Brand Architecture: Strategic Considerations

What is the best structure for your brand portfolio? The answer depends on a number of strategic considerations:

Audience Diversity
What are the target segments for your brand? Is the brand focused on just one audience or must it appeal to many?

Brand Elasticity
How far can each of the brands stretch to cover different [...]

Approaches to Brand Architecture

Companies manage their brand portfolios through a number of brand architecture structures, driven by company culture, markets and customers, and goals.

Single Unitary Brand Architecture
One brand creates a single powerful image, sometimes with a descriptor.

Marketing is more efficient. With one brand front and center, cross selling and cooperation are easier. The brand can lose [...]

Does Your Brand Architecture Support Your Business Strategy?

As your business changes, the brand architecture worked in the past may become a hindrance. Companies facing issues like the ones in this post often find they have a brand architecture problem.

What is Brand Architecture

Brand architecture is the organizing structure that specifies the type, number, relationship and purpose of brands within your brand portfolio.