Long-time Medinge member and co-chair Jack Yan ghost-wrote Panos: My Life, My Odyssey, which won a Highly Commended in the Business Journey category at the Business Book Awards in London on May 16. While the book is ostensibly swimwear designer Panos Papadopoulos’s autobiography, it contains numerous lessons on business, marketing and branding.
Already named one of the top branding books of 2021 by The Branding Journal, Philippe Mihailovich and Caroline Taylor’s Haute ‘Luxury’ Branding: the High Luxury Pyramid has appeared in a US English edition, fresh for 2022. Medinge Group co-chair Jack Yan authored the foreword, and Philippe Mihailovich had been a long-time member of
I was fascinated to read a New Zealand Herald story on the Māori (the native people of New Zealand, or Aotearoa) asset base, though it wasn’t the financial part that hit me. What was more significant were the principles behind Māori businesses. About 15 years ago, when chatting to a woman representing a Māori winery,
I’ve had a 52 Insights interview with Douglas Rushkoff open in a Firefox tab for nearly half a year. It’s a fascinating piece, and I consider Douglas to be spot on with a lot of his viewpoints. I’ve revisited it from time to time and enjoyed what Douglas has had to say. Here are a
Welcome and synthesis of Medinge Group activities to arrive to a successful meeting in Amsterdam, including the new book "Brands with a conscience"
I’ve always been surprised when I see Google or Facebook appear on any “top brands” lists. It’s branding 101 that a strong brand must have loyalty, awareness, positive associations, perceived quality, as well as proprietary assets, based on the model from David Aaker, and implicit in this, I always thought, was trust. You can neither
Various market orientation and branding models are already familiar to a lot of academics and practitioners. However, the digital landscape, in particular social media, has given marketers a new set of concerns. Can these elements be brought together in a single model with positive consequences for brand equity?
The author, who has worked on the internet since 1990, and used social networks such as Facebook and Twitter soon after their inception, looks at how these new media can impact on branding strategies and transparency.
Stockholm, July 31 Medinge director Jack Yan will give presentations on branding at both Swinburne University and the University of Melbourne in the coming week. His lecture for the faculty of design at Swinburne University, entitled Typography and Branding, looks at various elements of branding, including destination branding, the shift to humanism, cultural aspects,
Stockholm, July 31 Five Medinge Group members—founder Thomas Gad, CEO Stanley Moss, director Jack Yan and long-standing members Philippe Mihailovich and Tony Quinlan—were interviewed by journalist Anna Sansom on cognitive fluency in the next issue of Viewpoint magazine in the UK. Medinge director Dr Nicholas Ind was cited by Ms Sansom. Ms Sansom’s story,