vietnam national university, HANOI hanoi school of business Tran Sy Mau A STUDY & SOLUTIONS FOR DEVELOPING BRAND OF AN BINH BANK IN THE PERIOD 2005-2010 master of business administration thesis Hanoi – 2007 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com vietnam national university, HANOI hanoi school of business Tran Sy Mau A STUDY & SOLUTIONS FOR DEVELOPING BRAND OF AN BINH BANK IN THE PERIOD 2005-2010 Major: Business Administration Code: 60 34 05 Master of business administration thesis Supervisor: dr. nguyen viet anh Hanoi – 2007 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .iv TABLE OF CONTENTS .v LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. vii LIST OF FIGURES. viii LIST OF TABLES.
Scope of work .4 Solutions for Developing Brand of ABBank .6 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK .1 What is brand? .2 Types of brand .3 Function of brand .4 What is branding? .5 Key Concepts in Building Brand .6 The Corporate Brand. Brand Image and Identity. Service and Banking Branding. Yin and Yang Model to Branding .19 v TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.
Building banking brands .1 Introduction about brand in banking. Factors in building strong brand .3 Communicating banking brands .4 What brand model for bank. Experience in building and developing banking brands .1 Failures and Success in building brand .2 Experience in building brand .44 CHAPTER 2: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & EMPIRICAL FINDINGS .3 Data collection method. Overview of the case ABBank .2 History and development process of ABBank .3 Mission, Vision and Objectives of ABBank .6 Status of brand development in ABBank .7 Why are Vietnamese banking brands not great?.
Overview of banking brand in Vietnam. Actual existences of bank branding in Vietnam. Why are Vietnamese bank brands not great? .80 CHAPTER 3: SOLUTIONS FOR DEVELOPING BRAND OF ABBANK .1 Orientations develop banking industry in coming time.1 Objective and strategy in developing Vietnam‘s banks in coming time .2 Government orientation in developing banking services .3 The future of banking branding .2 Difficulties and challenges in developing brand of ABBank .1 Difficulties to ABBank .2 Challenges to ABBank .3 Solutions for developing ABBank brand .1 Overall solutions for developing ABBank brand .2 Application of Brand Resonance Pyramid model in ABBank .124 APPENDIX vi TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ABBank: An Binh Bank CJS Bank: Commercial Joint- Stock Bank EVN: Electricity of Vietnam Group PR: Public Relation SBV: State Bank of Vietnam SOC Bank: State-owned commercial bank VCB: Vietcombank WTO: World trade organization vii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1- 1: Importance of brand to banks .20 Figure 1-2: Seven factors in building successful brands .26 Figure 1-3: Brand resonance model .42 Figure 2-1: Highlight of performances 2004-2006.54 Figure 2-2: Performance Results in the period 2004-2006.55 Figure 2-3: Employees‘ Understanding about brand .61 Figure 2-4: Understanding of employees about aspects of brand .62 Figure 2-5: Customers‘ choice.6: Satisfaction level of Customers about bank .7: Feeling of customers about ABBank brand .8: Brand personality of ABBank .9: Difference between ABBank and others .69 LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1: Employees‘ understanding about brand .63 Table 2-2: Difficulties of employees in working .63 Table 2-3: Logo of banks .66 Table 2-4: Factor affect to customer‘s choice .70 Table 3-1: Comparison between ABBank and other CJS banks .99 APPENDIX Appendix 1: QUESTIONNAIRE (For customers) Appendix 2: QUESTIONNAIRE (For Manager and employees) viii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Background In recent years, Vietnam‘s economy has been always at high growth rate, banking is one of the industries has influence on the economy with the highest growth rate in a long time.
Besides that, go together high growth is competitive pressure becoming increasingly among banks as well as foreign banks which has not only a strong power of finance but also experience in a long time. Especially, when Vietnam become formal member of WTO since the 1 January 2007, after that there are many banks establish, and there are more foreign banks send file to State Bank of Vietnam to ask the Vietnam State Bank to permit them open branch or even establish a new foreign bank with 100% their capital. What‘s more, with pressure from domestic competitors as well as foreign banks, domestic must have planning to compete in fierce competitive environment. An Binh bank (ABBank) is not exception.
To compete with competitors from domestic to foreign, each bank must have good brand. Below are some reasons, which make me to, decided chose this topic what makes ABbank to develop its brand in coming time First, under competitive pressures from foreign banks, domestic banks more increasing, ABBank cannot develop without development planning of brand and a certain brand image in customers ‗mind. Therefore, ABBank needs to have a plan to develop its brand in coming time, before cope with direct competition from foreign banks. Second, Vietnam participates into WTO (world trade organization), more and more foreign banks penetrate into Vietnam market, and this makes a large pressure for Vietnam‘s banks.
Third, ABBank changed operation in commercial and investment banking in a short time and it is new one in Vietnam financial market. Therefore, ABBank must do many things to build and develop a believable image in customers trust. Furthermore, ABBank has difficulties in finding solutions for developing brand as well as improve brand image in customers‘ mind. Therefore, ABBank has to not TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com only compete with domestic commercial banks but also prepare finance and human resource to guarantee existence and development in fiercely competitive environment as well as cope with foreign banks.
At this moment, ABBank has not yet an overall plan to develop its brand. Therefore, it must have a plan to develop brand if it wants to exist and develop in fierce condition in today. Moreover, there are sub-reasons what make me interest in studying brand in banking, that is brand in banking is new concept in Vietnam and the number of banks have strong brands is very little. Objectives & aims The purpose of this study is to show the issues of ABBank case and propose the solutions for developing brand of ABBank in the period 2007-2010.
In the study, I will concentrate studying brand problem of ABBank and raise solutions to develop its brand in coming time. Furthermore, the purpose is to provide an overall seeing about bank brands in Vietnam financial market as well as foundation for future research in the banking brand in Vietnam in the future. In this thesis, the objectives and aims as following: Objectives of the study This study focus mainly on three objectives as following: Studying deeply and more detail how brand development is conducted in banking field. Finding issues in process of building brand at ABBank as well as aspects, which relate to ABBank.
Propose some solutions and brand model for developing An Binh brand in coming time. Aims of study Applying successfully solutions in the process of developing ABBank brand Help ABbank become one of five leading commercial joint stock banks in Vietnam in 2010. Make ABBank brand becomes one strong brand in Vietnam 2 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Research question As mentioned above, there are several important issues need to consider when developing a brand.
Local bank brands not only have to compete with each other but also to compete with international bank brands that have the advantage of capital and management skills to attract the consumer. Because of new business in investment and commercial, ABBank actually has not an overall brand strategy for developing bank brand. The question to ABBank now is to find the solution for developing Brand of ABBank in coming time. As an intangible and risky purchase, the brand can reassure the customer and add functional as well as emotional value.
Based on the discussion so far, the research problem is stated as: Research question 1: What solutions can help ABBank develop its brand in the period from now to 2010? However, to have solutions for developing brand of ABBank, the study needs consider the issues discussed in this paragraph, the research problem is further narrowed down as one following sub research question. Research question 2: What are difficulties and challenges facing AnBinh? 4. Scope of work The study is conducted only in ABBank as a sample of Vietnam banking system. However, the thesis only study in Hanoi branch of ABBank about 150 to 200 personal customers will be chosen in some transaction offices of ABBank in Hanoi to fulfill the objectives detailed above.
The period is chosen for the study is only in 5 years from 2005-2010 and in this thesis, the study focus on finding difficulties and challenges and then propose solutions for ABBank to build and develop its brand in the period 2005-2010. Data & process With the main objectives are to find solution for ABBank to develop its brand in the period from now to 2010. Study takes information from many sources as following: Data source: Bank‘s information & findings, Internet, papers 3 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.05 The way to process data: The method to process data is mainly by excel Data has been taken from some websites, which specialize on branding in the world and Vietnam such as Brand channel, Interbrand, Businessweek or vneconomy, saigontimes and so on. Information from survey/interviews more than 100 customers in Hanoi as well as over 100 employees of ABBank in Hanoi branch.
Methods & approaches The study uses case study to make clear the problem of brand in banking system in Vietnam. Moreover, to have information for this study, this study concentrates on survey customers and employees by some ways such as questionnaires, interview and observation or in research method, we use case study method. Especially, in the survey, we use three methods that includes questionnaires, interview, observation. This study will be an empirical research, which preliminarily adopts the following: Review of related literature/documentation, survey, in-depth interview, Review of related literature/documentation: this will examine the multidisciplinary theories of and empirical studies on brand in the literature.
In Surveys/interviews sessions: questionnaires will be developed and structured interviews are conducted. Significance With the objective mentioned above, the study contributes several meanings to banks in Vietnam. On the theory, this study makes clear some aspects of the theory of banking brand in general and in ABBank in particular. This study is also a good reference for banks in Vietnam when they have demand to build brand.
It is hoped that this study will contribute to the body of knowledge on brand and show how the brand concept could be deployed more effective in other parts of Vietnam. It will also help Vietnamese banks to understand fully about brand importance and come up with more suitable brand strategies and policies. On the practice, this study gives an overall strategy for ABBank developing its brand in the future. 4 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.
Limitations Thesis has some limitations as following: The scope of work, which only in Hanoi branch of ABBank is narrow. Not study in head office. The time of the study from 2005-2010 is another limitation. Customers in surveys are mainly personal not consist of enterprises.
Numbers of customers to interview and survey is not large. Expected results The study expects to show the following findings: Propose solutions for building and developing brand in ABBank. Understanding more detail and deeply about brand in banking Finding the difficulties and challenges in the process of brand in ABBank Giving out the best solutions for developing brand in ABBank 10. Follow –up (potential) Further study will be taken on building and developing ABBank brand after a period.
Other way of study will be analyzing the importance of brand to banks in ABBank particularly and all over banks in Vietnam in generally.