Notice of RetractionThe impact of country-of-origin effect on transnational co-branding effect

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As a strategic marketing tool, co-branding strategy has been widely used in today´s enterprises all over the world, and in international market, transnational co-branding is becoming more and more popular to multinational companies. In transnational co-branding, the country-of-origin effect of cooperation brand bring great effect to consumers´ attitude and purchasing behavior towards co-branding, it plays an important role in the success of co-branding strategy. The country-of-origin effect is mainly produced by cooperative brand´s country-of-origin image, and its impact on transnational co-branding effect is also interfered by cooperation brand´s equity, information, category, consumers´ knowledge, experience, nationality and culture, etc. According to the analysis of interaction to transnational co-branding effect between these factors and country-of-origin image, proper countermeasures are put forward, for the purpose of making full use of positive effect and avoiding negative effect.