The Effects of Brand Switching

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This paper examines the effects of advertising and marketing of certain brands on the consumer audience. Trademarks are designed to identify a product and are an important factor for a product's brand image. This brand name in terms of sign, symbol or design or a combination of these is used to identify the goods and services of a particular product. Brand switching takes place in instances when the consumers are educated and well read. The more educated the public the more likely the chance of brand switching. The writer of this paper focuses on the Indian market, which is aware of the many branded products that are universally available. The potential of rural demand in India today is tremendous and requires to be tapped. This paper delves into the workings of the Indian economy which was opened to foreign multinationals in 1992. This paper discusses the impact of the Indian government lowering the duty tax on various imported goods to ensure that they compete well alongside goods produced by Indian companies. This paper also examines the use of operation resource groups, whose duty is to determine the demands for products of each category and present it to various companies so that they can make a proper decision with respect to the national demand for their product.

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What is a Brand Image?
How Does Brand Switching Take Place?

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"Recently, the penetration of Audio, Video visuals and the print media has penetrated well into the rural market in India. Moreover the general level of education of the public has improved making them exposed to these print and visual medias. The constant reverse flow of Industries from cities to the towns and villages in some cases has made the rural youths more aware and rich financially. In fact this has created a rural demand for many fancy products in India. The potential of rural demand today is tremendous and requires to be tapped. The Indian Economy was opened to the foreign multinationals in the year 1992 and finding the rural demand potential the foreign companies clamored to come to India in a big way. The penetration of Information Technology into the Indian rural market as well as the city youth have also generated a market which is in a constant state of flux as regards brands."

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