Warc Briefing: Service Brands

This briefing offers an overview of the history, theories and key trends related to Service Brands. It outlines the development of specific approaches to marketing service brands and identifies the key future pressures on this discipline including the need for ongoing customer dialogue, the rise of globalisation and the call for greater corporate transparency.

Warc Briefing: Service Brands

Definition:Service branding covers the simultaneous delivery of an intangible benefit or product and of the service provider's brand promise.

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  • The service sectoraccounts for about two thirds of economic activity in...

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