Abstract

The aim of the article. The author emphasizes in the article that great media event which has been arranged and organized by the authorities (e.g. the European Championship on the football Euro-2012) has a direct impact on the growth of national brand popularity in the international ranking. In particular, the positive results of the arrangement of the European Championship Euro-2012 have been analyzed in the article. The problems of recognizing of Polish trade brands and logos are explored. Media events and brand-leaders are considered. The championship Euro-2012 has been also viewed as a media event in the article. The status of the Polish national brand has been investigated. The results of the analysis. It has been revealed that inhabitants of such three Polish provinces as Lyubuskij, Lodzinskij and Kuyavsko-Pomorskij are the most benefited from the European Championship. Such benefits were the result of investing into the road projects. It will be enough to look at the motorway network. Lyubuskij province it is A2, Kuyavsko-Pomorskij province – A1, Lodzinskij one is intersection of the both above mentioned motorways. When the roads are being built, the people who sell the land enrich, as well as the building companies and their local subcontractors. The investment attractiveness of the by-the-road territories is growing up. The plants, logistic centers, inks, motels, filling stations also appear. But, first of all, Poland has gained benefits and the value of its national brand has attained a high 20th place. Euro-2012 as a one of the four world biggest sports events which has been arranged once a four-year cycle had a favorable impact on the Polish brand, significantly improved Polish «soft power». It is the ability to achieve goals with the help of different methods from the power supported by geopolitical and economic factors (so called «hard power»). Conclusions and directions of futher researches. The authors plan to explore the components of Ukrainian national brand in futher studies, the impact of media events on it.  

Keywords: national popularization, national brand, media events, image, reputation, brand capital

JEL Classification: O50, P46, Z10.

Cite as: Klisinski Ja. & Prokopenko, M. (2013). Media events and their impact on Polish national brand. Marketing and Management of Innovations, 4, 32-41. https://doi.org/10.21272/mmi.2013.4-03

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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