Monday, May 2, 2011

Ranking of the most trusted consumer brand 2011; where did Sony go?

This is the result of the survey done by Nikkei BP, through November 8 to December 13, 2010.


(Details and analysis are shown in http://business.nikkeibp.co.jp)

No. 1 Google

No. 2 Uniqlo

No. 3 Panasonic

No. 4 McDonald

No. 5 Nisshin Shokuhin

No. 6 Disney

No. 7 YouTube

No. 8 Studio Ghibli

No. 9 Rakuten

No.10 Suntory

No.11 Apple

No.12 Sony

No.13 Nintendo

No.14 Windows

No.15 Coca, Cola

No.16 Muji(Clothes)

No.17 Amazon

No.17 Mos Burger

No.19 Yahoo!

No.20 Sharp

No.20 Meiji Seika

No.22 QP

No.23 Fuji Television

No.24 Seven-Elven

No.25 Cagome

No.26 Microsoft

No.27 Cup Noodle

No.27 Nintendo DS

No.29 Tokyu Hands

No.29 MisterDonut

No.31 Hagen Darts

No.32 Calpis

No.33 Softbank

No.34 Calbee

No.34 Canon

No.36 Asahi Super Dry (beer)

No.36 Toyota

No.38 Kentucky Fried Chicken

No. 39 Daizo

No.40 Kirin Beer

No.40 Yamato Transport

No.42 Nagatani En

No.43 Honda

No.44 Wii

No.45 Microsoft Excel

No.46 House Shokuhin

No.47 Nike

No.48 Kao

No.49 Nescafe

No.50 iPod

No.50 Televi Tokyo

Also, please refer the last year's result.




Sony went down to No.12 from previous year's No.4. Sony was originally known for its unique technology development company, but recently its brand gets rusted recently.



As Tsujino Koichiro, who took strong initiative to develop VAIO, Sugo-Roku, Cocoon as an executive of Sony and was former CEO of Google Japan, wrote in his book, it seems Sony is still struggling because of the internal power fighting that prevent the company to release truly innovative products to the market.



Former CEO of Sony, Mr. Norio Oga passed away on April 23, 2011. He was the last executive who closely worked with the founders of Sony, Mr. Morita and Mr. Ibuka and knew the Tokyo Tsuushin Kogyo, former establishment of Sony. After his resignation and since the helm of following CEO, Mr. Idei, Sony seems to lose its innovator positioning in the market.

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