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The progress in technologies has made the products of different manufactured almost identical. Under such situation, to be outstanding from a number of products of same category, the added value brought to consumers by brand image shall never be ignored. In his research in the brand extension, Tauber (1988) have identified that consumer has substantial awareness and conformity between the original brand and the extended products, which is the key to determine the success of extension of a brand. When consumer is purchasing product of certain brand will often based on the identity to the brand, because consumers would normally select the brand that he/she identifies or the brand that would express him / herself. Then is there any correlation between the product conformity and brand identification? This is an issue that worth research to explore further.
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