Koll und von Wallpach focus on a specific facet of brand associations, brand association match (i.e., the degree of overlap between managerially intended and actual consumer brand associations) and its effect on brand response. Marketing research and brand management practice emphasize the importance of brand

Consumers experience brands via products, places, people, or brand-related activities and with multiple senses involving, vision, smell, touch, taste, audition or body movements, amongst others. Brand Managers need to get access to and understand these complex multi-layered and multi-sensory brand meanings. Multi-Sensory Sculpting® is an

Koll and Kreuzer discuss two reasons for low brand association stability: (1) method (comparing feature lists and free associations) and (2) context. The nature of feature lists neglect the core idea of branding which calls for the creation of unique brand-specific associations in order to

The attitudes and behaviours of consumers towards a brand are influenced by what consumers know and think consciously and unconsciously about the brand. The article by Koll, von Wallpach and Kreuzer considers the value of using three approaches to assess brand knowledge: free association technique, storytelling,