Optimizing Brand Intangibles And Why It Matters – The New Best Practice

It is way overdue. Leveraging the power of brand and its intangibles is the new best practice for maximizing value creation and firms looking to outperform the completion are embracing the power of building strong brands. When leveraged in concert, these three best practices for value creation are the key to driving outsized investment returns.

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Value Creation in PE & VC: The Missing Piece

Building brand equity is a consistency-over-time equation that it is best deployed as a philosophy, a way of doing business, a standard best-practice. And an ongoing focus from pre diligence to exit. In today’s highly competitive environment, the most successful firms understand these synergies and will seamlessly integrate financial engineering, operational improvement, and brand optimization in their value creation strategy. Executed in concert, they will generate the highest investment outcomes possible.

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ARE YOU GOING TO EXIT WITH A BUSINESS OR A BRAND?

If branding is not part of your company’s value creation strategy, you’re leaving money behind. Brand and its equity is one of the most valuable assets that a company has and the driver for financial success. When looking to exit, companies can command larger transaction multiples based solely on the brand and the strength of

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WHY SUCCESSFUL LEADERS COMMIT TO BUILDING BRAND

While the power of strategic branding (we’re not talking logo design here) to help companies increase financial returns, both operationally and in M&A transactions is intellectually understood and acknowledged, it is, inexplicably, a frustratingly difficult sale. Forget the unfortunate reality that many people limit their understanding of “brand” to

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BUILD YOUR BRAND OR LEAVE MONEY ON THE TABLE

Let’s start with this: your brand is not your logo or your color palette. It’s the perceptions and feelings people have about you, it’s what people say about you to others. Your brand is a relationship first, not a font. To earn that relationship, brands must have meaning, purpose and saliency. 

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How Private Equity Firms Increase Returns By Being Brand Driven

In Q4 of 2017, Apple dominated the smart phone market driving 51% of the category’s revenues on just 19.3% of total units sold. The next largest share of revenue was Samsung at 15.7% on 18.6% of total units shipped.1 The moral of this little financial comparison? Apple can

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