Services Branding: Revealing the Rhetoric within Retail Banking

This paper presents key branding findings from a qualitative study of consumers and financial services practitioners and explores the current role, importance and challenges associated with branding within Irish retail financial services. Managerial and consumer research highlighted the limited role...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Service industries journal 2007-06, Vol.27 (4), p.435-452
Hauptverfasser: O'loughlin, Deirdre, Szmigin, Isabelle
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper presents key branding findings from a qualitative study of consumers and financial services practitioners and explores the current role, importance and challenges associated with branding within Irish retail financial services. Managerial and consumer research highlighted the limited role of branding and the growing gap between brand-based expectations and service brand execution. Key conclusions and implications are proposed in terms of developing an effective multidimensional brand strategy which is both profitable to suppliers and desirable to consumers. The paper recommends that financial services branding be focused upon the promotion of meaningful functional values, delivered through a customer-centred, process-driven approach.
ISSN:0264-2069
1743-9507
DOI:10.1080/02642060701346748