ARTICLE
TITLE

Brand meaning and its social categories: A semiotic approach for future marketing

SUMMARY

This research aims to decode brand meanings from the logos of two multinational companies and to encode their social categories. The companies chosen for this study are in the technology field. To analyze this issue, a qualitative-descriptive method was used to define the message contained in the logo and express the logo's social categories in a cultural context. A semiotic approach was used to analyze the specified company's logo; results showed that the logo's meaning was conveyed through four dominant colors representing Innovation, Dominance, Variation, and Sophistication. These findings suggest that the companies attempted to achieve higher social categories, implying that they aim to have exclusive control of their products. In conclusion, companies can use its social category to create a new concept for another logo as part of a potential marketing strategy.  Later, these findings can be used to create a future marketing strategy.

 Articles related

Jakob Rindum Danelund, Tina Bihal, Henrik Flyger, Signe Maria Kay, Sadia Khan, Christian Gaden Jensen, Sivi Svenning Jensen, Christoffer Johansen, Line Neustrup, Anne Pedersen, Hanne Wurtzen, Peter Elsass    

 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mindfulness flows over the West. It is often branded as a method rooted in Buddhism, but in academical research its relations to a series of Buddhist and spiritual concepts remain undefined. We’ve conducted a systematic reading of... see more


Per Aage Brandt    

The author proposes a structural distinction between the petits récits and the grands récits (according to Lyotard), between binary and trivial narrativity, on one hand, and bifurcational and fatal narrativity, on the other: reversibility vs. irreversibi... see more


Mara Regina do Nascimento, Durval Saturnino Cardoso de Paula    

 ResumoO texto trata da Folia de Reis na Comunidade de Cruzeiro dos Peixotos - Uberlândia - MG, que foi alvo de um projeto de pesquisa, financiado pelo Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Extensão (PIBEX/UFU) e pelo Programa de Extensão e Integração... see more

Revista: Horizonte

Janne Tapper    

My article, “Performance-in-Business: Armi Ratia’s Marimekko”, examines what happens to artistic performance in the concept of arts-in-business. In theatre and artistic performance, artistic thinking has traditionally been considered primary over economi... see more


Pedro Hellín-Ortuño,Eneus Trindade,Javier García-López    

Digital society has caused changes in the conventional forms of advertising. The values and interactive processes associated lead commercial brands to adapt to new situations. This paper reflects on crossmedia and transmedia storytelling concepts and the... see more