...of text: - A chapter in the book No Logo - Topic is branding and logos Speaking: - Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. She is best known for her book “No Logo” published in 2000. Naomi was brought up in a Jewish family with a history of peace activism. Her mother is Film maker and her father a psycian. Kleins´s husband, Avi Lewis is a Tv Journalist and film maker. Klein spent much of her teenage years in shopping malls, obsessed with designer labels. Reader: Those who are interested in branding and logos. Characteristic of the text: - Past tense, adult, technical terms - References to logos and RP, Lacoste - No questions, a informing text - The material there is used is historian facts, Naomi´s own experinces and facts. - No illustrations Language: By the mid-eighties, Lacoste and Ralph Lauren were joined by Calvin Klein, Esprit and, in Canada, Roots; gradually, the logo was transformed from an ostentatious affectation to an active fashion accessory. Tommy Hilfinger transformed a clothing style into walking, talking, life-sized Tommy-dolls, mummified in fully branded Tommy worlds. Actually said: Study Question Side 157 * How does Naomi Klein describe the “Reign of logo Terror” in Grade 4? She wanted to see the label behind the logo. It begun to be very popular going in clothes with logos. * What did Klein experience while working at an Esprit store? Branding had become far more ubiquitous and intrusive...
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...Fashioning an identity ‘In a lot of ways, branding is simply telling a story.’ Exploring the fashion world occasionally feels like gate-crashing an exclusive club. At least, that’s the sensation I experience as I climb a spiral staircase in a building near Place Vendôme – the grand Parisian square that is home to the Ritz. César Ritz opened his celebrated hotel on 1 June 1898, and its rich patrons attracted the attentions of Cartier, Boucheron, Van Cleef & Arpels, and the other jewellery and luxury goods boutiques that crowd the square. This particular building is the headquarters of a publishing firm, but its location is entirely appropriate. Over the past ten years, Assouline has published a series of glossy books, each minutely dissecting the history of a legendary designer label. With offices in Paris, London and New York, it has become a luxury brand in its own right. I reckon that here, at least, I should get my first insight into what makes a fashion icon. As so often on these occasions, the claustrophobic staircase and labyrinthine corridors of the old building lead to a large office, with a bright picture window overlooking the potted trees and shrubs in the courtyard. Martine Assouline, an elegant French woman, sits me down at a glossy slab-like table and considers her response to my question. ‘At the moment we are in a period where the brand has an exaggerated importance,’ she tells me. ‘Designers like Tom Ford, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs injected new...
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...Sunglasses After the onset of 1990s with the opening up of the Indian markets to foreign companies, one of the several products which gained prominence was sunglasses. The credit for enlivening the Indian market must go to the global player, Bausch & Lomb (B&L), the producer of the global brand, Ray Ban. There did exist an Indian market, fairly large. But this was limited basically to low-end or medium range products. Small quantities of high-end glasses were imported. In the recent years several others like Safilo of Italy, Ciba Vision, Johnson & Johnson have entered the market. The total market, estimated at around 4.0 mn pairs in 1990-91 had expanded to a little over 12 mn pairs in 2003-04. The organised segment, constituted of the branded ones, claims a 25% share. The small players are still very active in the lower end of the market. Bausch & Lomb, the Rochester-based American visioncare enterprise for contact lenses and other lens and eye-care products and eye-care solutions established a manufacturing base at Bhiwadi in Rajasthan and commenced production in 1993. This marked the foray of MNCs into the production of sunglasses, contact lenses, spectacle frames and lenscare solutions. B&L was originally formed as a joint venture company with equal equity participation from Montari Industries, an Indian group and Bausch & Lomb of the US. Montari Industries pulled out of this venture. The company landed into rough weather and within first four years it accumulated...
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...M2. Case Study Analysis - Prince Sports, Inc. Quick and fast changes in an environmental market place such as social growth (globalization and the growth of social networks), economic instability (crises), industrial progress, fast growing competitive world and firm marketing regulatory mainly have an effect on the work of most of marketing companies or marketing and brand image divisions of the companies. In order to put into practice a winning marketing plan or a boost in sales and customer awareness companies have to stay in pace with the new marketing environment and take into thought every likely detail that might help out or ruin the image of a company or product. This case study will examine the marketing principle and vision in the background of Prince Sports, Inc. The main emphasis of the case study is Prince Sports, Inc segmentation and positioning. Prince Sports is a racquet sports company, their brands includes Prince (tennis, badminton, and squash), Viking (platform/paddle tennis), and Ektelon (racquetball). Its whole line of tennis products alone is quite remarkable: more than 150 racquet models; greater than 50 tennis strings; in excess of 50 footwear models; and numerous sorts of bags, attire and additional accessories. (Marketing, Eleventh Edition, Kerin, p.239). With the rise of the interest to tennis among different demographics Prince Sports perceived a necessity to target every possible type of consumer. Being in business from 1970 Prince Sports...
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...and shoes 20 38381311 % OFF* OR with this shopping pass 15% OFF* sale purchases storewide 10% OFF home and shoes *Excludes Red Dot, Clearance, Earlybirds, Night Owls, Doorbusters, Bonus Buys, Super Buys, Everyday Values, Alegria, Alex and Ani, All Clad, Assets, Better & Designer Intimates, Birkenstock, Bonobos, Brighton, Brooks Brothers, Buffalo, Casio, Citizens of Humanity, Clarisonic, Coach, Cole Haan, Columbia, cosmetics/fragrances, Dansko, designer handbags, designer sunglasses, Diane Von Furstenberg, Dockers, Donald J Pliner, Dooney & Bourke, Eileen Fisher; Fine Jewelry watches and service plans; Free People, Furla, Gameday, Gear For Sports, Herend, Hugo Boss, Jack Rogers, Kate Spade, Keen, Kensie Girl, kitchen/novelty electrics, Lacoste, ladies better swim, ladies designer & contemporary sportswear & dresses; ladies, kids & men’s designer shoes; ladies designer accessories, Le Creuset, Levi’s, Lilly Pulitzer, Lucky, Mattel, Melissa & Doug ONLINE, Merrell, Michael Kors shoes & handbags, Minnetonka Moccasin, Miss Me, Munro, My Flat in London, Nanette Lepore, Nautica, Nike, Orthaheel/Vionic, Rachel Roy, Ralph Lauren/Polo, Roberto Coin, Seven for All Mankind, Southern Proper, Spanx, Stuart Weitzman, Swarovski, 3rd & Army, Thomas Dean, Tommy Bahama, Tommy Hilfiger apparel, Trina Turk apparel, Tumi, Ugg, Under Armour, Vietri, Vineyard Vines, Vitamix, Wusthof; non-merchandise depts., lease depts. and Belk gift cards. Not valid on prior purchases, special orders or Trunk Shows...
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...Overtaken by Age?-Ageing Nations When nations are changing because its population grows old... By Stephanie Scherzer M2Di interational Fashion and Management Semester 4 Overtaken by Age?Ageing Nations AGE OvERTAKES uS ALL; OuR TEMPLES FIRST; THEN ON O’ER CHEEK AND CHIN, SLOWLy AND SuRELy, CREEP THE FROSTS OF TIME. uP AND DO SOMEWHAT, ERE THy LIMBS ARE SERE. THEOCRITuS, “THE LOvE OF THyONICHuS” When nations are changing because its population grows old... The world’s fertility rate declines. Less people have children and if they have, then just in very low numbers. The fertility rate is the number of children a woman can expect to have. Half as many children as in 1955 are being born today (The Economist Oct 2011). After WW II there has been a steep surge in birth rates. These so called Baby Boomers, children born after 1946, are retired by now. Altogether they form a big group of not-working people against a becomingsmaller working group. Another reason why the working force is getting smaller is that the age for young people of entering the labour market is getting higher because of increasing education length. The chart shows that the following nations have more than 10% decline in workforce population; Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Poland, South Korea, Russia, Japan and Germany. Furthermore the growing life expectancy and the falling birth rates since 1970 contribute to the ageing of our today’s society. This downturn will not...
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...families, mainly those headed by women face numerous short and long term disturbances, varied research shows that these children are affected in numerous dimensions of their well-being and outcomes in life (Fomby & Cherlin, 2007). According to the National Center for Fathering (2015), the United States Department of Health and Human Services indicates that of these fatherless homes, children are more likely to be raise in poverty. Children living in single-mother households have a poverty rate of 47.6 % compared to 10.9 percent in households with both parents and are also at great risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor academic performance, teen pregnancy, and more likely to engage in crime (NCF, 2015). Bambico, Lacoste, Hattan, & Gobbi (2013) conducted a study using mice as subjects to compare social behavior and brain anatomy of young mice growing up with two parents to those growing up with mothers alone. The study was conducted to emphasize the importance of the father during critical neurodevelopmental periods that could be related to the...
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...Sattor Mehrubonsho Subject: ESL500 FR Instructor: Vidhisha Mannah-Singh Student # 058-206-145 Complications related to teenagers Today in the modern society, there are lots of problems, specially related to teenagers. For example, lack of education because of poverty, problems related to drugs, alcohols, teen pregnancy, overuse of modern technology for instance cell phone, computer, internet and social media, and overspending money by taking personal loans, overuse of credit card and overdraft in bank account. Major issue facing adolescence is related to overspending and iGeneration. iGeneration refer to anyone born after 1990s. `ì` represent technology used by children and adolescents like iPhone, iPad, iTunes and iPod. Technology is very important for iGeneration. Young people in the 1960s had fewer option regarding education, career opportunities and entertainment compare to young people today. There are so many negative impact of technology and government overspending of money on children. First of all, Technology cause many health related problems in teenagers such as weak eyesight, obesity due to less physical activity, decreased memory power by using digital technology and back pain(. Technological device influence social relationship because children addicted to gadgets and social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. They don’t have time to sit with their parents and relatives....
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...JOB DESCRIPTION Brand Director Reporting to: BOD Level: 05 Roles: Be responsible for the overall business and brand management, including overall operation management, strategic planning and development of the brand. Act as the business owner of the brand and be able to provide long-term sustainable solutions. Accountabilities: 1. Business Operation Management • Manage business system and operation: retail excellent execution, targets and sales, process… • Achieve P&L of business and deliver annual top line business (sales). • Resolve daily cross functional problems. • Adapt and ensure the understanding of brand guidelines, strategies and concepts in all daily execution. • Build & lead the implementation of brand agenda (both planning and execution). • Ensure all legal compliance for the brand operations. • Supplier reporting and coordination. • Meetings with suppliers according to the meeting objectives. • Control internal communication/reporting. • Manage external communication/public affairs, crisis and competition. 2. Strategic planning and brand development • Strategic alignment with BOD on brand strategy (3-year plan). • Annual marketing plan/ media plan/ promotion plan. • Engage and implement brand investment plan. • Identify opportunity for business development. • Lead all channel development and negotiation with channel partners. • Improve process, system, business...
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...stores Thesis: There are several types of stores . I can divide stores into three kinds: Designer stores , Sport stores , electronic stores . Outline: 1- Designer stores: * Small stores . * Good quality . * Lacoste . 2- Sport stores: * Big stores . * Equipment or Tools . * Nike . 3- Electronic stores: * Entertainment ,TVs , phones , DVD player. * Installation . * Best buy. Conclusion: The people who like shopping they can go and see these stores , and every one can go shopping in one of these stores and buy everything they want . Stores Many of people like to go shaping in a different kind of stores . There are several types of stores . I can divide stores into three kinds: designer stores , sport stores ,electronic stores . The people who have many like to go shopping in Designer stores because these stores have fans clothes. These Designer stores are small stores because when you go there you have more attention from the seller because in these stores they have four or five seller , an example for one of these stores is locoest . On the other side there are people like sport if they want to go shopping they go to the sport stores , when you go to these stores you will see a lot of people shopping there because these sport stores are big stores, the people...
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...Amazon. At the beginning it would open its website in 18 countries (Margolis, 1999). They also had a name which was easy to remember, really short and easy to spell around the world. Furthermore, Boo.com described its vision as "bringing beautiful clothes to the world"(Goldstein, 1999, p.27). Young people between 18 and 30 were chosen as a target group due to the fact that they were trendsetters and interested in sports activities. Furthermore, they are fashion conscious and they have knowledge of how using the internet (Okonkwo, 2007). The company is a fashion retailer, selling quality products of branded and niche suppliers, with a promise of a free delivery within five days. They listed brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Fila, Lacoste and Adidas (Malmsten, Portanger and Drazin, 2001). But obviously something went wrong, because nowadays Boo.com is well-known as the largest European dot.com failure. Hence, this assignment will analyze the rise and fall of boo.com in detail, with regard to stakeholder identification and an environmental scanning (internal and external) as well as a recommendation or strategic implementation how their strategy would have been...
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...The upper class will choose some luxury clothing that can represent their status, but they will not choose some clothing that have words on it and stated which brand it is. Also, for the majority luxury brands clothing, there are no trademarks stated outside of a clothing. Usually, each luxury brands have their own style of clothing. Even there are no trademarks for a coat, people can still tell which brand it belongs to. As Paul Fussell stated, “As move up the classes and the understatement principle begins to operate, the words gradually disappear, to be replaced, in the middle and upper middle classes, by mere emblems, like the Lacoste alligator. Once, ascending further, you’ve left all such trademarks behind, you may correctly infer that you are entering the purlieus of the upper class itself’(Paul Fussell, p56). Consequently, for the upper class, people will use a product without trademark to show off their status...
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...Fin 400 M001 News report#1 Amazon is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States. For the past few years, it has tried to gain a foothole in the luxury fashion retailor market. Recently it has changed its stand about focusing on courting luxury brand according to the Jennie Perry, chief marketing officer of Amazon fashion division. The strategy was disclosed on an online newsroom on businessinsider.com. The chief marketing officer of Amazon fashion division disclouse the current strategy Amazon is taking to secure a foothole in the fashion retailer market. Amazon is a retail industry which focuses primary on e-commerce according to Bloomberg. Its competitors are vast, where Walmart and Target stands out as its brick and motor rivals in the general merchandise and electronics segment. In addition, amazon try to gain a foothole in every market it can possibly enter which is also why the strategy above stated was by the chief marketing officer of Amazon fashion division rather than the CMO of Amazon. In the recent year, Amazon tried to breach the fashion industry by setting large warehouse for photography at trendy neighborhood Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Hoping to lure fashion companies to its sites but has failed. The brand continue to strives to gain a foothole with the sponsoring the first-ever New York Men’s fashion week. The strategy has proven little result as its core audience are budget consumer seeking inexpensive item. The strategy to focus on...
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...their application part. This research paper will emphasize on the optimistic marketing especially eliminating the use of word “NO” in business and its implications, with some examples from case studies in order to strengthen my argument. The research methodology adopted is observational research. Marketing is all about keeping all your senses open and then ‘sense and satisfy’ the needs of customers. So the examples explained in the research paper is based on the common observations done across some industries and finding out how ignorance has led to the use of negativity in the business and how the use of optimistic marketing can help change the situation. Some supporting examples from successful companies like Disneyland, Nordstorm and Lacoste is also discussed. These case studies and other facts presented in the paper obtained through the observational research throws light on, how creating a positive atmosphere in your business can create wonders. One of the simplest example is of any restaurant you have visited, it carries a signage saying “Outside eatables are NOT allowed” either on their wall or if it is a sophisticated one then in he menu card. Now hardly anybody would have questioned or deeply thought of this signage and it had became a practice to have it written inside your...
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...FIFA tiene más países miembros que las naciones unidas. 2. En el 2010 se llevó a cabo la primera copa mundial de fútbol en África. 3. En el 2010 se jugaron por primera vez los juegos de la mancomunidad en la India. 4. Los primeros juegos olímpicos de Sudamérica están previstos para Brazil. 5. La primera copa del mundo de fútbol en el medio oriente está confirmada para Qatar. 6. FIFA ha contribuido a la difusión deportiva a nivel global en diferentes competiciones. 7. Aficionados esperan ver a los mejores equipos y jugadores del mundo, por lo que la búsqueda de talento se ha dirigido hacia esta tendencia global; en el caso del baloncesto, los cazatalentos de Estados Unidos y Europa buscan jóvenes con alto potencial en Nigeria, y en el beisbol los agentes han abierto campos de entrenamiento en República Dominicana para reclutar jugadores profesionales. 8. La base de aficionados del mundo crece gracias al reclutamiento de jugadores extranjeros para las ligas locales como la Premier League y la NBA. 9. Los jugadores de primer nivel de casi todos los deportes están dispuestos a seguir el dinero dondequiera que los lleve, como el caso de los jugadores brasileños, los mejores emigran a las ligas europeas por los altos ingresos que ofrecen éstas. 10. En el tenis, los aficionados de todo el mundo quieren ver a los mejores jugadores compitiendo en sus torneos locales. 11. En el 2012, la ATP (Asociación de Tenistas Profesionales) aprobó 66 torneos en 30 países. 12. Los torneos...
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