Martin Roll will deliver keynote speaks and run masterclasses at the largest brand management conference in India organized by The Confederation of Indian Industry.
From an early start in 1994, Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts has grown into one of Asia’s most successful hospitality brands with numerous international awards and accolades from publications like the prestigious Condé Nast Traveler and others.
In a globalised world with more competitors vying for shelf space across the globe, consumers are overloaded with information and continue to place increasing importance on brands.
With increasing globalization and flattening of the world, more Asian brands are venturing into newer markets and embracing customers in various cultures.
The central purpose of branding is to guide the consumer to choose your product a midst a dizzying array of alternatives.
The concept of the world being flat has extended beyond geographical boundaries to the rapid blurring and demolition of economic ones.
Shang Xia is a Chinese luxury fashion brand backed by Hermès offering high-quality products with a contemporary twist on traditional Chinese aesthetics and crafts.
Think about one of the strongest brands from Asia, and chances are that Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its long-serving, almost iconic Singapore Girl easily come to mind.
Mention the brand Uniqlo 10 years ago to anyone outside of Japan and you would get a confused look.
Hermès International, sometimes also referred to as Hermès of Paris or Hermes, is a French luxury goods manufacturer.
Kering is one of the world’s largest luxury goods holding companies.
In today’s marketplace full of brands screaming for attention, Muji represents the antithesis of consumerism.
The Giorgio Armani brand owned and run by the founder designer Giorgio Armani has earned the much hallowed space in the fashion industry through its superior design, relevant themes and trends.
Mandarin Oriental is an iconic global Asian luxury hotel brand competing on excellent service, high quality, unique Asian authenticity and prime hotel locations delivering exceptional customer experiences across touch points.
The traditional retail industry and associated business models have gone through a significant phase of disruption.
According to a 2018 study by global management consultancy Bain & Company, the size of the global luxury market is USD 1.
Many companies aspire to build brands that eventually get etched in the culture of the society and become cultural icons, but very few are able to achieve iconic status.
Of the handful of Asian brands that usually make it to any global brand rankings, most like Sony, Canon, and so on originate from Japan.
The fast changing business landscape has made strong brands highly crucial to a company’s success.
Martin Roll is an experienced global business strategist, senior advisor and facilitator to Fortune 500 companies, Asian firms and family-owned businesses and family offices.
In an analysis of the coming “Asian Century”, investment bank Goldman Sachs outlined the impending domination of China and India as economic and technological powerhouses in the global scene.
Some Asian brands are becoming successful well beyond Asia.
The TWG Tea brand strategy is built on the promise of providing a high-quality tea experience and education for the discerning global tea consumer.
Air China aims to become a global Chinese airline brand dedicated to excellent operations, service levels and quality across the entire organization.
Founded in Singapore in 1996, Charles & Keith is a fast-fashion retailer of high-quality, stylish footwear and accessories including bags, eyewear and costume jewellery catered to modern Asian women.
The last two decades have seen cities, islands and even countries very aggressively branding themselves in order to create a resonating identity among stakeholders and build sustainable customer relationships that last a lifetime.
The orientation of brand management has gone through substantial changes over the last decades, and has evolved as a more integrated and visible part of the overall corporate strategy.
Martin Roll will be presenting a keynote address at the Maldives Branding & Leadership Symposium 2018 as well as providing a keynote address and an executive workshop at the Ember Blu Exchange 2018.
In August 2018, Martin Roll was interviewed about strategy and marketing in the digital age and featured on Google’s knowledge portal, Think with Google.
Martin Roll was featured in a recent interview with China Daily Asia about the rise and potential of Chinese companies in the publication’s July 2-8 2018 edition.
Owned by its legendary founder, Ralph Lauren is an iconic American fashion brand built on an essential lifestyle promise.
South Africa for a long time has been in the global limelight for several reasons and in particular because the country is one of the leading economies in Africa.
Gone is the era in which the developed economies of Western Europe and North America ruled the global business landscape with their well-developed markets, massive middle class populations, considerable level of disposal income, well established institutional intermediaries and continually growing economies.
Forever 21 became one of the largest and most competitive fast fashion retail brands in the world competing on cheap price points, merchandise, prime locations and rapid global logistics.
Martin Roll delivered an executive program on 26 February 2018 at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo in Russia about business strategy, effective brand building and globalizing Russian brands.
One of the most pervasive domains in the last forty years that has captured the attention of CEOs, consultants, managers and academics is branding.
Nike is known around the world for being one of the most iconic brands.
Mention “Huawei” and most people would immediately associate the brand with the latest, high-quality technological products.
Martin Roll was invited as a guest speaker by the National University of Singapore (NUS) to present and discuss the topic “Global Asian Brands: Myth or Reality” with its MBA students on 6 February 2018.
Martin Roll’s opinion piece about the link between customers and company brand strategies in Asia Pacific was featured on CMO.
There are few product categories where branding activities make such a dramatic impact on competitiveness and differentiation than in bottled water.
The Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company from Thailand is a well-known Asian brand with great potential to become a strong international lifestyle brand.
Martin Roll was interviewed on The CMO Show on 14 December 2017.
Think of any high-end consumer durable like a camera, MP3 player, integrated mobile phone, plasma television, or even camcorders, and it is only natural that Samsung comes to mind.
The world had started noticing it some time back, but when a Chinese e-commerce company created the world’s biggest Initial Public Offering (IPO) valued at USD 25 billion in September 2014, it was really an event for everyone to take further notice.
Martin Roll was invited as a guest speaker at the DABGO Annual Conference 2017 event on 2 Aug 2017 at the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel.
With the immense power bestowed upon consumers by the Internet and an ever expanding means of communication, consumption and interaction, companies have been forced to rethink their branding and business models.
In the next 10 years, a rapid changing landscape will emerge in Asia where the opportunities for Asian companies to benefit from branding efforts will be larger than ever before.
All companies aspire to build brands that eventually get etched in the culture of the society and become cultural icons.
In June 2017, Martin Roll was featured in an interview in Ekonomist Magazine Turkey.
Martin Roll’s expertise on brand naming was tapped in an interesting article in the June 20 2017 edition of China Daily Asia.
In May 2017, Martin Roll’s contribution and perspectives about digital and the sharing economy was featured as the main article in Today’s Manager.
In the upcoming conference Arab Luxury World in Dubai from 22-23 May 2017, Martin Roll will be part of the plenary session “Passions and Emotions”.
India’s beauty and attractiveness lies in its complexity and diversity.
In April 2017, Martin Roll was featured in the Russian news website, Report.
Martin Roll was featured in the March 2017 edition of The Abacus, the official leading publication of CA Sri Lanka (the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sri Lanka).
On 6 March 2017, Martin Roll delivered a keynote speak at the Edinburgh International Asia Conference (EIAC) 2017 at the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of “Global Branding – A Fresh Perspective from Asia”.
In February 2017, Martin Roll gave a speech to Russian entrepreneurs and leading business people about doing business in Asia at the Singapore Embassy in Moscow, Russia.
In November 2016, Martin Roll provided a keynote speak at the inaugural “INSEAD Retail, Consumer and Luxury Goods (RCLG) Forum” in Paris, on the topic of “Building an Iconic Luxury Brand in the Digital Universe”.
American entrepreneur and marketer Seth Godin defines a brand as “a set of expectations, memories, stories, and relationships.
How will brands drive business strategy.
How will brands drive business strategy? How will brands keep pace with the rapid change in technology? Will the existing rules of building and leveraging brands apply in future? How differently will the brands of future be managed? A series of brand management “next practices” and concepts co-written by Martin Roll and many top global.
On 7 October 2016, Martin Roll gave a guest lecture to graduate students at EWHA Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, on “Building Global Asian Brands: Myth Or Reality?”.
Nike, Starbucks, Disney, McDonald’s, IKEA, Nokia, IBM, Coca-Cola and LEGO are some of the best known global brands around.
Today, a multitude of consumer data is at the disposal of brands, enabling them to build more meaningful and valued customer relationships.
It is paramount that brands stand for something in today’s complex and ever-evolving local and global marketplaces.
Created by Sanrio Ltd, founded in 1960 by Shintaro Tsuji, Hello Kitty is one of the truly phenomenal brands to emerge from Japan.
Amanresorts is one of the most iconic brands to have emerged from Asia.
Martin Roll delivered a keynote speak on 9 Feb 2016 at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway about how to build an iconic brand.
The concept of rebranding is an often-misunderstood one.
Martin Roll was featured in an exclusive interview with Branding In Asia in February 2016.
Asian products have never been more sought after than today.
In an innovative global economy, the importance of branding has been elevated from a “nice to have” to a “must have”.
Brand positioning is the process of creating a distinctive offering for a brand, which differentiates the brand in the hearts and minds of the consumer, enhances its appeal and positively impacts current and future purchase potential.
In the recent past, organisations were using brand architecture to manage increasingly complex brand portfolios and implement business strategies that would allow them to manage their innovation pipelines.
Brand valuation is a domain of branding that is marred by inconsistencies and controversies.
Even though there are several definitions of brand equity and multiple methods of measuring it, one thing is accepted as a fact by all marketers, it is very difficult to measure.
The importance of having a strategic vision and a clearly defined management process for brand architecture has increased significantly over the years.
No resource allocation is more important than the allocation of the most senior leaders responsible for shaping the identity and future of a brand.
For Suitable For Growth, Martin Roll talks about the state of branding in China and the strategies that will provide a solid management foundation for strong brands.
For CKGSB Knowledge, Martin Roll talks about the state of branding in Chinese companies and strategies that will help build truly global Chinese brands.
For CKGSB Knowledge, Martin Roll discusses Huawei’s rise as a regional company to a global leader taking on the world, particularly the United States.
The primary objective of boardrooms is to build and sustain shareholder value over the long-term.
A brand is created out of thousands of experiences with products, services and systems created by people.
Globalization has had a tremendous impact on businesses in general.
Brands play an important role in modern society – a role which cannot be denied in scope and scale.
Marketing thought has strongly advocated differentiation of products and services as a means of achieving competitive advantage.
One of the biggest implications of globalization for companies seeking to expand to foreign shores is the task of balancing standardization with customization.
Apple Computers, Starbucks Coffee, Virgin Group, L’Oreal, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Singapore Airlines, Banyan Tree and Samsung are among some of the most successful brands in the world.
Martin Roll’s interview with The Diplomat (Australia): The Korean Wave is just the start for Asian brands as it led by Samsung has helped the Korean brands to globalize.
Commoditization and replication have always been a fact of competitive markets.
Global companies face a constant need to grow.
Many potential challenges exist when a company tries to reinvent itself.
Opportunity and fear must motivate leaders to pursue innovation as the ultimate differentiator.
The face of business in Asia is changing faster than one can blink one’s eyes.
For the modern brand, sustainable competitive advantage can not be built upon logo design, taglines, packaging or marketing campaigns.
A brand is the identity of a company, product, service in the minds of consumers that is built through hundreds of experiences and interactions, reinforced by word of mouth references of others.
One of the biggest challenges for Asian companies apart from the prevailing trading mindset is the “Made In” tag in order for them to build and sustain strong brands.
