The suggestion that Coach overpaid for its recent purchase of Kate Spade highlights the need for generally accepted standards in measuring and reporting brand value, a large portion of 21st Century intangible assets. MASB formed its Brand Investment & Valuation …
Last year, Frank Findley presented Brand Investment & Valuation Project Phase I at the ARF ReThink Conference. On Mar. 8, Frank presented BIV Phase II: Establishing Drivers of Brand Preference/Choice in an ARF webcast. The question being answered is: “What marketing/advertising drivers …
While MASB’s BIV Project team has worked over the past several years to establish generally accepted Brand Investment & Valuation standards, a parallel effort has been happening globally through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Now the Marketing Accountability Standards …
MSW•ARS Research’s Brand Preference/Choice in Tracking metric has passed through the rigors of the Marketing Metrics Audit Protocol (MMAP), the Marketing Accountability Standards Board’s formal process for determining how a marketing metric relates to the financial performance of the firm. …
How do you attach a price tag to something you can’t see or touch? This question was posed recently by corporate finance writer Vipal Monga in his WSJ.com article, “Accounting’s 21st Century Challenge: How to Value Intangible Assets.” He continues: …
MASB member MSW•ARS Research has launched The Brand Strength Monitor, “a game changing deliverable of an established, trusted, and independently validated measure of brand value.” The Brand Strength Monitor methodology is behavioral but isolates brand strength by holding other factors …
Research Business Report’s 20th Annual Predictions Issue features Marketing Accountability Foundation (MAF) President Meg Blair’s forecast for 2016: “Over the next year, … CFOs and CMOs will use a new brand investment and valuation model to monetize the impact and return of …
Brand represents great value, but how can brand value be monetized? This critical question was answered by the first phase of the Brand Investment & Valuation Project (BIV), which built bridges from a highly predictive customer metric (Brand Preference/Choice) to market …
MASB Summer Summit 2015 An empirically proven model for brand valuation and guiding investment decisions has been completed by MASB’s Brand Investment Valuation Project. “It definitely has been a long haul,” commented Frank Findley, Vice President of R&D for MSW•ARS Research, as …
Frank Findley (MSW.ARS) and Lori Koehn (General Motors) presented findings at the August MASB meeting, indicating that the trials and their Analytics Sub-Team are well on the way to identifying an “ideal metric” for Consumer Brand Strength, demonstrating, empirically, its …
