Executive summary In the current intensively competitive corporate environment‚ maintaining a competitive edge is becoming more and more complicated for companies. Companies have to put up highly qualified and committed workforces in order to differentiate their positions in the market. Competitive advantage is not only about differentiating corporate products or services but it also encompasses the art of tapping special skills to support rapid growth and better customer satisfaction. It is also
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“Consumer buying behavior of consumer durables in a Hypermarket for HyperCITY‚ Thane” By: Kulvinder Pathania Roll No: KHR2009PGDMRMF027 Summer Project Report submitted to the Institute of Technology and Management‚ Navi Mumbai‚ 410210 In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MBA-RMM APPROVED BY: Mr. Vikram Laud Dr. Shelja Jose Store Operations Manager Internal Guide HyperCITY Retail (India) Ltd. ITM Business School
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Guidelines for Writing Project Report Students under my supervision are expected to write in accordance with the following guidelines. Main Chapters 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Research Methodology 4. Data Presentation and Analysis 5. Summary‚ Conclusions and Recommendations Chapter One 1. Background to the study Introduction provides the necessary background information to your study. It also provides readers with some sense about your
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Cross-Cultural Issues in Consumer Behavior SHARON SHAVITT University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign ANGELA Y. LEE Northwestern University CARLOS J. TORELLI University of Minnesota ne of the most difficult choices that multinational corporations face is deciding whether to run the same marketing campaign globally or to customize it to the local taste in different countries. In many cases‚ companies develop their marketing strategy in one country and then do "disaster checking" as
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Ben and Jerry’s was founded in 1978 by childhood friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. They had a dream of starting a company together but they didn’t have any experience in business. Due to their love for food‚ they came up with the idea of making bagels or ice cream‚ but the cost of the equipment for bagels was much higher so they chose to produce homemade ice cream (citation). They learned only from small business pamphlets and a correspondence course from Penn State University (citation).
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We started to get more information on the toys and prices from Target since we considered it to be more of middle to upper middle class store. We initially thought of Target to be a lower-middle class and classify it to be similar to Big Lots. After going through the toy section in Target‚ we soon realized that the prices were way more than those at Big Lots. The variety and selection of toys Target had to offer were far more extensive than those at Big Lots. We started from the first aisle of the
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that influence consumer buying behavior There are a lot of subjects for marketers to understand in order to get more customers purchasing their companies’ products or brands. Consumer buying behavior is one of the studies that marketers need to understand. Factors that influence consumer buying behavior can be classified into four classes which are social factor‚ cultural factor‚ personal factor and psychological factor. One of the factors that influence consumer buying behavior is social factors
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Consumer behavior is the how‚ what‚ when‚ and why people buy‚ a blending of psychology‚ sociology and economics. Attempting to understand a buyer ’s decision-making process both individually or in groups can at times be impossible. Understanding peoples wants and needs to transform those into marketing a product the consumer wants and needs is what product‚ price‚ promotion and place are all about. Defining Consumer Behavior Consumer behavior is defined by Hawkins et al. (2004): "As the study of
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Impact on Consumers Behavior by Elisabeta Ioanăs‚ Ivona Stoica The Bucharest University of Economic Studies‚ Romania Romanian American University in Bucharest‚ Romania maria.ioanas@mk.ase.ro‚ ivonas@ase.ro Abstract. Technology gives consumer the power to investigate products to label them and criticize them in equal measure‚ and more. Therefore many companies today have pages on social networks to complement the information held about products‚ held by the feedback of consumers about products
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G.J. C.M.P.‚ Vol. 2(4):98-107 July-August‚ 2013 ISSN: 2319 – 7285 ONLINE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY Namita Bhandari* & Preeti Kaushal** *Panjab University‚ Chandigarh‚ India **Chitkara University‚ Punjab‚ India Abstract Online shopping is gaining momentum in India. With internet penetration improving in the country‚ smart phones becoming affordable and lifestyles becoming hectic‚ the way people used to shop are changing. Also with a huge chunk of young and working population
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