How The Number 1 Brand In The World Stays On Top - The Secret Of Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton was recently ranked the No. 1 luxury brand in the Millward Brown BrandZ ranking of the Top 100 Most Powerful Brands, a list that covers 50,000 brands worldwide according to Forbes.

So what's their brand secret? Well for one, they are revolutionary. Consider their newest endorser - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. He's not the typical celebrity endorser and they know it. But why pick him? They want trend-setters and jet-setters. People who will pay the extra grand to get the best in luxury.

The economy is already unstable as it is, why settle for the girl/ boy next door who might not even have enough money to spare? Louis Vuitton is going for class A, retirement age individuals who have money to burn.

Bold moves like this keep Louis Vuitton ahead of the pack currently with a brand value of $25.74 million. Sometimes it's just amazing how they started as a steamer trunks and luggage retailer in 1854 and eventually evolved into the marquee brand they are today.

The World's Number 1 Brand Goes To Google. Big Surprise... Not!

Companies in the industry of technology are growing ever more powerful and do not seem daunted by the mounting pressures of the stock market. Do you know why? Let me tell you a little secret... it's because the prevalence of the online world is just beyond the normal boundaries of trading and consumer goods. Online services are not normally real products but knowledge sharing that is not affected by the rising prices of crude oil! Well not directly anyway... but you get my point.

Technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Apple, accounted for 28 of the top 100 brands in Millward Brown's survey. They represented a combined brand value of $US187.5 billion.

Anyway Google tops the list of Millward Brown's survey. According to Sydney's Morning Herald, the search engine's marque is worth more than $86.1 billion ($94 billion), up 30% on last year, according to the Brandz list from Millward Brown Optimor published yesterday, which calculates the proportion of sales driven by brand.

The top five is unchanged from 2007, with Google followed by General Electric, Microsoft, Coca Cola and China Mobile. Wal-Mart, Citi and Toyota dropped down the rankings.