Brand equity can be developed by brand trust (Delgado-Ballester & Munuera-Aleman, 2005). The CSR scale developed in this study could be applied to other aspects of brand equity other than brand trust, such as awareness and reputation. Yoon et al. (2006) examined the advertising of CSR activities from companies with bad reputations, although the information was not encouraging for companies with bad reputations, as consumers were often suspicious, the influence of advertising CSR activities with a company with a good reputation had not been explored