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A Brand Called Hope: Reimagining Consumer Culture
A Brand Called Hope Reimagining Consumer Culture Author:Harvey Hartman Just because someone can make it or envision it does not mean anyone will want it. Many of today s marketers fight invented battles to defend the honor of their brand s equity by legitimizing the sale of stuff . But as A Brand Called Hope: Reimagining Consumer Culture illustrates, stuff is not what consumers are seeking. What they want is,... more » in a word, hope. As time has passed, a gap has opened up between what consumers expect packaged food companies will make and what consumers really desire them to make. A Brand Called Hope examines the current state of the Culture of Food and offers a consumer-centric approach to redefining the brand to close this ever-widening consumer chasm. A Brand Called Hope tracks the meteoric rise of traditional CPG brands and posits that even as sales are high, these brands may actually be undergoing serious redefinition in the eyes of consumers. Whole categories today are being redefined, while companies continue to try competing using products whose relevance is archaic and, at times, even extinct. With executives, marketers and other key stakeholders at a strategic crossroads, every company should be focused on selling a brand called Hope. But to do so, you must fi rst understand the consumer.« less