New belgium brewing-developing a brand personality

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Case 1: New Belgium Brewing (B): Developing a Brand Personality

Synopsis:

(Original information about New Belgium Brewing-- From its roots in a Fort Collins, Colorado, basement, New Belgium Brewing has always aimed for business goals loftier than profitability. The company’s tremendous growth to become the nation’s third-largest craft brewery and ninth-largest overall has been guided by a steadfast branding strategy based on customer intimacy, social responsibility, and whimsy. The company’s products, especially Fat Tire Amber Ale, have always appealed to beer connoisseurs who appreciate New Belgium’s focus on sustainability as much as the company’s world-class brews. Despite its growth and success, New Belgium has managed to stay true to its core values and brand authenticity—the keys to its marketing advantage in the highly competitive craft brewing industry.)

This case, a follow up to New Belgium (A), discusses how New Belgium Brewing expanded its branding and communication strategy from a focus on word of mouth and event sponsorship to include television advertising, web-based communication, and social media. The development of New Belgium’s “Brand Manifesto” is reviewed, along with the company’s decisions regarding media selection, messaging components, and advertising production. Despite the company’s continued growth in terms of both distribution and promotional complexity, New Belgium has remained focused on its core values of customer intimacy, sustainability, whimsy, and fun.

Questions

1. New Belgium has effectively used integrated marketing communications over the last 20 years. Evaluate the use of one major advertising campaign to fortify and enhance the company’s brand image.

2. NBB seemed to agonize over the use of the word “folly” in its advertising campaign. What do you make of the company’s struggle with this decision? Also, how do you personally feel their use of the word?

3. New Belgium’s focus on sustainability, whimsy, and fun is clearly rooted in its Colorado-based culture and the ethos of its founders and employees. As New Belgium’s distribution continues to expand away from that locale, how can the company make its branding and messaging resonate with consumers in different parts of the country?

4. Currently, New Belgium has been much more successful using social media than competitors Boston Brewing Co. and Sierra Nevada. Evaluate how social media has contributed to the firm’s marketing strategy, and make suggestions for the use of social media in the future.

Case 2: Mattel Confronts Its Marketing Challenges

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As a global leader in toy manufacturing and marketing, Mattel faces a number of potential threats to its ongoing operations. Like most firms that market products for children, Mattel is ever mindful of its social and ethical obligations and the target on its corporate back. This case summarizes many of the challenges that Mattel has faced over the past decade, including tough competition, changing consumer preferences and lifestyles, lawsuits, product liability issues, global sourcing, and declining sales. Mattel’s social responsibility imperative is discussed along with the company’s reactions to its challenges and its prospects for the future.

Questions

1. Do manufacturers of products for children have special obligations to consumers and society? If so, what are these responsibilities?

2. How effective has Mattel been at encouraging ethical and legal conduct by its manufacturers? What changes and additions would you make to the company’s global manufacturing principles?

3. To what extent is Mattel responsible for issues related to its production of toys in China? How might Mattel have avoided these issues?

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