Profit Ability: The business case for advertising
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Foreword, by Patrick Barwise, London Business School
Maximising the net present value of advertising
Today's CEOs and CFOs know that brands are important, supporting short- and long-term sales and margins. They're even willing to be paid less to work for a company with strong brands, because of the resulting reputational benefits.1They understand that brands are built on customers' end-to-end experience of, and word-of-mouth recommendations about, buying and consuming the company's products, reinforced by...