decisions for marketing managers; 2 to consider what is a ‘price’; 3 to identify the factors internal to the firm that influence price decisions; 4 to identify the factors external to the firm that influence price decisions; 5 to discuss pricing strategies and tactics. C onsider a Belgian couple contemplating a shopping trip to London during the Christmas period. The cheapest way to cross the Channel would be to take a ticket on the ferry from Oostende to Ramsgate, which would amount to about Bfr. 1,500
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UNIFORM CODE OF PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING PRACTICES The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is one of the most rapidly growing science based industries in terms of remarkable capabilities in both the manufacture and technology. India being among one of the five pharmaceutical emerging markets has an average annual growth of 8-9 percent with an approximate worth of $ 4.5 billion. With more new drug launches, new drug applications, phase II clinical trials taking place this year the growth can be expected
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Assignment Overview Every company has, to a greater or lesser extent, an information subsystem -- that is, a means by which it gathers data, interprets it, and makes it available to employees through a distribution system. Whether we are talking about marketing information, cost projections, accounting results, or internal quality reports, every company depends on knowledge to support its planning, decision-making, and control. So how does knowledge fit into the picture? The emergence of the field called
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www.emeraldinsight.com/1363-254X.htm Integrated online marketing communication: implementation and management ˘ ˘ Calin Gurau GSCM-Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the particularities of integrated marketing communication (IMC) in the online environment. Design/methodology/approach – Both secondary and primary data (face-to-face interviews with 29 marketing or communication managers of UK online consumer retail firms)
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The importance of Integrated Marketing Communications during financial crises in the Republic of Macedonia Author: Ass. Prof. Ilijana Petrovska, Ph.D. University American College Skopje Address: Ul. 3 Makedonska Brigada bb, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia Tel / fax: +389 2 2463156 Mobile +389 78 383 112 e-mail: petrovska@uacs.edu.mk Co-author: Prof. Nada Sekulovska, Ph.D. University “Ss Cyril and Methodius”, Fakulty of Economics, Skopje Address: Bul. Krste Misirkov b.b., 1000 Skopje
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B R A N D P L A N N I N G : E - A RT I C L E K E V I N L A N E KE L L E R 1 eARTICL BRAND PLANNING by Kevin Lane Keller < CONTENTS PAGE E eARTICL BRAND PLANNING by Kevin Lane Keller E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College A Shoulders of Giants p ublication info@SOGiants.com | w ww.SOGiants.com E Published by Shoulder of Giants info@SOGiants.com All text © Shoulder of Giants 2009 The work (as defined below) is provided
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global products what are the best-value product with high quality, best technology and low prices in different national markets. Its mission is modernity and its mode, price competition, even when it sells top-of-the-line, high-end products. It knows about the one great thing all nations. Moreover, the strategy of standardization not only responds to worldwide homogenized markets but also expands those markets with aggressive low pricing. Furthermore, the standardisation pays more attention on the extras
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.....................5 II- Literature review............................................................................5 1- Strategy in the retailing sector......................................................5-7 2- Asda and its marketing strategies.................................................7-8 3- ASDA strategies and the main features of the UK retailing industry.............................................................................................8 III- Research
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trends on how and where customers want to obtain information and learn about those company’s brands. You see advertising everyday, whether it’s a banner inviting you to a local store opening or the company logo you noticed engraved on a pen you borrowed. You may not even notice when you see it, but advertising serves so many different purposes it’s just about everywhere. Marketers started grasping the concept of integrated marketing communication (IMC) in 1990, it’s defined as the process of using a
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617-495-1016 Submitted for presentation at the first QME conference This paper explores the demand for privacy that arises from the loss of consumer surplus when firms gain the ability to treat different consumers differently. It is shown that firms in quest of a competitive advantage may have an incentive to acquire consumer information and use it to gain exclusive access to finer consumer segments, even when the costs of customized marketing are exceedingly high. When such is the case, the opportunity arises
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