Simply put, values-based branding is a business strategy that integrates a social issue or cause into brand equity and organizational identity to gain significant bottom-line impact. This uniquely powerful tactic helps build relationships between the firm and its customers, employees and communities; provides protection in the form of a "goodwill bank" when companies give back to their communities; and connects values to what a company stands for…often, this is more important than what it sells, and this is seen and believed through behavior - not talk. Additionally, marketing in this manner results in "reflective branding" where customers see themselves and the corporation in question as a team in responding to a need.


Values-based branding offers a wide range of corporate benefits:

  • Incremental sales
  • Repeat purchases
  • Multiple unit purchases
  • More varied usage of products and/or services
  • Increased brand awareness
  • Increased brand recognition
  • Broadened customer base
  • Impact in new market segments and geographic markets
  • Increased level of merchandising activity at the retail level of the brand
  • Market entry
  • Enhanced corporate image
  • Thwarting of negative publicity
  • Pacification customer groups

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