Strong brands enable companies to enter new markets and categories. They allow businesses to command premium prices for their products and retain talented staff.

Through years of continuous tracking, and through building our BrandZ database, we’ve built an unrivalled understanding of how brands work. From this understanding, we’ve developed the Meaningfully Different Framework to help brands create financial value and growth.

Brands are losing intimacy with consumers, putting them at risk of becoming irrelevant. These changes require a disruptive yet holistic system to connecting with consumers, ensuring brands identify growth opportunities more effectively and prioritise marketing dollars more efficiently.

Knowing how, when and where to activate your brand has never been more important, more urgent or more possible in today’s technology and data-driven world.

People today have more choice, more channels, more influence and an increasing cynicism about brands. It is more important than ever to have a sharp and differentiated brand positioning, clarity of purpose and cultural relevance to stand out from the crowd and resonate with your audiences.

After a draw in last year's survey, Whittaker's has slipped just ahead of the All Blacks as New Zealand's Most Loved Brand. Whittaker's has taken the top spot every year in the seven years Colmar Brunton has done the survey.

Another draw for the All Blacks in 2017 Just as they did against the British and Irish Lions earlier this year, the All Blacks have once again had to settle for a draw – this time in New Zealand’s Brands I Love survey.