Análisis del entorno y del mercado para la puesta en marcha del plan de rebranding de un hotel de playa en Panamá: caso Sheraton Bijao Beach Resort

La cadena hotelera colombiana GHL Hoteles Ltda., obtuvo el manejo operacional de un hotel existente en Santa Clara – Panamá, para que de ésta manera soportara un cambio de marca, convirtiéndose así en un Sheraton. Con la ayuda de un gran equipo de trabajo fue posible ésta transición y actualmente se perfeccionan los detalles para cumplir con los estándares dictados y exigidos por la marca. Contando con el soporte de una oficina de mercadeo y ventas ubicada en la ciudad de Panamá, es menester respaldar todos los logros en estrategias de mercadeo y ventas para el éxito y la rentabilidad del negocio.

A importância da marca no Turismo : o Rebranding do Sana Sesimbra Hotel 4****

A dinâmica do mercado actual em constante mutação torna-o cada vez mais exigente, obrigando as empresas a acompanhar de forma constante todas estas mudanças rápidas e muitas vezes inesperadas. É neste contexto que a questão do valor da marca se torna essencial para as organizações. De forma a criar uma imagem positiva na mente dos consumidores é necessária uma gestão rigorosa da marca, cabendo aos gestores a responsabilidade de criar uma estratégia de posicionamento tendo como base a oferta de um benefício junto de todos os seus públicos-alvo, cumprindo sempre uma promessa. A marca é assim um sinal que pode representar um benefício ou uma missão de determinada empresa, distinguindo os seus produtos e serviços das empresas concorrentes. A presente dissertação expõe a concepção de um projecto real de desenvolvimento e implementação de uma estratégia de reposicionamento levada a cabo por uma organização ligada à hotelaria, tendo como objectivo a sua avaliação crítica. Esta será analisada através de apoio bibliográfico sobre a temática assim como através de entrevistas realizadas aos responsáveis do grupo e documentos por eles fornecidos. De forma a contornar a limitação do estudo sobre a impossibilidade de reunir dados primários por conta da autora, colaboradora na empresa em estudo, será analisado um site através do qual se poderá observar o grau de satisfação dos clientes antes e depois da implementação da nova estratégia. Este estudo permitirá concluir se a implementação está a ser realizada de forma correcta e de que forma poderão ser corrigidas posteriormente as anomalias ou melhorados alguns aspectos.

Rebranding: propostas de estratégias para a reconstrução de marca no Centro Universitário da FEI

This paper relates the concepts of brand management in the educational context of Brazilian higher education to demonstrate how can we do a reconstruction and the importance of establishing a solid relationship with the public of an organization to become loyal to your brand . The reflections in this project seek to demonstrate how PR professionals can plan the reconstruction process of a brand. To achieve the ultimate goal of the project seeks to introduce the concepts of branding, PR and stakeholders in order to highlight the new challenges that organizations face today. To illustrate the concepts aborted, the procedures suggested for the reconstruction of a brand are used in the case study of the Centro Universitário da FEI. For this, it is a diagnosis of the organization and subsequently suggested a process for strategic rebrading, as well as the association of a brand management with public relations

Rebranding feminism: An analysis of present-day feminism

The purpose of this dissertation is to reflect on the meaning of feminism in order to decide whether the movement needs a rebranding. The first part will focus on the history of feminism to clarify its beliefs and goals. The following part will highlight how feminism gained a bad reputation over time and will show Elle’s attempt in November 2013 to launch a project to rebrand the movement. The last part will explain what present-day feminism consists of by listing some of the latest projects and the most important issues the movement has to tackle. My analysis will finally show that the F-movement needs a rebranding and, in order to be effective, men should join women’s fight for equality. “We should all be feminists”.

Rebranding Al-Jazeera Children's Channel: The Qatarization Factor

Qatar's rulers established Al-Jazeera Children's Channel in 2005 to nurture Arab and Islamic traditions and values; the channel sought to differentiate itself by ensuring that material would conform to what its management considered to be culturally appropriate guidelines for content. However, having been set up as a child-centred, non-commercial, fully-funded enterprise that aspired to source most of its content within the Arabic-speaking region, its priorities shifted in 2011-13 towards maximizing commercial revenues through foreign imports. In light of the shift, this chapter explores the complex interweaving of commercial and political considerations behind production and commissioning processes. The channel's branding and re-branding shows how a children’s television project can be adopted to reinforce a country’s claim to regional cultural leadership, while being packaged in such a way as to depoliticize that country’s institutions and composition by rooting national identity in a combination of commercial interests and notions of traditional culture.

Measuring a destination’s brand equity between 2003 and 2012 using the consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) hierarchy

Given the increasing investments being made in brand development by destination marketing organisations (DMO) since the 1990s, including rebranding and repositioning, more research is needed to enhance understanding of how to effectively monitor destination brand performance over time. This paper reports the results of a study of brand performance of a competitive set of destinations, in their most important market, between 2003 and 2012. Brand performance was measured from the perspective of consumer perceptions, based on the concept of consumer-based brand equity (CBBE). A structured questionnaire was administered to different samples in 2003, 2007 and 2012. The results indicated minimal changes in perceptions of the five destinations over the 10 year period. Due to the commonality of challenges faced by DMOs worldwide, it is suggested the CBBE hierarchy provides destination marketers with a practical tool for evaluating brand performance over time; in terms of measures of effectiveness of past marketing communications, as well as indicators of future performance. In addition, and importantly, CBBE also provides transparent accountability measures for stakeholders. While the topic of destination image has been one of the most popular in the tourism literature, there has been a paucity of research published in relation to the temporal aspect of consumer perceptions. This is a rare investigation into the measurement of perceptions of destinations over a 10 year period.

Destination Brand Performance Measurement Over Time

With increasing investments being made in brand development by destination marketing organisations (DMO) since the 1990s, including rebranding and repositioning, more research is necessary to enhance understanding of how to effectively monitor destination brand performance over time. This chapter summarises key findings from a study of brand performance of a competitive set of destinations, in their most important market, between 2003 and 2012. Brand performance was measured from the perspective of consumer perceptions, based on the concept of consumer-based brand equity (CBBE). The results indicated almost no change in perceptions of the five destinations over the 10-year period. Due to the commonality of challenges faced by DMOs worldwide, it is suggested the CBBE hierarchy provides destination marketers with a practical tool for evaluating brand performance over time; in terms of measures of effectiveness of past marketing communications, as well as indicators of future performance.

What does the future hold for our traditional department stores?

Years of buy-outs, takeovers, mergers and rebranding have whittled a once plentiful landscape of department store competitors down to two major players, Myer and David Jones. Now, despite David Jones confirming it refused a potential A$3 billion merger proposal approach from its arch-competitor in October 2013, we must face the distinct possibility of there only being room for one, full line, up-market department store in Australia.

The Rhetorical Construction of Corporate Logos

This research is set in the context of today’s societies, in which the corporate visual symbology of a business, corporation or institution constitutes an essential way to transmit its corporate image. Traditional discursive procedures can be discovered in the development of these signs. The rhetorical strategies developed by the great classical authors appear in the logo-symbols expressing the corporate values of today’s companies. Thus, rhetoric is emerging once again in the sense it had many centuries ago: A repertory of rules that, paradoxically, standardizes the deviations of language and whose control is synonymous with power. The main objective of this study is to substantiate the rhetorical construction of logos using as a model of analysis the classical process of creating discourse. This involves understanding logos as persuasive discourses addressed to a modern audience. Our findings show that the rhetorical paradigm can be considered as a creative model for the con­struction of an original logo consistent with a company’s image.

Comunicação e Marketing em Contexto Empresarial

O presente relatório de estágio enquadra-se no Mestrado de Ciências da Comunicação, na vertente de Comunicação Estratégica e tem por base o estágio curricular desenvolvido na Macif Portugal, Companhia de Seguros, S.A. O referido estágio, com a duração de 400 horas, teve início a 6 de Outubro de 2014 e terminou a 14 de Dezembro do mesmo ano. Numa primeira fase deste relatório, apresento a instituição que me recebeu e qual a situação que enfrentava no momento, seguida da evolução e das mudanças que presenciei na companhia ao longo dos dois meses em que fiz parte do departamento de Comunicação e Marketing. O meu estágio aconteceu numa altura de reestruturação profunda em que a Macif Portugal passava por uma situação de venda e consequentemente, um momento de grandes mudanças nomeadamente ao nível da comunicação. Numa segunda fase, apresento as tarefas que acompanhei e o papel que desempenhei no decorrer dessas mesmas tarefas expondo sempre a importância de cada uma das actividades para o meu desenvolvimento enquanto aluna. Por fim, apresento o projecto que desenvolvi ao longo do estágio, em que tive a oportunidade de aplicar de forma prática os conhecimentos adquiridos na componente lectiva.

A proposed Model for Country Branding : an experimental Application on Nigeria

In the era of globalization, countries compete with each other for attention, respect and trust of potential consumers, investors, tourists, media and governments of other nations. Branding is the most powerful tool that a nation can utilize for effective differentiation strategies and for creating competitive advantage over other nations. Unfortunately, not every nations or destination marketers have a broad understanding of the concept of branding and how a country can be successfully branded. Hence, this study has proposed a model that could be used as a valuable guide for country branding. Also the model is recommended for countries struggling with image crisis; on the mission to improve the image internationally. Nigeria is a good example of countries with image crisis; it is one of the most populated countries in the world with a population of about 160 million inhabitants and growth rate of 2.553percent annually. Despite the abundant resources (e.g. coal, petroleum, natural gas etc.) that the nation is endowed with, it is quite disappointing that the population below poverty line is still at the alarming rate of 70percent of the total population. The mismanagement and poor leadership of the nation characterised by corruption, fraud, embezzlement of public fund etc. has culminated into serious image crisis that is slowing down the potential for investment and economic growth. However, there has been series of image rebranding campaigns but no tangible achievement has been recorded. It is quite questionable though, if image rebranding will provide the kind of future that Nigeria envisaged, considering the socio-political situation and the economic imbalance; compounded by the obvious fact that the nation has no known brand. Therefore, this paper argues that there is need to redirect the effort invested on image rebranding to the creation of a unique and competitive brand for the country. It was established from the study that a nation’s brand is capable of improving the reputation of the nation as well as stimulate the expectation of the target audience. However, it was also established from the study that a wrong approach to branding could mislead the target audience and attract negative publicity. Hence, as a contribution of the study to the field of branding, a model was proposed as a functional guide for country branding. Also, considering the abysmal performance of Nigeria’s image in the international community and to strengthen the argument that brand creation is required for the country; an experimental application of the proposed model was conducted using Nigeria as the case country. The first phase of the model suggested a major improvement in the society; this is required to further enhance the strengths of the country and to motivate the much needed community participation and confidence in the brand creation. It is the conclusion of the study that a strong nation brand can offset the image problem if it is built on something concrete, genuine, and uniquely identifiable with the country, capable of connecting to the cognitive psychology of the target audience.

The Brexit vote: A financial thunderclap with long-term consequences

The Brexit vote was a financial thunderclap for the entire Western chain of globalised finance. The EU and the Eurozone now face an unknown period of disintegration, instability and rebranding.

A percepção do consumidor do valor da marca : O caso TAP Portugal

Neste trabalho de investigação pretende-se responder à questão: qual a importância da percepção do consumidor do valor da marca TAP PORTUGAL? Para atingir os objectivos da investigação realizou-se um estudo de caso, tendo-se elaborado entrevistas junto de responsáveis pela área do marketing da companhia aérea nacional e procedeu-se à recolha de informação (publicações TAP, ANA¬ AEROPORTOS, entre outras; e, aplicou-se um questionário junto dos passageiros TAP. PORTUGAL no Aeroporto Internacional de Lisboa) de modo a se poder estudar o caso aprofundadamente. Os resultados da investigação indicam que a análise da nova imagem TAP PORTUGAL por parte dos passageiros é, de um modo geral, muito positiva, estando alinhados com os objectivos definidos no rebranding levado a cabo em 2005. A presente investigação contribui para sistematizar e clarificar as percepções dos consumidores do valor da marca TAP PORTUGAL, bem como retirar algumas ilações comparativas sobre os objectivos propostos e implementados na operação de rebranding com as percepções que os seus clientes têm desta nova imagem, contribuindo para uma melhor estratégia de gestão da marca. ABSTRACT; The present research seeks to answer the question: What is the importance of consumers' perception for the brand equity of TAP PORTUGAL? To achieve the objectives of the research a case study of methodology was done, having prepared interviews with the responsible for the marketing area of the Portuguese Airline, and proceeded to gather information (TAP, ANA-AEROPORTOS publications, among others; and, have applied a questionnaire to the TAP PORTUGAL passengers who made the check-in in the International Airport of Lisbon) to make a profound study of the case. Research results indicate that the new image analysis of TAP PORTUGAL from passengers, is generally very positive, and aligned with the objectives outlined in rebranding carried out in 2005. This research contributes to systematize and clarify the consumer's perceptions for the brand equity of TAP PORTUGAL, and draw some comparative conclusions on the objectives proposed and implemented in the rebranding operation with the customers’ perception that have the new image, contributing to improve the brand management strategy. NOTA: contém Cd em mau estado (Ilegível).