Johny K. Johansson – författare

Written by experts on branding and consumer behavior, Contemporary Brand Management focuses on the essentials of Brand Management in today’s global marketplace. The text succinctly covers a natural sequence of branding topics, from the building of a new brand, to the growth of brand equity and value, to brand extension and the management of a firm’s brand portfolio. The authors uniquely explore global branding as a natural expansion strategy across markets and offer numerous international brands as examples throughout. Designed for shorter strategic branding courses (half-term or 6 weeks in length), this text is the ideal companion for upper-level, graduate, or executive-level students seeking a practical knowledge of brand management concepts and applications.

Country and Region Factbook is an essential adjunct to the primary text The New Global Marketing: Local Adaptation for Sustainability and Profit. In effect a substantive appendix to the primary text, Country and Region Factbook provides in-depth analysis of how marketing is conducted in important countries and regions.As they approach the case studies in the primary text, students will benefit from Country and Region Factbook's detailed information on marketing conventions in Africa and South Africa, Latin America, Russia, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East and Turkey, and throughout Asia including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.Intended as a resource for team and individual projects in courses on global and international marketing, Country and Region Factbook is available as a free digital download to purchasers of the primary text. It is also available for purchase in digital form as a stand-alone reference for other marketing students and professionals.

The New Global Marketing: Local Adaptation for Sustainability and Profit discusses the ways that marketing managers can assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities. The book explores which companies and products should expand internationally, what countries offer the best opportunities, and which marketing plan will lead each product or company to success.The material adapts well-established frameworks to demonstrate how the global marketer can assess company strengths and weaknesses and analyze opportunities and risks in foreign markets. It discusses the proper balance between standardization and localization, and addresses the importance of the “triple” bottom line – environmental sustainability, social fairness, and financial performance. Students also learn about bottom-of-the-pyramid markets, the role of digital global marketing, and the importance of adapting to international political, social, and environmental pressures.Featuring more than twenty original case studies, The New Global Marketing is an excellent introduction to what it really takes to succeed as a global marketer. Written for students with some marketing education and exposure to international business, the book is ideally suited to upper-level business courses and M.B.A. programs.