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Co-branding, also called brand partnership, is when two companies form an alliance to
work together. Co-branding involves combining two or more brands into a single product or
service. Companies engage in co-branding to leverage strong brand. It is becoming a popular
business practice to strive for a positive association between different brands that can develop
synergy. Co-branding is very useful if both businesses serve the same target market with
complementary needs. A well executed co-branding strategy can lead to win-win situation for
both co-brand partners and can help in realizing unexplored markets or untapped opportunities.
Concisely, it is instrumental to handle almost every marketing matter from creating initial
awareness to building customer loyalty.
Companies form co-branding alliance to fulfill following goals:
Expanding customer base
To make financial benefits
Respond to the expressed and latent needs of customers
To strengthen its competitive position
Introduce a new product with a strong image
Creating a new customer perceived value
To gain operational benefits
Explore and capture untapped categories or niche
Expand reach to new customers
Higher sales revenues and royalty income
More efficient operations when sharing best practices
Better exposure or coverage because of joint advertising initiatives
Respond to the marketplace’s expressed and latent needs.
Leverage one’s own core competencies.
Create a new product to increase corporate revenues.
Increase product salience to the consumer.
Some of the examples of co-branding are
British Airways and Citibank co-branded a credit card allowing the owner to automatically
become a member of the British Airways Executive Club.
Adidas and Stella McCartney brought about a women-oriented, stylish and casual sport
design collection: Adidas by Stella McCartney. This co-branded line manages to satisfy the
demand of female buyers looking for sportswear that blends functionality and style while being
able to deliver "products that both perform and look great.
Danone and Motta, both in the food industry, co-branded a yogurt ice-cream called Yolka
that successfully satisfied the desires of healthy conscious gourmand and avoided direct
competition to their respective brand portfolio.
Motorola mobile phone designed by D&G merges the image of the Italian luxurious brand
with the high quality technological brand promise of the American mobile phone manufacturer.