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The Corporate Brand Architecture of BASF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A strong brand is critically important to BASF’s success. In today’s volatile and fast-changing world, we need to continuously elevate and strengthen our brand to ensure it provides orientation, differentiates us and represents our values in a way that resonates with audiences.

Dr. Nina Schwab-Hautzinger

Senior Vice President Corporate Communications and Government Relations

Brand categories

We differentiate between three brand categories:

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Visualization of the corporate brand architecture

The Corporate Design is the binding element to visualize the Brand Architecture.

Here you see examples for the connection to the brand touch point management.

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Brand evaluation

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Unused Brands

Is there a brand which is not used any more within your organization?

The general procedure is to keep the brand and to confer its status to "unused". For this procedure, please contact your Legal counsellor within BASF to align together on necessary steps.

The advantages of keeping a brand and to confer the status "unused" are the following:

  • No costs are involed.
  • An unused brands can be re-used and re-activated.
  • An unused brand can also be sold.

Brand Deletion

Do you think of finally deleting a brand?

Please take into consideration that the BASF follows the strategy of deleting a brand only if the according brand is seriously harming the company.

In this case, please take into account that all countries where the brand is registered need to be contacted to delete the brand ultimately from the according registers. Deleting a brand is very costly and thus, should be evaluated beforehand very carefully.

The consequences of deleting a brand are the following:

  • The final trademark deletion is ultimate and cannot be reversed.
  • Once the trademark is deleted, it may no longer be used.
  • The trademark can be registered by external third parties as their own.
  • The final trademark deletion will cause high costs, varying and depending on the amount of registrations.

In case your current brand is harming seriously the company, please find enclosed the application for deleting your brand:

 

Contact and feedback

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