Thesis Proposal: The Utilization of Endorsers in Marketing and Advertisement, and Their Influence on Consumers
Essay - 4 pages - Services marketing
Companies are using endorsers to market, advertise and promote their products and services. These endorsers have a real and proved influence on the consumers and in adequation on their consumption habits. It is frequent to see celebrities on advertisement, for some big companies, which can...
An exploratory study on consumer psychological contracts
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The concept of the psychological contract is widely applied in organizational research. This article explores the consumer psychological contract in marketing context. Some situations are designed in a questionnaire and the data are analyzed. The findings show that whether the...
Consumer panels
Thesis - 4 pages - Logistics
In today's competitive world, the consumer is considered is as the king of the market. Since the customer is the King, companies have to understand what people buy, their consumption pattern and the reason behind this behavior. This can be done through market monitoring, research and...
Understanding consumer behavior and its importance
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
The classification of consumers is an important area of study in market research. Marketers have to classify them based on their age, social status, purchasing power, lifestyle, needs and aspirations. Among them, the most obvious segmentation is based on criteria of age and generation....
The lifestyles of the consumer: Marketing analysis, applications and outlook
Thesis - 7 pages - Services marketing
Nowadays the consumer is inundated with advertising from morning to evening. Advertisements abound on radio, television, print, on film, in the streets, in our mailboxes, on the internet, on our clothes; in shops etc. It was during the period between 1960-70 advertising became a...
Consumer behavior
Essay - 7 pages - Services marketing
This essay is going to focus on the 'age' variable. Marketers can segment their marketing in age subcultures, or support, its members who have shared childhood and young adulthood experiences that influence their customs, rituals, and behavioural processes. People of the same generation...
Consumer Decision Process: The wedding preparations
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
The 'Wedding Channel' is an online company which permits brides and grooms to come up with ideas to prepare their wedding, as well as the guests to find presents. They have a list of all the necessities to prepare a wedding, from the reception sites to the photographer, and the...
An investigation into trade marketing practices by fast moving consumer goods manufacturers
Market study - 36 pages - Services marketing
In the current distribution process, retailers and manufacturers have to work together. This relationship has often been conflictive, but now is the time for collaboration. Indeed, looking at the different fields where suppliers and retailers have to work together, we can easily understand the...
Ethics and the consumer coursework
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In a world where globalization seems to be everywhere, emerge some notions as ethics, consumer policy, involving government and others organizations. The aim of that is finally the well-being of people, more precisely, consumers. The term “ethics” is used to define a...
Zara and H&M: Two models which try to bring luxury closer to the common consumer
Thesis - 11 pages - Services marketing
The European textile sector was one of the first victims of globalization and price discrimination. The most important textile markets are Europe (135 billion euros), U.S. (100 billion euros) and China followed by Japan (35 billion euros). In this hyper-competitive environment, brands like Zara...
Analysis of advertising a consumer product: Coca-Cola (2006)
Thesis - 2 pages - Services marketing
This campaign, based on a fairytale world, with a multitude of fantasy characters, invites consumers to choose the good side of things. It shows a young man putting a coin into a vending machine and, within the dispenser, the incredible world of Coca-Cola, which revolves around the famous...
Consumer empowerment
Thesis - 6 pages - Services marketing
With the growing industry of ethics consumption and environmental friendly products, the marketing industry has radically changed its traditional system of approaching their consumers. Indeed their marketing strategies are much more customer driven as the “authority of...
A look at the consumer response to creativity in advertising
Dissertation - 56 pages - Services marketing
This chapter will provide an outline of the topics that will be covered in this proposal. It will briefly give an overview of the proposed research topic and acknowledge the importance of this study. Next, the literature review and the methodology chapters will be summarized. This will give a...
Consumer Protection Act of India: When the consumer is a king
Thesis - 31 pages - Other law subjects
A consumer is a user of goods and services. Any person paying for goods and services which he uses is entitled to expect that the goods and services are of a nature and quality promised to him by the seller. The earlier principle of "Caveat Emptor" or "let the buyer beware" which was...
Theory of consumer choice
Thesis - 14 pages - Services marketing
The concept of ‘utility' was introduced to social thoughts by Bentham in 1789 and to economic thoughts by Jevons in 1871. The neo-classical economists devised the following system to measure the utility of a commodity. A neo-classical economist, Walras, coined a term ‘util', meaning...
The impact of brand ambassadors/celebrity endorsements through advertisement in brand building and their influence on consumer behavior
Thesis - 51 pages - Services marketing
Over the years, many growing and grown brands have jumped on to the celebrity endorsement bandwagon. Marketers are aware of the power of celebrities in advertisement and branding and their influence on consumer buying decisions. Endorsement is a medium of brand communication in which a...
The impact of advertisement on the buying behavior with reference to the consumer durables
Dissertation - 47 pages - Services marketing
The consumer durable industry in the past few years has seen tremendous growth. Advancements in the technology, government support and increased level of interest among the private players into the industry has given rise to the healthy competition between the various brands. Different...
The changing face of consumer behavior in response to organized retail markets in India
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Business strategy
The retail sector in the developing countries is witnessing a huge revamping exercise as traditional markets make way for new formats such as departmental stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets and specialty stores. Rated the fifth most attractive emerging retail market, India is being seen as a...
Immigrants and consumerism in the city
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
An examination of North American history will reveal that a consumer revolution occurred during the middle of the eighteenth century, and it played a significant role in the growth of society, especially in the United States. This raises the question of how consumerism affected specific...
Is the consumer always sovereign in the free market economy?
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Theoretically, the free enterprise market economy produces a situation in which the law of supply and demand, in conjunction with a competitive economic environment and well-informed consumers guarantees consumer sovereignty. The consumer possesses a significant advantage...
Marketing strategy of Vodafone in India and the consumer's attitude towards their services
Market study - 50 pages - Services marketing
The de regulation in the INDIAN telecommunication markets since the beginning of the 1997s has brought about significant changes in the communication industry. The mobile telephone market has changed dramatically over the past 5 years in INDIA. Mobiles have become so popular that many people use...
Exploring the dematerialization of the body: Gender roles in cyberspace - Imagination as resistance or global extensions of consumer capitalism
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This is a research paper which will investigate the relationship between architectural space, i.e. the home, the work place, the gendered body, in relation to the cyber-body as utopian space or new mechanism of containment and surveillance and re-inscribing of the dominant capitalist ideology....
A "fat tax" to encourage consumers to switch away from fats, sugar and processed foods
Essay - 4 pages - Government finance
People are obviously getting more and more fat. This fact cannot be denied. That is why, to curb this phenomenon, Kelly Brownell launched the idea of applying a fat tax on unhealthy food, in his article published in the New York Times in 1994. Such a tax could encourage people to buy less...
Study of Auchan: Understanding its consumers behaviour
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
Auchan is one of the world's leading retail groups. As shown on appendix 1, this group operates 357 hypermarkets in 11 countries across the world, and 649 supermarkets in France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia and Morocco. In France, Auchan has two main competitors Leclerc and Carrefour, its market...
Study of consumer behavior in selecting mobile phones
Tutorials/exercises - 24 pages - Services marketing
Mobile users today want their handsets to be converged devices handling multiple functions, entertainment being the most important among them. They want their mobile to be fully loaded with top-end features, but they want all that at affordable costs. Integrated digital camera, music player and...
The impact of negative rumors on consumers' behaviors
Essay - 13 pages - Services marketing
Mac Donald's has been one of the most famous victim of negative rumors, with the “wormburgers' scare” (Newsweek, 1977). “Wormburgers” are hamburgers made with worms-based steak. In 1977, an astonishing rumor took birth in the United States, blaming the famous hamburger firm to...
Consumer behavior in the services sector
Market study - 21 pages - Services marketing
This presentation will start with a look at the services marketing triangle. It will then explore the ways of using the services marketing triangle. it will then take a look at the scope of consumer behavior along with examining the consumers decision making process. It will then...
What should advertisers do to make online advertising more engaging to consumers?
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
Internet offers a wide range of possibilities. This overview of the different tools that advertisers can use shows how much Internet is opening to a new world of communication.But Internet has also generated an historical revolution concerning relationships between brands and consumers. In...
The phenomenon of fandom: Refuting the view that consumers of mass media culture are passive cultural dopes?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the last century television, film and video came to dominate the mass mediated world and increasingly continues to do so today with an abundance of entertainment being brought into the homes of millions of people globally provided by the culture industry. A popular and traditional view of mass...
Consumer ethnocentrism and attitudes towards domestic and foreign markets
Thesis - 3 pages - Services marketing
We had asked a specialized group to read an article titled: “Consumer ethnocentrism and attitudes towards domestic and foreign markets” written by John J. Watson and Katrina Wright and summarize it later. The basis of this case study was to investigate the relationship between...
