Medinge Group has been working with the idea of brands with a conscience since 2005, and in 2021, we initiated an international series of research studies looking at how conscience is understood by consumers, experts, marketing consultants and, in this study, business managers. This PDF, Brands with a Conscience: a Research Study into How Business Can
To commemorate its 20th anniversary in 2020, Medinge Group had a successful presence at Dutch Design Week last October, hosted by Sandra Horlings with a massive behind-the-scenes effort from Christof Zürn and Astrid Benneker, with the theme Putting the Planet First: a New Orientation. Planet, then people, then profit. Four rivers already have legal
Out now in Forbes is a thought-piece worked on by Oriol Iglesias and numerous members of Medinge Group, entitled ‘Will Generation Co and conscientious organizations save our world?’ This differs from the earlier piece on this site. As outlined earlier, there is a Generation Co that’s not bound by age, but by shared values, acknowledging
Former Medinge Group CEO Stanley Moss has had his finger on the pulse of the Zeitgeist for a long time. Over the last 15 years, he’s circulated his Global Brand Letter to colleagues, friends and subscribers. In 2004, this was a two-page crib sheet, sent to clients who had asked questions about branding, and, in
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,
Facebook’s woes over Cambridge Analytica have only prompted one reaction from me: I told you so. While I never seized upon this example, bravely revealed to us by whistleblower Christopher Wylie and reported by Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison of The Guardian, Facebook has shown itself to be callous about private data, mining preferences even
In 1999, the late Wally Olins sent me his book, Trading Identities: Why Countries and Companies are Taking on Each Other’s Roles, a fine read published by the Foreign Policy Centre that argued that countries were trying to look more corporate, adopting the practices of corporate branding. Conversely, as corporations gained more power and their
Long-time UK-based member Tim Kitchin, who was instrumental in Medinge Group's early years, passed away at the weekend. Our thoughts go to his family at this very sad time.
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
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
