Published - 3 Nov 2016
Forest Industry
NAVIGATOR is the most valuable office paper brand in Europe
Opticom International Research now presents the results of the 12th edition of the “Brand Equity Tracking Survey – Office Paper”. This industry standard benchmark survey for office paper brands has been conducted among 1500 professional end-users across 5 countries in Europe. The countries covered are Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain.
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Among the brands qualifying this year, Navigator, Xerox and HP have been evaluated by more respondents in 2016 than in 2013 and only Lyreco has qualified in all markets in 2016. When comparing the ranking for the five countries sampled in 2016 versus 2013, two brands are no longer qualifying: Discovery and Office Depot.
Navigator has doubled its Spontaneous Awareness Index since 2013, while showing steady levels in the other indices (Quality & Association index as well as Loyalty index) reaching the first position in all criteria and taking the overall leadership. Xerox, 2013’s leading brand, dropped to second place due to a lower score in the Spontaneous Awareness Index.
Lyreco and HP swapped places mainly due to higher Quality & Association and Loyalty indices for Lyreco. Staples qualified again but shows a strong decrease in its Top-of-Mind index and a loss of few points in all the other indices although the brand did improve its recommendation index.
When looking at the ranking in each individual country, we can see that more brands are qualifying on an individual country level such as Canon and Viking in the United Kingdom, Office Depot in France or Plano in Germany.
While most of the rebranded reseller brands have maintained their position or dropped in the ranking, it is still clear that the majority of the brands in this top list are corporate brands. Only one pure product brand has qualified on the overall European level: The Navigator Company’s Navigator.
“Beside ranking the most valuable brands of Office Paper in Europe, we explore where and how the brands are bought, how the brands and suppliers are selected but also the environmental issues around the office paper brands, giving a deeper dimension to the information provided in this research” comments Cécilia Vassal Nyholm, Project Manager. “And knowing how actively our clients are using the results in their communication with their customers is very rewarding to us.”
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