Meet the IPM: Interview with Marta Hereźniak

Marta HereźniakMarta Hereźniak is associate member of the Institute of Place Management and Adjunct Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland. She is the author of the first in Poland doctoral dissertation and the first book about nation branding, expert of Polish Chamber of Commerce and the Institute of Polish Brand. She is a consultant in brand-related projects for companies, public institutions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Regional Development etc.) and local governments and a member of Brand for Poland project. She is a leading consultant in the project on Kazakhstan country brand and Co-author of European Funds Brand strategy in Poland. Her research interests include place brand identity development; measurement of place branding effectiveness, stakeholder engagement in place branding, place of origin branding. Continue reading “Meet the IPM: Interview with Marta Hereźniak”

Meet the IPM: Interview with Caio Esteves

caio estevesCaio Esteves, a fellow of the Institute of Place Management, is an architect by training and a specialist in branding. He began his career as a brand manager in the furniture industry, where he stayed for four years before establishing his own agency in 2006. In 2015 he founded the first company that specializes in Place Branding in Brazil, Places for us, the company that currently runs the first Brazilian start-up certified with the social impact seal BCORP (pending). Beside the practice of Place Branding, he divides his activities between lectures and lessons about Branding/Place Branding, coordinating the first MBA place branding in the country as well as writing a book on the subject, which launched this month. Continue reading “Meet the IPM: Interview with Caio Esteves”

The rise of brandganda and why so much is no longer what we thought it was

From the "Be Berlin" branding campaign
From the “Be Berlin” branding campaign

by Prof Cathy Parker

I feel like I am trapped in one of those dreams where my predicament is getting steadily worse; more and more zombies are chasing me, causing me to fall off bigger and bigger pavements whilst I gradually lose the ability to scream out for help. Only I am not asleep. This is no night terror, this is just my day-to-day lived experience in post-referendum Britain.

How exactly did I get here? Commentators have already used other bedtime metaphors. For example, Angela McGowan, Chief Economist of Dankse Bank thought we slept-walked into all this. Nevertheless, even the staunchest Remainer didn’t predict the political chaos that has ensued after the 24th June. That’s because I think Brexit is part of a wider phenomenon, one I am terming brandaganda, which may explain why so much that we used to believe in and trust is rapidly disintegrating. Continue reading “The rise of brandganda and why so much is no longer what we thought it was”

Meet the IPM: Interview with Antonio Azevedo

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António Azevedo is a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management and an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Management at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. He teaches marketing strategy, tourism marketing and sales & retailing. Since 2003, after receiving the PhD with a thesis on branding advertising, he has dedicated his research to place marketing. He was one of the co-authors of a pioneering book in Portugal introducing city marketing and strategic planning issues in 2011. His studies and research topics included place attachment and quality of life and these have been presented in international conferences and journals, for example as published in JPMD in 2013. Currently he is coordinating the University of Minho’s team that was invited to develop a Place Marketing Plan for the territory of a four cities network (Braga, Guimarães, Barcelos and Famalicão) designated as “Quadrilatero” with a population of 600 000 inhabitants. Continue reading “Meet the IPM: Interview with Antonio Azevedo”

Place Branding MBA in São Paulo, Brazil

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by Caio Esteves

We are happy to announce the first Place Branding MBA in Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco- Brazil. 

Introduction

Βranding permeates our daily life. We interact with brands that represent us, with which we identify.

Attractive communication alone is not enough. Brands need identity, purpose, and most of all, authenticity.

Branding also affects the way we interact with places. Why you choose one city to live in rather than another, why you decide to go on vacation to one particular place, both depend on the images you have in your mind. Continue reading “Place Branding MBA in São Paulo, Brazil”

Evolution of country brand research: Studies on Brazil’s brand image

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by Fabiana Gondim Mariutti*

The image of a country can be perceived internationally by means of a plethora of dimensions: associations, impressions, beliefs, representations, schemes, feelings, interactions, experiences, inter alia. Dimensions of a country brand are undoubtedly multifaceted – social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, behavioural – as several participants are involved internally and externally. Additionally, the main five complexities of the country brand are the following: stakeholder-related issues; government involvement; interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary opportunities, and potential nation brand models. Furthermore, the temporal dimension plays an intrinsic role. In view of this complex scenario, research in regards to country brand image can be undertaken by two approaches – academically or by consultancy indexes. Evidently, academic research focuses on theoretical and methodological advances, creating new conceptual frameworks and appropriate philosophies. The country brand indexes developed by specialized consultancies are often based on global real-data available from worldwide institutions. Continue reading “Evolution of country brand research: Studies on Brazil’s brand image”

Meet the IPM: Interview with Kirill Rozhkov

Kirill RozhkovKirill Rozhkov is a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management and Professor at the Faculty of Business and Management (Department of Company Marketing) at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. He has 15 years’ experience with conceptual and empirical research in the fields of place management and place marketing, and he teaches place marketing and branding to Master students and local representatives. In 2016 the HSE alumni selected him as Best Teacher. His recent research has addressed issues such as the theoretical model of place market analysis and how to identify product concepts of places. His paper “Places, Users, and Place Uses” has been selected by the editorial team of the Journal of Place Management and Development as a Highly Commended Paper in the 2016 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. As an expert, Kirill supervises several projects aimed at developing marketing and branding strategies for municipalities. Continue reading “Meet the IPM: Interview with Kirill Rozhkov”

IPM Executive Education: Entry now available for Place Management and Leadership 2016

Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University
Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University

Overview

The Place Management and Leadership programme at Manchester Metropolitan University is a part-time taught course that is predominantly for existing practitioners in the place management sector. Place management encompasses a range of professions internationally, including town and city centre management, market management, Downtown and Mainstreet management, destination management and marketing, Business Improvement District management and city marketing and branding. It may also involve civic and and community organisations, or even individuals who share a passion for local places, and who wish to make their communities more sustainable and liveable.


The aim of the qualification is to develop confident, highly reflective and respected place managers, capable of strategic thinking and transformative but inclusive place management.


Place management is an open and dynamic process, embracing new approaches to place change such as the Transition Town movement.  For this reason, the course is also suitable for local politicians and local community members leading or contributing to place initiatives. Continue reading “IPM Executive Education: Entry now available for Place Management and Leadership 2016”

Best paper award at the Academy of Marketing

AM2016 presentationby Dr Heather Skinner

The Academy of Marketing conference attracts over 350 international marketing academics each year. Last year I was very privileged to be awarding the prize for Best Paper in the Place Marketing and Branding Track to the winners, this year I was even more delighted to win this Best Paper in Track prize myself. I have been attending the Academy of Marketing conference since 2001, and over the years have presented research on a wide range of subjects, but mainly on issues relating to Place Marketing and Branding, with my first ever paper “How Cymru Became Cool: An Examination of Wales’ Culture Production System 1990 – 2000” being based on work arising from my masters’ thesis. In 2008, at the Academy of Marketing Conference held in Aberdeen, I was awarded not only Best Paper in the Reflective Marketing Track, but also Best Paper in Conference overall for my work “The emergence and development of Place Marketing’s confused identity”, a full version of which was then published that year in the Journal of Marketing Management. Continue reading “Best paper award at the Academy of Marketing”

Place Branding and new real estate entreprises in São Paulo, Brazil

caioby Caio Esteves*

How do you start a place branding project in new real estate development projects from ground zero?  Where do you find the identity that will guide such a process? How do you develop a place branding strategy with authenticity and not as a form of marketing, limited to “selling” a place?

In this article I’ll share an experience from a new real estate development project that involves place branding, placemaking and community engagement in São Paulo, Brazil, called Bairro da Gente/ Aeroclube (Our Neighborhood / Flying Club). The project takes place in Limeira, a municipality of a 300,000 inhabitants in the São Paulo state. This greenfield placemaking project has a unique feature: it is a project for a low-income population, otherwise usually limited to monotonous and faceless housing projects, that ignore differences between people and groups. This specific approach uses the cities-for-people thought, propagated by Jan Gehl, Kent, White, Jacobs and others. Bairro da Gente is based on three principles: mixed income, multiple purposes and cultural as well as housing diversity. The goal of this triptych is to create places of new centralities. The existence of income-generating elements inside the neighbourhood, (job and entrepreneurial opportunities, technical education, creative and solidary economy) resulting from an approach that encourages mixed uses, decreases the commuting of residents from the outskirts to central areas. This also contributes directly to people’s quality of life and indirectly to the region traffic. Continue reading “Place Branding and new real estate entreprises in São Paulo, Brazil”