Corporate Brand Management
Corporate Brand Management
Appropriate Balance with Stakeholders and Heightening Corporate Value
Akebono's “Corporate Brand Management” has been implemented since 2005 based on “Akebono's Corporate Mission” and “Akebono's Declaration for the 21st Century”.
Akebono's “Corporate Brand Management” was created from the perspective of embracing our important stakeholders, customers, shareholders, clients, employees and the social community we come into contact most during the course of business. It is based on the viewpoint of heightening our corporate value by optimally balancing these relationships.
Our brand statement was drawn up collectively based on key words of “handmade, everyone is in the driver's seat, and be positive”. In addition, various corporate brand promotional activities take place. We aim at heightening our corporate value with each of our employees' voluntary behavior to strengthen the brand.
Brand Statement
Brand Slogan
Absolute safety; Unparalleled control
Brand Statement
Since 1929, akebono has brought assurance and
peace of mind to our customers and end-users
everywhere as a global industry leader in brake design
and production. We take pride in our history of
achieving safety without compromise, and continue to
pursue new standards of perfection with innovation.
Looking to the future, we are inspired by the prospect
of delighting and satisfying our customers, and never
cease in the challenge to succeed in this goal.
Absolute safety; Unparalleled control.
Putting a smile on people's faces all over the world.
Established 2005
In order to continuously and actively carry out our Corporate Mission, the Brand Statement was established to provide a short-to-medium-term vision for how we should create and deliver value to society through our brake business. It is the result of varied and careful deliberation among our associates, and expresses a vision of what akebono is striving to become in a simple and intelligible manner.
The first paragraph encapsulates our history, devotion and the essence of our corporate DNA. It shows our total commitment to safety, as well as our pride and confidence in the advanced technologies that we have been continuously refining for more than 80 years.
The second paragraph embodies our spirit of challenge and the high standards we set ourselves. It shows our desire to contribute to society while striving to achieve new breakthroughs and generate new value.
The final two lines express our objective and promise, proclaiming our desire to continuously bring delight and satisfaction to everyone who comes into contact with akebono and our products.
Evaluating the Corporate Brand
Akebono has incorporated “CB Valuator”, a corporate brand valuator model which measures the brand that was jointly developed by Kunio Ito, a professor at Hitotsubashi University and Nikkei Newspapers in order to realize efficient corporate brand management.
The CB Valuator statistically analyzes corporate image and financial data and comprehensively evaluates and calculates the corporate brand which shows the results in the form of a CB score.
In order to effectively increase how Akebono is evaluated, the target images were narrowed down to “product & service quality is good ” and “technological strength”. We hope to further develop the Akebono brand by increasing our corporate attractiveness and potential.
CB score
