Did you see the latest earnings report for Starbucks? Well, their earnings rose from 16 cents a share to 24 cents and beat Wall Street expectations. Look, it does not take a branding connoisseur to recognize that a rise in earnings is not typically related to a singular event.
Once brand value has been established, it benefits the brand long term and value doesn’t easily collapse in a tight economy.
I’ve now heard several people say how McDonalds is “eating into” (hey, it’s not my pun!) the Starbucks brand with its specialty coffee drinks. Actually, I think the opposite happened. Starbucks tried to become more like McDonalds by being on every corner (some even with drive-thrus) and by offering everything short of burgers, but including …
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