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Building Brands: Boosting Sales in Challenging Economic Times

In uncertain times, strong brands don’t fade; they lead. This programme helps you master the art of brand building, sharpen strategy, and turn your brand into a sales-driving powerhouse.
This Programme is designed for managers responsible for brand strategy, marketers seeking to enhance their brand-building capabilities, and leaders aiming to elevate the role of branding within their organisations. Participants typically work in business-to-business or consumer-facing environments where strong brands directly influence sales and customer loyalty.
Hybrid Programme
Lagos
Programme Date
Jul 29, 2026 (2 days)

Programme Fee

₦750,000 (Excluding VAT)
Hybrid Programme
Lagos
Hybrid Programme
Lagos

Programme Date

Jul 29, 2026 (2 days)
Hybrid Programme
Lagos
Programme Fee
750,000

Programme Overview

Guided by senior members of LBS’ marketing faculty, this programme provides in-depth exposure to leading-edge thinking on successful B2B marketing practices. Participants explore the fundamentals and best practices of brand strategy, with a strong focus on practical application. The programme equips attendees to build customer value models that clearly articulate the value of their offerings to target customers and market segments.

Through collaborative exercises and peer discussions, participants analyse marketing strategies, share experiences, and broaden their perspectives. The programme helps participants craft distinctive brand positioning, manage brand touchpoints effectively, and design strategies for managing brand portfolios. This enhances the organisation’s ability to boost sales and create meaningful customer value.

Key Learning Outcomes
Understand why brands matter, how they drive sales, and create lasting value.
Learn to craft distinctive brand positioning and create compelling brand experiences.
Apply frameworks for managing brand portfolios and elevating brand impact across the organisation.
Hybrid Programme
Programme Date
Jul 29, 2026 (2 days)
Programme Fee
₦750,000 (Excluding VAT)
Brand Fundamentals & Power
  • Brand power: meaning and best practices

  • Building and wrecking a brand

  • Intrigue marketing and tweaking brand sales in the face of stiff market competition

Market Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning
  • Creating new markets through brand segmentation & positioning

  • Creating sales in new markets: the role of segmentation, targeting & positioning

  • Stretching your brand into new markets

Brand Repositioning & Reviving Sales
  • Can brand repositioning raise sales?

  • Reviving brand sales in the face of fatigue

Sales, Promotion & Brand Impact
  • Sales, sales promotion and the brand effect

Branding in the Digital Era
  • Branding through social media

Brand Protection & Management
  • Managing brand imitation and counterfeiting

Prof. Tayo Otubanjo is a Marketing faculty member at Lagos Business School, teaching across the full-time and executive MBA programmes, and has served as a Visiting Professor of Marketing at Yale School of Management. He earned his PhD in Marketing in the UK, specialising in corporate brand identity, and contributed to establishing the first MSc in Corporate Brand Management. Prof. Otubanjo provides strategic marketing and brand advisory services to organisations such as First Bank, FCMB, AXA Mansard, Sujimoto, and Galaxy Backbone. His earlier consultancy work with CMCConnect BCW and CentrespreadGrey included major brand strategy projects for Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Emirates, Zenith Bank, UPS, SAP, and others.

Chidi Okoro is the Founder and Executive Consultant of Drugs and Medicaments Nigeria Ltd, providing strategy and business development advisory services across FMCG, pharmaceutical, retail, and Africa-focused organisations. A General Manager–level executive with over 30 years’ experience, he has worked in pharmaceuticals, personal care, food, and telecommunications, with operational exposure across all Nigerian states and four African regions. He previously served as MD of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria, CEO Africa for Lucozade Ribena Suntory, and CEO of UAC Foods/Tiger Brands SA JV. A pharmacist with an MBA, he also holds executive qualifications from Lagos Business School and IE Business School. He is a recipient of several leadership and performance awards.

The Admission Process

Begin your path to professional and personal growth with our straightforward enrollment process.

1. Click on the Apply Now button.

2. Select the number of participants to enroll on the programme and then fill in your detials.

3. Request for an invoice or make an instant payment via our secured payment gateway.

4. Upon confirmation of payment, a programme manager will get in touch with you at least three days before the programme commences.

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