How Brands Grow What Marketers Don't Know

How Brands Grow...what marketers don't know is based on decades of research that has progressively uncovered empirical generalisations (scientific laws) about buying and brand performance. This book is the first to present these laws in context, and explore their meaning and marketingapplications.It is written for thinking managers and advanced students. It is a myth-busting book, in the tradition of classical scientific discoveries, and so is different from most business books by being noticeably based on extensive data. The Nielsen Company and TNS, in particular, have provided access tovast amounts of data covering hundreds of product categories and a number of countries. The laws presented in this book are therefore not the result of armchair theorising nor case studies.

Professor Byron Sharp is the Director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science at the University of South Australia. The Institute's fundamental research is used and financially supported by many of the world's leading corporations including Coca-Cola, Kraft, Kellogg's, British Airways, Procter & Gamble, Nielsen, TNS, Turner Broadcasting, Network Ten, Simplot, Mars and many others. Dr Sharp has published over 100 academic papers and is on the editorial board of five journals. He recently co-hosted a conference at the Wharton Business School on laws of advertising and, with Professor Jerry Wind, is editing a special issue of the Journal of Advertising Research on the topic.