The brand management of “Port Wine”: relevance of country equity and of productive clusters

Abstract

Brand management in today’s business world is extremely related to the organizations purpose and improvement of their strategies. The goal of this study is to analyze the characteristics of brand management “Port Wine”, who caries a strongly distinctive name, outstanding the “country equity” and its importance in order to achieve competitive advantage, to the product and for the country in a general way. It’s a study based on information obtained from institutes related to the Port Wine, commercial companies, and studies already publicized about the wine, being analyzed and developed with the aid of works about brand management, publicity, positioning and clusters. The structure is based on the efforts made by the company’s, institutes and Portugal’s government to publicize the brand upon the global market, being the product not only the creator of innumerous direct and indirect employments, but also a Portuguese ambassador to the world.

Keywords

• vinho do porto
• marca
• marca-país