would you characterize the household wood furniture industry? I would characterize the wood furniture industry to be a very complex competitive relationship based industry. This industry has many different segments that form as a whole. A few of these segments are suppliers‚ producers‚ and raw material manufactures. A great deal of the raw materials are imported from different countries in order to keep constant on quality and cost. This industry is had to penetrate being that a lot of the competition
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N. Dlodlo M. Dhurup BARRIERS TO E-MARKETING ADOPTION AMONG SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN THE VAAL TRIANGLE BARRIERS TO E-MARKETING ADOPTION AMONG SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN THE VAAL TRIANGLE Ms. N. Dlodlo: Faculty of Management Sciences‚ Vaal University of Technology Prof. M. Dhurup: Faculty of Management Sciences‚ Vaal University of Technology Synopsis Purpose: The purpose of the study is to complement existing literature by examining the relevant barriers contributing
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INTRODUCTION A Value Added Service (VAS) can be defined as: Any service provided by the service provider to promote its main service business (Wikipedia) Or Value added services is a term that is used to refer to service options that are complimentary to but also ancillary to a core service offering. (wiseGEEK) As Kotler as said: “Over time the augmented benefits become the expected benefits.” The same applies to Value added services‚ what a customer sees as a value added service today becomes a part
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Retail in London: Working Paper F International Comparisons of Retail March 2006 copyright Greater London Authority March 2006 Published by Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk enquiries 020 7983 4000 minicom 020 7983 4458 ISBN 1 85261 842 6 Cover photographs © Macy’s‚ Zara and Hayley Madden This publication is printed on recycled paper. For more information about this publication‚ please contact: GLA Economics telephone 020 7983 4922 email
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Cyrus Topic: MARKETING DEBATE—Is Service Marketing Different From Product Marketing? MARKETING DEBATE—Is Service Marketing Different From Product Marketing? Marketing is the process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers. In addition‚ marketing might sometimes be interpreted as the ability of selling products and services. As the term "Marketing" may replace "Advertising" it is the overall strategy and function of promoting a product or service to the customer
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The bureaucracy‚ congressmen‚ and lobbyist have a mutual beneficial relationship known as “Iron Triangles.” These three groups work together to not only benefit themselves but each other all at once. Iron triangles operate in a constant motion. Powerful‚ wealthy‚ and dominant people make up the iron triangle within our government. While working together to get what they want‚ they also challenge the power of the congress to pass the policies and laws most beneficial to them. The congress is the
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Isla (CEO) Ignacio Fernández (CFO) | Industry | Retail | Products | Clothing‚ Accessories | Revenue | €10.41 billion (2008)[1] | Operating income | ▲ €1.609 billion (2008)[1] | Net income | ▲ €1.253 billion (2008)[1] | Employees | 89‚110 (2008)[1] | Subsidiaries | Zara‚ Pull and Bear‚ Bershka‚Massimo Dutti‚ Stradivarius‚Oysho‚ Zara Home‚ Uterqüe | Website | www.inditex.com | Inditex‚ INdustrias de DIseño TEXtil‚ S.A.‚ (English: Textile Design Industries‚ Inc.) (BMAD: ITX)‚ is a large Spanish corporation and
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Specific Features of Financial Services Marketing It has been suggested that there are two characteristics‚ which are specific for financial services marketing. The first one would be fiduciary responsibility and the second one is the two-way information flows. 1.1Fiduciary Responsibility Fiduciary responsibility is one of the most important features within the financial sector. It has been described through Arthur Meidan as "the responsibility of any financial services organisation to guard the interests
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relationships with customers and society 2)A Junior marketing executive at MegaGrain Cereals suggests increasing the package size and price of its best-selling brand without increasing the amount of cereal inside the box. Her superior warns that this might be a bad idea because MegaGrains long-term survival‚ like most companies‚ depends on -creating and maintaining satisfying exchange relationships 3)Which of the following statements about marketing environment forces is not correct? -They fluctuate
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THE IT PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX – EVIDENCE FROM THE UK RETAIL BANKING INDUSTRY ABSTRACT This article addresses causes of the so-called ’Information Technology Productivity Paradox ’ in the context of UK retail banks. It investigates why massive investments by retail banks in information technology are not being translated into significant productivity gains‚ given that successful implementation of new technology is particularly important in increasingly competitive banking environments
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