers a Brand Contribution score that indicates the role of the brand in creating
business value and a Brand Momentum score that reflects a brand’s short-term growth rate (1 year).
How does Millward Brown Optimor ascribe the proportion of intangible value attributable to the brand?
We use BrandZ consumer research data to establish the earnings that come from consumers who are loyal to the
brand, whose purchase decision is dictated by a brand’s promise rather than specific product features (e.g. location,
price). A brand’s appeal can differ across countries which is why Millward Brown Optimor isolates branded earnings for
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The BrandZ Ranking is based on primary research, market and financial data; therefore, the ranking is a first step
towards identifying the key drivers of brand value and understanding how to influence and activate them. Also, by
presenting brand value in a competitive context, the BrandZ Ranking proves that brands affect a company’s competitive
advantage. For additional information or a more detailed analysis of your brand’s key drivers and how to activate them,
please contact Millward Brown Optimor (www.millwardbrown.com/mboptimor).
Strong brands guarantee revenue growth by ensuring higher levels of demand and greater market share. Brands can
improve margins by commanding premium prices and better supplier terms. They reduce capital expenditures by
minimizing the costs of entry into new categories. They can also reduce tax rates through licensing and increasing the
retention of staff. Successful brands create differentiation that allows companies to overcome commoditization. Strong
brands reduce overall business risk. Brands have the power to create real and sustainable competitive advantage
for businesses.
The large amount of value attributable to intangibles is the source of the business community’s newfound interest in
brand and marketing, and a major reason for the pressure now felt by marketing executives to demonstrate the finan-
cial returns from marketing investments.
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Millward Brown Optimor is the unit within global market research and consultancy Millward Brown dedicated to helping
clients maximize returns on their brand strategy and marketing investments.
Even the best managed companies have opportunities to better leverage their brand portfolios and generate more
value for shareholders. Our team combines experience in brand and market strategy with financial modelling and
advanced econometrics to help our clients grow the value of their brand assets, identify and capture brand-driven
growth opportunities and maximize returns on their marketing investments.
Millward Brown Optimor offers an integrated approach to brand and marketing analytics and accountability, which links
market research, customer and financial data. This enables us to measure both the short-term and the longer-term
impact of brand and market strategies and quantify total ROI.
We help clients identify and realize the business opportunities that valuable brands offer by linking brand and market
decisions to business financials. By measuring performance objectively, we help grow sales and profits to maximize the
value of the brand portfolio.
We can advise how to spend marketing money more wisely, by providing objective answers to the following questions:
• How does our brand and marketing performance compare to best practices?
• Which brand strategies will accelerate growth and shareholder value creation?
• Do we have too few or too many brands to achieve our business potential?
• Are we focusing on the right channels and customer touch points?
• How should we invest to drive higher sales and profits?
• How should we balance short-term ROI and longer term brand building?
We offer a full-service approach: from the initiation to the implementation and ongoing management of brand and
marketing strategy.
Our services are designed to measure the current and potential future performance of brand strategy and marketing
investments. We then work with our clients to identify the best ways to implement these strategies, and put the
scorecards and metrics in place to track the results.
Our approach is designed to introduce a level of accountability into the marketing function similar to that found in other
parts of the business, without sacrificing creativity.
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