How Brands Grow

This book provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do, how consumers behave and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty. How Brands Grow presents decades of research in a style that is written for marketing professionals to grow their brands. Hundreds of small improvements have been made to the new eBook version as well as new material in category growth, profitability and industrial buying. Basically, it is a bible for every marketer’s success.

This book provides evidence-based answers to the key questions asked by marketers every day. Tackling issues such as how brands grow, how advertising really works, what price promotions really do, how consumers behave and how loyalty programs really affect loyalty. How Brands Grow presents decades of research in a style that is written for marketing professionals to grow their brands. Hundreds of small improvements have been made to the new eBook version as well as new material in category growth, profitability and industrial buying. Basically, it is a bible for every marketer’s success. The most distinctive element to this book is that the laws presented are tried and tested; they have been found to hold over varied conditions, time and countries. This is contrary to most marketing texts and indeed, much information provides evidence that much modern marketing theory is far from soundly based. Unlike other marketing books, How Brands Grow provides extensive data on real world buying situations and relates to the reality of how brands perform and grow in today’s world.

Dr Byron Sharp is a Professor of Marketing Science, and the Director of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, at the University of South Australia. The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute's research is used and financially supported by many of the world's leading corporations, including Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, First National Bank, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, Turner Broadcasting, ESPN and Unilever. Byron has published over 100 academic papers and is on the editorial board of five journals. He recently co-hosted with Professor Jerry Wind two conferences at the Wharton Business School on the laws of advertising, and co-edited the 2009 and 2013 special issues of the Journal of Advertising Research on scientific laws of advertising.