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Monday, 5 October 2015

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

Latin America’s Most Valuable Brands 2015


For the first time, Brazilian beer brand Skol  is the most valuable brand in Latin America, according to the fourth annual BrandZ™ Top 50 Most Valuable Latin American Brands ranking announced by Millward Brown.

This performance reflects the consistency in brand positioning of Skol, targeting its products to younger audiences more willing to adopt a brand for a lifetime and supporting its strategy with sponsorships of music festivals, which has strengthened the brand relationship with this audience.

Once again Beer, Retail, Communication Providers and Banks categories took the top 5 positions: Skol (Beer – Brazil), Corona  (Beer – Mexico), Telcel  (Communication Providers – Mexico), Bradesco   (Banks – Brazil) and Falabella  (Retail – Chile).

The beer category dominated the ranking again in 2015, conquering five of the top ten positions – four of the brands belonging to AB InBev: Skol, Corona, Brahma and Modelo.

The ranking reveals that Latin America’s leading brands have continued to defy tough economic conditions, growing the Top 50’s cumulative value to $132bn, an increase of 2% in US dollar terms.

The ranking is once again dominated by Mexican brands with their contribution by value rising from 33% last year to 37% in 2015, led by the strong performance of Corona, Telcel and Televisa. Brazilian brands took 24% of the listing value, with Beer, Food and Personal Care brands contributing 47% of that total. Chile lost share down to 15% from 20% in 2014, Colombia declined one point year on year to 15%, while Peru and Argentina both gained a single point to contribute 5% and 2% of the total value respectively.


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Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

2014 Top 50 Latin American Brands – Cerveza Corona la marca más valiosa

Millward Brown ha hecho público su informe BRANDZ – 2014 Top Latin American Brands, el cual nuevamente es encabezado por la marca mexicana de cerveza ‘Corona’, la cual tiene un valor de 8.025 millones de dólares (USD).

La segunda marca de la región fue la cerveza brasileña Skol, que alcanzó un valor de 7.055 millones de dólares. El tercer puesto quedó en manos del retailer chileno Falabella, con un valor de 6.084 millones de dólares.

Respecto del ranking de BrandZ de 2013, Corona mantuvo la posición, pero Skol y Falabella registraron mejoras. Skol se había ubicado tercera y Falabella, quinta. 

El top 50 concentra un valor de 129.200 millones de dólares, un 5 por ciento por debajo del ranking de 2013. Si se suma el valor de todas las marcas que lo componen, el portafolio significa el tercer valor del BrandZ Top 100 de las marcas globales más valiosas, justo debajo de Google y Apple.

El top 10 de las marcas latinoamericanas más valiosas de 2014 se completa con:

- Telcel (México) con 5.308 millones de USD 
- Bradesco (Brasil) 4.117
- Sodimac (Chile) 4.107
- Televisa (México) 3.625
- Brahma (Brasil) 3.585
- Águila (Colombia) 3.565
- Modelo (México) 3.467

Más información aquí.

El ranking completo de las Top 50 marcas puede consultarse aquí.

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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

Corona (Mexico) - Top Most Valuable Latin American Brands of 2013

Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA is no longer Latin America’s most valuable brand. Instead, Mexico’s popular Corona beer has been crowned as the top name in the list of brands to watch, according to the BrandZ index of 2013 compiled by brand consultancy Millward Brown Optimor.

Corona, which was sold to Belgian beer company Anheuser-Busch InBev in June, grew 29 percent in “brand value” in the last year – up to $6.62 billion. Millward Brown cited the “strong financial performance” of Corona’s parent company and a “solid brand positioning which is popular with consumers worldwide.”
 
Petrobras, the Brazilian energy giant which topped the ranking in 2012 with a value of US$10.6bn, is now in fourth place with a value of US$5.8bn.
 
The Top 10 Most Valuable Latin American Brands 2013 are:


‘The growing muscle of Mexican Brands' also has overtaken Brazil as the country to claim the highest percentage of the total brand value of the Top 50.
 
The BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Latin American Brands 2013 looks at brands from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Together, these nations represent around US$4,75 trillion in GDP, the equivalent of the world's fourth largest economy after Japan.

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Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

Las 50 Marcas Latinoamericanas Más Valiosas


Se ha publicado el reporte regional elaborado por primera vez por Millward Brown sobre las 50 marcas Latinoamericanas más valiosas. En el ranking figuran 14 firmas mexicanas y 14 brasileñas, lo que coloca a ambos países como los punteros en el desarrollo de marca. En la clasificación también se incluyeron marcas de Chile, Colombia y Argentina.

El ranking está dominado por marcas minoristas, financieras, de comunicaciones, de cervezas y de energía.

Petrobras, el gigante energético brasileño, ocupó el primer lugar con un valor de marca de $10,600 millones. Los restantes 5 primeros puestos los ocuparon marcas en las categorías de finanzas y comunicaciones (Telcel, Bradesco, Itaú, Comcel).

Las 50 marcas latinoamericanas más valiosas están valuadas en 135,700 millones de dólares.

El ranking de las 50 marcas puede consultarse aquí. Los interesados en descargar el reporte completo lo pueden hacer desde aquí.
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Friday, 17 September 2010

Gilberto Macias (@gmaciasb)

México: Marca Mexicana entre las 100 marcas mejor valoradas

Finalmente una marca de una empresa de América Latina ingresa en el Top 100 del prestigioso ranking de Interbrand "Best Global Brands".

La marca Corona, propiedad del Grupo Modelo, se ha ubicado en el posición número 85 de dicho ranking, con un valor de 3 mil 847 millones de dólares.

Con la entrada de Corona en el ranking, México entra en el grupo de los 14 países con empresas entre el Top 100 de las mejores marcas, entre las cuales destacan los Estados Unidos con hasta 9 marcas entre las primeras 10, Nokia es la única marca no estadounidense que se cuela en el prestigioso Top 10.

El ranking es nuevamente liderado por Coca-Cola y destaca la ascensión de Google hasta el 4º puesto.

Ojala que pronto se puedan colar otras marcas latinoamericanas en el ranking.

Más información aquí y aquí.
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Monday, 10 May 2010

Patricia Covarrubia

Brazil World Cup and Olympics

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Last week, the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) in Brazil launched two websites for the disclosure of expenditures and contracts relating to: first the 2014 World Cup and second, the Olympics in 2016.

It is reported that the tools “will allow the citizens a more effective control of spending the public resources invested”. This is so, according to the source, because through the websites all bids, contracts and projects will be available. Thus, any citizen who identifies any irregularity in the proceedings may make a complaint.

I cannot wait to start watching this. I honestly cannot believe that we will witness the ‘battle of the brands’. Who will be the higher bidder? Pepsi or Coca-cola; Adidas, Reebok or Nike; Visa or American Express; or are we going to see a national bidder or a Mercosur one like Coca-colla (from Bolivia)?

In the same line, Brazil and England signed on May 6, in Rio de Janeiro, an agreement that will allow exchanging information on the organization of the Olympic Games. As you know, any city that holds the Olympic Games needs to sign a contract between the International Committee and the Authority o the country and its Olympic Association. In this contract not only the general planning of the games are set up but all requirements including intellectual property rights.

Usually, the majority of the income of the operating budget comes from official sponsorship and marketing. Thus, to reassure official sponsors and commercial partners that their investment is worthwhile there is a set of rules (an Act) that must be introduced. For example, London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games is the one that grants exclusive rights to official sponsors, licensees and partner to use Olympic IPRs and to associate themselves with the games. To this effect they are also responsible for protecting the official brands in the UK. Special laws have been passed to give extra protection to some of the Games' Marks (Protection Act 1995 (OSPA)) not only protecting the Olympic and Paralympics’ symbols, mottos and various words; but also a more specific legislation that prevents the creation of an unauthorised association between people, goods or services and London 2012 (the ‘2006 Act’).

Brazil has already passed the Olympic Act (Law no 12035/2009) but I just wonder whether they are already working on a more specific legislation regarding the protection of brands.

A moment ago I remembered an old advertisement for the Winter Olympics at Lillehammer in 1994. The ad was promoted by American Express and the official sponsor was VISA. The ad went like this: ‘if you are travelling to Lillehammer, you’ll need a passport, but you do not need a VISA’. That is just classic!
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