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TOP 50 MOST VALUABLE LATIN AMERICAN BRANDS 2015
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Introduction
The brands that appear in this report are the most valuable in Latin America. They were selected for inclusion in
the BrandZTM Top 50 Most Valuable Latin American Brands based on the unique and objective BrandZTM brand valuation methodology that combines extensive and on- going consumer research with rigorous financial analysis.
The BrandZTM valuation methodology can be uniquely distinguished from its competitors by the way we obtain consumer viewpoints. We conduct worldwide, on-going, in-depth quantitative consumer research, and build up a global picture of brands on a category-by-category and market- by-market basis.
The Valuation Process
Globally, our research covers three million consumers and more than 100,000 different brands in over 50 markets. This intensive, in-market consumer research differentiates the BrandZTM methodology from competitors that rely only on a panel of 'experts', or purely on financial and market desktop research.
Before reviewing the details of this methodology, consider these three fundamental questions: why is brand important; why is brand valuation important; and what makes BrandZTM the definitive brand valuation tool?
IMPORTANCE OF BRAND
Brands embody a core promise of values and benefits consistently delivered. Brands provide clarity and guidance for choices made by companies, consumers, investors and others stakeholders. Brands provide the signposts we need to navigate the consumer and B2B landscapes.
At the heart of a brand’s value is its ability to appeal to relevant customers and potential customers. BrandZTM
uniquely measures this appeal and validates it against actual sales performance. Brands that succeed in creating the greatest attraction power are those that are Meaningful, Different and Salient.
IMPORTANCE OF
BRAND VALUATION
Brand valuation is a metric that quantifies the worth of these powerful but intangible corporate assets. It enables brand owners, the investment community and others to evaluate and compare brands and make faster and better-informed decisions.
DISTINCTION OF BRANDZTM
BrandZTM is the only brand valuation tool that peels away all of the financial and other components of brand value and gets to the core – how much brand alone contributes to corporate value. This core, what we call Brand Contribution, differentiates BrandZTM.
STEP 1: CALCULATING
FINANCIAL VALUE
Part A
We start with the corporation. In some cases, a corporation owns only one brand. All Corporate Earnings come from that brand. In other cases, a corporation owns many brands. And we need to apportion the earnings of the corporation across a portfolio of brands.
To make sure we attribute the correct portion of Corporate Earnings to each brand, we analyze financial information from annual reports and other sources, such as Kantar Retail. This analysis yields a metric we call the Attribution Rate.
We multiply Corporate Earnings by the Attribution Rate to arrive at Branded Earnings, the amount of Corporate Earnings attributed to a particular brand. If the Attribution Rate of a brand is
50 percent, for example, then half the Corporate Earnings are identified as coming from that brand.
Part B
What happened in the past – or even what’s happening today – is less important than prospects for future earnings. Predicting future earnings requires adding another component to our BrandZTM formula. This component assesses future earnings prospects as a multiple of current earnings. We call
this component the Brand Multiple. It’s similar to the calculation used by financial analysts to determine the market value of stocks (Example: 6X earnings or
12X earnings). Information supplied by Bloomberg data helps us calculate a Brand Multiple. We take the Branded Earnings and multiply that number by the Brand Multiple to arrive at what we call Financial Value.
STEP 2: CALCULATING
BRAND CONTRIBUTION
So now we have got from the total value of the corporation to the part that is the branded value of the business. But this branded business value is still not quite the core that we are after. To arrive at Brand Value, we need to peel away a few more layers, such as the in-market and logistical factors that influence the value of the branded business, for example: price, availability and distribution.
What we are after is the value of the intangible asset of the brand itself that exists in the minds of consumers. That means we have to assess the ability of brand associations in consumers’ minds to deliver sales by predisposing consumers to choose the brand or pay more for it.
We focus on the three aspects of brands that we know make people buy more and pay more for brands: being Meaningful
(a combination of emotional and rational
affinity), being Different (or at least feeling that way to consumers), and being Salient (coming to mind quickly and easily as the answer when people are making category purchases).
We identify the purchase volume and any extra price premium delivered by these brand associations. We call this unique role played by brand, Brand Contribution.
Here’s what makes BrandZTM so unique and important. BrandZTM is the only brand valuation methodology that obtains
this customer viewpoint by conducting worldwide on-going, in-depth quantitative consumer research, online and face-to- face, building up a global picture of brands on a category-by-category and market- by-market basis. Our research now covers over three million consumers and more than 100,000 different brands in over 50 markets.
STEP 3: CALCULATING
BRAND VALUE
Now we take the Financial Value and multiply it by Brand Contribution, which
is expressed as a percentage of Financial Value. The result is Brand Value. Brand Value is the dollar amount a brand contributes to the overall value of a corporation. Isolating and measuring this intangible asset reveals an additional source of shareholder value that otherwise would not exist.