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Brand Naming

All brands have a name and there is competition for the owning of good names. This competition is reflected in the Trademark registries which allow a company to own a name for a period of time for use in one category. It is increasingly challenging to find a good and available name that can be registered.

What Is Brand Naming?   

Naming is at the core of the branding process. 

A Brand Naming answers 5 key questions for my brand

  1. What name best fits my brand positioning? 
  2. What name is easy to read and remember
  3. What name is appealing to my customers? 
  4. Does my name avoid pitfalls in all languages that matter? 
  5. What name is ownable in all trademark registries that matter? 

What Is a Good Example of Brand Naming?

A great example but not that intuitive at first is Haagen-Dazs

  • The Haagen-Dazs name syllables and letters pairings evoke a frozen country of Northern Europe, its sounds and musicality evoke indulgence and delices, complexity and an uncommon quality, it is a fit with the Brand Positioning Haagen-Dazs is not easy to read but is easily imprinted on the mind.
  • Haagen-Dazs name is so strong that it contributed to the Iconicity of the brand.
  • The name is more complex than the average name in any language, to palliate this in China, the brand would be more known under its Chinese name 哈根达斯.  
  • And last but not least, a Very ownable name that is easily trademarkable globally. 
  This example shows that a successful brand naming results in finding an optimal solution to these 5 questions that are hard to fulfill simultaneously. 
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Pain Point

All brands have a name and there is competition for the owning of good names. This competition is reflected in the Trademark registries which allow a company to own a name for a period of time for use in one category. It is increasingly challenging to find a good and available name that can be registered. So, the Pain point that Brand Naming solves is to find the optimal name that simultaneously

  • Fits the brand positioning
  • Stays viable in transformations the brand might pursue, e.g. internationalization, innovation,..
  • Is appealing
  • Is registrable as a trademark to be ownable

How is Brand  Naming different from Creative Copywriting?  

Creative copywriting also contributes to the Verbal Identity by shaping a unique voice, a unique lexicon, but it is less constrained from a legal perspective.  

How can it help with your enterprise transformation and why is it important to your company?  

A company or brand or product name is the single most valuable asset of any company. It is the main vehicle of the Brand Equity. Shaping the name into an optimal form that sustains and enriches the evolutionary journey of a brand is critically important. 

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