News Release

Brandient provided BusinessWeek with the first Top 50 Most Valuable Romanian Brands

Bucharest, December 12 2006

For the first time in Romania, Brandient has developed the ranking of the Top 50 Most Valuable Romanian Brands, based on calculating the financial value of brands.

Click to download Brandient Top 50 in PDF format.

The model employed by Brandient measures the brand value to the current brand owner and applies widely known principles and methods used in evaluating intangible assets. In this model, the financial results are corroborated with the brand equity index, obtained by interpreting and indexing the results of an extensive national market research carried out by D&D Research in 22 different categories, covering over 200 Romanian brands.

For this ranking only local brands were considered, launched and developed in Romania before January 1st , 2005, regardless of the citizenship of the owner, in 22 distinct categories addressed directly to the consumer (Business to Consumer). For the brands that have mixed business (corporate/retail) only the retail segment was taken into consideration (banks, insurances, oil).

The picture resulted from this calculation and analysis process places the brands in a territory beyond “beautiful and ugly”, in which the consumers validate the brand standing through repeated sales.

“This professional ranking shows the full potential of that wonderful management tool that is branding”, Aneta Bogdan, Managing Partner, Brandient.

Brandient is the Romanian consultancy on brand strategy, design and value dedicated to creation and development of brands as signs of value™. Brandient is reputed to have a unique local specialists team, with remarkable experience in management, marketing, design and communication. Recently, Brandient associated with the global brand agency Enterprise IG, part of the WPP Group, in order to provide clients with extended competencies and expertise. Domo, Fulga, Flanco, Astral, Smartree, Novensys, TVR, Radiocom, Credisson, Domenia, Europharm, Qualians, Zuzu etc are among the brands created or revitalized by Brandient. More information on www.brandient.com, or tel/fax +40-(0)21-2228167, email: .

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