Similarly, subbrands can be used to penetrate the high end of a market. Coors Gold and Holiday Inn Crowiie Plaza are examples. In some cases the subbrand can improve the perceived quality of the core brand name (e.g., Holiday Inn and Coors). On the other hand, a new premium version may cause less favorable perceptions of the core brand than was previously the case Coors may seem.less appealing in the presence of Coors Gold, for example. Also, the image of the core brand may prove to be a limitation for the premium subbrand as it seeks to compete at the high end. In the case of Crowne Plaza, for instance, the Holiday Inn connection was eventually dropped (see Aaker 1996, p. 288). In any case, the important point is that when subbrands are used they will tend to modify (positively or negatively) perceptions of the core or parent brand, due to the new associations created