A career in fashion merchandising means working in a fast-paced, creative industry--and a highly competitive one. Developing and Branding the Fashion Merchandising Portfolio is a guide to creating a portfolio and brand for yourself that will stand out. Portfolios provide immediate visual evidence of what you can do, and they communicate hands-on experience more explicitly than a resume can on its own. Whether you're interested in design, product development, buying, textile design, or trend forecasting, this book provides activities to help you identify and focus your skills. Step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to gather examples of your work, how to choose a design and layout, and ways to incorporate drawings, sketches, and CAD-generated material into a consistent, streamlined portfolio that reflects your personality. The do's and don'ts of resumes and cover letters are addressed, along with tips for interviewing and networking. User-friendly and above all visual, this is the guide for creating a portfolio that will get you hired--and keep your career on track.

In the world of business, a great brand is everything. Those who lack a strong brand and branding strategies are surely going to struggle in their climb to success. Having a well-developed and powerful brand can be the difference between success and failure in the modern business world. Naturally, you want to run a successful business. Therefore, you need a successful brand. "Branding: Brand Identity, Brand Strategy and Brand Development" is an all-inclusive branding guide that will walk you through all of the necessary steps for creating a powerful brand. Not only will you learn how to develop your basic brand identity, but you will also learn how to generate customized strategies that will assist you in growing your brand. Learning to develop your brand effectively and nurture its natural evolution is a necessity in a fast-paced world. You need to know how to put these steps together and keep using them to walk yourself higher up the ladder of success. This branding guide will teach you everything that you need to know to generate massive success. Globally recognized brands all follow these tips, and it's mandatory that you do, too. You don't just want a mediocre brand that never takes you to the success you desire. You want one that starts strong and uses that traction to take it to the top in minimal timing. You want to be the next Coca-Cola, Nike, or Amazon. You want to own a wildly successful megabrand that people everywhere know about and recognize. One that people are excited to be involved with, love to rave about, and are eager to see where you go next. And because you want that type of success, you want "Branding: Brand Identity, Brand Strategy, and Brand Development." No other book will take you through the in-depth process of creating a very specific brand profile based on success-building formulas, teach you how to customize your strategies to your unique brand and audience, or educate you on the natural evolution of brands the way this guide does. This book will help you start from the bottom, or from wherever you may be standing now, and help you perfect the formula so you can land on top. With consistency, step-by-step action, and clearly defined goals, you can become the owner of the next megabrand. "Branding: Brand Identity, Brand Strategy and Brand Development" will help you get there. Don't just take our word for it. If you're ready to generate massive success with your very own company, invest in this branding guide and invest in your brand. This all-inclusive guide features it all, leaving nothing for chance. All you have to do is open it and start taking the step-by-step actions and you, too, will be a branding superstar. The only question you'll have left to answer is: What is the view like from the top?

Recently vilified as the prime dynamic driving home the breach between poor and rich nations, here the branding process is rehabilitated as a potential saviour of the economically underprivileged. Brand New Justice, now in a revised paperback edition, systematically analyses the success stories of the Top Thirteen nations, demonstrating that their wealth is based on the 'last mile' of the commercial process: buying raw materials and manufacturing cheaply in third world countries, these countries realise their lucrative profits by adding value through finishing, packaging and marketing and then selling the branded product on to the end-user at a hugely inflated price. The use of sophisticated global media techniques alongside a range of creative marketing activities are the lynchpins of this process. Applying his observations on economic history and the development and impact of global marketing, Anholt presents a cogent plan for developing nations to benefit from globalization. So long the helpless victim of capitalist trading systems, he shows that they can cross the divide and graduate from supplier nation to producer nation. Branding native produce on a global scale, making a commercial virtue out of perceived authenticity and otherness and fully capitalising on the 'last mile' benefits are key to this graduation and fundamental to forging a new global economic balance. Anholt argues with a forceful logic, but also backs his hypothesis with enticing glimpses of this process actually beginning to take place. Examining activities in India, Thailand, Russia and Africa among others, he shows the risks, challenges and pressures inherent in 'turning the tide', but above all he demonstrates the very real possibility of enlightened capitalism working as a force for good in global terms.

Building Better Brands is the essential guide to creating and evolving brands. Leveraging three decades of brand consulting for legendary companies like Caterpillar, Harley-Davidson, 3M, Owens-Illinois, National Australia Bank, and American Express, as well as middle-market and new-media startups, Scott Lerman shares the processes and frameworks needed to build great brands. This book is for you if you're a CEO seeking to enhance your knowledge of the branding process, a marketing/communications specialist who wants to take a leadership role in advancing an organizations brand, a brand consultant who is striving to sharpen and extend your skills, or a student who wants to jump-start a career in branding. Whatever its starting point--market leader or struggling competitor--any organization that follows this step-by-step guide will end up with a better brand.

Research-based content provides insight on the organization and operation of textiles, apparel, accesories and home fahion companies, as well as the effect of technological, organizational and global changes on every area of the business.

Marketing and fashion branding inform many of the strategic and creative decisions involved in fashion design and product development. Marketing is a vital component of the industry supply chain and an understanding of its importance and role is essential for those planning a career in fashion. Marketing Fashion is a practical guide to the fundamental principles of marketing and branding, from catwalk to price calculation, developing brand identity to creating a customer profile. The book explains key theoretical concepts, and illustrates how they are applied within the global fashion and retail industry, from the heights of haute couture to the multiples of the mass market. Using examples and case studies drawn from a broad range of fashion, textile and retail businesses, students are led through the marketing process from initial consumer and market research to the creation of exciting marketing and branding campaigns. The book is designed to appeal to students at degree or foundation level as well as those contemplating a career within the fashion industry.