“…As such, extant work has variously focused on corporate heritage brands (for example, Urde et al, 2007;Balmer, 2009aBalmer, , 2011aHudson, 2011;Hudson and Balmer, 2013;Schroeder et al, 2015) and more recently discussed the notion of corporate heritage identity management (Balmer, 2011b;Balmer, 2014a, 2015;Balmer and Chen, 2015) and corporate heritage communication per se (for example, Balmer, 2013a;Blombäck and Brunninge, 2013;Blombäck and Scandelius, 2013).…”