Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

With a higher degree of mandates from retailers, corporate legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley and a crowded product marketplace, it would appear that the consumer goods landscape is an unforgiving atmosphere full of revenue roadblocks.

The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "name, term sign, symbol or design or a combination of them, which is intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or group of sellers and to and to differentiate them from those of competitors."