Managing motoring brands

As the evolution of the Great British Car Brand is completed with the introduction of the Rover 100 Series, Tim Greenhill, Planning Director of The Basten Greenhill Andrews Design Agency, reviews what has taken place and searches for brand management clues amongst the debris of once distinctive names.

Managing motoring brands

Is history relevant to today's marketeer?

Tim Greenhill

As the evolution of the Great British Car Brand is completed with the introduction of the Rover 100 Series, Tim Greenhill, Planning Director of The Basten Greenhill Andrews Design Agency, reviews what has taken place and searches for brand management clues amongst the debris of once distinctive names.

ARE CARS MORE susceptible to effective brand management than any other category of goods with which we deal? I would argue that they certainly ought to be. Surely cars are the most exposed public statement of personal preference...

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