Market cap

* For banks, enterprise value is substituted with market cap. Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P.

Performance of the brand

ICBC suffered a relatively small decline in brand value in 2011 largely as a result of global factors which had an adverse affect on the bank as well as the wider banking industry.

Whilst the result in the BrandFinance® Banking 500 may seem to fly in the face of yet another bumper year for ICBC, there are a large number of concerns facing the company and indeed the Chinese banking sector as a whole.

Given its relative inexperience in global banking markets, when competing with such storied brands as JPMorgan and HSBC, it is unsurprising that ICBC’s brand has yet to gain the same traction internationally that it enjoys within China. Furthermore the question marks that have begun to appear over the seemingly inexorable growth of the Chinese economy and Chinese banks’ significant exposure to dangerous Chinese local government debt have also contributed negatively to ICBC’s brand value.

League tables

ICBC appears in the following brand league tables:

Rank 11 in the Banking 500 2012.
Rank 35 in the Global 500 2011.
Rank 8 in the Banking 500 2011.
Rank 12 in the Banking 500 2010.
Rank 55 in the Global 500 2010.
Rank 2 in the China 100 2010.
Rank 5 in the Banking 500 2009.
Rank 48 in the Global 500 2009.
Rank 16 in the Banking 500 2008.
Rank 91 in the Global 500 2008.