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            			<p>Brand Strategy Guru’s team are all proven experts across the disciplines of strategic branding, including:</p>

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            			<p>Brand Strategy Guru have been called ‘brand fanatics’, and it’s true that we believe absolutely that business strategy and brand strategy are inseparable.</p>

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For us brand lies at the centre of competitive advantage: brand is the strategic driver of the 21st Century business. For winning organisations in any sector, brand is no longer a subset of marketing, but represents strategic purpose and meaning.</p>

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			<p>The London Book Fair is a bit of an overwhelming affair: hundreds of stands of publishers large and small, including some of the world's biggest, plus booksellers and authors, not to mention about 40,000 visitors. A riot of brands and business, all with the core product of books (now including digital books of course), binding the whole thing together.</p>
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			<p>Oxfordshire-based charity the Northmoor Trust is to re-launch as the Earth Trust in a bold re-branding move led by Brand Strategy Guru. The re-brand will see the Trust  place an even greater emphasis on supporting people and on sustainability. The Trust’s name changes officially on Friday 11th March 2011.</p>
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