Advertising, Promotion, and Supplemental Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications

Now available in an exciting, eye-catching, four-colour text, Shimp's Advertising, Promotion and Supplemental Aspect of Integrated Marketing Communications 4/e fully integrates all aspects of marketing communication, providing a more complete treatment of sales promotion, point-of-purchase communications and advertising media selection than any text on the market. Beginning in Chapter 1, the fourth edition takes a more extensive integrated marketing communication (IMC) perspective than in previous editions and also introduces a 'building-brand-equity' perspective that is utilised throughout the chapters following. More user friendly than ever, the text also includes a CD-ROM presentation disk for instructors to use in class. Organised by chapter, the animated disk includes videos, tables, figures, graphs, and overhead transparencies to support text material. Features: * Sophisticated yet student friendly, the text incorporates a lively writing style with myriad real-world examples that capture readers' interests. * The text provides up-to-date treatment of text concepts as well as complete coverage of practitioner-oriented material. * Chapter opening vignettes offer real-world illu

Terence Shimp is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina where he was a faculty member for 29 years and earned a number of teaching awards, including the Amoco Foundation Award. The former W. W. Johnson Distinguished Foundation Fellow and Chair of the Marketing Department in the Moore School of Business, Dr. Shimp also taught at Kent University. He has published widely in marketing, consumer behavior, and advertising, and received the American Academy of Advertising's lifetime award for outstanding contributions to research in advertising. Past president of the Association for Consumer Research, as well as the Journal of Consumer Research policy board, Dr. Shimp has represented the Federal Trade Commission and various state agencies as an expert witness in issues concerning advertising deception and unfairness. Terence A. Shimp received his doctorate from the University of Maryland.