Brands come with different shapes and styles. A brand can be presented as a product (e.g., Coca-Cola), a service provider (e.g., KLM), a retail store (e.g., Safeway), an organization (e.g., UN), or a famous person (e.g., Ronaldo) (3:66).

A brand in general is a name and we can consider that every brand is a product, but not the other way around, which means that not every product is a brand (8:50). However, a brand is not only a name it represents the character, personality, and the company that produces products or provides a service (3:66). A brand is a set of things that are not physical and can be touched. Brands are things that distinguish a product from others (8:50)

In1995, Financial World magazine reported that Coca-Cola's brand had an estimated value of $39 billion. The Marlboro name was set at $38.7 billion, Microsoft was worth $11.7 billion. IBM had an estimated value of $7.1 billion. Finally, Intel was set at $9.7 billion (6:1). These were some examples that shows how can brands be valuable assets, sometimes even worth more than all other assets that the company own combined.

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