Brand vs. Commodity — What's the Difference?

A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create and store value as brand equity for the object identified, to the benefit of the brand's customers, its owners and shareholders.

In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.The price of a commodity good is typically determined as a function of its market as a whole: well-established physical commodities have actively traded spot and derivative markets. The wide availability of commodities typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (such as brand name) other than price.

A type of product manufactured by a particular company under a particular name

Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage

An identifying mark burned on livestock or (especially in former times) criminals or slaves with a branding iron

A product or service that is indistinguishable from ones manufactured or provided by competing companies and that therefore sells primarily on the basis of price rather than quality or style.

A piece of burning or smouldering wood

(Archaic) Advantage; benefit.

A sword.

Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.

Mark with a branding iron

Something useful or valuable.

Assign a brand name to.

(economics) Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.

A trademark or distinctive name identifying a product, service, or organization.

(marketing) Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.

A product or service so identified

(Marxism) Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.

An association of positive qualities with a widely recognized name, as of a product line or celebrity

(obsolete) Convenience; usefulness, suitability.

A distinctive category; a particular kind

(obsolete) Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.

A mark indicating identity or ownership, burned on the hide of an animal with a hot iron.

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.

A mark burned into a person's flesh, as to identify a convicted criminal or a slave.

That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), - goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

A mark burned into a person's flesh for ornamental or aesthetic purposes.

A parcel or quantity of goods.

An association of disgrace or notoriety with something; a stigma.

Articles of commerce

A branding iron.

A piece of burning or charred wood.

(Archaic) A sword

To mark with a hot iron, as to show ownership

To provide with or publicize using a brand name or other readily recognized identifier

To consider or label as disgraceful or infamous; stigmatize

To impress firmly; fix ineradicably

A conflagration; a flame.

A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder.

A torch used for signaling.

(archaic) A sword.

A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.

A branding iron.

The symbolic identity, represented by a name and/or a logo, which indicates a certain product or service to the public.

A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.

(by extension) Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style or manner.

The public image or reputation and recognized, typical style of an individual or group.

A mark of infamy; stigma.

Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.

(transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.

(transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.

(transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.

(transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone).

To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.

A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; - also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.

An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.

Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniæi.

To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).

To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.

Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.

To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.

A name given to a product or service

A recognizable kind;

Identification mark on skin, made by burning

A piece of wood that has been burned or is burning

A symbol of disgrace or infamy;

A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

Burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals

To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;

Mark or expose as infamous;