Purvi Shah

Purvi Shah

Associate Professor
EDUCATION
PhD Marketing from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA (2013)
MBA Marketing and IB from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA (2009)
MMS (Marketing) from University of Mumbai, India (2003)
B.Com. (Economics) from University of Mumbai, India (2000)
Expert Bio

Associate Professor of Marketing Purvi Shah does multifaceted research on marketing and brand management.  Her work has explored consumer experiences and opinions about expiration dates and the confusion surrounding them. More recently she has focused her scholarly pursuits on the deletion and addition of brands by companies. For example, most companies make these decisions based on financial performance metrics, but other considerations include consumer needs and preferences and the company’s portfolio strategy and strategic directions and goals. This research has led her to coin a new term “nostalgic brand love. She has also provided analysis for AdAge on brand awareness among 'Generation Alpha,' for Agence France-Presse on Wendy's plans to test dynamic pricing, and for Food Technology magazine on the various strategies used by consumer packaged goods companies, like legacy food brands, to stay fresh in the face of increased competition.

TheStreet
Coca-Cola brings back an iconic soda flavor ‘permanently’

Purvi Shah, associate professor in The Business School, researches the nostalgic brand love that drives consumers to organize to resurrect deleted brands. Her research is cited in this report in TheStreet about the upcoming return of Diet Cherry Coke. The article was republished in Yahoo News and by more than two dozen newspapers around the U.S.

 

Food Technology
How Iconic Brands Stay Evergreen

Faced with increasing competition, long-running food brands embrace various strategies to stay fresh. Purvi Shah, associate professor of marketing, spoke with Food Technology, a magazine from the Institute of Food Technologists, about these strategies, including limited time offers

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