The Marketing Casebook: Cases and Concepts - Softcover

Dibb, Sally; Simkin, Lyndon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861526245 ISBN 13: 9781861526243

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 2000

Synopsis

Designed to accompany business school and college marketing courses or for self-tuition in the key concepts in marketing theory, The Marketing Casebook uses fully cross-referenced short and full cases and theory notes to present the key elements of marketing. By looking at the way marketing works in practice, the reader is drawn into the problems and questions that face marketers and managers in their everyday lives. A mix of real world cases and theory summary notes, The Marketing Casebook provides a concise revision-oriented overview of the key marketing concepts, guiding the reader from introductory theory to specialised applications in consumer, industrial and services marketing.

About this title

About the Author:

Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing at the Open University Business School. The Open University is the largest university in the UK, teaching over 200,000 people every year, and the UK's only university dedicated to distance learning. Before joining the Open University (in September 2005) Sally was a Reader in Marketing and Strategic Management at Warwick Business School (one of the U.K.'s leading three business schools), University of Warwick, U.K. She holds research degrees from the University of Manchester, UK and Warwick University: her Ph.D. examined consumer modelling. She has published widely in U.S. and European marketing journals on the marketing of services, marketing planning, market segmentation and corporate identity, as well as textbooks and practitioner-oriented workbooks on these themes. Sally chairs the U.K. Academy of Marketing's Special Interest Group on market segmentation and until recently, she was Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Warwick Business School. Her consulting clients include a range of companies such as JCB, ICI, Fujitsu, Midland Electricity, Diageo and AstraZeneca.

Review:

List of Figures List of Tables About the Authors Acknowledgements Sources Preface PART 1: HOW TO TACKLE CASE STUDY ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATIONS Case Study Analysis PART 2: SHORT CASES FOR DISCUSSION Ethical Marketing - GM Foods: Supermarkets Versus the Regulators. The Marketing Environment - Formula 1 and Tobacco. Non-Business Marketing - Marketing the NSPCC. Marketing Mix - Private Health Care. New Product Development - Smelly Fabrics. Promotion - Surprise Advertising. Direct Marketing - Boxman on the Internet. Marketing Operations - McDonald?s Controls PART 3: FULL CASES Aer Lingus -Beyond Face Value. JCB Backhoe Loader - Internationally into the Dictionary. Lego -Building for the Future. Electric Vehicles in their Infancy - Researching Target Market Attitudes. Stepcan - Differential Advantage Through Packaging. Kodak Norge - The Search for Information. Petrol Retailing - Supermarket Giants Take on the Oil Companies. Waterford Crystal - Targeting Youths. TGI Friday?s - Themed Restaurants Compete. Royal Ahold - Socially Responsible Global Expansion. Heineken - Global Expansion, Local Branding. Games Workshop - Warfare in the Cr?che. Turkish Ice Cream Wars. Sleeping on a Budget - Lodge Hotels Lead the Way. ABN AMRO - Global Strengths, Regional Necessities. Chester Zoo - Combining Marketing and Conservation. Carrefour - The Global Hypermarket. PART 4: THEORY NOTES T1: What is Marketing? T2: The Marketing Environment and Competition T3: Buying Behaviour T4: Marketing Research T5: Forecasting T6: Market Segmentation T7: Competitive Strategy T8: The Marketing Mix: Products and Product Management T9: The Marketing Mix: Place - Distribution and Marketing Channels T10: The Marketing Mix: Pricing T11: The Marketing Mix: Promotion T12: Direct Marketing and the InternetT13: The Marketing of Services T14: Industrial, Business-to-business Marketing T15: Marketing Planning T16: International Marketing T17: Ethics and Social Responsibility in Marketing PART 5: GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS PART 6: FURTHER READINGS

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1861526245
• ISBN 13: 9781861526243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352