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Can perfume ever become a luxury again?

Scents have come to rely on fashion brands to propel them into the limelight, but is it possible to bring the perfumers back to prominence?

Berkeley on branding: ‘If nobody sees your adverts. Does your brand still exist?’

The title of this short essay is a barely amusing paraphrase of the famous quotation from Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753). Berkeley was an idealist, which means, in philosophical terms, that he believed that mind predominates over matter. In fact Berkeley was something of an extremist among idealists, believing that matter, or the material world, does not actually exist at all.

A new model for socially responsible brand management

This article is directed to brand managers interested in building models for sustainable development and conscientious consumerism. The article is a version of a paper published in the Journal of Brand Management (2011).