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    Brand purpose

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    Brand purpose

    The reason a brand claims to exist beyond making money, used as a strategic and creative organising idea. Genuinely lived, it can differentiate and mobilise; bolted on, it produces interchangeable cause-washing - the evidence for purpose driving growth is contested, so treat it as a choice, not a law.

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    contested; see Jim Stengel, Grow (2012) vs Byron Sharp and Mark Ritson critiques