Dynamics of the world's most valuable global brands in geographic context

Currently, global brands have a significant impact not only on the economy, but also on other social processes. Huge financial, production and human resources are concentrated in global brands. Academic interest in global brands has been growing rapidly since 2005. The phenomenon of global brands attracts the attention of researchers from various fields – economists, financiers, marketers and systems analysts. The purpose of this article is to identify trends for the world's most valuable global brands with geographic ties. The initial data for the study are the ratings of the most valuable and strongest global brands published annually by Brand Finance. The time period of the study was the last 10 years - from 2015 to 2024. It was found that the drastical share of the value of global brands falls on 7 countries: USA, China, Germany, Japan, France, United Kingdom, and South Korea. The first position in the ranking is occupied by the United States, and the second, with a significant gap, is China. This pair of countries has steadily increased its share from 54.2% to 68% in the TOP–500 for 7 years, and from 63.5% to 79.8% in the TOP-100. Since 2021, the situation has stabilized. The dynamics of China and USA are in an opposite phase – while one country is increasing its share, the other is decreasing. Since 2021, the USA shows a positive dynamic. Japan shows a stable negative trend in both the TOP–100 and the TOP–500. USA, China, Germany, and South Korea have stronger positions in the TOP–100 than in the TOP–500 throughout the period. These countries focus on hyper-valuable brands. France and United Kingdom are on the other side, preferring valuable rather than hyper-valuable brands. Japan occupies an intermediate position between these two clusters. Further research should be directed to the analysis of global brands as a complex system with the identification of the peculiarities of statistical laws of distribution of the value of its elements and their variability over time