Samsung Mobile Phones Leads in TRA’S Most Attractive Brands’ List, Regains its 2015 Position

PUNE, December 19, 2018: India’s Most Attractive Brands Report 2018 (MAB 2018), in its fifth edition, has listed the country’s Most Attractive 1000 brands, based on TRA’s proprietary model of Brand Attractiveness. The study is an annual syndicated primary research conducted with 2500 consumer-influencers across 16 Indian cities.Leading the list, India’s Most Attractive Brand is Samsung, the Korean mobile phone manufacturer, which also inaugurated the world’s largest mobile phone factory in Noida earlier this year. TRA Research has been scientifically measuring Buying Propensity through its’ proprietary matrices of Brand Trust and Brand Attractiveness since 2010. Tata Motors, which has shown very good market performance recently, is ranked 2nd All-India, with a phenomenal jump from 181st rank last year. Apple iPhone, ranked 3rd this year All-India having jumped up from 92nd rank in 2017. Reliance Jio, the three-year old disrupter telecom brand and already the third largest mobile phone network in India, ranks 3rd among India’s Most Attractive Brands and tops the Mobile Telephony Category unseating last year’s leader, Airtel. Maruti Suzuki is ranked the 5th Most Attractive brand in India, up two ranks over last year. The next five ranks among the top ten are Samsung (Consumer Electronics) at 6th, Dell (Laptops) at 7th, SBI (Bank – PSU) at 8th, Nike (Sportswear) at 9th and Honda (Four-Wheeler) at 10th. “Attractiveness or Desire can be defined as the response to a sense of longing for anything - a product, brand, person or an outcome. When brands score high on TRA’s Brand Attractiveness research, they have successfully created similar subconscious pull. Such brands have intense magnetic power over the consumers. It is extremely gratifying to see that Indian brands have the maximum presence among the top 100”,said N. Chandramouli, CEO, TRA Research on the launch of the report. He expanded that 49 Indian, 18 American, 6 South Korean, 6 Japanese & 2 Chinese brands made it to top 100 Most Attractive list. Chandramouli further added, “Categories of Gadgetry, Mobile Services, Automobiles and Consumer Electronics have the largest average Attractiveness Index this year. All these Categories are highly driven by individual personalities and this shows a rise in the Self-Awareness – a growing sense of Purpose and Social-Worth of the Indian consumer.”