brands - brand positioning
Brand positioning
As we have argued in our other revision notes on branding, it is the “added value” or augmented elements that determine a brand’s positioning in the market place.
Positioning can be defined as follows:
Positioning is how a product appears in relation to other products in the market
Brands can be positioned against competing brands on a perceptual map.
A perceptual map defines the market in terms of the way buyers perceive key characteristics of competing products.
The basic perceptual map that buyers use maps products in terms of their price and quality, as illustrated below:

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