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What Bill Murray can teach us about brand purpose

How well defined and meaningfully expressed your brand purpose is will increasingly make the difference with all your stakeholders, says Daniel Shepherd

By Daniel Shepherd, head of strategy at PHD UAE

Remember Bill Murray in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day? As a weatherman sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities in a small Pennsylvania town, he tries to win over a news anchor played by Andie McDowell. Unsuccessfully. Repeatedly. Living in a Groundhog Day. Oddly, aside from the obvious parallels with our lockdown existences, there is a lesson in this tale for business and marketing leaders. One about purpose and what it means for a company or a brand.

While purpose is nothing new, it has gained recent prominence in business leadership circles. Last year, the Business Roundtable ­­– an association of CEOs of America’s largest compa


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