INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING Several definitions have been proposed for the term marketing. Each tends to emphasize different issues. Memorizing a definition is unlikely to be useful‚ ultimately‚ it makes more sense to thinking of ways to benefit from creating customer value in the most effective way‚ subject to ethical and constraints that one may have. The 2007 definition offered by American Marketing Association is listed below in several points. * A main objective of marketing is to create
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Key Performance Indicators of Retail Sector and its Improvement Opportunities Abstract This paper attempts to track key performance indicators (KPIs) in order to figure out the performance of the Supply Chain in the retail sector. It also focuses on inventory replenishment strategies and capacity utilization in the retail sector. In recent years‚ this sector has spent considerable amount of time and money trying to improve its operations in such a way so as to respond efficiently to customers’
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The UAE retail market is quiet big‚ with a lot of different retailer chains. The retailer industry is growing and there is a trend to hypermarkets and shopping malls . After having a look at the 30 leading retailers in the Middle East and South Africa the following three groups and retailer chains seemed to be the most attractive ones‚ Abu Dhabi Co-operative society‚ Carrefour UAE and Emke Group. After evaluating each chain it became clear‚ that these retailers do not differ too much from each other
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competition between retailers that sell similar merchandise using different types of stores‚ such as discount and department stores * Scrambled Merchandising: When retailers offer merchandise not typically associated with their type of store * Retail Strategy: how the retailer plans to focus its resources to accomplish its objectives 1. Target market‚ or markets‚ toward which the retailer will direct its efforts 2. The nature of the merchandise and services the retailer will offer to
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Securitization Market in India Securitization issuance in emerging markets Country Issuance in $bn Asia Taiwan South Korea India Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Japan 1.9 26 6.67 1.2 0.4 0.6 81 Brazil Mexico Argentina Chile Peru Columbia Others Country Issuance in $bn Country Issuance in $bn EEMEA Latin America 4.8 4.3 1.5 0.9 0.7 0.5 1.3 Turkey 4.5 2.2 1.7 0 0.2 South Africa Egypt Russia Others Asia 117.77 Latin America 14 EEMEA 8.6 Emerging markets total
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European Petroleum Retail Sector MarketView CBRE Global Research and Consulting September 2013 RENTS STABLE SALES MODERATE GROWTH FUEL VOLUMES SLOWING DOWN BUSINESS CONFIDENCE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE OVERVIEW The West and North European service station networks consolidated further in 2012. Growth was reported in Central and Eastern Europe. Market Overview Country Specific Sector Performance Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Hungary Italy Netherlands Norway Poland
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rise of this company until 1994. It delves into the factors that made the company a success and the kind of strategic decisions that the management of the company needed to make at various junctures. One such strategic decision that the management made was to shift from its existing "Direct Made to Order" business model to a more hybrid model that combined it with a retail presence. Yet‚ by 1994 Dell realized that it wouldn’t be able to sustain itself and withdrew from the retail distribution
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India as an agriculture and high value food powerhouse: A new vision for 2030 Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action 3 April 2013 Copyright © 2013‚ by McKinsey & Company‚ Inc. India as an agriculture and high value food powerhouse: A new vision for 2030 Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action (FAIDA) 3 April 2013 FAIDA 3: India as an agriculture and high value food powerhouse by 2030 | 5 Executive Summary The Indian food and agriculture industry
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Why did India experience relatively slow economic growth from independence until 1991? India became an independent country in 1947 and from that moment until the first years of the 1990’s‚ the government adopted the Import Substitution Industrialization model (ISI) in order to protect the economy against foreign competition. The model was based on regulations in the private and public sector‚ trade and foreign direct investment that made the economy very closed compared to other economies in the
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European markets is a changed demographic structure that changes customer requirements. This in turn means new challenges for retail companies in order to satisfy new customer needs. For instance‚ from the German market the following demographic changes are expected to influence the retail industry; The total number of inhabitants is expected to decrease which means a continued and intensified competition for these customers
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