A detailed look at how this exclusive ranking of top brands in India for 2010 was conducted by 4Ps Business & Marketing

The fifth 4Ps Business & Marketing annual ranking of India’s 100 Most Valuable Brands is here again to tell you which brands struck the cosiest chords with consumers during the year. It was certainly not a cake walk. We teamed up with Indian Council for Market Research (ICMR) to fetch the best from a holistic list of mind-boggling 40,203 brands. However, after a great amount of brain storming, colossal data crunching, and intensive primary research work in three phases over the past seven and a half months, we finally caught on to the swinging mood of the Indian consumers. So, here is the lock, stock and barrel of the method behind the madness of arriving at the 4Ps Business & Marketing India’s 100 Most Valuable Brands 2010…

FIRST PHASE
The Phase I started with preparing a holistic list of local, national and international brands (40,203) present in India, which was then scaled down to a master list of 1,412 brands based on the growth, reach, demand and availability (in at least 4 metros and Bengaluru) further divided into 32 broad categories with over 100 sub categories. Both domestic and international brands having their presence in India were taken into consideration for the final phase of the research.

Next, ICMR prepared a structured questionnaire on parameters of Brand Awareness and Preference. Based on the questionnaire a primary research was conducted in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai with 3,500 respondents. Based on the frequency of brands under the parameters, as found in the primary research, ICMR shortlisted top 200 brands across all categories.

SECOND PHASE
The second phase of the survey was initiated after tabulating the top 200 brands. A structured questionnaire was formed and one-on-one interviews were carried out with 6,000 respondents in 10 cities (Delhi, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune and Chennai) across India. In order to avoid any bias, the order of the brands was changed for each of the cities. Each of the cities was divided into four zones namely North, South, East and West to ensure complete coverage of the city in terms of the target audience. Further, the respondents were selected based on socioeconomic classification (SEC) i.e. education, occupation, gender and monthly income. In case of the respondents such as housewives, students, et al, the monthly income of the Chief Wage Earner (CWE-Head of Household) has been taken into consideration.
 
This survey intended to account for the Brand Equity (difference between perceived value of the brand and the core product, i.e., the total value of the brand minus that part of the value “owed” to the core product, which equals the value that accrues from the brand part of the product) of various brands by asking the respondents to rate them on the following parameters:

Brand Image and Perception: A unique set of associations within the minds of target customers which represent what the brand currently stands for and implies the current promise to customers.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2011.

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