For the last five years, Apple held on
to the title of the world’s most valuable brand. Then this year, the iPhone
maker lost the top spot to Google, according to consultancy Brand Finance’s Global 500 rankings.
As Apple’s brand value tumbled 27% to
$107.1 billion in 2016, Google’s increased to $109.5 billion. Amazon, with 53%
brand value growth, was close behind at $106.4 billion.
Image: Brand Finance Global 500 2017
Eight of the top 10 brands on Brand
Finance’s 2017 list are American, reflecting the global dominance of US brands.
So where does this leave the rest of
the world?
Visualizing brands as countries
Using Brand Finance’s ranking, cost
information website HowMuch.net has taken the most valuable
brands in selected countries and turned them into a map. Each country is sized
to reflect the global value of its biggest brand.
After Google, the next most valuable
national brand is South Korea’s Samsung, which is in sixth place on the Global
500 list at $66.2 billion. Then it’s Chinese bank ICBC, ranked 10th, with a
brand value of $47.8 billion.
Image: howmuch.net
Car-makers Toyota (Japan) and BMW
(Germany) are next, with brand values of $46.3 billion and $37.1 billion,
respectively. Shell, the multinational oil and gas company based in the
Netherlands, also features prominently, at $36.8 billion.
The top brands of most countries,
however, are worth less than $25 billion. Across Latin America, the most
valuable brand is Mexican energy company Pemex, at $8.5 billion. In Asia, it’s
India’s Tata conglomerate, at $12.9 billion. No African brands appear on the
map.
The world’s most powerful brands
Lego may have a relatively modest $7.6
billion brand value, but when it comes to sheer power Denmark’s biggest brand
punches well above its weight.
Brand Finance’s Brand Strength Index
(BSI) awards brands a mark out of 100. Lego gets high scores across a range of
metrics such as familiarity, loyalty, promotion, marketing investment, staff
satisfaction and corporate reputation.
Image: REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
The colour-coding on the map indicates
brand strength, with Lego and Google (the most powerful brands) in dark blue.
Many well-known brands including Samsung, BMW, Shell, Ikea and Nestle are on
the next rung down, in light blue.
With marks ranging between 70 and 80,
market-leading brands including Santander, Tata and Vodafone, are in pink. Only
two top national brands, Taiwan Semiconductor and Thailand’s PTT, coloured red,
have scores of less than 70.
-William Ibbott
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Brand Finance Global 500 2017.
Published
on 01.02.2017
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thousands of the world’s biggest brands to the test every year, evaluating
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