Retail and wholesale industries Books

Book SynopsisA biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as 'Crazy Eddie,' whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all timeBack in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, 'Crazy Eddie' as he was known to millions of people, the man behind the successful chain of electronic stores and one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history. Few things evoke the New York of a particular era the way 'Crazy Eddie! His prices are insaaaaane!' does. The journalist Herb Greenberg called his death the 'end of an era' and that couldn't be more true. What's insane is that his story has never been told.Before Enron, before Madoff, before The Wolf of Wall Street, Eddie Antar's corruption was second to none. The difference was that it was a street franchise, a local place that was in the blood stream of everyone's daily life in the 1970s

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Book SynopsisMost of us think we know something about retailing: we shop, we buy, we consume. But retailing, perhaps more than any other economic sector, has been transformed fundamentally over the last thirty years, both economically and culturally. Featuring work from seminal theorists in the area and charting the development of retailing as an important discipline in its own right, this superb volume examines the key themes in contemporary retailing. Organized into five sections, each of which includes an illuminating editorial overview, The Retailing Reader examines: consumers and shoppers retail branding and marketing merchandising and buying; strategy, power and policy international retailing. Extensive case studies include an analysis of the British grocery market, the strategies embodied by Nike Town stores, and the development of retail economies in China and Latin America. The Retailing Reader presents a comprehensive overview of this important area of study, and is an ideal companion for any student of retailing, marketing or business and management.Table of ContentsPart 1: Consumers and Shoppers Part 2: Retail Branding and Marketing Part 3: Merchandising and Buying Part 4: Retail Strategy, Power and Policy Part 5: International Retailing

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Book SynopsisLive Architecture explores the physical form of popular music performance space from 1960 to the present day.This book quantifies the factors that determine what makes a venue successful focusing on both famous and less well-known examples from the smallest barroom music space to the largest stadium-filling rock set. It draws on the authorâs extensive research expertise in the field of temporary and portable architecture, in the development of general contemporary architectural design, and personal experience of music performance.Including a range of case studies, the book analyses some of the most significant popular music venues, events and landmarks in the world. The detail of how a venue is created, how it is constructed, and the acoustic and visual environmental factors that impact on its success are examined here.Highly illustrated throughout with design drawings, plans and full colour photographs, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture of live popular music.Table of Contents1. Foreword 2. Introduction 3. Adopted Spaces 3.1. 100 Club, London, UK, 1942 3.2. Birdland, New York, USA, 1949–1999 3.3. Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, USA, Hart Freeland Roberts, 1994 4. Adapted Spaces 4.1. HighLine Ballroom, New York, USA, Bluarch, 2007 4.2. VIP, Saint-Nazaire, France, LIN, 2007 4.3. O2 Arena, London, UK, Populous, 2007 4.4. O2 Arena, Dublin, Populous, Ireland, 2008 4.5. Knitting Factory, Brooklyn NY, USA, HeCho Inc., 2009 5. Dedicated Spaces 5.1. Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, USA, Welton Becket Assoc., 1974 5.2. The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK, David Backhouse Architects, 1984 5.3. Colosseum, Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, USA, Scéno Plus, 2003 5.4. The Joint by Rogue, Las Vegas, USA, Scéno Plus, 2007 5.5. Liverpool Echo Arena, UK, Wilkinson Eyre, 2007 5.6. Sun Valley Music Pavilion, Idaho, USA, FTL, 2008 5.7. De Vorstin, Hilversum, Netherlands, Cie Arkitekten, 2010 6. Mobile Spaces 6.1. Valhalla, Rudi Enos, 2000 6.2. Rolling Stones Stage Set, ‘A Bigger Bang’, StuFish, 2005 6.3. Martina McBride Stage Sets, Studio 10A 2006–10 6.4. U2 360˚ Stage Set, Mark Fisher, StuFish, 2009–11 6.5. Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, UK, 1971–2010

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Book SynopsisJohn Henderson has over 30 years' experience in the banking sector, having held a number of roles for the Bank of Scotland, Sainsbury's Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest. He began his career working in retail branches but has also been Regional Training Manager, headed up the Treasury Department and other operational risk services, managed quality for an operational call centre business and also led branch design and distribution. His current role is with the RBS Group, where he manages the offshoring portfolio. The author is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute.Trade Review"There are many books about digital banking but very few from the perspective of the banks themselves. Talk of the collapse of banks due to digital innovation is massively overhyped as banks (unlike many fintechs) have the customers and funding to shape suitable strategic responses. Every bank across the world is taking up the digital challenge and this book is essential to those struggling to understand the subject as well as those in the position to shape strategic responses." * Brian Brodie, Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Finance... *"Retail and Digital Banking is a well written and comprehensive reflection on the history and evolution of an ever changing and agile industry that is and always has been faced with challenge and a constant need to adapt. It provides a perspective which helps to position what has led to some of the more recent drivers to changes we are seeing now and sets expectations that once we have successfully navigated the current set of curves in the road, as surely we will, then there will likely be more to follow." * David Bowerman, Former Vice-Chairman, Citizens Bank… *"Retail and Digital Banking is a well written and comprehensive reflection on the history and evolution of an ever changing and agile industry that is and always has been faced with challenge and a constant need to adapt. It provides a perspective which helps to position what has led to some of the more recent drivers to changes we are seeing now and sets expectations that once we have successfully navigated the current set of curves in the road, as surely we will, then there will likely be more to follow." * David Bowerman, Former Vice-Chairman, Citizens Bank… *"This book takes you on a journey which is both thought provoking and challenges many of the misconceptions about change in banking. It is a must read for practitioners and highly recommended for everyone wishing an understanding of the retail banking sector and its role in the economy."" * Malcolm Pettigrew, Senior Lecturer & Subject Group Leader, Financial Services, The Business School Edinburgh Napier University… *"This book is a comprehensive and readable summary of Retail & Digital Banking in the UK. The structure of each Chapter guides the reader towards an understanding of the dramatic history and changes in the sector and benefits from being infused with reflections and learnings from the most recent financial crisis. All concepts are clearly articulated and underpinned with useful summaries, exercises and pointers to further reading. The author tackles many of the recent sector failings in a forthright manner and anyone too young to have lived through the events since 2008 will glean much insight from reading the text." * John Needham, Former President of Chartered Banker Institute 2013 - 2015... *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: The birth and development of retail banking; Chapter - 02: The growth of retail banking and its place in the economy; Chapter - 03: Problems and opportunities caused by financial crises; Chapter - 04: Preparing for external trends and influences to deliver high-quality income and cost-effective services; Chapter - 05: Disruption in the market; Chapter - 06: Distribution of retail banking services via a range of customer channels; Chapter - 07: Multi-channel versus omni-channel; Chapter - 08: The role of technology in the evolution of retail banking; Chapter - 09: The impact of legislation and regulation on retail banking operations

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Book SynopsisExplore the complex relationship between tourism and intimacy in this new book with a worldwide perspective! With a unique combination of academic and personal accounts, Sex and Tourism: Journeys of Romance, Love, and Lust takes you behind the scenes with motel owners, adventure travel guides, backpackers, and others working on all sides of the international tourism industry. The editors have created a model that views the situation from three different perspectives: tourist, tourism provider, and nature of the encounter. Unlike other related volumes, this book is not just about the sex trade, but also about the role of tourism in love, marriage, and relationships. The global focus of Sex and Tourism will introduce you to: off-season romance on the island of Crete sex tourism in Cambodia a South Korean museum dedicated to women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military the sexual aspects of adventure travel in Canada cross-culturTable of Contents About the Editors Contributors Preface Section I: The Setting Chapter 1. Conceptual Framework of the Nexus Between Tourism, Romance, and Sex Introduction Relationships Between Sex and Tourism The Centrality of Sex in the Tourism Experience The Encounter The Role of Tourism As Facilitator Conclusion Chapter 2. On Holiday in the Liminoid Playground: Place, Time, and Self in Tourism Introduction Place and Placelessness Sensing the Liminal/Liminoid Conclusion: The Importance of the Process of Traveling Section II: Romance on the Road Chapter 3. Island Girl (Lina M. Wong) Chapter 4. Romance, Retsina, and Reality in Crete Introduction Agia Galini, Crete Our Hosts Other Travelers Travel and the Single Woman Questions Raised and Some Conclusions Chapter 5. Transnational Marriage in Thailand: The Dynamics of Extreme Heterogamy Introduction Thai-Foreigner Intermarriage Prostitution and Transnational Marriage The Dynamics of Thai-Foreigner Marriages Discussion Conclusion Section III: The Tourism Industry As Facilitator Chapter 6. Sex Tourism: An Accommodation Provider's Perspective Introduction Motels and Sex Tourism The Hot Pillow Trade The Motel Operator's Perspective Chapter 7. The Adventure in Adventure Travel Introduction Group Composition Trip Phases Chapter 8. Condoms in the First Aid Kit: River Guides, Clients, and Sex Chapter 9. Attraction of the Naughty-Gentleman's Clubs As a Tourism Resource Introduction The Tradition of Stripping Gentlemen's Clubs As Part of a Market's Pull Matrix Structuring the Performative Space Legal Action, Novelty, and Bourbon Street in the French Quarter Conclusion Section IV: The Dark Side Chapter 10. Former Comfort Women As Touristic Objects in South Korea Introduction Tourism and Human Sexuality Former Comfort Women and the History of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Conclusion Chapter 11. The Dark Side of Tourism and Sexuality: Trafficking of Nepali Girls for Indian Brothels (Nina Rao) Chapter 12. AIDS and Tourism: A Deadly Combination Introduction Tourism and HIV/AIDS Trends in Vietnamese Tourism Tourism and Prostitution Perceptions of Commercial Sex Workers Future Scenarios Conclusion Chapter 13. Sex Tourism: The Case of Cambodia Introduction Background The Sex Industry: Supply and Demand The Customers Impacts of Sex Tourism on Cambodia Conclusion Chapter 14. Ending Child Sex Tourism: A Vision for the Future Introduction Child Pornography and the InternetThe Globalization of Child Sex Tourism TourismA Catalyst for Change What Comes Next? Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisTim Mason, based in London, UK, has over 30 years' experience in the grocery and retail industries, specializing in customer loyalty and strategic marketing. He is CEO of Eagle Eye, a SaaS technology company specializing in delivering omnichannel personalization at scale. Sarah Jarvis, based in London, UK, has over 15 years' experience as a retail marketing leader in the loyalty industry. She has worked with some of the world's largest retailers to help them drive profitable growth by prioritizing the customer in their decision-making processes. She is the Communications and Propositions Director at Eagle Eye.Trade Review"The second edition of Omnichannel Retail is a ginger shot of retail marketing genius - packed full of concentrated advice and case-studies, it is utterly stimulating. I read it in one sitting and emerged fizzing with reinvigorated energy and ideas to boost our omnichannel strategy." * Charlotte Lock, Partner & Customer Director, John Lewis & Pan Partnership *"Omnichannel Retail clearly articulates how to bridge the online and offline gap by utilizing best practice digital marketing, data and loyalty approaches. A must read from one of the original pioneers of retail loyalty." * Max Savransky, Customer Loyalty Expert, Loyalty & Reward Co *"There are very few people who have truly dedicated their entire professional lives to customer loyalty, but Tim Mason has done exactly that. His legendary expertise spans the online and offline worlds, giving him a unique perspective and expertise on the challenges and opportunities that omnichannel retail requires. In this insightful book, Tim and his co-author Sarah Jarvis make a compelling case for the power of culture, communications and connection, both online and offline, as tools that drive success, with clear and practical examples that make this book essential reading for every ambitious retailer in today's digital world." * Paula Thomas, Founder and CEO, Let’s Talk Loyalty *"In the omnichannel world we live in, it's so easy for retailers to get lost in the jargon and the technology and lose sight of what really matters - understanding and serving your customers better. This book reminds us that customer-first thinking is more important than ever and is packed full of advice and case studies for building relevant, meaningful digital connections with your customers." * Matt McLellan, VP Customer Planning and Proposition, Asda *"This book looks to highlight the real value of knowing your customers and the insights into realizing how powerful your customers are to the growth of your business. If you believe customers can be the spokes in your wheel of fortune, then read this book (especially the chapters on loyalty!)." * Adam Posner, Founder, The Point of Loyalty *"The whole idea of Omnichannel has never sat right with me. Pushed by tech vendors and consultants, the concept of Omnichannel has contorted into a confusing buzzword that creates unrealistic expectations for marketing leaders. Yet, the second edition of Omnichannel Retail gives us a fresh, and perhaps better approach to the concept. This revised edition could not come at a better time for retail leaders as brands have to respond to out-of-control cost of living challenges, a post-Covid-19 world and increased digital expectations from consumers. In Omnichannel Retail, Tim Mason and Sarah Jarvis have delivered a vision for what this confounding word should represent that I can finally get behind." * Juan Mendoza, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, The Martech Weekly *"Tim Mason is a pioneer in the world of enterprise customer engagement - a genuine icon. And while you have to credit him for the incomparable work he has done for the brands he's worked on over the years and how he has advanced the thinking and awareness of the critical human factors that underpin this industry, that's not why you should read this book. Read this book because Tim provides retailers with strategies and tactics that are not only practical but are actionable right now and which (unlike so many other current books in this genre) actually help to move the needle! Tim Mason has done it again!" * Mike Giambattista, Founder and CEO, TheCustomer *"In the latest edition of Omnichannel Retail, Tim shares his invaluable, hard-won experience and learning from establishing Clubcard to innovative digital and insight-driven marketing that Eagle Eye deliver. He brings it bang up to date with the latest on loyalty fundamentals, personalisation, AI and machine learning. It's not all data magic wizardry, most importantly, Tim describes the 'non-negotiable' of kind and humane culture for the people who work for an organisation in its sustainable success. Tim never shies from the realities of creating, building and keeping loyal customers and colleagues, it's hard work and requires relentless focus but if you follow this priceless 'how to' you are increasing your odds of getting close and staying close to customers and growing your brand." * Sheila Hooper, Former Director of Performance, Barclays Retail *"Omnichannel Retail brings to life Tim Mason's unrivalled sense of customers the world over and how their lives are changing. It draws out his life-long retail experiences and his instinct for growth and is a must-read for all thoughtful and sustainable retailers." * David Potts, Group Chief Executive of Morrisons *"Brilliant, and for retailers, most welcome! Omnichannel Retail nails its value proposition. Tim Mason, in providing a comprehensive and highly practical guide to harnessing digital technologies, urges retailers to rethink brand, upgrade customer experience, deliver loyalty and (for most) regain profitability. He provides an exciting vision for the role of retail in the 21st century." * Seán Meehan, Professor of Marketing and Management & Dean of Faculty IMD *"Customers live and shop digitally and physically now...but they don't see the distinction that retailers make between the two. The retailers that will win in the future will be able to effortlessly combine physical and digital experiences and marketing. Taking the disciplines of digital marketing that deliver more targeted, more scaled and more interactive messages for customers now is a "must-do" to create that seamless experience. Omnichannel Retail helps to address how to deliver this." * Rob Hattrell, Head of Digital, TDR Capital *"I worked alongside Tim Mason for 15 years and he is the best marketer I have ever worked with. Whilst "success has many fathers", Tim can genuinely lay claim to many of the customer initiatives that drove the growth of Tesco over a remarkable 20 plus years. This book brings all that customer knowledge and focus to life for the digital age." * Andrew Higginson, Chairman, JD Sports *"Since the last edition, 4 years have flown by and a lot has changed. The principles outlined in the first edition of Tim's excellent book have not only accelerated, but they have been enhanced in this new edition. By reading this book, you'll learn from a real master in the of the art and science of marketing. Tim and Sarah have captured brilliantly new and improved ways of winning in the connected world. Omnichannel Retail shows how to blend customer understanding, data and technology into a winning mixture. Tim proves that his innovative mindset keeps adapting and evolving to keep finding ways to compete. A good lesson for us all. Worth the read." * Matt Atkinson, Non-Executive Chair, UNiDAYS *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: The digital imperative; Chapter - 02: Analogue learnings; Chapter - 03: Is loyalty dead?; Chapter - 04: The fundamentals of loyalty; Chapter - 05: Data-based retailing; Chapter - 06: The power of personalization; Chapter - 07: ‘Near me’ – the importance of place; Chapter - 08: The digitally augmented store; Chapter - 09: Mobile makeover; Chapter - 10: Marketing in the moment; Chapter - 11: Monetizing the customer connection; Chapter - 12: The culture of loyalty; Chapter - 13: Lessons learnt;

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Book SynopsisDeanna Clark-Esposito is the Managing Attorney of the Clark-Esposito Law Firm, P.C. in New York City covering fashion, international trade, transportation and other legal matters. She is an Executive Member of Fashion Group International (NY) and the President of the New York chapter of the Organization of Women in International Trade. She teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology and is an avid presenter with several organizations, including the US Small Business Administration. Deanna is a native of San Francisco and resides in New York City.Trade ReviewThis book provides a fresh approach to building a fashion business. I believe that both academics and startup businesses would find this book useful. -- Karen Edwards, University of South Carolina, USI think that this text will be very useful to anyone working on fashion. I would certainly recommend it as reference reading to MBA students and to undergraduates who are taking entrepreneurship courses. -- Thomai Serdari, New York University, USATable of ContentsPreface Foreword 1. Protecting Your Business with Fashion Compliance 2. Consumer Safety and Product Labeling Guidance 3. Intellectual Property: Protection, Enforcement and Hidden Issues 4. Marketing Compliance 5. Product Compliance: Flammability Testing and Issues Specific to Children's Products 6. Importing and Fair Trade 7. Export Best Practices 8. Working With Transportation Providers 9. Sustainable Fashion 10. Emerging Fashion Industry Issues Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisRetailing is an ever-changing facet in the fashion industry. Where brick-and-mortar used to reign supreme, digital is the current go-to for most consumers. Omnichannel retailing makes this process more seamless and has become the industry standard. This book covers both the strategic and practical sides of omnichannel retailing, with a focus on utilization of US-based e-commerce platforms. This textbook consists of three parts: 1) Build - how to build an omnichannel retail business; 2) Market - how to market via different digital marketing channels; and 3) Operate - the operational side of omnichannel retailing. By using industry examples, market reports, and company profiles, you will learn the business concepts and technologies that have evolved modern retailing in the era of the internet. Key Features Include:-A fashion or branding case study in every chapter-Listing for retailing career opportunities for entry-level job titles and their responsibilities so students can learn where

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Book SynopsisThe recipe for profitability is presented in Merchandise Planning Workbook. Focusing on the development of a six-month merchandise plan, the text explains how to use Excel 2007 as a tool to project sales, manage inventory, calculate the amount of merchandise to purchase, and adjust the price throughout the selling season. Application Exercises throughout the chapters familiarize students with each aspect of the plan, provide practice in inputting formulas and data, and demonstrate the impact of changing variables. Seven end-of-chapter assignments, when completed in sequence, produce a merchandise plan for a selling season. By mastering this important aspect of merchandising math, students can develop a marketable competency to help launch their careers in retailing.Introducing Merchandise Planning Workbook STUDIO--an online tool for more effective study!~Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips~Enhance your learning with a 6 month merc

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Book SynopsisWith the rise of digital media, promotion remains a key element at each step of the merchandising process to communicate a clear message about a product, brand, or retailer to the end user. Promotion strategies that were once limited to traditional media—print ads, radio or TV commercials—must now integrate digital media and more innovative means of communication through social media to stay relevant. The third edition of Promotion in the Merchandising Environment explains the process of promotion and the promotion mix tools used for creating successful campaigns. With expanded coverage of digital media, updated examples and images of retail advertisements and promotional activities in each streamlined chapter, students will gain a full understanding of how to create a successful promotion campaign for retail products. New to This Edition ~Updated chapter-opening vignettes relate the content of each chapter to the industry ~Now in full color with 60% new photographs, advertisements, charts and graphs ~New Chapter 3 “The Creative Process in Promotion” explains how the elements and principles of design are used in promotional activities and illuminates the creative relationship between retailers and advertising agencies ~New Chapter 8 “New Media” covers interactive retailing, e-commerce, and social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest ~New end-of-chapter checklists for easy review of content and a new term-long advertising brand campaign assignment ~Emphasizes the concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC), the effects of consumers’ changing attitudes and how changes in technologies and distribution channels are driving communication and fashion promotion today ~Coverage has been streamlined to 14 concise chapters Instructor Resources ~Instructor's Guide with Test Bank provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom, supplemental assignments, lecture notes, and sample test questions ~PowerPoint presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussionTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Part I. Introduction to Promotion 1. What is Promotion? 2. Consumer Behavior 3. The Creative Process in Promotion 4. Fashion Forecasting Part II. Promotion Preparation 5. Promotion Organization 6. Promotion Planning and Budgeting Part III. Media 7. Traditional Media 8. Digital Media Part IV. Promotion Mix 9. Advertising 10. Direct Marketing and Sales Promotion 11. Public Relations 12. Personal Selling 13. Fashion Shows and Special Events 14. Visual Merchandising Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique volume aims to promote new models of sustainable management in the field of contemporary mural art. Cultural heritage has become an essential tool for society, stressing the necessity to properly conserve cultural resources in order to maintain a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable development. In this book, the mural "Allegory to Work" by the artist Felipe Seade, located in Uruguay, is used as a case study. The work of Felipe Seade, a prominent political mural artist of the twentieth century, reflects the influence of Mexican heritage and the socio-political themes of that time, which were commonly used by the Social Realism art movement. The authors look at the mural—and its restoration—through the lens of tourism, globalization, and new interest in cultural heritage. The book demonstrates that the restoration should be aware that the perspective of the protagonists must be incorporated in the intervention process. This first-of-its-kind volume brings together historical, ethnographic, tourism, and scientific research that leads to a sustainable project, from the point of view of identity, economy, politics, and society. This volume, with over 50 color illustrations and many black and white photos, will be valuable for college and research libraries, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professors in the field of cultural heritage and art as well as those involved in community-based research. Trade Review"Presents the point of view of the conservation and restoration of cultural assets, through the eyes of multiple disciplines: ethnography, art, science, and culture. It is a great work that clearly shows how to address the conservation of artworks in the society in which we live. The book provides the scientific method that professionals of the conservation of cultural heritage may apply to other cases. . . . Easy to read and well written, it has a coherent structure, where an accurate method is proposed, where all the links of the chain of protection of contemporary mural painting are linked, from research and study that includes its evaluation as works of art, up to its study as assets of social interest, combining the strategies and techniques of preventive conservation and museography, deepening in the contributions of science to reach its diffusion. It is a book that unites art and science, theory and practice, linking past and present but looking to the future." —María Dolores Ruiz de Lacanal Ruiz-Mateos, Professor, Department of Culture and History of Visual Arts, Seville University, SpainTable of ContentsIntroduction. Contemporary Uruguayan Mural Painting. Tradition and Relevance. Social Realism in Contemporary Mural Painting. Felipe Seade as the Main Figure of the Uruguayan Social Realism. The Contemporary Mural Painting "Allegory to Work". "On the Face of It": Wall-to-Wall Home Ethnography. Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Contemporary Community Art. Physical Identification and Digital Record of Painting. Colorimetric Characterization. Study of the Chemical Composition through Cross Sections: Optical Microscopy; Scanning Electron Microscopy: X-Ray Microanalysis. Technical Documentation Sheet of Painting. Scientific Cataloguing. State of Conservation. Restoration Process. The Use and Social Enjoyment of Murals: ‘The People’s Art’, Its Publics and Cultural Heritage. Preventive Conservation Policies. Guidelines to Stimulate Use and Social Enjoyment. Conclusions: Management, Touristic Promotion and Social Enjoyment of Contemporary Mural Painting.

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Book Synopsis* An essential resource for original business ideas, strategy and branding* How a single store grew into a $30-billion global market-leader* 100 per cent equity retained since the company was founded* Includes the IKEA briefing given to top management* The only warts-and-all view by a C-suite insider and right-hand man of its founderIKEA-branded products are bought all over the world - from the Americas to the Far East. This is the only book to tell from the inside with candour the IKEA story and how one man created its astonishing success from a modest furniture store in rural Sweden. Remarkably, the founding family still holds all of IKEA''s shares. Its unorthodox business philosophy has proven so successful that IKEA''s meteoric expansion continues to be financed from the company''s cash flow only. Without attracting public scrutiny, its founder became the richest man in the world while making IKEA a unique phenomenon among fast-growing businesses.

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Book SynopsisIf you're tired of Tourist Traps and Guilt Trips, or just want to have a positive impact on local people and their environment, this book is for you. Find hundreds of new ideas for your next holiday and visit amazing communities not listed in other guidebooks. The Ethical Travel Guide is a natural successor to Tourism Concern's hugely popular Good Alternative Travel Guide. It is the essential resource for responsible global travel. From construction projects in Tibet to luxury Greek island breaks, there is something for every taste and budget. The extensive directory in this new guide lists places to visit and stay in over 60 countries and other useful resources chosen by Tourism Concern for anyone interested in ethical and sustainable tourism 'because tourism should always benefit local people'.Trade ReviewHurrah for TETG then, which proves that, rich or poor, we don't have to stay at home to save the planet, and travel needn't necessarily involve excessive consumption and retrospective remorse...Easy to read and strangely compelling, TETG is an inspriration.' New Consumer 'How to travel ethically: read the Ethical Travel Guide' Evening Standard 'From simple local-style holidays, treks, construction projects in Tibet, art holidays, and culinary and luxury retreats, there is something to suit every taste and budget. This is the essential resource for responsible global travellers.' HippyShopper 'A crucial read for any environmentally-aware traveller' Ian Waller, Real Travel Magazine 'As ever, Tourism Concern is at the forefront of efforts to ensure that the benefits of tourism are shared much more equitably' Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future 'A directory of exciting and inspirational holiday experiences which do not exploit or damage the local community to suit all tastes and budgets.' The Bookseller, 27 Jan 2006 'For those who would love to see the world, but would like to do so without leaving an ecological footprint, this book guides you to all the best spots where you can taste the local delights, experience the unexpected and still feel sure that you haven't had a negative impact.' Daily Echo, Friday, Nov. 17, 2006 'If you are going to travel the world The Ethical Travel Guide is a great route planner both to help you understand the cultures, environment of people as well as contribute the maximum while disturbing the minimum.' Peter Shield www.naturalchoices.co.uk 'This travel guide will ... shed a whole new light on travelling and give potential travellers many new and wonderful ideas for alternative vacations... Even if you aren‘t planning a trip soon, it is inspirational to read about what people across the world are doing to make travel meaningful.' Treehugger.com 'A good leaping off point for time-poor holidaymakers who want to use limited travel time for a more truly enriching experience.' AdukiTable of ContentsForeword * Under an Ethical Sky * Africa * The Americas * Asia * Oceania * Europe * Tour Operators * Index

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Book SynopsisFor over three years, photographer Heike Thiele and writer Winifred McNulty have captured images and stories from the last traditional shops in the North West of Ireland. Their journey – across Donegal, Leitrim, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Sligo and Cavan –has taken them through an Aladdin’s Cave of drapery and hardware, to abandoned creameries and shops where empty shelves are filled only with the stories of different times. Based on a series of highly successful exhibitions across the North West, this book is a highly visual record of the stories of changing face of rural Ireland.

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Book SynopsisThe retailing industry has undergone revolutionary changes since World War II, such as the rise of large multiple companies, bigger stores, new technologies, and internationalization. This wide-ranging, three-volume collection traces the evolution of the industry from before the Industrial Revolution to the dramatic changes of the 1990s, and its topics include new retailing methods, out-of-town retailing, town-centre management, and the internationalization of the industry.Table of ContentsIntroduction - perspectives on retail change; retailing in pre-industrial Britain; coming of the mass market; retailing since 1945.

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Book SynopsisThis is a facsimile reprint in five volumes of nine travel guides and handbooks published for Western travellers in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century.The opening of the Suez Canal and the transcontinental ‘Pacific’ railway in America, both in 1869, made the world drastically smaller and initiated a new phase of word travel. Regular international services by steamships and the Pacific railways made travel to the Far East from either Europe or from America far simpler and cheaper.In order to respond to the demand from the growing number of steamship and rail passengers, many of whom were making a ‘world tour’, various guide books were published around this time. Some were small booklets, including timetables and/or tourist guides distributed only to the passengers, while others were thick handbooks, including encyclopaedic information about routes, ports, and towns. They included many illustrations, charts, and maps. These publications are now a vital source of historic data for anyone interested in the history of travel and tourism. They are also an important source for historians of the modernization of Asia and Japan, but, until now, most of them have been extremely difficult to obtain in good condition, their many fold-out pages being especially susceptible to damage.This new facsimile collection from Edition Synapse—now available outside Japan from Routledge—includes nine of the most important guides. Along with the entire texts, the collection also reproduces all the original maps, charts and tables.

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Book SynopsisThis is the fourth part of a successful facsimile series which reprints The Modern Traveller, originally published in 30 volumes between 1825 and 1829. Edited by Josiah Conder, the editor of journals like The Eclectic Review or The Patriot, The Modern Traveller was a successful series of travel books published just prior to Britain’s transport revolution which saw the development and rapid expansion of roads and railways. Reflecting Britain’s imperial ambitions and the expansion of its Empire around the globe, the series had global range, including coverage of the Middle East, Africa, North & South America, and Asia. It provided general readers with the latest information on each country’s geography, history, political situation, culture, customs, major cities, travel routes along historic sites, scenic spots, and so on. Each volume contains illustrations and foldout maps which are all faithfully reproduced in the reprint. The fourth part of the series is from the 20th to the 25th volume. It covers Africa and North America, which were both of geopolitical and of commercial interests to Britain in the early nineteenth-century, particularly in view of the slavery trade. Including very interesting descriptions and pre-Victorian British views of the area, these newly available volumes are a valuable source for any researcher interested in the history of the relationships between Britain and those new continents.Table of ContentsVol. 20: Africa 1General View of Africa / Discoveries of the Ancients / Discoveries of the Portuguese / Formation of the Royal African Company / Divisions of Africa, Ancient and Modern / Tripoli / History of Tripoli / Route from Tripoli to Bengazi / Lebida / Bengazi (Berenice) / From Bengazi to Cyrene / Teuchira / Ptolemeta / Cyrene / History of Cyrene / Apollonla / Derna / Marmarca, The / Character and Customs of the Arabs of Barca / Tunis / Ruins of Carthage / History of Carthage / From Tunis to Jerba / Susa / Kairwan / Bizerta / Tabarca / Algiers, Kingdom of / Bona (Hippo Regius) / La Cala / Constantina / Algiers, City of / Bombardment of Algiers by the British Fleet under Admiral Lord Exmouth / Constitution of the Algerine Government / Treatment of the Christian Slaves / Province of Tlemsan / Shershell (Julia Caesarea) / Oran / Tlemsan (or Tremesen) / Description of the Numidian Atlas / Morocco, History of / Morocco, Boundaries and Physical Geography / Territorial Subdivisions / Tangier / Tetuan / Larache / SalleeVol. 21: Africa 2Route from Tangier to Fez / Mequinez / City Of Fez / From Rabat to Modore / From Mododore to Morocco / City of Morocco / From Fez to Oushda / From Santa Cruz to Tarudant / Mount Atlas / From Tripoli to Mourzouk / Sockna / Black Mountains / Mourzouk / Manners and Customs of Fezzan / From Mourzouk to Germa and Ghraat / Zuela / The Tibboos / From Tagerhy to Kouka / Boundaries and Present State of Bornou / From Kouka to Mandara / From Kouka to Loggun / Begharmi / Dar Foor / From Kouka to Kano / Kano / From Badagry to Boussa / Katunga / Kiama / BoussaVol. 22: Africa 3Boussa / From Boussa to Kano / From Kano to Dunrora / From Kano to Soccato / Soccatoo / History of the Fellatah Sovereignty / Manners and Customs of the Fellatahs / Foolah States of Senegambia / Timbuctoo / Source of the Niger / Sources of the Gambia and Rio Grande / Source of the Falemme / Source of the Senegal / Senegamibia / Kingdom of Galam (Or Kajaaga) / Country of Bambook / Gold Mines of Bambook / The Yolofs / Kingdom of Woolli / Kingdom of Bondoo / Portuguese Coast / Bissao / The Feloops / The Bisagoes, or Bijugas, & C / Sierra Leone / History of the English Colony / Freetown / Languages Spoken in the Colony / The Timmanees / Institution of the Purrah / The Kourankoes / The Soollmlas / The Mandingoes / Windwar Coast / Colony of Liberia / Gold Coast / Fernando Po / Ashantee / Cape of Good Hope / History of the Cape Settlement / Statistical View of the Colony / Cape Town / Gnadenthal / Bethelsdorp / Eastern CoastVol. 23: North America 1General Statistical View of North America / Boundaries and General Divisions of the United States / Statistical and Historical View of the Aboriginal Nations / Physical Geography of North America / Description of the Great Lakes / The Mississippi / The Missouri / The Colombia / Tabular View of the Rivers of North America / Botanical Geography of the United States / General View of the American Confederacy / Tabular View of the Area and Population of the United States / History of the Discovery of North America / Settlement of Virginia / Settlement of New England / Settlement of New York / Settlement of New Jersey and Delaware / Settlement of Pennsylvania / Settlement of Maryland / Settlement of Carolina / Settlement of Georgia / Origin of the French War of 1755 / Siege of Quebec / Death of General Wolfe / Origin of Disputes with the Mother Country / Convention of the First Congress / Affairs of Lexington and Bunker's Hill / Politic Conduct and Tactics of Washington / Surrender of General Burgoyne / Independence of the United States Acknowledged by France / Horrible Effects of the Civil War / Surrender of Cornwallis / Peace between Great Britain and the United States / Adoption of a New Constitution / Presidency of Washington / Presidency of Adams / Death and Character of Washington / Presidency of Jefferson / Origin of the Second American War / Naval Contests / Advance of the British to Washington / Unsuccessful Attempt upon Baltimore / Defeat of the British at New Orleans / Restoration of Peace / General View of the Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the American Republic / Revenue of the United States / Topographical Description- New York / Erie and Champlain Canals / Population and Public Institutions of New York / Environs of New York / From New York to Lake Champlain / Valley of the Hudson / Albany / Saratoga and Balston Spa / Lake George / Lake Champlain / From Albany to Niagara / Falls of Niagara / Tuscarora Indians / Welland Canal / Boston / Harvard College / Rise and Progress of Unitarianism in America / Character of the Bostonians / Burke's Panegyric upon the New Englanders / Humorous Description of the Yankees / True Character of the New Englanders / General View of New England / Annual Cattle-Show of Massachusetts /State of Society, and Condition of Women in New England / Climate of New England / Valley of the Connecticut / Newhaven / Yale College / Princeton College / Andover College / Cornwall Theological Seminary / Constitution and Government of ConnecticutVol. 24: North America 2Philadelphia / Population of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia System of Prison Discipline / Causes of the Increase of Crime in the United States / Public Institution at Philadelphia / State of Literature in Philadelphia / Manner of the Americans / Environs of Philadelphia / From Lake Erie to Philadelphia / Wyoming / Moravian Settlements / Baltimore / Washington / House of Representatives / President's Levee / Constitution and Spirit of the Federal Government / Character of the First Six Presidents / Mount Vernon / From Washington to Richmond / The Rock Bridge / From Washington to Charleston / Charleston / Character and Effects of Slavery in America / From Charleston to New Orleans / Creek Indians / New Orleans / The Balize / From Natchez, through the Indian Territory to Richmond / Indian Ball-Play / Missionary Settlement at Elljot / Customs and Tradition of the Indians / Brainerd in the Cherokee Territory / Tennessee / Kentucky / Confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi / Louisville / Character of the Kentuckians / The Western States / Missouri / British America, General View of / Newfoundland / Nova Scotia / Canada / Qubec / Montreal / Kingston

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Book SynopsisThis is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs searching ways to tackle issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services. The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of what services are. Directed to the business world and combines inspirational text that is full of examples, with the features of a useful handbook of practical methods with associated templates. The central argument is that managers and entrepreneurs designing service offerings will benefit from using approaches and methods from design and the arts, especially at the early stages of projects. Sometimes called “design thinking” or “design innovation”, such approaches help organizations explore and create new configurations of people and things that support users, customers, staff and partners in creating value together. In short, this book argues that design and arts-based approaches are valuable to managers and entrepreneurs designing services, when uncertainty and ambiguity are high. It shows when and how to use these approaches, introduces specific methods, reviews their strengths and limitations, and finally helps managers think through what it takes to start using them in projects and within teams and develop the culture and behaviours that access the creativity they support.

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Book SynopsisThe retail sector has experienced exponential change in the past several years in the wake of the Internet revolution and globalisation. Supply-chain management has been turned on its head and competition has grown tougher. This book discusses about consumer marketing.Trade Review“…(a) compact text” (International Journal of Market Research, Vol.47, No.2, 2005)Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgements xi About the Author xiii Introduction 1 Meeting the Challenges 3 Overview of the Book 6 1 Earthquake! 9 Marketing in Crisis 10 The Evolution of Marketing 12 The Rise of Relationship Marketing 14 The Test of CRM 15 Changes in the Macro-Marketing Environment 18 Implications for Consumer Marketing 21 Summary Points 22 2 The New Consumer 23 Consumption in Transformation 23 Expansion of the Consumer Concept 24 Defence of Consumer Rights 25 Consumption Management in Question 27 A New Kind of Consumer 27 New Consumers Are Exercised By Time 28 New Consumers Lead Complex Lives 30 New Consumers Seek Experiences 31 New Consumers Are Marketing Literate and Highly Demanding 31 New Consumers Are IT Enabled 32 Implications for Consumer Marketing 33 Summary Points 34 3 Concerns of Brand Owners and Retailers 37 Key Issues for Brand Owners 37 The Force of Globalization 38 The Debate about the Future of Manufacturing 39 The Growth in Retailer Power 40 The Need to Balance Cost Reduction and Sales Growth 41 The Search for Innovation 42 The Retailers’ Response 42 Trading across Multiple Locations 43 Trading across Multiple Formats 44 Use of Multiple Channels 44 Editing Choice in Store 44 Enhancing Retail Branding 45 Developing Multinational Operations 45 Pursuing Customer Loyalty 45 Implications for Consumer Marketing 48 Summary Points 48 4 New Consumer Marketing 51 New Consumer Marketing – What Is it? 51 A Response to the New Consumer 52 A Response to the Interactive Marketplace 53 A Response to Ineffective Consumption Management 54 New Consumer Marketing – What Does it Mean? 55 Adopting Value-Centricity 55 Applying Science 57 Breaking out of Binary Thinking 58 New Consumer Marketing – Who Is Involved? 60 Implications for Consumer Marketing 61 Summary Points 61 5 A Model of New Consumer Marketing 63 To Recap 63 Key Challenges Facing New Consumer Marketing 65 Addressing the Concerns of Brand Owners and Retailers 65 Embracing the New Consumer 66 Developing Real Consumer Responsiveness 66 Lifting Marketing Out of its Crisis 67 The New Consumer Marketing Model 67 6 Value Definition 73 The Role of Insight in Value Definition 74 Identifying the Factors that Enhance, Maintain and Destroy Value 74 Understanding the Meaning of the Value Factors 78 The Role of Traditional Market Research in Value Definition 79 Using Quantitative Research 80 Using Qualitative Research 82 Need-States Analysis 86 The Role of Non-Traditional Market Sensing in Value Definition 88 Using Database Systems 88 Using CRM Systems 89 Using Front-line Staff 91 The Role of Segmentation in Value Definition 91 Creating a Segmentation Analysis 93 The Role of Insight Generators in Value Definition 97 Summary Points 99 7 Value Creation 101 The Role of Innovation in Value Creation 102 Consumers as Innovators 104 Innovation through Process or People? 106 Innovation as a Dynamic Capability 107 A Radical Approach to Innovation 109 The Role of New Product Development in Value Creation 111 The Role of Branding in Value Creation 113 Building Successful Brands 116 Emerging Brand Issues 119 The Role of Positioning in Value Creation 120 Drawing out the Emotional Message 121 The Positioning Process 123 The Role of Price in Value Creation 125 The Evaluation of Value 127 Summary Points 129 8 Value Delivery 131 The Role of Agility in Value Delivery 131 The Role of Media and Channels in Value Delivery 133 Making the Most of Media Choices 136 Making the Most of Channel Choices 139 The Role of Service in Value Delivery 141 Creating a Service Strategy 142 Recruiting and Motivating Staff 143 Empowering Employees to Live the Brand 146 The Role of Technology Integration in Value Delivery 148 The Role of the Supply Chain in Value Delivery 152 Competing through the Supply Chain 153 Consumer Responsiveness through Time Compression 154 Summary Points 159 9 Demand System Management 161 The Role of Intuition in Demand System Management 163 The Role of Culture and Structure in Demand System Management 165 Culture 165 Structure 168 The Role of Leadership, Vision and Values in Demand System Management 170 Leadership 170 Vision 171 Values 172 The Role of Employees in Demand System Management 175 The Role of Knowledge Management in Demand System Management 179 The Role of Planning in Demand System Management 181 The Role of Measurement in Demand System Management 185 Summary Points 187 Concluding Remarks 188 Notes 189 References 191 Index 197

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Book SynopsisA classic American success story with a twist Like J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie, Marshall Field was one of the overlords of triumphant capitalism in the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century. However, his phenomenal wealth and generous philanthropy masked a disastrous personal life.Trade ReviewUnless you knew better, you'd probably think that earning $40 million a year a century ago was a good thing. But you'd be mistaken, at least in the case of Marshall Field, according to Axel Madsen. In "The Marshall Fields," Mr. Madsen offers up a portrait of a man who made an awful lot of money but who also alienated his wife and family, devoting so much time to building his fortune that he didn't have much left over for anyone else - thereby setting into motion domestic troubles and, by extension, the troubles of his heirs and descendants. Well, perhaps so. It would not be the first time that a rich man had a less than ideal family life. Still, if money and entrepreneurial zeal can somehow compensate for personal failure, Field had plenty of both. He was one of the country's greatest retailers as well as one of its shrewdest financiers. Having started out as a dry-goods clerk in Pittsfield, Mass., when he was only 16 years old, Field quickly became a customer favorite. Five years later, in 1855, he moved to Chicago with a glowing recommendation from his boss and nearly $1,000 in savings. Eventually he would take control of the successful retail and wholesale operation owned by one Potter Palmer. When Mr. Palmer's health failed him, he offered Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter, a bookkeeper and colleague of Field's, a chance to buy his business. In time, the company became known as Field, Leiter & Co. and, later, Marshall Field & Co. It is here that Mr. Madsen is at his best. He explains that Marshall Field catered to his customers-overwhelmingly women-with a style that few merchants ever equaled. In Victorian America, writes Mr. Madsen, unescorted women were often unwelcome in city centers. But at Field's store, women were treated as royalty. Marshall Field's department store became symbol of elegance-affordable elegance for the prosperous middle classes. It eventually became, as well, the place for the women of Chicago to meet - and to meet in proper comfort. Mr. Madsen says that prior to the installation of toilets in Field's store, women who spent the day shopping had nowhere to turn. The Women's Gazette actually had to campaign in the 1870s for lavatories to be built in "hotels, restaurants, and tea shops. "Marshall Field's department store led the way. Unfortunately, most of Mr. Madsen's book lacks such vivid and reliable detail. It fails to explain how, by the 1880s, Field had become a significant investor in 30 major companies. And it sometimes trades in rumor. In his introduction, Mr. Madsen writes that Marshall Field's first wife "died in France, possibly a drug addict," but he has no evidence for this. Later in the book he even quotes John Tebbel, the author of "The Marshall Fields: A Study in Wealth" (1947), saying that the claim was a rumor spread by Mr. Field's rivals. Mr. Madsen suggests that Field might have had an affair with his best friend's wife - a rumor at the time - but again there is no evidence. Elsewhere he passes along the speculation that Marshall Field II, the patriarch's son, was killed by an irate prostitute in a Chicago brothel and then transported home; he also reports that it is possible that Field shot himself at home by accident. The rest of the Field generations get cursory treatment in Mr. Madsen's book, although they deserve more. The entertainment mogul Ted Field, for instance, is a fascinating sort of retailer's scion. In the early 1980s he forced the eventual sale of the remaining family assets in what was then known as Field Enterprises. (The trustees of Marshall Field's estate had sold 90% of the stock in the store to management in 1917. Today Marshall Field's is a unit of Target Corp.) With his stake, he went on to produce the hit movie "Revenge of the Nerds"; on the music front, his Interscope Records was perhaps the most successful independent label of the 1990s, featuring such performers as Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre. A long way from dry goods, one can't help thinking. A long way from Victorian America, too. —Mr. Trachtenberg is a Journal reporter. (Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2002)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. CHICAGO. 1. A Place to Linger. 2. Silent Marsh. 3. Partnerships. 4. Fire, Panic, and More Fire. 5. Instincts. 6. Marshall Field & Company. 7. Paid to Think. 8. Mile-a-Minute Harry. 9. Nannie. 10. Hostilities. 11. Giving Back. 12. Politics. 13. Delia. 14. Son and Father. 15. The Will. 16. Grandsons. NEW YORK. 17. Secrets and Spies. 18. How to Spend It. 19. Audrey. 20. Evolutions. 21. Roosevelt Radicals. 22. Patriot Games. 23. Coming of Age. 24. Bearing Witness. 25. Cold War. 26. Successions. LOS ANGELES. 27. The Crunch. 28. Each Generation Speaks for Itself. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisSmall Store Survival should challenge retailers'' views of smallstore retailing by questioning key areas of business. What is thevision for the store in 10 years? How have the customers changedover the past few years? How current are the managers about whatcustomers genuinely like and dislike? What is being done toattract, educate, and motivate the best retail talent in the area?How effective is the merchandising strategy? What plans exist forsuccession? The real lesson of this study is that the best retailers neverstop learning. They never stop growing. They never lose theirenthusiasm for the customers and the business. And they never ceaseto revel in change and the chance to deal with it. --from theExecutive Summary of Small Store Survival Small Store Survival Over the past decade, thousands of small retail stores have fallenvictim to overwhelming competition from huge discount chainsdetermined to take in every retail dollar in sight. But noteveryone succumTable of ContentsEconomic and Retail Trends. Customers and Marketing. Merchandising. Store Operations. Management. Human Resources. Finance. Case Studies. Management Tools. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisLooks at how retailing works and examines the narrative nature of retailing: how it can tell a story, and form a major element in the consideration of management of retail operations. This book also examines retail in its social context including examples and cases of numerous well known companies such as Tesco, Next and Galleries Lafayette.Trade Review"…this book is well presented and offers some vignette type cases to support learning…" (The Marketing Review, Winter 2002)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgment Introduction PART 1 INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT : THE ROLE AND HISTORY OF RETAIL CONSUMPTION Retailing History The Birth of Modern Consumption Consumption, Signs and Symbols PART 2 MANAGEMENT OF THE ARENA OF RETAIL CONSUMPTION A Dramaturgical View-Elements of the Drama: A Question of Perspective The Servuction Model and its Extensions The Physical Environment Merchandise Atmosphere and Image The Social Dimension The Temporal Dimension Customers' Psychological State PART 3 THE RETAIL ENTERPRISE IN CONTEXT The Strategic Context Service Characteristics and Context The Locational Context The Social and Ecological Context PART 4 THE RETAIL FUTURE Conclusions and Prognosis Index

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Book SynopsisProvides an approach to the subject of e-commerce, with coverage of key technologies and ideas on integrating them into useful applications. This work provides coverage of the technical aspects of web-based e-business.Trade Review"Available as a paperback student edition, the book is excellent value for money" (Computer Bulletin, May 2002)Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. PART I: TECHNOLOGIES (fundamentals). Internet and world wide web. Client-side programming. Server-side programming I: servlet fundamentals. Server-side programming II: database connectivity. Server-side programming III: session tracking. Basic cryptography for enabling e-commerce. Internet security. Advanced technologies for e-commerce. PART 2: APPLICATIONS. Internet payment systems. Consumer-oriented e-commerce. Business-oriented e-commerce. E-service. Web advertising and web publishing. Step-by-Step Exercises for Building the VBS. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book exemplifies the importance of sophisticated and intelligent spatial analysis techniques in dealing with the range of location, distribution and channel management issues which face todaya s retail and service businesses.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION TRENDS IN RETAILING Introduction Demand-Side Changes Trends in Distribution and Retail Supply The Regulatory Environment Conclusion RETAIL LOCATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS:PAST,PRESENT AND FUTURE Introduction The High Street or Town Centre The Superstore and Hypermarket The Discount Store The Shopping Centre or Mall The Retail Warehouse and Retail Park New Retail Locations New Retail Formats and Distribution Channels The Old versus the New Conclusion SPATIAL RETAIL GROWTH STRATEGIES Introduction Organic Growth Mergers and Acquisitions Franchising Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances Warehouse LocationConclusion SPATIAL RETAIL GROWTH STRATEGIES Introduction What is E-Commerce/Internet Retailing? Who Makes Money from the Internet? Understanding Consumer Preferences Examples of Internet Retailing in Different Sectors Geography,the Internet and E-Commerce Conclusion TERRITORY PLANNING Introduction Territory Management Balanced Workloads Ef .cient Organization Conclusion METHODS FOR SITE SELECTION Introduction An Inductive Approach to Site Selection A Deductive Approach to Site Selection Applied Location Modelling The Simplicity Spectrum SPATIAL INTERACTION MODELS FOR RETAIL SITE ASSESSMENT The Model and its Development Estimating the Small Area Demands for Products and Services The Supply Side Customer Flows and Store Revenues Providing a Decision-Support Capability The Development of a Cross Channel Management Planfor the City of Vienna for a Major Automotive Manufacturer Conclusion NETWORK REPRESENTATION PLANNING Introduction Case Study 1:Automotive Network Optimization Case Study 2:Financial Services Network Optimization Post-merger Network Optimization Retail network optimization Conclusion DIRECT MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL MANAGEMENT Introduction Geodemographics Enhancement of Geodemographics Lifestyle Databases Other Micro-Modelling Strategies A Financial Services Channel Simulation Model MEASURING THE BENEFITS OF SPATIAL MODELLING Introduction Returns on Capital Operational Ef .ciency Improved Competitiveness Strategic Value Applications to Market RegulationConclusion CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisNow--America''s #1 marketer and consultant puts together the firstcomplete guide to catalog sales! Starting & Building YourCatalog Sales Business Some of America''s best known and mostsuccessful businesses, such as Sears, Spiegel, L.L. Bean, andLands'' End, are catalog companies, earning a major percentage oftheir profits through catalog sales. If you''re a business owner orentrepreneur, now you can do the same with the help of this book.Written by bestselling author Herman Holtz, Starting and BuildingYour Catalog Sales Business is a complete guide to catalog salesthat explains how to get started in and manage a catalog businessprofitably. Packed with anecdotes, worksheets, and examples drawnfrom successful catalog sales businesses, it explains: * The basics of direct-mail selling and catalog sales * The secrets to creating catalog copy that really sells * The essential elements in the catalog mailing--including how tocreate a strong sales letter and a user-friendly order fTable of ContentsWhat Is the "Catalog Sales" Business? A Few Starter Ideas. What to Sell: Finding the Right Line. Basics of Marketing. Marketing via Catalogs and Mail. Writing Catalog Copy that Sells. The Important and Necessary Elements in the Mailing. Mailing Lists: A Critical Necessity. Costing, Pricing, and Accounting. What It Takes to Succeed. Financing Your Future. Miscellaneous Aids to Success. Appendixes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisSets out to explain fashion design and product development as an integrated process, the function of which is to market a continuous stream of garments at a profit. It explores materials, manufacture, costs, quality and the organization of the design and development process.Table of ContentsPreface. The Process and Structure of the Industry. Design and Innovation. Management of the Process of Design and Product Development. QualityCcontrol. Materials. Manufacture. Costs and Profits. Costs of product development. Operations management. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis extraordinary biography of Wal-Mart’s world shows how a Christian pro-business movement grew from the bottom up as well as the top down, bolstering an economic vision that sanctifies corporate globalization.Trade ReviewThis brilliant book could well become one of the most talked about nonfiction books of 2009–certainly among those who helped bring in the Obama era and likely among their opponents as well. -- Nancy MacLean, author of Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American WorkplaceA fascinating portrait of the interconnections of commerce, spirituality, and government in modern society. Moreton treats Wal-Mart as a great whale of a corporation that gathered religious and political significance as it traveled from Bentonville, Arkansas, throughout the US, on to Mexico, and to every corner of the globe. -- Walter A. Friedman, Harvard Business SchoolStartlingly original, creatively researched, and forcefully argued, this beautifully written book tells a compelling story about a crucially important player in modern American life. -- Bruce J. Schulman, co-editor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970sTo Serve God and Wal-Mart is a landmark study. Moreton's subtle blend of economic and cultural history compels us to rethink the history and geography of modern America. Revelations abound on every page. -- Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale UniversityMoreton unearths the roots of the seeming anomaly of "corporate populism," in a timely and penetrating analysis that situates the rise of Wal-Mart in a postwar confluence of forces, from federal redistribution of capital favoring the rural South and West to the "family values" symbolized by Sam Walton's largely white, rural, female workforce (the basis of a new economic and ideological niche), the New Christian Right's powerful probusiness and countercultural movement of the 1970s and '80s and its harnessing of electoral power. Giving Max Weber's "Protestant ethic" something of a late-20th-century update, Moreton shows how this confluence wedded Christianity to the free market. Moreton's erudition and clear prose elucidate much in the area of recent labor and political history, while capturing the centrality of movement cultures in the evolving face of American populism. * Publishers Weekly *[A] probing and nuanced study of the latter-day evangelical romance with free-market capitalism...Wal-Mart's folksy illusion relied in part on making store workers feel like family; in particular, on making female workers feel valued as wives and mothers. Moreton does an excellent job of digging beneath Wal-Mart's carefully imagineered vision of the rural good life. She not only recounts labor abuses such as the company's notorious failure to promote and reward women but also stresses how the company appealed to white Americans' feelings of entitlement...Its workers and the customers they served--often "friends, neighbors, and loved ones"--were the same: white Ozarkers nostalgic for a wholesome, more homogeneous, and largely imaginary yesteryear, for a past in which the best opportunities were reserved for people like them. -- Maud Newton * Bookforum *Like all historians who love their craft, Bethany Moreton is a gifted storyteller, and this book offers readers an engaging account of how a discount five-and-dime store conceived in the rural American Ozarks became the template for service work in the global economy...[An] impeccably documented and eloquently argued narrative, which will interest historians, sociologists and general readers...Her most significant contribution is to offer an explanation of the paradox that political pundits have pondered in recent years: why many middle Americans prioritize conservative social issues ahead of government policies that would presumably be in their economic self-interest. Moreton's careful, sometimes wry historical analysis demonstrates that when "values voters"--with many Wal-Mart workers surely among them--eschew economic benefits such as unionization, they do so out of allegiance to a radically new set of moral market priorities. The subjugation of the self to the global corporation, ironically, embraces a deeper set of ideals about the supremacy of family, the morality of self-reliance and the evangelical justification of free enterprise. To Serve God and Wal-Mart shows just how deeply entrenched these ideals are in the world's largest retailer, offering an intimate portrait of both the contradictions and conquests of the new service economy. -- Rebekah Peeples Massengill * Times Higher Education *Fascinating...With verve and clarity, Moreton offers something more distinctive: a compelling explanation of how Wal-Mart captured the hearts and pocketbooks of so many Americans. -- Steven P. Miller * St. Louis Post-Dispatch *Bethany Moreton's To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise views the company as product of its region, showing that its success has depended on a bizarre reconciliation of Northwest Arkansas's uneasy cocktail of anti-corporate populism, racial homogeneity, evangelical Christianity, and free enterprise...The mega-retailer is significant not only as a business success story but as an ideological triumph for the right. Bethany Moreton charts this triumph brilliantly. -- Liza Featherstone * The Big Money *Bethany Moreton's pathbreaking study, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise is an invaluable asset for apprehending how we got here. Her new book chronicles Wal-Mart's role in mainstreaming evangelical and free market values even as it became the world's largest public corporation and the nation's biggest private employer. A critical appraisal of how religion, politics and economics were interwoven in post-Vietnam American culture and society, To Serve God and Wal-Mart is also a bracing reminder that we, among the most materialistic people in the world, have turned a blind eye to the impact of material conditions on our actions, attitudes and beliefs. -- Diane Winston * Religion Dispatches *Walton made the cheerful, down-home, everyone-pulling-together family-farm values of his early frontline retail workers a hallmark of his emerging behemoth while earning their loyalty through policies, like flexible scheduling, that respected their "home duties."...To understand the lingua franca of today's workplace--with its talk of networking, entrepreneurialism, leadership, community service, and, above all, PR and communications--this book is indispensable reading. After all, we all live in Wal-Mart World now. -- Catherine Tumber * Boston Phoenix *Why are the people who are harmed the most by big business conservatism often the same people who are its most vociferous supporters? Bethany Moreton seeks to answer that question in her fascinating book, To Serve God and Wal-Mart. Not just some mainstream, shallow outsider's screed against rural American culture and politics, Moreton's book instead is an academic exploration of the social, political and religious upheaval in the post-WWII South that transformed blue-collar Democratic-voting white farmers into the religiously conservative suburban base behind Reagan-era corporate expansion...It'd be a mistake to discount Moreton's book because of political prejudice. Her work isn't a denunciation of rural rubes, but is instead a story of an energetic and creative people adapting to economic crises. The impulse to community that drives the success of Wal-Mart is no sin, but the exploitation of this impulse by corporations like Wal-Mart is damnable. -- Jay Stevens * Missoula Independent *[A] deeply researched account of the ideological underpinnings of the company's rise...[It] makes for compelling and provocative reading, complicating any simplistic view about why many Americans are enthusiastic about Wal-Mart, even as it seems to grind down wages, stamp out unions, advance a desolate model of exurban life, and eviscerate the small towns in its path. -- Rob Horning * popmatters.com *Much of what we learn from Moreton's book...raises serious doubts about whether the corporation's influence has been positive on balance. But in the process of describing the downside of Wal-Mart, [she] offers penetrating insights into why the chain has been so phenomenally successful...Moreton offers a gracefully written and meticulously researched account of why people not only have been willing to work for the company, but often have also developed fierce loyalty to it...Economists have long recognized the attractions of flexible working arrangements to some segments of the labor force. But Moreton also offers more novel observations about the lure of Wal-Mart. She explains, for example, how the company invoked the fundamentalist Christian teachings embraced by many of its employees to fashion a working environment that induced them to work contentedly for low wages and paltry benefits...Moreton argues that Walton and his fellow executives quickly recognized the economic advantage of weaving specific strands of the Ozark region's fundamentalist belief system into their corporate strategy...Moreton's book answers important questions about why workers have been willing to accept Wal-Mart's austere compensation package. -- Robert Frank * New York Times Book Review *Full of detailed and important information and gives a very good insight as to how the sunbelt states set about their development after the second World War...For those interested in the Southern Christian psyche it's a valuable reference. -- Noel Smyth * Irish Times *Essential reading for understanding not just Wal-Mart, but also America's general political and economic trajectory. -- David Moberg * In These Times *Moreton provides both a bird's eye view of the corporation's history and the in-store perspective of a great many interviewed employees. Her wide-lensed analysis includes in its focus aspects as divergent as the sleepy Ozarks of the early 20th century, the turbulent Latin America of the late 20th century and the network of conservative free market fundamentalists who dutifully prepared the way for Wal-Mart's meteoric rise...To Serve God and Wal-Mart can be seen as a case study, a scrutiny of the all-too-familiar larger phenomenon, that strange conflation of metaphysics and economics, where the Dow Jones average moves in mysterious increments according to unknown and unknowable vagaries, and the individual is sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit. Is this how a merciful God distributes His favor? Or could it be that religion is being used in that old familiar way, to legitimize exploitation otherwise abhorrent? -- Matthew Pulver * Flagpole *This is a history in equal parts of Wal-Mart and the world that Wal-Mart has made...Moreton reveals Wal-Mart's extraordinary capacity to develop cultural solutions for the very crises that its business model produced. Her prose is extraordinarily lucid and often provocative, and presents the subject in a manner that will hold interest for both scholars and general readers...To Serve God and Wal-Mart should become a standard text in business history courses, and deserves to be widely assigned--in whole or in part--in a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of the twentieth-century United States...In performing a deliberate inversion of more conventional approaches to business history, To Serve God and Wal-Mart greatly enriches our understanding of both Wal-Mart and the Sun Belt service economy. -- Angus Burgin * Enterprise and Society *Moreton charts the fortunes of Wal-Mart, the world's largest corporation, and analyses its collusion with the evangelical Christian movement. Hers is a thought-provoking general account of the effect "a Christian service ethos" has on American attitudes towards the free market. * New Statesman *Table of ContentsPrologue: From Populists to Wal-Mart Moms * Our Fathers' America * The Birth of Wal-Mart * Wal-Mart Country * The Family in the Store * Service Work and the Service Ethos * Revival in the Aisles * Servants unto Servants * Making Christian Businessmen * Evangelizing for Free Enterprise * Students in Free Enterprise *"Students Changing the World" * On a Mission: The Walton International Scholarship Program * Selling Free Trade * Epilogue: A Perfect Storm * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the outcome of EPARC supported three year research project involving seven major high-street retailing clients: Arcadia Group, Boots, Borders(UK), Halifax plc, Nationwide, Rubicon Retail Ltd, Pizza Express: and their supply chains.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Preface Part 1 - OverviewPart 2 - The Good Practice Framework How to use the Framework An Organisational Health Check Good Practice Framework recommendations Stakeholder and Change Management Conclusion to part 2Part 3 - Research Results Structure of part 3 Introduction to the research The research methodology Retail Strategy and management The retail refurbishment process The Wheel of Retailing Managing retail organisations in turbulent business environments Business Simulation case Study Conclusion to part 3 References Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Cavill is an experienced writer and broadcaster on all subjects related to companion animals. An acknowledged expert, he owns and publishes the magazine Dogs Monthly and is the founder of the Animal Care College, which provides courses in all aspects of animal care. Currently a consultant to the animal care industry, he has an extensive backgroundin kennel management, having owned and run a small boarding kennel and cattery, and managed a large establishment which included a grooming salon. He was formerly joint manager of Bell Mead, the country kennel of Battersea Dogs' Home.Trade Review"This book goes into every aspect of running a boarding kennel... it is invaluable to anyone contemplating kennel ownership and management. The author is well qualified to advise others." Dog Training Weekly "Dreamed of earning a living through your love of animals? This book has information on statutory requirements, feeding, staff and buildings." Daily Express "A splendid book which should answer all the questions new and prospective kennel owners want to ask." The National Dog Owners' Association "An absolute goldmine of information, guidance and common sense... an invaluable reference book." Kennel Gazette "Highly informative and well researched ... it is highly recommended." Our DogsTable of Contents Chapter - 01: Facing the Facts; Chapter - 02: Finding Your Property; Chapter - 03: Professional and Other Advice; Chapter - 04: Finance and Running Costs; Chapter - 05: Laws and Orders: Statutory Requirements; Chapter - 06: Health Matters; Chapter - 07: Feeding the Boarders; Chapter - 08: The Daily Round; Chapter - 09: Kennel Staff; Chapter - 10: Kennel Buildings; Chapter - 11: Fanfare; Chapter - 12: Expanding Your Business; Chapter - 13: Associated Services

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Book SynopsisMarkus Stahlberg (editor) is the CEO of Phenomena Group Ltd. Ville Maila (editor) is the Planning Director of Phenomena Group Ltd. Phenomena Group was the first shopper marketing company to be founded in Europe. It is the global leader in package promotions with more than 40 offices in as many countries.Trade Review"A fantastic read - no matter who you are in the organization" * Darren Marshall, Vice President, Global Customer & Shopper Marketing, The Coca Cola Company *Table of Contents Chapter - 22: Marketing as a crucial part of retailer partnership – Antti Syväniemi; Chapter - 23: Touching the elephant – Chris Hoyt; Chapter - 24: Future shock – Ken Barnett; Chapter - 25: Shopper marketing’s true potential – Dan Flint; Chapter - 26: Putting the shopper in your shopper marketing strategy – Matt Nitzberg; Section - THREE: What is shopper marketing in action?; Chapter - 27: Improving shopper marketing profitability with innovative promotions – Markus Ståhlberg; Chapter - 28: The circle of shopper marketing mechanization – Dick Blatt; Chapter - 29: Nestlé Rossiya, Russia – Lubov Kelbakh; Chapter - 30: Connected shoppers are here, now – but how do you connect with them? – Jason Rogers; Chapter - 31: Tesco Fresh & Easy, USA – Simon Uwins; Chapter - 32: Shopper-oriented pricing strategies – Jon Hauptman; Chapter - 33: Packaging can be your best investment – Russ Napolitano; Chapter - 34: The real power of brands in the digital world: what marketers must know about the online shopping decision process – Juliano Marcilio; Chapter - 35: ‘Too many choices’ – and their implications for package design – Scott Young; Chapter - 36: Maximizing ROI of package promotions – Ville Maila Chapter - 21: Shopper promotions: what can marketers learn from price discounts – Markus Ståhlberg; Chapter - 20: Capitalize on unrealized demand among shoppers – Al Wittemen; Chapter - 19: The missing link: turning shopper insight into practice – Toon van Galen; Chapter - 18: Bridging gaps: retail in the emerging Indian market – Dheeraj Sinha; Chapter - 17: Ensuring your brand gets on the shopping list – Robert Levy; Chapter - 16: Internationalization of shopper marketing – Ville Maila; Chapter - 15: The conversion model for shopper research – Clemens Steckner; Chapter - 14: Integrated communications planning for shopper marketing – David Sommer; Chapter - 13: Retail media: a catalyst for shopper marketing – Gwen Morrison; Chapter - 12: Tailing your shoppers: retailing for the future – AnnaMaria M Turano; Chapter - 11: Connecting, engaging and exciting shoppers – Michael Morrison and Meg Mundell; Section - TWO: Strategy: how to approach shopper marketing; Chapter - 10: The shopping motives of Chinese shoppers – Kevin Mu; Chapter - 09: The three shopping currencies – Herb Sorensen; Chapter - 08: For shoppers there’s no place like home – Harvey Hartman; Chapter - 07: Illogic inside the mind of the shopper – Michael Sansolo; Chapter - 06: Science of shopping – Gopi Krishnaswamy; Chapter - 05: Bringing shopper into category management – Brian Harris; Chapter - 04: Seven steps towards effective shopper marketing – Luc Desmedt; Chapter - 03: Shopper marketing: the discipline, the approach – Jim Lucas; Chapter - 02: Point of view on shopper marketing – Gordon Pincott; Chapter - 01: Science of shopping – Paco Underhill; Section - ONE: Definition: what is shopper marketing?; Chapter - 00: Introduction;

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Book SynopsisConstant Berkhout is a passionate practitioner of retail marketing and shopper psychology. He obtained a Master of Science in Economics Cum Laude with a major in Marketing at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Through his own agency, Berkhout works with retailers and suppliers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia including Conagra Brands, Danone, GrandVision, Heineken, JDE, Jumbo, Migros, SPAR International and Sonos. Before setting up his own agency, he held commercial and insights roles at Ahold Delhaize, Kraft, P&G and PepsiCo.Trade Review"A great handbook for many of the marketing professionals in the industry. It clearly outlines what strategies can be applied by retailers and manufacturers to make their shoppers happy, a concept that is often overlooked in the marketing mix. The passion of the author and his practical experience in retail marketing and shopper insights truly make this an invaluable read." * Marc Schroeder, SVP Global Nutrition, PepsiCo *"In this eminently readable book, Berkhout skilfully combines academic research and his own vast experience in retail marketing to provide a wealth of actionable insights for retail marketers. Retail marketers should heed his call to augment intuition with data to make fact-driven decisions." * Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp, Massey Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Marketing Area Chairman, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA *"Constant has written a book that will be indispensable to both in-retail professionals at all levels but also to their suppliers....There is an admirable wealth of detail from a range of industries and from many continents." * Andrew Seth, former CEO of Lever Brothers and co-author of The Grocers *"Constant does a great job dispelling many myths that exist around shopping behavior that everyone assumes are fact. The book comes to life with many real world examples from across retailer and categories that can be easily applied whether you are a retailer or a manufacturer. It gets your mind thinking about what you could do differently to influence the shopper and drive better results." * Bob Nolan, Senior Vice President Insights & Analytics, ConAgra Foods *"An accessible must-read for every professional in food and non-food retail, and everybody that wants to gain in-depth contemporary understanding of shopper behaviour. This book will provide all the needed insights to serve customers even better, create more shopper happiness and thus sell more, leading to a better and improved business tomorrow!" * Hans van der Heyden, Vice President GrandVision *"Shopper marketing and category management are made very accessible with this clear guide that is well underpinned through numerous illustrations and experiments, both from literature as from the author's wide own experience.... I particularly enjoyed the suggestion to move from gut feel to fact-based decision making, and this from (easy) pilots and experiments to (more advanced) big data analyses." * Jeroen Van de Broek, Director Category Development, Maxeda DIY Group *"Constant explains why and how to operate in multiple channels and to consider the emotional and experiential needs of consumers (who are not as rational and price-driven as retailers think they are). Important scientific studies and principles are illustrated with excellent examples from Constant's extensive retail experience. This book enables retailers to make data-driven decisions and thus catch up, and even surpass the current leaders in their field." * Koen Pauwels, Professor of Marketing at Ozyegin University and Honorary Professor at University of Groningen *Table of Contents Section - One: Shopper happiness; Chapter - 01: Delivering shopper happiness; Section - TWO: Shoppers are people; Chapter - 02: The myth of impulse purchasing; Chapter - 03: Tapping into irrational shopper behaviour; Chapter - 04: Understanding the shopper brain through neuro research; Section - Three: Channel choices; Chapter - 05: Channel preference: the future of the hypermarket channel; Chapter - 06: What the shopper wants from online shopping channels; Section - Four: Fact-driven decision making; Chapter - 07: Getting your assortment right; Chapter - 08: Really making loyalty card programmes work; Chapter - 09: Making big data digestible; Section - Five: In-store execution; Chapter - 10: The unstoppable growth of private labels and opportunities for A-brands; Chapter - 11: The unexplainable effect of music; Chapter - 12: Can scents work wonders?; Chapter - 13: Self-scanning is more than savings; Section - Six: Organizational development; Chapter - 14: The birth of category management; Chapter - 15: True customer understanding; Chapter - 16: Shopper marketing: new phase of trade marketing; Section - Seven: Embracing the shopper; Chapter - 17: Retailers in action to increase shopper happiness

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Book SynopsisNigel Clark is a non-executive director of the Professional Services Marketing Group. He is also the editor and lead author of the Professional Services Marketing Handbook, published by Kogan Page.Ben Kent is the founder-director of insight-led consultancy Meridian West. Ben advises leading professional and financial services firms and provides strategic research, consultancy and training.Alastair Beddow is a director at Meridian West, working with firms of all sizes to develop engaging, differentiated and successful client leading strategies.Adrian Furner is Managing Director of Kommercialize, a practitioner-led advisory firm focused on commercial excellence.Trade Review"This eminently practical handbook guides successful professionals on how to build the additional personal competencies they need to stand out as effective leaders. Through a robust interview process with industry leaders, as well as their many years of collective consulting experiences, the authors present a series of thoughtful frameworks and a synthesis of well-constructed leadership lessons. It all amounts to a really useful companion for those who have committed themselves to making the challenging personal transitions ahead - tomorrow's leaders!" * David Bowerin, former Head of Strategic Marketing at Citigroup *"The Professional Services Leadership Handbook is an excellent tool for future and experienced leaders operating in a dynamic, and ever changing business-to-business environment, where differentiation is a critical success factor, and where leaders often misunderstand how to lead. This is a must read handbook." * Michelle Jones, Chief Communications and Investor Relations Officer, CH2M *"The authors successfully distinguish the difference between delivering projects and leading professional services firms...This book helps to guide anyone in the industry from project / delivery management to leading teams and businesses to optimise performance." * Marc Barone, AECOM Sector Leader, Water EMIA *"At last a professional services leadership guide that's based on well researched and real experiences, I would recommend this is read by anyone who seriously wants to gain an extra edge." * Dennis Markey, FRICS *"An essential read if you are either a leader or an adviser to the top team of a professional services firm." * Gail Jaffa, Managing Partner, PSMG *"The Professional Services Leadership Handbook is really interesting, hugely practical and a thoroughly good read. Professionals entering the unfamiliar world of leadership will find clear, readable and entertaining advice, peppered with insights from firm leaders. The "how to" approach to knotty issues such as strategy, profitability and client focus is particularly helpful, as is the focus on you as a leader and how you can develop the right skills and mind-set. If you are a leader, or you want to be one, keep this book close, as it will be an invaluable companion. I wish it had been written twenty years ago!" * Nick Holt, Partner at SR Search and former Managing Partner, KLegal *Table of Contents Section - ONE: Business Leadership; Chapter - 01: Vision – How to Create and Implement a Robust Strategic Plan; Chapter - 02: Innovation – How to Reap the Benefits of Innovation in your Firm; Chapter - 03: Performance – How to Improve the Profitability of Client Engagements; Section - TWO: Client Leadership; Chapter - 04: Understanding – How to Stay Attuned to the Changing Needs of your Clients and Markets; Chapter - 05: Connecting – How to Foster a Client-Focused Culture in your Firm; Chapter - 06: Sales – How to Improve your Firm’s Client Development Success; Section - THREE: People Leadership; Chapter - 07: "Future-Fit" – How to Foster a Commercial Mind-Set in your Firm; Chapter - 08: Motivate and Collaborate – How to Create High-Performing Teams; Chapter - 09: Performance – How to Establish a Culture of Continuous Improvement; Section - FOUR: Self Leadership; Chapter - 10: Forward Reflection – How to Assess your Leadership Potential; Chapter - 11: Capability – How to Develop the Skills, Competencies and Experiences to be a Successful Leader; Chapter - 12: Balance – How to Succeed as a Leader without Burning Out

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Book SynopsisJohn Fernie is Emeritus Professor of Retail Marketing at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He has written and contributed to numerous textbooks and papers on retail management, especially in the field of retail logistics.Leigh Sparks is Professor of Retail Studies at the Institute for Retail Studies, University of Stirling, Scotland. He is on the editorial boards of several leading marketing and business journals.Trade Review"The book offers a wide range of contemporary insights from subject-specific experts. It is a valuable and flexible teaching resource and, most importantly, an interesting read for everyone who is passionate about retailing and distribution management." * Christoph Teller, Chair in Retailing and Marketing, Head of Marketing and Retail Management, University of Surrey, UK *"This new edition of Logistics and Retail Management is more relevant and timelier than ever. The book helps the reader understand the complexity of logistics and supply chain management issues in retail through through theory and interesting cases that everyone can relate to. The challenges of supply chain practice, such as ethical and environmental issues, are dealt with in a very informative and constructive way." * Britta Gammelgaard, Professor, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark *"I continue to recommend this book to students. This fifth edition, which reflects the increasing CSR, technological and environmental impacts on retail supply chains, is a well written, highly relevant and up-to-date resource for all retail logistics and supply chain management courses. This is an essential read, achieving the ideal balance between academic and practitioner perspectives of changing retail logistics and supply chains." * Cathryn Hart, Senior Lecturer, Retailing and Operations Management, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Retail Logistics – Changes and challenges [John Fernie and Leigh Sparks]; Chapter - 02: Relationships in the supply chain [John Fernie]; Chapter - 03: The internationalization of the retail supply chain [John Fernie]; Chapter - 04: The international fashion supply chain and corporate social responsibility [Patsy Perry, John Fernie and Steve Wood]; Chapter - 05: The footwear supply chain – The case of Schuh [John Fernie and Colin Temple]; Chapter - 06: Supply chain strategy in the fashion and luxury industry [John Fernie and Patsy Perry]; Chapter - 07: Tesco’s supply chain management [Leigh Sparks]; Chapter - 08: On-shelf availability in UK retailing [John Fernie and David B Grant]; Chapter - 09: The development of e-tail logistics [John Fernie, Suzanne Fernie and Alan McKinnon]; Chapter - 10: The greening of retail logistics [Alan McKinnon and Julia Edwards]

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Book SynopsisRowland Gee is former Chief Executive of Moss Bros Group plc. Under his leadership, Moss Bros entered a strategic business relationship with Hugo Boss, resulting in the UK establishment of the brand. He is co-founder of Grey4Gold Ltd, a professional skills matching service for retail. Danny Sloan was BAA Director of Planning 2012, ensuring BAA airports delivered the First and Lasting Impression for the UK across its airports during the London Olympics. He is co-founder of Grey4Gold Ltd. Graham Symes is an experienced finance director in retail and wholesale fashion, with clients including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Selfridges, and Christian Lacroix.Trade Review"Retail is detail! If I had had the benefit of reading this book before I opened my first shop in The Royal Exchange, it would have been plain sailing." * Simon Crowther, Senior Executive in the retail, clothing and manufacturing industry *"When we first introduced the Hugo Boss brand to the UK, Rowland Gee fully understood the brand philosophy and its potential. Our unique marketing strategy, as well as the advanced styling and use of new materials, were warmly welcomed by the Cecil Gee clientele. This led to the eventual development of Hugo Boss standalone shops which were managed and run successfully by Rowland's company without ever compromising the ethos of the brand. This book highlights his wealth of experience and his expertise in retail." * Detlef Doerge, former Managing Director, Hugo Boss UK *"There are many grey areas in business along with the noise created by excessive information that doesn't address the real issues. The Retail Start-Up Book provides practical, up-to-date information from seasoned businessmen. It's an invaluable resource for anyone starting a business." * Toks Aruoture, Founder, The Baby Cot Shop *"Rowland was and still is one of the most passionate retailers on the UK high street. His energy has always stood out, as have his taste levels. He always taught those around him to have a can-do attitude in all circumstances, and The Retail Start-Up Book is a manifestation both of his enthusiasm and the generosity with which he offers guidance to new businesses." * Simon Berwin, former Managing Director, Berwin & Berwin Ltd *"Rowland Gee came on board at Me and Maya as a consultant for a year in 2016 to help streamline the business and steer it in the right direction. His help was invaluable in making me realize the brand had a market and that I should pursue selling online. This book brings much of that advice into one resource." * Lalita Russell-Smith, Founder, Me and Maya *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Getting to grips with retail; Chapter - 01: The issues facing the UK retail trade today; Section - TWO: Creating your retail marketing plan; Chapter - 02: Analysing and positioning your retail business in the existing market; Chapter - 03: Generating a powerful SWOT analysis for your retail business; Chapter - 04: Planning your retail marketing strategy; Chapter - 05: Building your retail marketing mix; Chapter - 06: Winning in retail – know your market, know your customer; Chapter - 07: Understanding the basic principles of shopping; Chapter - 08: Attracting and retaining customers online, using on-brand content and social media; Section - THREE: Effective finance planning and control; Chapter - 09: How to kickstart your retail business; Chapter - 10: Generating a results-driven business plan; Chapter - 11: A straightforward guide to sales, stock and profit; Chapter - 12: Selection and management of retail systems and controls; Section - FOUR: Buying and visual merchandising; Chapter - 13: Step one to procurement and merchandising – Understand your business and the marketplace you will be entering; Chapter - 14: Efficient buying techniques to make money; Chapter - 15: Controlling and measuring product performance and establishing KPIs; Chapter - 16: Building and maintaining relationships in retail for long-term returns; Chapter - 17: Understanding customers’ behaviour and information overload – The need to make the product focused, visually clear and correctly price-positioned; Section - 18: Maximizing customer feedback and the visual experience; Chapter - 19: Visual merchandising – Managing space performance, layout and add-on selling to encourage purchase; Chapter - 20: Creating your global signpost through online merchandising; Section - FIVE: Challenges for bricks-and-mortar retailers; Chapter - 21: Understanding your lease – and how local authorities can benefit you; Section - SIX: How good should become sensational; Chapter - 22: Why good today is not good enough in the current retail trade; Chapter - 23: Conclusion – Your journey

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Book SynopsisRowland Gee is former Chief Executive of Moss Bros Group plc. Under his leadership, Moss Bros entered a strategic business relationship with Hugo Boss, resulting in the UK establishment of the brand. He is co-founder of Grey4Gold Ltd, a professional skills matching service for retail. Danny Sloan was BAA Director of Planning 2012, ensuring BAA airports delivered the First and Lasting Impression for the UK across its airports during the London Olympics. He is co-founder of Grey4Gold Ltd. Graham Symes is an experienced finance director in retail and wholesale fashion, with clients including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Selfridges, and Christian Lacroix.Trade Review"Retail is detail! If I had had the benefit of reading this book before I opened my first shop in The Royal Exchange, it would have been plain sailing." * Simon Crowther, Senior Executive in the retail, clothing and manufacturing industry *"When we first introduced the Hugo Boss brand to the UK, Rowland Gee fully understood the brand philosophy and its potential. Our unique marketing strategy, as well as the advanced styling and use of new materials, were warmly welcomed by the Cecil Gee clientele. This led to the eventual development of Hugo Boss standalone shops which were managed and run successfully by Rowland's company without ever compromising the ethos of the brand. This book highlights his wealth of experience and his expertise in retail." * Detlef Doerge, former Managing Director, Hugo Boss UK *"There are many grey areas in business along with the noise created by excessive information that doesn't address the real issues. The Retail Start-Up Book provides practical, up-to-date information from seasoned businessmen. It's an invaluable resource for anyone starting a business." * Toks Aruoture, Founder, The Baby Cot Shop *"Rowland was and still is one of the most passionate retailers on the UK high street. His energy has always stood out, as have his taste levels. He always taught those around him to have a can-do attitude in all circumstances, and The Retail Start-Up Book is a manifestation both of his enthusiasm and the generosity with which he offers guidance to new businesses." * Simon Berwin, former Managing Director, Berwin & Berwin Ltd *"Rowland Gee came on board at Me and Maya as a consultant for a year in 2016 to help streamline the business and steer it in the right direction. His help was invaluable in making me realize the brand had a market and that I should pursue selling online. This book brings much of that advice into one resource." * Lalita Russell-Smith, Founder, Me and Maya *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Getting to grips with retail; Chapter - 01: The issues facing the UK retail trade today; Section - TWO: Creating your retail marketing plan; Chapter - 02: Analysing and positioning your retail business in the existing market; Chapter - 03: Generating a powerful SWOT analysis for your retail business; Chapter - 04: Planning your retail marketing strategy; Chapter - 05: Building your retail marketing mix; Chapter - 06: Winning in retail – know your market, know your customer; Chapter - 07: Understanding the basic principles of shopping; Chapter - 08: Attracting and retaining customers online, using on-brand content and social media; Section - THREE: Effective finance planning and control; Chapter - 09: How to kickstart your retail business; Chapter - 10: Generating a results-driven business plan; Chapter - 11: A straightforward guide to sales, stock and profit; Chapter - 12: Selection and management of retail systems and controls; Section - FOUR: Buying and visual merchandising; Chapter - 13: Step one to procurement and merchandising – Understand your business and the marketplace you will be entering; Chapter - 14: Efficient buying techniques to make money; Chapter - 15: Controlling and measuring product performance and establishing KPIs; Chapter - 16: Building and maintaining relationships in retail for long-term returns; Chapter - 17: Understanding customers’ behaviour and information overload – The need to make the product focused, visually clear and correctly price-positioned; Section - 18: Maximizing customer feedback and the visual experience; Chapter - 19: Visual merchandising – Managing space performance, layout and add-on selling to encourage purchase; Chapter - 20: Creating your global signpost through online merchandising; Section - FIVE: Challenges for bricks-and-mortar retailers; Chapter - 21: Understanding your lease – and how local authorities can benefit you; Section - SIX: How good should become sensational; Chapter - 22: Why good today is not good enough in the current retail trade; Chapter - 23: Conclusion – Your journey

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Book SynopsisThis books examines the Hudson's Bay company exploration efforts beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean from 1793 to 1843 – which led to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America.Trade ReviewTrading Beyond the Mountains is an overview of the development and expansion of trade by the Hudson’s Bay Company before the establishment of Fort Victoria. Well written and well researched, it is not a history of forts and people, but of HBC policy in the Columbia District and the evolution of its non fur-trade enterprises such as lumber and salmon-fishing. -- Bob Griffin * Discovery Magazine *By 1840 the company had developed an integrated commercial economy in this huge area and had virtually destroyed American competition. Individual American trappers and traders could not match HBC capital and organization. -- John Killick * Economic History *Trading Beyond the Mountains is meticulously researched and annotated, and supported with maps, tables and a massive bibliography of primary and secondary materials, published and unpublished. -- John McCrystal * Journal of Pacific History *Mackie has delved into obscure and little-known documents to produce a comprehensive study of an unknown period of our history. -- Judy Hagen * Comox Valley Echo *Trading Beyond the Mountains … will hopefully initiate a much-needed reevaluation of the role played by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the history of Western North America. -- Jean Barman and Roderick J. Barman * Business History Review *What role did Natives play in the Company’s commerce? Recognizing the existence of a Native exchange system featuring haiqua (shells) and slaves, Mackie sees the Company as committed to fitting into it. -- Robert Kubicek * BC Studies *Over these five decades, Mackie argues that the economic development of the region was dramatic: in 1793 commerce consisted primarily of a riverine fur trade; by 1843 the region possessed the rudimentary elements of a commercial economy, including established trade routes, export trades, local markets, and a large and cheap labour supply. -- Brian Gobbett * B.C. Historical News *Trading Beyond the Mountains is a significant contribution to the emerging national meta-narrative. -- Robert C. H. Sweeney * Labour/ Le Travail *Trading Beyond the Mountains ... includes an important chapter on Native peoples’ (including slaves’) fundamental role in labour and trade practices. -- Keith Thor Carlson, Melinda Marie Jette, and Kenichi Matsui * The Canadian Historical Review *Mackie produce[s] a well-balanced and orderly account of the British fur trade across a huge area of the North American continent. -- Glyndwr Williams * Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History *Mackie covers his selected topic in an engaging, highly readable, and beautifully illustrated book … This is a welcome addition to the literature of commercial policy and history of the Pacific west coast. -- Carl Beal * Native Studies Review *This [is] exceptionally well documented history. -- P. T. Sherrill * Choice *Richard Mackie’s Trading Beyond the Mountains is a milestone study of the Hudson’s Bay Company. It is a fresh approach to an old subject and is based in thoroughly modern research. It should be read by anyone interested in the history of the fur trade or the early history of the Canadian or American West. -- Dick Wilson * Letters in Canada *This solid, narrative-based historical geography should become the standard bearer on the origins and evolution of the eighteenth- and nineteenth century British fur trade in the Pacific Northwest. -- Keith Edgerton * Oregon Historical Quarterly *Fluently written, abundantly documented, and supplemented with numerous informative and beautifully crafted maps, Mackie’s portrayal of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s dynamic and multifaceted Pacific economy leaves a strong impression… -- Pekka Hämäläinen * Pacific Historical Review *...an excellent and readable book [that] belongs in the library of every historian and historical geographer with interest in western North America. -- John L. Allen * Journal of Historical Geography *The book [Trading Beyond the Mountains] is a magisterial history of commerce … The interpretation is illuminating, and accordingly, every student of the northeast Pacific’s history should read this book. -- David Nicandri * Alaska History *Richard Mackie has made an important contribution, and this work is an essential acquisition for the libraries of scholars with an interest in the maritime fur trade, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the region. -- James Delgado * The American Neptune *Trading Beyond the Mountains breaks new ground in documenting the scale and diversity of commercial operations by the Hudson’s Bay Company. * Booknews *This book will prove extremely useful for anyone seeking information on the HBC’s business in the western part of its territory. -- Edith Burley * The Canadian Historical Review *This book is an important contribution to western historiography, and it will have a long shelf life as a reference work. -- Barry Gough * Albion *This book is an original account, splendidly researched, of a neglected period in west coast economic history. -- Harry Duckworth * The Beaver *An exemplary study – thoroughly researched, clearly written, and voluminous… -- Joel Martineau * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *A fascinating look at the history of economic development in the Pacific Northwest. * Books on Canada *This well-timed narrative provides the first clear account not only of the economic origins of British Columbia but also of the maritime adventures of what had become the largest private landowner in the world -- Douglas Farnie * English Historical Review *Trading Beyond the Mountains is a thoroughly researched and comprehensive history of five decades of the fur trade … clearly written and well documented …. an excellent resource for students and those interested in the fur trade.　　 * Comox Valley Record *Trading Beyond the Mountains provides a long overdue examination of the activities of the NWC and HBC as they expanded into territories lying west of the Rocky Mountains. -- Linda Hogarth * Musings *The author weaves a detailed account of the scale and scope of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s diverse commercial operations in the region and the expansion of their activities along the Pacific coast of North America. -- Joseph Leydon * Canadian Book Review Annual *This is not simply a history of the fur trade. Mackie presents a picture of the HBC as a dynamic, flexible commercial enterprise, devising strategies to defeat American competitors and expand trade into new commodities and new areas … The book is a valuable addition to scholarship. -- Barbara Messamore * British Journal of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsFigures, Maps, and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The North West Passage by Land2 Managing a New Region3 George Simpson and a New Pacific Commerce4 Nature Here Demands Attention5 From Fort Vancouver to the Vermilion Sea6 The North West Coast7 New Markets for New Exports8 Columbia Country Produce9 Beyond the Mere Traffic in Peltries10 Crisis in the Fur Trade11 Simpson's Reorganization12 The Native Foundation of Trade and LabourConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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