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US Brands Prominent in Asia-Pacific's Top Brands of 2008

Five of Asia’s top 10 brands are US-based companies, indicating the strong presence of US companies in the Asia-Pacific region, according to “Asia Pacific’s Top 1,000 Brands for 2008,” as determined by a TNS survey, writes Retailer Daily.

Moving up one place to take this year’s number one spot as Asia’s top brand is Japanese electronics brand Sony. Coming in second place is the region’s most popular business- and personal-imaging solutions brand, Canon, followed in third place by US-based sporting giant Nike.

Consumer electronics brands dominate the top 20 most-named brands (occupying seven places), particularly those from Japan (Sony and Panasonic) and Korea (Samsung and LG). Other categories with a strong presence in the top 20 are search engines, food and beverage, and retail.

By category, Nike was named best in class for retail; Coca-Cola for beverages; Nestle for food; Pampers for baby/household products, toiletries and cosmetics:

The survey, which expanded on previous years to include responses from consumers in a total of 10 markets in the region, presents an overview of the local and global brands that consumers think most highly of across sectors and geographies.

To determine the best brands in each of the product and service categories covered by the survey, participants were asked two questions:

• When you think of [product / service / category], which is the ‘best’ brand that comes to your mind? By “best,” we mean the one that you trust the most or the one that has the best reputation in [product / service / category].
• Apart from the brand that you have just mentioned, which brand do you consider to be the second-best brand in the [product / service / category]?

Some 3,600 people were interviewed, including for the first time consumers from Japan, Korea and Australia. Together with respondents from China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand, they were drawn from TNS’s 6th dimension online access panels. The categories presented to each participant included alcohol and cigarettes; financial services; automotive; health; retail; food; beverages; electronic goods; media and telecommunications; and baby products, household products, toiletries and cosmetics.