Abstract

The Philip Morris Company paid roughly double the stock market valuation for Kraft, Inc. and for General Foods, Inc. Financial analysts said that the price was due to the equity in the acquisitions’ brand names. These observations sparked latent interest in going beyond accounting standards and the stock market to find an objective measure of the value of brand names.

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