The effectiveness of guilt appeal in the fashion business
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
Guilt and its mechanisms are a relevant way to understand consumers' behaviour towards fashion luxury purchases. Fashion is a huge industry, which proposes products based on subjective and personal affects. Clothes have to fit, to make people feel comfortable and good looking and not just...
How to use rumours as a marketing tool?
Dissertation - 68 pages - Services marketing
Today, advertising a new product is totally different than it was 10 years ago. For years, consumers have been flooded by TV, radio, newspaper ads, posters and fliers and more recently, internet spam, pop ups, banners, etc. The frequency of advertising is so high that most consumers...
The French wine market and international competition
Market study - 32 pages - Services marketing
For a long time, France has been a "wine country", a reference in terms of production and consumption of wine. Nevertheless, this world leader has seen erosion in its market share for the last few years: volumes exported are decreasing and national consumption is down. The main cause is that...
Smirnoff Ice Vs. Bacardi Breezer: An analysis
Market study - 27 pages - Services marketing
In order to conduct the research, a problem was first recognized, and objectives were generated, accordingly. The purpose of the research is to identify the important issues and problems associated with the Alcopop industry, and then recommend marketing strategies and recommendations for both...
SWOT Analysis - Pepsico in France: opportunities and threats
Case study - 4 pages - Services marketing
With an increasingly high turnover from the establishment on French soil since the 60s, PEPSICO France has managed to integrate and make a place in the market for soft drinks (BRSA). This market, which is estimated at over 4 million Euros, offers PEPSICO several opportunities. These elements are...
Naming a brand: The importance of a name
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
“What's in a name? A rose is a rose and would smell as sweet even if called by any other name” These famous words from Shakespeare's Juliet send us into raptures, but marketers and consumers would not respond to this reasoning favorably. Brands rule over the marketer and...
Wipro Infotech: The market aspects of laptops
Market study - 31 pages - Services marketing
Laptops are now a very essential commodity for Indian consumers. They constitute a large portion of the electronic market in India. If these laptops are not marketed properly and are not in the Indian consumers' eye, the more established brands are likely to rule the roost and the...
A study on building a brand for cotton through marketing research
Market study - 24 pages - Business strategy
A product is a physical structure, but a brand is a perceptual entity that lives in the people's minds. The first question that strikes our mind is “why branding is necessary?” As the products fail to generate competitive superiority, the need for the brand arises. Though essentially...
A comparative analysis of the French baby wears market and its main competitors
Case study - 27 pages - Services marketing
In an analysis concerning European Consumer trends that I found on Mintel confirmed my feelings; showing that French consumers consider themselves much more fashion conscious and have a look at style at first when buying clothes, even for babies (61,3% look at style first against...
Case study: How Virgin mobile successfully thwarted competition through innovative marketing
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
This paper focuses on operations of Virgin Mobile, USA. It would be helpful to see what strategies Virgin used by analyzing the competition, consumers and the company aka the three C's. Let us first look at the company itself. When consumers look at virgin, they are concentrated...
A multinational study of gender wine preferences
Tutorials/exercises - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Wine has become an international business, and the difference in wine preferences based on consumer's gender and how these differences vary from country to country are important issues that should be considered in wine product development. We examined consumer's preference for the...
The e-marketing plan of a Belgian SME: Cha-hu-the - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 26 pages - Civil law
Nowadays, “the key question is not whether to deploy Internet technology - companies have no choice if they want to stay competitive- but how to deploy it”. Since 2008, the penetration rate of the Internet is 48.1% in Europe, and the average of the world is 21.9%. More specifically,...
Logistics and Supply Chain Practices
Case study - 8 pages - Computer science
Lean thinking is essential to improve supply chain management. This is because lean thinking ensures things are done just as they should. As an example, Toyota has demonstrated superior results with regard to quality, cost and lead-time compared to most (if not all) of its competitors. This...
Research Skills - Pizza hut
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Pizza Hut is a well-known brand that deals with the production of custom made pizzas all over the world. It began as a humble company that achieved profitability over the years to be listed in the New York Stock exchange. Its sole aim was to increase its market share through the allocation of...
Dove - Analysis of marketing plan
Market study - 15 pages - Services marketing
We will reveal later that we have decided to develop a green product to be innovative and in sync with Unilever. We need to clarify what is Dove's business. Dove is working on the market of women's personal care. Dove has a large range of products from soaps to shampoos. The key point of Dove's...
Marketing Research Methodology - The case of the Fair Phone
Case study - 45 pages - Business strategy
We are running a study about the Fair phone and its relevance in the French Market. We are going to analyse the consumers' minds and perception about this type of product ecologically and ethically responsible. With this first analysis, we will highlight the perceived advantages and...
SWOT Analysis - H&M
Case study - 5 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
The Hennes and Mauritz group is known globally as H&M, an extremely popular fast fashion brand. Currently H&M operates five thousand stores, including E-commerce platforms, across more than seventy countries. High stock turnover rate ensures that the company sets and keeps up with the latest...
British Petroleum Company - free market, Sustainable Management Futures
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
The free market theory postulates that there should be numerous participants within the same market engaged in the buying and selling of numerous and varied products. All such producers have the opportunity to take part in production activities and, therefore, share the profits present in...
Project marketing - case study of the company 'Michel and Augustin'
Case study - 11 pages - Services marketing
The instability which is sensed nowadays in the French biscuits and cakes market is mainly a consequence of the economical context. The current crisis carried a strong recession and its impacts are difficult to foresee. We noted from 2005 to 2007 a period of rising prices concerning the biscuit...
Ethical consumerism concept and analyses at Google Inc - Case Study
Case study - 3 pages - Computer science
Different companies believe in giving the best products to their consumers through enhancing and promoting their brand in the market. One of the ways that is becoming more popular is Ethical Consumerism where the companies believe that the consumers will take more of their products...
Genetically modified foods: a feeding system in need of improvement?
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Genetically engineered food has become a very controversial topic over the past few decades, and the issue continues to gain importance as more companies are producing genetically engineered/modified foods. The process of genetic engineering involves taking food products, alternating their...
Case study tutorials
Case study - 13 pages - Marketing theories
1. Which factors do you think would be the main contributors to your chosen company's brand equity? Brand equity that is based on consumers happens when consumers are ware and familiar with specific brands and their memories can easily hold uniqueness, favor and strength in the...
The international marketing strategy of "Leon Barde Vintage Wine" to enter the Chinese wine market
Market study - 14 pages - Business strategy
France is attached to a sector which is an important part of its own identity : the sector of the wine. When you will ask one characteristic of our country to foreigners, the majority will answer Paris, the gastronomy, the luxurious, maybe the love but definitely also the wine. Since the...
Is there a place for sustainable marketing in the beauty world?
Dissertation - 39 pages - Luxury marketing
Sustainability is not a new trend. It appears for the first time in the 1970s. For many years, beauty brands knew zero competitions. This market changed with the arrival of new brands such as NYX cosmetics, ELF, or Kiko Makeup. Now, we can talk about fast beauty, an industry where we promote...
PESTEL Analysis - Airbnb
Case study - 5 pages - Tourism marketing
The growing popularity of collaborative consumption has had a massive impact on how many industries around the world operate. According to Wikipedia collaborative consumption can be defined as 'the set of resource circulation systems, which enable consumers to both "obtain" and...
BCG Matrix - Coca-Cola
Case study - 5 pages - Brand management
Coca-Cola Company, an American company that produces and distributes syrups for making soft drinks, is a brand that can be recognised at a glance thanks to the shape of its bottles or even its logo. Consumed and appreciated by all, this company is mainly positioned in the soft drinks market as a...
Porter's Five Forces - Polar
Case study - 5 pages - Sport marketing
Polar is a group that was founded in Finland in 1976. It markets watches and other connected or sports-related objects. Connected watches have enjoyed growing success over the past ten years, particularly due to the fact that consumers are paying more and more attention to their physical...
SWOT Analysis - eBay
Case study - 5 pages - Digital & e-marketing
Electronic commerce has not only taken a considerable place in the lives of consumers but also in those of businesses. In fact, in order to gain the loyalty of a clientele that is increasingly free to choose and, therefore, demanding, the latter have been forced to adapt and also to offer...
What development in the luxury sector? The case of China
Dissertation - 8 pages - Luxury marketing
Luxury has been part of society for thousands of years. It has always been present at all times and in all cultures. This is a concept that has different definitions depending on the country and, of course, especially among consumers, who do not all understand it in the same way. From this...
Internal communication: a necessary vector for the efficiency of the company
Dissertation - 8 pages - Management
The business world has undergone profound changes in the space of a few years, in all sectors of activity. Indeed, new technologies and, in particular, the many digital transformations have impacted lifestyles, but also the purchasing behavior of consumers, not to mention working methods,...
