This part will including brand goal, description, history, soul, new mission statement, rebranding objective, and keywords.
To enhance learning, inspire imagination, and strengthen relationships.
Milton Bradley Company is an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley in 1860, developed and sold over 200 games and puzzles for both children and adults.
The founder Milton Bradley trained in drafting and secured a job during product plans, this sparked his interest in the lithograph business. And then, he launched the Milton Bradley Co. in 1860 to produce custom lithographs. However, the lithograph business wasn’t proving to be particularly successful, and Bradley sought other uses for his specialized equipment. This led him to invent The Checkered Game of Life and transition into the board game manufacturer that you know and love today.
Still attached to the Hasbro Inc. roster, Milton Bradley continues to manufacture board games in the 21st century. However, they mostly switched to manufacturing their old favorites rather than churning out new products every few months.
Nobody can beat the classics. The vast number of Milton Bradley board games still available proves the timeless quality of the company’s creative vision. Over 150 years of manufacturing board games have solidified Milton Bradley as a titan of the board gaming world, and you can pay homage to its stalwart perseverance by playing one of its many classic games with your friends and family.
The Checkered Game of Life was created in 1860.
When the American Civil War broke out in early 1861, small game were sold for one dollar a piece to soldiers and charitable organizations, such as chess, checkers, backgammon, dominoes, and “The Checkered Game of Life.”
In the late 1860s, Bradley became involved in the Kindergarten movement. Deeply invested in the cause, Milton Bradley began manufacturing educational items such as colored papers and paints.
By the 1870s, Milton Bradley was producing dozens of games and capitalizing on fads and became the first manufacturer in America to make croquet sets. The sets included wickets, mallets, balls, stakes, and an authoritative set of rules to play by that Bradley himself had created. In 1880, the company began making jigsaw puzzles.
Milton Bradley found success making board games. As he reached adulthood, he trained in drafting and sparked an interest in the lithograph business. He launched the Milton Bradley Company in 1860 with the intention of producing custom lithographs. However, the lithograph business wasn’t proving to be particularly successful, and Bradley sought other uses for his specialized equipment. This led him to invent The Checkered Game of Life and transition into the board game manufacturer that you know and love today.
1939 1959 1960 2022 1979
Milton Bradley died in 1911, and in 1920, Milton Bradley bought out McLoughlin Brothers, which went out of business after John McLoughlin’s death.
With the outbreak of World War II, Milton Bradley did not stop creating board games such as the patriotic Game of the States, Chutes & Ladders and Candyland.
In 1959, Milton Bradley released Concentration, a successful memory game based on an NBC television show of the same name.
Milton Bradley celebrated their centennial in 1960 with the re-release of The Checkered Game of Life, which was modernized. Twister made its debut as well.
Milton Bradley developed the first hand-held cartridge-based console, the Microvision.
We provide opportunities to families and communities to energize creativity, cultivate learning, and improve communication.
Milton Bradley will continue to keep values of empowerment, self-acceptance, and creative self-expression, make board games for children, teenagers, young people, and adults. In line with the development of technology, they will transform their concepts to make a virtual version by technology, to evolve their line to games in mobile and virtual reality devices. Also, Bradley go back to old business—print, models, toys, and even souvenirs for collection. These by-products sell the sentiment to the original grown-up audiences, and also through the distinctive appearance of the products attract young audiences.
Not only to train and improve creativity, but also can be ready to capitalize on current fads.
To accompany people all their lives, whatever their ages.
To interact people and improve relationships.
In this chapter, I will explore the range of my audience and create eight personas—six who identify with Milton Bradley and two who do not. Name, age, and income (demographic traits) will be far less important than defining “life stages” and personified traits (ethnographic traits).
A. Learning from games.
B. Improving relationship.
C. Training thinking skills.
Age: 21
Occupation: Student
Location: Atlanta, GE
Live with children: No
A. He enjoy to learn in life since there are many interesting concepts that will not learn in books.
A. He likes to learn culture out of textbook because it will be fun to understand.
B. He is active and likes to interact with others so he never minds teaching new players.
B. He wants to play with his family because they always play together at weekends before he goes to the university.
B. He likes the feeling that know other people naturally.
C. He can practice all his creative thoughts and never be worried about failure.
C. He feels a sense of accomplishment and more confidence because of his creative ideas that are praised by his friends.
Age: 40
Occupation: Worker
Location: Shanghai, China
Live with children: Yes
A. He finds some kids’ rules are also clever in his office life though he has grown up .
A. He focuses on children’s growth because his daughter doesn’t have love from her mother.
A. He doesn’t want his daughter use digital device often because it is easy to learn bad habits or make bad friends.
B. He enjoys the time playing with his daughter because he needs to maintain good communication with his daughter.
B. He wants to know more about his colleagues because he is the leader in his project team.
C. He thinks creativity is also significant for adults.
C. He doesn’t want to live a boring and monotonous life like many of his peers, so he wants to find surprising for his life.
Age: 34 Occupation: Investor Location: Nigeria Live
A. Because he likes to learn in a relaxing atmosphere, he wants others can learn as well as he did.
A. He believes learning is a pleasant activity so he wants more people to experience learn from happiness.
B. Culture is a bridge and a barrier to communication at the same time, so he wants to promote new culture to more Nigerians.
B. He loves living in a world filled with all kinds of friends therefore he is glad to see people have fun in his Cafe.
B. He easily relates to others’ emotions helping them to establish harmony and good will so he believe his Cafe will be a possible way to improve relationship.
C. The social environment is becoming better thence he hopes people can have more opportunities to improve themselves.
C. He wants to open the eyes of Nigerians as well as enhancing creative thinking.
Age: 32
Occupation: Teacher
Location: Sydney, Australia
Live with children: Yes
A. She likes to see her students grow up out of classes because it makes her feel accomplished.
A. She thinks activities are more effective for children to understand some perception.
B. She likes to play with student because she thinks children will present the real character when they are relaxed.
B. She would like to organize students in an activity because it can improve collaboration capability.
B. She can get along well with her students because of her girl’s heart.
C. Real experience in life is more up-to-date and more likely to stimulate creativity than the knowledge in books.
C. She finds children always have creative thoughts when they do the things they like.
Age: 28
Occupation: Bank clerk
Location: Chicago, II Live with children: Yes
A. She is not good at looking after a child but she can learn how to become a good mother from now.
A. She finds her child might not have enough patience so she wanted to train him early.
B. She wants to get along well with her child because she wants to focus on the changing of her child.
B. She thinks communication and interaction are good methods to enhance the parent-child relationship.
B. She realizes one of the topics to talk with other parents is children’s growth.
C. She encourages her child to explore the world and keep curious because she focus on improving children’s creativity.
C. She likes to go a trip with family because improve their ability to get along with others and adapt to their environment.
A. He likes to play with young people because he can learn new knowledge of the modern society from them.
A. He prefer to learn to use digital devices because the text size will be friendly.
B. He is bored at home because he is retired and live with his wife and a dog.
B. He wants to experience memory in childhood by modern playing methods.
B. He is old that it is not convenient enough to go outside so staying at home will be a good choice.
C. He always buys some models for collection at home because of his hobby.
C. He thinks old people also need to keep their creativity and thinking skill so he always exercise himself at home.
Age: 30
A. She works indoor all day so she prefers to do outdoor activities which are better to her health.
A. She doesn’t like to be taught to do something because of her self-esteem.
B. She thinks life in Tokyo is fast-paced so has fewer interests to improve relationship out of her company.
B. She finds people around her have less time to relax because they have much work pressure.
B. Japan’s arcade game development is also very good, so she thinks other methods games are not necessary.
C. She has other ways to improve her creativity thus she doesn’t have to play games.
C. She thinks she doesn’t need to do thinking exercise because she is young.
Occupation: Doctor
Location: Paulo, Brazil Live with children: Yes
A. Football is a kind of culture in Brazil so he believe he can learn a lot in football.
A. He plays football very well so he would like to play football in his free time.
B. All of his friends are football fan so he don’t need to take part in other activities to improve relationship.
B. It is not convenient for doctors to play a long time game with unstable rest time.
B. He is always busy so he have less time to communicate with family.
C. He thinks he doesn’t need to inspire his creativity because doctor need calmness rather than creativity.
C. He believes football can teach anything, so he thinks it’s enough for his children to play football.
Like people, brands have personalities. Each brand can be described in a very distinct way.
Including current competitors, the companies competing in the same space with Milton Bradley; adjacent competitors, the companies that audiences will spend more money rather than Milton Bradley; future competitors, Milton Bradley would like to be seen in competition with after a successful rebranding initiative.
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A British manufacturer of miniature wargames, expanding from a bedroom mail-order company in the process.
A toy manufacturer based in Texas, focuses on family games and licensed products.
An British manufacturer of card and board games that due to a boom in demand for playing cards around World War I.
A 19th and 20th century game manufacturer which is best known for the games Parcheesi and Scrabble.
An American producer of toys, games, and other leisure products, which managed a transition from playsets to games.
Today Cadoco is a vibrant, innovative leader in the toy and game industry specializing in learning games, family games, and magic sets.
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An American operator of for-profit child care and early childhood education facilities founded in 1969.
A charter school operator in New York City. It has 47 schools in the New York area and 17,000 students.
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An American company that produces educational toys for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, headquartered.
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The largest Board Game Convention in Utah held annually in Layton at the Davis Conference Center with the “aim of bringing people together with games.”
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Identify some words as brand attributes that are common among the current and adjacent competitors.
Words hopes to “own”
Growth Realistic Profound Classic Fascinating
Relevant/good/positive words
Fun Competitive Attractive Historical Imaginative
Bankrupt/stale/negative words
Complex Lengthy Incomplete Disappointing Identical
Neutral words
Strategic Visual Amazing Random Optional
