Things can become complicated when corporations are managing many subbrands under master brands in different categories. Increasingly, companies are choosing to have fewer, more clearly defined strong brands than a proliferation of ill-defined, potentially competing brands. In 2000, for example, then Unilever co-chair Niall FitzGerald announced a five-year plan aimed at reducing the number of brands owned by Unilever from 1,600 to 400, then further limiting that number and concentrating resources on select power brands. In the automobile market BMW provides a good example of a well-structured brand hierarchy and portfolio. The corporate brand, BMW, with its “The ultimate driving machine” slogan, stands for style, performance and the driving experience. Under the corporate brand sit its well-differentiated subbrands, the 3, 5 and 7 series, suggesting a logically designed hierarchy