...Consumers’ Attitude towards Online Shopping Factors influencing Gotland consumers to shop online Online Shopping Högskolan på Gotland VT2011 Master Thesis in Business Administration Authors: Muhammad Umar Sultan and MD Nasir Uddin Department of Business Administration Supervisors: Per Lind and Mr. Sjostrand Fredrik Abstract In the era of globalization electronic marketing is a great revolution. Over the last decade maximum business organizations are running with technological change. Online shopping or marketing is the use of technology (i.e., computer) for better marketing performance. And retailers are devising strategies to meet the demand of online shoppers; they are busy in studying consumer behavior in the field of online shopping, to see the consumer attitudes towards online shopping. Therefore we have also decided to study consumer’s attitudes towards online shopping and specifically studying the factors influencing consumers to shop online. The population selected for the research is Gotland, and narrowed down to Gotland University students, University cafeteria and Gotland Public library, the sample size selected for this research is 100 and we have used convenience sampling technique. Our findings indicated that among the four factors selected for this research the most attractive and influencing factor for online shoppers in Gotland is Website Design/Features, following convenience the second most influencing and thirdly time saving. Results have also showed...
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...Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Seminar Paper at the Chair of Marketing Summer Semester 2012 Market Entry Strategies in Retailing Cultural Goods. International Best Practise. Submitted by Written at Lea Valentine Frieda Steinlein Prof. Dr. D. Möhlenbruch *20.12.1989, Bayreuth Martin-Luther-Universität Matr. Nr. 210219076 Juristische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät th Date of Submission: July 27 2012 Lehrstuhl Marketing und Handel 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION – THE DEFINITION OF “CULTURAL GOODS” 3 2 STATE OF THE MARKETS OF CULTURAL GOODS IN GERMANY 4 2.1 GENERAL SITUATION IN GERMANY 4 2.2 ANALYSIS OF THE RETAIL SECTOR OF CULTURAL GOODS 5 2.2.1 INDEPENDENT BOOK SHOPS 6 2.2.2 INDEPENDENT MUSIC SHOPS 6 2.2.3 ART AND CRAFTS GALLERIES 7 3 STEPS TO ENTER THE RETAIL MARKET OF CULTURAL GOODS 7 4 INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTISE FOR START-UPS 8 4.1 8 4.2 CREATING AN EXPERIENCE 9 4.3 5 “GLOCALISATION” OF CULTURAL RETAIL GOODS USING THE “WEB 2.0” 10 CONCLUSION AND CONSEQUENCES FOR START-UPS 11 LIST OF LITERATURE 12 LIST OF INTERNET WEBSITES 13 LIST OF DIAGRAMS 14 3 1 INTRODUCTION – THE DEFINITION OF “CULTURAL GOODS” Every day of our life we are encountering cultural goods and behaviour. Starting with the food we eat, the ways we communicate and the advertisement we are influenced by – all these are...
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...Greggs Case Study – Business Report of Greggs “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” By Thomas Watson, Sr. Subject : Business Report of Greggs 1. Executive Summary - Greggs is the top bakers’ chain in UK. - Greggs owned 1400 shops and employ 19,000 workers. - Ken McMeikan – Chief Executive leads Greggs to success. - Greggs has a good performance in the economic downturn. - Changes and strategies help Greggs to defy economic downturn. - Greggs is planning for an international expansion. - Greggs is a company responsible to its stakeholders – customers, employees and shareholders. - Part of the ideas are generating from analysis of Greggs’ reports and PESTEL analysis. 2. Introduction Greggs is a national company which has recently owned more than 1400 shops in UK. After the closure of its Belgium operation, Greggs changed from a decentralized to a centrally run business. This successful bakery chain is led by Mr. McMeikan who served under some of the most-respected retail sectors’ leaders before. In the near future they are planning to open a further 600 shops to create 6000 new jobs and will carry out an international expansion in the next few years. In the report, we can see the latest performance of Greggs, how its chief executive manages the changes and the considerations of the business development and how it treats its stakeholders. 3. Environment that Greggs works in Greggs...
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...Business Project – HMV Chan Ho Yeung 13431908 Context 1. Introduction 2 2. Comparative Analysis of the company’s competitive position in its various markets 3 2.1 PEST 4 2.2 Porter 5 forces 5 2.3 Value Chain 7 3. Considerations for the company’s position in relation to cross-cultural issues 10 3.1 Hofstede Cultural dimensions 10 3.2 Iceberg model of culture 14 4. The company’s position in relation to corporate social responsibility 16 4.1 Carroll’s CSR Pyramid 16 5. Conclusion 21 6. References 24 1. Introduction People who were born in 1990s or before, they should have gone to CD shops to buy CDs and supported their favourite singers. So that, you must know HMV. HMV, everyone knows that it is a CDs retailer basically. HMV opened in Oxford Street London on 20th July 1921. HMV’s full name is “His Master’s Voice”. At that time, HMV was a part of EMI - Electric and Musical Industries. In 1998, HMV was divested from EMI. It needs to especially mention the logo of HMV. HMV’s logo is based on a dog that called Nipper, is listening to a gramophone. In 1921, when HMV had started, they were a company which sold gramophone and also used HMV’s name to produce TVs and radios. After that, HMV did not sell gramophone, they was transiting gradually to sell CDs. Until now, HMV has changed a lot. They are not only selling CDs, they also sell the other products including film, games and headphones. In 1988, HMV has opened their first overseas store in Canada...
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...description of why I selected and considered the ratings for each category to be of importance. Next, I will explain the results of the comparative review I performed on the three similar sites, and provide an appendix of the completed evaluation. A detailed analysis of the assigned virtual organization website will also be explored inside this paper along with a description of the changes I made in my prototype/mockup accompanied by a screenshot image. Lastly, an explanation of how I would use metadata or other promotional tools to promote the redesigned website, followed by a closing explanation of how the website changes will help the virtual organization to become more successful in the future. In today’s society an online presence is the most effective way to reach the masses. Therefore, the way a website is designed is crucial to the success of the company. Websites want to provide a great first impression when prospects want to get to know more about the business, its mission, or the company’s vision. A website must capture ones attention, and be visually appealing. Furthermore, over the last five week’s learning team A collaboratively analyzed, evaluated, and redesigned our selected virtual organization website Kudler’s Fine Foods, and applied the effective design concepts that we learned throughout this course. Kudler’s Fine Foods is a gourmet food shop. Owner Kathy Kudler opened this business because she wanted to provide her customers with a wide...
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...Report Paper Pengembangan UKM ANALYSIS AND COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THREE MICRO SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (MSME) IN BOGOR Anaiza Azlia | Ariansyah | Aditya P. Nugraha Business Profile Business Profiles : Cotton Candy Industry. This cotton candy sweets business, based on the information during the interview, was established in 1998. Monetery crisis that hit Indonesia had caused previous business collapsed and went bankrupt, causing the business owner started to sell cotton candies on the street… Cont’d to Page 4 Business Profile Busines Profile : Bening Jati Anugrah Food; A Frozen Food Manufacturing Company Bening Jati Anugrah Food is a small medium enterprise manufacturing frozen food from ocean fish as raw materials. Using Bening Food as its brand, this business is located in… Cont to Page 4 Business Profile Business profile : Hot Crispy Hot Crispy is a food processing business that was established in 2005, or roughly about 10 years ago. Products offered are …Cont’d to Page 5 December 15, 2015 http://metrovaartha.com Background M i c r o , S m a l l a n d Me d i u m E n te r p r i s e s (MSMEs) in Bogor are one among various economic sectors that have contributed in regional revenue and also in employment sectors. Approximately 11.297 MSMEs in Bogor City (kotabogor.co.id, 2015) that employ 19.035 workers, and around 15.000 people involved in MSMEs in Bogor regency (business.com, 2015). As a follow up on this significant development...
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...International Institute of Professional Studies Management Research Project Project Proposal Proposed Project (Synopsis) A comparative study of Push & Pull Promotional Strategy with special reference to selling practices among various cosmetics brands in Indore market. Submitted To: Dr. Yamini Karmarkar Reader IIPS-DAVV Indore. Submitted By: Bhumika Singh MBA (APR) 4th Sem IIPS-DAVV Indore INDEX 1. Introduction 2. Project proposed 3. Objective Of The Project 4. Conceptual Framework 5. Literature Review 6. Proposed Methodology 7. Limitations of study 8. References Introduction Nearly everyone in the modern world is influenced to some degree by advertising and other forms of promotion. Organizations in both the private and public sectors have learned that the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with their target audience is critical to their success. Advertising and other types of promotional messages are used to sell products and services as well as to promote causes, market political candidates, and deal with societal problems such as alcohol a drug abuse. Consumers are finding it increasingly difficult to avoid the efforts of marketers, who are constantly searching for new ways to communicate with them. Cosmetics industry is one of the largest industry in the world. Cosmetics includes a wide range of products ranging from skin-care creams, lotions, perfumes, facial makeup to coloured contact lensed and...
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...Sample Persuasive Message University of Phoenix COMM470 Persuasive Message The product I selected to illustrate regarding persuasive messages and e-commerce is a well known cleaning product named the “Swivel Sweeper”. The Swivel Sweeper is mostly sold through the internet and television infomercials that state facts and claims about the sweeper product. I have focused on the internet form of infomercial rather than the televised commercial. I have modeled the sample persuasive message from the website to express the primary attributes of this form of ecommerce (Swivel Sweeper, 2010). The following is the message: “Filthy floors getting you down? Are you slaving and washing away only to find that the floor still look dirty? Are you still using heavy equipment that is difficult to maneuver? Well there is a solution to all these floor cleaning troubles! Swivel Sweeper is guaranteed to be the last floor product you need to buy! The Swivel Sweeper can be used on tile, wood, carpet, ceramic and linoleum. The simple swivel head allows one to reach under tables and around chairs. You don’t believe? Try it for free. If you order your swivel sweeper during the hour you will receive another Swivel Sweeper completely free! But the deals don’t stop here! We also have enclosed a gift for you, a pair of two mini-sweepers! Give on to your friend store in your car. There yours just for being a great customer. To order your Swivel Sweeper and receive your two Swivel Sweepers...
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...IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS—PART A: SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, VOL. 30, NO. 4, JULY 2000 421 What Makes Consumers Buy from Internet? A Longitudinal Study of Online Shopping Moez Limayem, Mohamed Khalifa, and Anissa Frini Abstract—The objective of this study is to investigate the factors affecting online shopping. A model explaining the impact of different factors on online shopping intentions and behavior is developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. The model is then tested empirically in a longitudinal study with two surveys. Data collected from 705 consumers indicate that subjective norms, attitude, and beliefs concerning the consequences of online shopping have significant effects on consumers’ intentions to buy online. Behavioral control and intentions significantly influenced online shopping behavior. The results also provide strong support for the positive effects of personal innovativeness on attitude and intentions to shop online. The implications of the findings for theory and practice are discussed. Index Terms—e-commerce, online shopping, TPB. I. INTRODUCTION HE use of the Internet as a shopping and purchasing medium has seen unprecedented growth. Most experts expect the global electronic market to dramatically impact commerce in the twenty first century. Jaffray [1] estimates the total volume of cybersales to reach $201 billion in 2001 and Forrester Research [2] predicts electronic commerce activities to reach $327 billion in 2002...
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...Cases 1) Amazon.com Incorporated v/s Canada, Commissioner of Patents: Amazon.com Incorporated v/s Canada is a ruling of the Federal Court of Appeal concerning the patentability of business methods under the purview of the Patent Act. At issue was the patentability of a method that allowed customers to shop online to make purchases with single-click buying. In 1998, Amazon filed a patent application for a “Method and System for Placing a Purchase Order Via A Communication Network”. This invention allowed customers shopping online to place orders with single-click buying, which encircles the process of feeding address and billing information in the traditional shopping cart mode of online shopping. The patent application was denied by the...
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...(1980) ‘Strategy is the pattern or plan that integrates an organization’s major goals, policies and action (s)...into a cohesive whole’ The business model used to assess the marketing strategies and …is Tesco, Which is one of the largest `retailers in the world. Strategic evaluation tools such as PESTEL, Porter’s Five Forces, and SWOT and value chain analysis have been used by researchers to achieve this aim. Company overview Tesco is among the largest food retailers in the world with revenue in excess of £54 billion in 2009 and employing over 530,000 people. They operate approximately 6,784 stores in 12 countries around the world. The company operates primarily in the USA, Europe and Asia and their Head Office is based in Hertfordshire, UK. According to Data monitor (2012), the commercial network portfolio of Tesco comprises: over 1,547 Express stores which sell approximately 7,000 products including fresh foods at suitable localities; 192 Metro stores which sell a variety of food products in town and city centres; and 481 superstores which sell both food and non-food items including DVDs and books. It also provides online retailing services through the website tesco.com and Tesco Direct . In addition, they provide broadband Internet connections and financial...
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...Advertising Strategy of Adidas: A comparative Study ADVERTISING STRATEGY OF ADIDAS A COMPARATIVE STUDY Prepared As a course Requirement of (Advertising and Public Relation-mkt 424) M. Atiqur Rahman Patuakhali science and Technology University Bangladesh atik.bdpalo@yahoo.com www.pstu.ac.bd Copyright : group-1©bba®pstu Term Paper (8th Semester) Page-1 Advertising Strategy of Adidas: A comparative Study EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Adidas Inc. is a marketer of sports apparel and athletic shoes. The German manufacturer, through its marketing strategy which rests on a favorable brand image, has evolved into a large multinational enterprise. In keeping with the brand image is its association with the distinctive logo and its advertising slogan, "Impossible is Nothing." In order to maintain and sustain this image, the company makes huge investments in advertising and brand promotion. At the critical time of global economic crisis, Adidas will react to the consumers’ pessimistic attitude and stressful emotion during this period. It may become a good chance for Adidas because it can take advantage of its previous advertising way of “Impossible is Nothing” campaign by sponsoring sports stars to express the corporate philosophy of grit, determination, passion and humor, giving people more courage and psychological comfort in face of economic crisis. But besides that, we also focus more about family function especially in Asian countries which emphasize a lot on family, which can provide...
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...Advertising Strategy of Adidas: A comparative Study ADVERTISING STRATEGY OF ADIDAS A COMPARATIVE STUDY Prepared As a course Requirement of (Advertising and Public Relation-mkt 424) M. Atiqur Rahman Patuakhali science and Technology University Bangladesh atik.bdpalo@yahoo.com www.pstu.ac.bd Copyright : group-1©bba®pstu Term Paper (8th Semester) Page-1 Advertising Strategy of Adidas: A comparative Study EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Adidas Inc. is a marketer of sports apparel and athletic shoes. The German manufacturer, through its marketing strategy which rests on a favorable brand image, has evolved into a large multinational enterprise. In keeping with the brand image is its association with the distinctive logo and its advertising slogan, "Impossible is Nothing." In order to maintain and sustain this image, the company makes huge investments in advertising and brand promotion. At the critical time of global economic crisis, Adidas will react to the consumers’ pessimistic attitude and stressful emotion during this period. It may become a good chance for Adidas because it can take advantage of its previous advertising way of “Impossible is Nothing” campaign by sponsoring sports stars to express the corporate philosophy of grit, determination, passion and humor, giving people more courage and psychological comfort in face of economic crisis. But besides that, we also focus more about family function especially in Asian countries which emphasize a lot on family, which can provide...
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...needed, however no requirement on the number of reference.) Activity 1 A small stationery shop recorded its diary sales for the years 2007 to 2011 in two tables provided Dairy Sales Year | Units sold | Sales value | Average unit Value | Average unit profit | 2007 | 135 | $1,300.75 | $9.64 | $5.78 | 2008 | 98 | $988.82 | $10.09 | $5.05 | 2009 | 80 | $897.58 | $11.22 | $4.82 | 2010 | 48 | $803.3 | $16.74 | $7.03 | 2011 | 37 | $421.8 | $11.4 | $4.21 | Percentage diary Sales by customer age group Age group | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | <30 | 32% | 29% | 16% | 11% | 6% | 31-50 | 40% | 40% | 51% | 52% | 61% | >51 | 28% | 31% | 33% | 37% | 33% | 1. What further information would you need to analyse information on market and business needs to identify marketing opportunities? Good information is the foundation for good marketing, in order to identify marketing opportunities three main sources of information will be needed. Firstly, an organisation’s own record of their performance, in this case is the daily sales report. Secondly, specially commissioned market research conducted by the organisation itself, in this case is the percentage diary sales by customer age group. In additional, information from research organisations will be needed to identify marketing opportunities. Further information can be get from research organisations including comparative market information, competitor performance, customer requirements, legal requirements, ethical...
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...Marketing Activation Plan. The scope of the document is the entire Flat TV portfolio. Particular attention will be paid to the MCI Ambilight and its role in the total plan. The overriding Business Objective of the Business Unit is to turn this business into a profitable activity for Philips. This plan is designed to deliver a positive EBIT in 2010 on the road to sustainable profitability in 2012. We will do this by focusing in 2010 on driving leading market positions (top 2) in DACH, Benelux, France, Nordic and Italy as well as driving profitable growth in Brazil, Russia and China. A big effort will be made to provide better marketing deliverables for all other markets to help improve core profitability and market position. After careful analysis of our Purchase Funnel, an honest assessment of an updated SWOT and a reasonable expectation that external economic situation will...
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