In brand name selection, the proposed model ranks the criteria importance to
companies as follows: emotional appeal, linguistics appeal, marketing appeal and
legal appeal. Companies can also consider individual demands and add them to the
assessment criteria of the actual data in the AHP model. Next, the sensitivity analysis
of the three brand names in the selection region, given linguistics appeal of 75.6 percent,
increases the global weight of Brand C from 0.260 to 0.365, making it the most
optimal selection. The AHP model can objectively and systematically assist the primary
companies in similar multi-criteria tasks when selecting suitable brand names.
Applying AHP to develop a selection model for brand naming is a relatively new idea
in the field. In practice, the proposed selection criteria and the model have been used by
a Taiwanese enterprise. This model could help enterprises objectively and effectively
select a brand name for a new product, making it highly applicable in academia and
commerce. In addition, the people and culture of Taiwan are similar to those in
Southeast Asia; thus, this model would be suitable for enterprises of that region.
Nevertheless, since AHP assumes independency among various decision-making
criteria, this study has a limitation in that the assessment criteria are independent of
each other. A future research suggestion would be to consider the interdependencies
between the criteria using an analytic network process (ANP) to identify the relative
weight of the criteria.