The truth behind surveillance monitoring: An employee perspective
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Imagine that your employer is watching you eight hours a day and constantly checking ‘What you are doing?' throughout the day. Does your boss have the right to do so? Or do you have privacy rights? Through modern technology and advancement in the field of surveillance monitoring, it is...
Strategy Analysis on the gambling industry with the example of MGM Mirage
Thesis - 64 pages - Business strategy
We selected the gambling industry as a group because we thought it would be interesting, challenging and because the industry has recently felt a new impulse with the internet. The gambling industry is not one of the most recent industries though, and to understand it fully we decided to analyse...
The e-marketing plan of a Belgian SME: Cha-hu-the - published: 29/09/2010
Case study - 26 pages - Civil law
Nowadays, “the key question is not whether to deploy Internet technology - companies have no choice if they want to stay competitive- but how to deploy it”. Since 2008, the penetration rate of the Internet is 48.1% in Europe, and the average of the world is 21.9%. More specifically,...
How to create an e-commerce website?
Practical guide - 21 pages - Digital & e-marketing
If an online store is to effectively acquire and retain customers, it must deliver the best possible customer experience. The key to doing this is to connect with customers at all possible touch points. The experience has to be great every time to keep customers coming back. The most...
A study on the competitive environment in the retail market
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Services marketing
The Indian retail industry is now beginning to evolve in the line with the transformation that has swept other large economies. There is a change a foot in Indian retail too, the liberalization of the consumer goods industry initiated in the mid-80's and accelerated through the 90's has begun to...
A study into the retail industry of India and China
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Business strategy
Retailing is the final step in the distribution of merchandise - the last link in the Supply Chain - connecting the bulk producers of commodities to the final consumers. Retailing covers diverse products such as foot apparels, consumer goods, financial services and leisure. A retailer,...
An analysis of the structure of the canadian retail industry - published: 15/01/2009
Essay - 9 pages - Management
A common theme of the Canadian retail industry is that it is evolving at a rapid pace. External factors, such as the growth in the relative purchasing power of the Canadian dollar; increasing competition from discount rivals such as Wal-Mart; shifting consumer trends; and the emergence of the...
An analysis of the structure of the Canadian retail industry
Market study - 9 pages - Services marketing
The Canadian retail industry is evolving at a rapid pace. External factors, such as the growth in the relative purchasing power of the Canadian dollar, increasing competition from discount rivals such as Wal-Mart, shifting consumer trends, and the emergence of the retail industry in Western...
Business Value of Amazon e-business
Case study - 12 pages - Services marketing
In a world where anyone can purchase just about anything online, it can be difficult to start and maintain a business selling online goods. Media such as CDs, books, and movies are common ware being sold on the Internet. Over the last decade, online stores have come and gone...
SWOT Analysis - Starbucks France
Thesis - 3 pages - Business strategy
Taking its name from a character of the book Moby Dick, Starbucks specializes in coffee retailing. It is currently the most important chain in the coffee industry. When Starbucks Coffee Company was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, an English teacher, Zev Siegel, a history teacher, and the...
Starbucks Corporation
Thesis - 15 pages - Business strategy
Starbucks Corporation is one of the world's fastest growing companies. Originally founded as a single store in Seattle, Washington in 1971, Starbucks now operates more than 15,000 coffee shops across the globe, with an average of 220 locations in each of the 50 U.S. states. Starbucks' goal is...
Radio frequency identification (RFID). Hudson Bay Company's next great competitive advantage
Essay - 17 pages - Business strategy
The hype around Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology - a revolutionary information-gathering method whereby information in a tag can be read from up to 300 feet away - has caught the attention of many retailers in North America. Retailers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco (in the U.K) have...
The case study of Ikea
Case study - 32 pages - Services marketing
There are a wide range of questions such as: How to choose the location of a shop, how to organize the shelves, which products to choose, how to attract customers to its point of sale, before venturing on a business. Understanding the distribution business is not easy. The specialists in the...
Amazon.com: Case study
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Amazon.com (AMZN) does not publish a public or known official mission statement, yet the company's mission and goals can be revealed by examining the concepts of Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO. Bezos has stated that the strategy at Amazon.com is to provide the customer with the best...
A comparative analysis of the French baby wears market and its main competitors
Case study - 27 pages - Services marketing
In an analysis concerning European Consumer trends that I found on Mintel confirmed my feelings; showing that French consumers consider themselves much more fashion conscious and have a look at style at first when buying clothes, even for babies (61,3% look at style first against 41,4% of...
Plan marketing inter-marches : True jeans
Essay - 16 pages - Services marketing
This document will highlight the marketing plan for True jeans. The company launched an online store in 2006, where people could buy their jeans online. The specialty of the company is that it tries to find the right jeans for consumers among the various brands that they partner...
Dawanda website analysis
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
The online objectives of Dawanda.fr are to provide a website by which any designer can offer its products. Each designer can open its own shop. It represents an intermediary between designers and customers who are looking for unique and original products. The main objective of Dawanda is...
SWOT Analysis - eBay
Case study - 5 pages - E-commerce
Electronic commerce has not only taken a considerable place in the lives of consumers but also in those of businesses. In fact, in order to gain the loyalty of a clientele that is increasingly free to choose and, therefore, demanding, the latter have been forced to adapt and also to offer...
Heineken marketing strategy and communication mix
Thesis - 20 pages - Services marketing
In the Irish market, the beer industry is very important. Beer consumption is a way of life for the Irish people. Few international companies share the market. The most famous is Guinness. In order to stay strong in this competitive market and to maintain or gain market shares and also to reach...
Marketing case study: Gucci
Market study - 18 pages - Services marketing
With the assistance of Tom Ford and Domenico de Sole, GUCCI became one of the great successes of the sector. In 1921, Guccio Gucci founded a company in Florence, for the manufacture of luggage and saddles of high-quality. In 1938, he opened a shop in Rome, then in New York in 1951 and following...
Home depot
Thesis - 17 pages - Services marketing
Home Depot is the largest retailer in the home improvement industry with more than 2,100 stores. The company was started in 1979 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. Within these stores, they offer a large array of home improvement products. By selling at continually low prices, they are able to...
Nespresso and its information system - E-business
Thesis - 15 pages - Business strategy
The company was founded by Nespresso Nestle Group in 1986 with the aim of offering its customers quality coffee products. Since then, the company has continued to develop a selective distribution system and manage its brand based on luxury. The company catered to the popular concept of drinking...
Selling Books in a Niche Market: Boys' Love Manga
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Marketing is a crucial element of any successful publishing enterprise, especially for a book that is intended for a niche market. When the target audience is small, it is infinitely more important to market the books strategically. Otherwise, a publishing house risks losing its core audience,...
AnimeHA, Full Tilt Poker and Alienware: case study of three successfull e-businesses
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, launching a successful e-business requires several conditions to be fulfilled. We must have knowledge of the current elements that are part of e-business, such as the different existing business models. We also have to be aware of the numerous applications provided by the Internet...
Case study: Hugo Boss
Case study - 40 pages - Business strategy
Hugo Boss, which offers products ranging from women's wear, children's and men's wear to accessories for casual and formal wear, has over 287 shops and 5,700 points of sale worldwide. The company is currently planning a joint venture with Chinese fashion retailer Rainbow Group to increase growth...
Corporate strategy - Disney +
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Entertainment giant Disney's new streaming platform is undoubtedly a major turning point for the company. Disney+ is an online video-on-demand platform owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International division with the four...
E -Business Model -La Redoute
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
With 80-years of catalog experience, La Redoute has long been a household name in France, trusted for its quality, style and selection. Indeed, as a part of PPR's home-shopping division, Redcats, a global retail leader, the company is a Fashion and Home decoration multi-specialist (the...
E-Business: Sephora.com
Case study - 14 pages - Management
E-Business is a new form of business that allows clients to get information and make purchases through the Internet. During the seminar we had the opportunity to analyze different firms and to see how the entry to the Internet market place has increased the brand recognition. People are using...
Case study of Decathlon and the sector of the distribution of the articles of sport
Case study - 23 pages - Business strategy
In 1976, Michel Leclercq Roncq inaugurated a store selling sporting goods, and named it Decathlon. His challenge was to equip all athletes with the best kind of sporting utilities available at the best price. Today, Decathlon Group with about 3.4 billion euros in turnover in 2004, is present in...
Gap
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
We decided to create an IMC campaign for Gap because it is a very large and well-known retailer that has not been successful in capturing the college market in the last few years. Gap strives for mass appeal with its designs but the brand style that resulted from a new team of lead designers...
