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<description>Market Leader is the quarterly journal of The Marketing Society. It addresses important issues in marketing and business, keeping its readers abreast of new ideas, trends and thinking.</description>
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<title><![CDATA[Morris dancing to Norwich may not be the best way to build your brand]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89967</link>
<author>Jeremy Bullmore</author>
<description><![CDATA[In his regular column for Market Leader, Jeremy Bullmore argues that brands need some form of publicity if they are to maintain a presence in consumers' consciousness. However, he asserts that it is well-crafted advertisements, rather than publicity gimickcs and PR stunts, that will do most for building and sustaining brands and their fame in the long term.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Managing brands in recession: a CEO responsibility]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89968</link>
<author>Chris Halliburton</author>
<description><![CDATA[Top management has many things to consider over the course of this recession, but Chris Halliburton argues that CEOs are the ultimate brand managers and all actions should be taken with that responsibility in mind.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shareholder value: the enemy of good marketing]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89969</link>
<author>Hugh Davidson</author>
<description><![CDATA[In this concise analysis, Hugh Davidson throws down a challenge to marketers. He describes how shareholder value, the theory that has dominated the way public companies are run, has become perverted and now contributes significantly to the dysfunctional performance at the centre of the financial crisis. The notion of stakeholder value, where priority is given to customers and employees rather than shareholders, is the appropriate model for good marketing companies today.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The danger of a &#8216;brand bubble']]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89970</link>
<author>John Gerzema and Edward Lebar</author>
<description><![CDATA[In this fresh-thinking analysis, John Gerzema and Edward Lebar analyse the growing &#8216;brand bubble' &#8211; the perilous situation in which financial market expectations and values of brands continue to rise while the consumer interest and trust in brands continues to fall.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The new industrial revolution: sustainability spurs innovation]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89971</link>
<author>Laura Mazur and Louella Miles</author>
<description><![CDATA[Pioneering experts from the world of business, finance, government, academics and NGOs are agreed: the old, environmentally-destructive business model is terminally broken. New strategies are needed for survival and marketing can play a pivotal role. Laura Mazur and Louella Miles look at companies for whom sustainability has been the inspiration for innovation and the creation of competitive advantage.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Unravelling the Gordian knot of brand contact]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89972</link>
<author>Frank Harrison</author>
<description><![CDATA[The increasing availability and influence of different media provoke two major challenges: how different media influence consumers and how companies need to organise themselves to use it. Frank Harrison describes research that tracks the influence of different media, reflecting on how this new knowledge requires a change in the way advertisers structure themselves to use it most effectively.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How market leaders can become challenger brands once more]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89973</link>
<author>Adam Morgan</author>
<description><![CDATA[We are accustomed to thinking of challengers as small, often new, entrants taking on existing and occasionally complacent market and brand leaders. However, whilst the David and Goliath scenario is a familiar story, what if you're a Goliath that's big and in danger of being seen as a bully? Goliaths, argues Adam Morgan, should think of creating monsters bigger than themselves to battle on behalf of their consumers.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The charmed generation: the last of the lucky ones]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89974</link>
<author>Dick Stroud</author>
<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;charmed generation' refers to a group of wealthy older people who are retired or close to retirement, that was the focus of a 2005 article in Market Leader by Dick Stroud. Here, Stroud revisits the charmed generation to find them significantly affected by the financial crisis but, compared with their children, still uniquely protected from the worst and still presenting opportunities for marketers.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Shell recruited more for less]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89975</link>
<author>Navjot Singh and Ana Maria Santos</author>
<description><![CDATA[Large international marketing companies need high-quality, consistent marketing capabilities across all of their operations. In this paper - which is an edited version of the case study that won the Marketing Society Awards For Excellence - Navjot Singh and Ana Maria Santos describe how Shell recognised its needs for the recruitment function and responded with a major and successful capability development programme.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global brands and local culture]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89976</link>
<author>Nigel Hollis</author>
<description><![CDATA[Multinational companies have been marketing internationally for decades. But huge strides in the living standards of Asian and Latin American markets combined with the globalising influence of the internet, TV formats, films, entertainment, creates a series of issues and challenges for global brands. Nigel Hollis argues that the brands of large multinational companies are stronger than local brands, but to consolidate their position they need to embed themselves in local culture.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will client insight functions survive the recession?]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=89977</link>
<author>Michael Harvey</author>
<description><![CDATA[Michael Harvey of drinks giant Diageo argues that good consumer planners are more valuable than ever, but must be be intimately connected with brand strategy and implementation.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Editorial: A lesson in unintended consequences]]></title>
<link>http://www.warc.com/articles/MarketLeader.asp?ID=90212</link>
<author>Judie Lannon</author>
<description><![CDATA[Judie Lannon, editor of Market Leader, introduces the Quarter 4, September 2009 issue around the theme of unintended consequences.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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