Branding conference to be held in Belgrade

The 7th International Brand Conference “Branding regions and cities – foreign direct investments, export growth and tourism development” is going to be held on 10 June 2011 in Belgrade, Serbia. This year’s edition is particularly interesting to Nation-Branding’s audience since the Fair has a particular focus on place branding. With the program of highest quality…

The top 10 most influential country branding experts 2010

The time for our biannual Top Nation Branding Experts panel has arrived! As in the previous 2008 edition, this list contains the top 10 most influential nation branding experts. But this year, we have developed a Gartner-like magic quadrant with the leaders, the experimeted, the emerging and the followers. See it below. And finally here are…

Nation branding presentation for Hungary

As you know, Jeremy Hildreth is one of the new stars of nation branding. In October 2006, he participated as a Saffron Brand Consultants member at a conference about nation branding named “Image and Identity” which took place in Budapest. The meeting was organized by the Hungarian think-tank Demos and there Hildreth gave this interesting…

Update on Wally Olins’s work for Lithuania’s economic image

The Lithuanian Development Agency (LDA) hired Wally Olins, one of the world’s leading branding gurus, and his team Saffron Brand Consultants to help develop Lithuania’s attractive economic image in foreign markets. The consultants are working aiming to develop the country economic image strategy for 2009-2014, a detailed plan of Lithuanian economic image strategy 2009-2011 communication…