Do New Technologies Prevent Consumers From Being Loyal to Brands?
Essay - 4 pages - Clients and users behaviour
The digitilization of the world is disrupting all human activities. By modifying the way we obtain, transmit and exchange information, digital technology is profoundly changing the way we consume, trade and communicate. New technologies are also disrupting our approach to marketing and especially...
Does displaying nutritional information in fast food restaurants impact consumers ?
Essay - 22 pages - Medical studies
In Western societies food is usually readily available, but poor nutritional choices have been linked to poor health as well as to such things as diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Often these choices involve fast food. (NHS Choices, undated):- The observed association between the number of...
Are Consumers Interested In Ingredients? - Horse Meat Scandal, Europe
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Time and again, most consumers purchase items from the shops including groceries and other food products without considering the ingredients that make up the food product or the grocery. However, recent findings and scandals regarding ready-made food and grocery, most notably, the...
Consumers perception of scented brands
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
It is widely accepted that olfaction is a special sense for several reasons. The sense of smell is closely connected to the amigdala, which process emotions, and the hippocampus, which processes memories. That's why smell can bring up memories long forgotten, pleasant or not. This special feature...
Thesis Proposal: The Utilization of Endorsers in Marketing and Advertisement, and Their Influence on Consumers
Essay - 4 pages - Services marketing
Companies are using endorsers to market, advertise and promote their products and services. These endorsers have a real and proved influence on the consumers and in adequation on their consumption habits. It is frequent to see celebrities on advertisement, for some big companies, which can...
A study on purchase intention of internet consumers using fuzzy ART (Adaptive Resonance Theory)
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Logistics
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the purchase intention of consumers in the online bookstore. AIO (Activities, Interests and Opinions), a method of measuring consumers' lifestyle, and Factor Analysis are performed to understand consumers' propensity and to find out the...
Trust online and the opinion of former consumers
Dissertation - 72 pages - Economy general
This study examines the issue of trust and the influence of the opinion of former users in electronic commerce. The lack of trust is the main reason why people are still reluctant to purchase online. Lack of trust is due to many reasons in online business, no physical contact, risk of theft of...
The protection of consumers on Internet
Essay - 15 pages - Other law subjects
The recent boom of the internet in Europe and the emergence of a new kind of commerce (e-commerce) led to a widening of the commercial offers that can be proposed to the consumers. Simultaneous with such an expansion in internet offering come the demand for online security regarding the...
A "fat tax" to encourage consumers to switch away from fats, sugar and processed foods
Essay - 4 pages - Government finance
People are obviously getting more and more fat. This fact cannot be denied. That is why, to curb this phenomenon, Kelly Brownell launched the idea of applying a fat tax on unhealthy food, in his article published in the New York Times in 1994. Such a tax could encourage people to buy less...
Study of Auchan: Understanding its consumers behaviour
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
Auchan is one of the world's leading retail groups. As shown on appendix 1, this group operates 357 hypermarkets in 11 countries across the world, and 649 supermarkets in France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia and Morocco. In France, Auchan has two main competitors Leclerc and Carrefour, its market...
The impact of negative rumors on consumers' behaviors
Essay - 13 pages - Services marketing
Mac Donald's has been one of the most famous victim of negative rumors, with the “wormburgers' scare” (Newsweek, 1977). “Wormburgers” are hamburgers made with worms-based steak. In 1977, an astonishing rumor took birth in the United States, blaming the famous hamburger firm to...
What should advertisers do to make online advertising more engaging to consumers?
Thesis - 3 pages - Management
Internet offers a wide range of possibilities. This overview of the different tools that advertisers can use shows how much Internet is opening to a new world of communication.But Internet has also generated an historical revolution concerning relationships between brands and consumers. In...
The phenomenon of fandom: Refuting the view that consumers of mass media culture are passive cultural dopes?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the last century television, film and video came to dominate the mass mediated world and increasingly continues to do so today with an abundance of entertainment being brought into the homes of millions of people globally provided by the culture industry. A popular and traditional view of mass...
Evaluation of print media as a medium of advertising with respect to consumers and advertisers
Dissertation - 46 pages - Services marketing
The topic Evaluation of print media as a medium of advertising with respect to consumers and advertisers is one of the best topics, which focuses on the print media sector as one of the means of providing services to the society that carries the idea or message of the marketer to the...
Neuromarketing: is looking into the consumer's brain morally justifiable?
Essay - 11 pages - Marketing theories
In 2004, a study conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, demonstrated that certain brand attributes and messages can shape personal preferences through their effect on the human brain. Using the famous Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi rivalry as a basis for their research, they scanned...
How do brands manage to create genuine consumer communities through social networks? Case Study of Starbucks and Burger King
Dissertation - 7 pages - Digital & e-marketing
With the emergence of the Internet, any business wishing to retain consumers and increase brand awareness must have an excellent digital marketing strategy. For this, brands generally turn to social networks that allow them to create a community of loyal and engaged consumers while...
The Consumer Decision-Making Process: The Shoe Buying Process
Case study - 12 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
In marketing to understand the decision-making process of a consumer; it is important to first comprehend the behavior of the consumer in order to identify the elements of this behavior in front of a product such as, for example, the needs, the motivations, and others; he may have...
Sustainability in the Fashion and Apparel/Consumer Products Industries
Essay - 4 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
Sustainability in global industries such as Fashion & Apparel, Consumer Products, and Food & Agriculture is a major subject of society. All of these industries face major sustainability-related problems and challenges that they need to overcome to protect the planet. Among these...
The relationship between consumer education and consumer buying behavior in UAE
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Worldwide evolution is dependent on the current and great developments in the technological and industrial sectors. As a result, many players in the business environment are competing insistently in order to capture wider markets. This is greatly influenced by the business education in a country...
The Brazilian economy: Consumer X Interest
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
In the previous part, we have seen that, in theory, the consumer reacts negatively to an increase in interest rates. We will seek to verify this part of the chapter the behavior of interest variables, consumption and inflation in the Brazilian economy after the adoption of inflation...
Global Critical Thinking: China's Counterfeit Consumer Goods-Good or Bad?
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Critical thinking is more than a phrasal buzz, a reflective thought rather than a routine thought. Critical thinking involves persistent and careful processes of considerations of credibility and solutions to the supposed global issues. There are global issues that need to be addressed by the...
Inflationary goal models and interaction with the consumer - The Brazilian case
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Central Bank, in order to achieve the inflation target, use the instruments of monetary policy at your disposal. The main one is the aggregate demand control via interest rates. Whenever there are inflationary pressures, interest rate of the economy increases. Consumption is reduced in favor...
Head & Shoulders: A Comprehensive Look at Consumer Behaviour
Case study - 18 pages - Services marketing
This report provides an analysis and evaluation of Procter & Gamble's hair care line, Head & Shoulders. With Head & Shoulders new marketing campaign, this report analyses the effectiveness of this campaign in comparison to the ever growing competition of other anti-dandruff hair care products in...
Principles and practices of consumer's protection within the European Union
Thesis - 19 pages - European law
The European Union aims at protecting the health, safety and economic well-being of its citizens. It promotes their rights to information, helps them safeguard their interests and encourages them to set up consumer associations. Consumer policy is designed to improve the quality of...
To what extent does e-commerce favour market facilitation over consumer objectives?
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
Traditional business models cite “location, location, location” as the critical factor for commercial success, however the hallmark of e-commerce is that issues of location in the physical sense are not relevant . As such, the concept of “location” has created an internal...
Consumer empowerment
Thesis - 6 pages - Services marketing
With the growing industry of ethics consumption and environmental friendly products, the marketing industry has radically changed its traditional system of approaching their consumers. Indeed their marketing strategies are much more customer driven as the “authority of...
A look at the consumer response to creativity in advertising
Dissertation - 56 pages - Services marketing
This chapter will provide an outline of the topics that will be covered in this proposal. It will briefly give an overview of the proposed research topic and acknowledge the importance of this study. Next, the literature review and the methodology chapters will be summarized. This will give a...
Consumer Protection Act of India: When the consumer is a king
Thesis - 31 pages - Other law subjects
A consumer is a user of goods and services. Any person paying for goods and services which he uses is entitled to expect that the goods and services are of a nature and quality promised to him by the seller. The earlier principle of "Caveat Emptor" or "let the buyer beware" which was...
Theory of consumer choice
Thesis - 14 pages - Services marketing
The concept of ‘utility' was introduced to social thoughts by Bentham in 1789 and to economic thoughts by Jevons in 1871. The neo-classical economists devised the following system to measure the utility of a commodity. A neo-classical economist, Walras, coined a term ‘util', meaning...
The impact of advertisement on the buying behavior with reference to the consumer durables
Dissertation - 47 pages - Services marketing
The consumer durable industry in the past few years has seen tremendous growth. Advancements in the technology, government support and increased level of interest among the private players into the industry has given rise to the healthy competition between the various brands. Different...
