Determining The Personality Of Selected Brands Through The Archetypes And Explaining The Way Of Perception Of Their Consumers

The essential nature of brand is making differences. These days، emotional and symbolic features are so effective for making differences. One of the powerful and useful methods for making difference through these features is “Brand Personality” that means “the set of human characteristics associated with brand”. Here we use “Archetypes” for determining the brand personality. In this survey we determined: 1- The personality of selected brands through the archetypes، 2- The factors that have effect on the perception of personality of these brands 3- Classification of these factors 4- The way of perception of consumers. We used qualitative research method. So we did deep semi-structure interview with 60 customers and then analyzed the data with content analysis technique. According to the result of our research the manifest personality of selected brands are: Istak: creator، explorer، regular guy/ Mashhad Leather: ruler/ Cheetoz: jester/ Sunich: regular guy/ Kalleh: creator/ Mahram: innocent/ Hamrah Aval: ruler. The important result of this survey was determining how consumers perceive brand personality. If the perceived brand personality has had consistency with brand identity and brand positioning، this personality is desirable and the factors that have effect on the perception should be reinforced. If not، these factors should be reformed or removed if it is necessary and replace with the factors that create desirable brand personality.