A major challenge for any company, regardless of its field of activity, is related to the considerable improvement of financial indicators that determine its activity, such as: market share, turnover, sales volume and value, number of customers, etc. In generating these quantitative indicators,...

Sustainability is a pressing concern and a constant challenge for the contemporary society, being carefully monitored by individuals and diligently implemented by companies within their business strategies. Companies increasingly resort to highlighting the characteristics and advantages of...

While vertical firms dominate the fashion markets worldwide since years, only little research is done on vertical alliances between non-vertical retailer and manufacturing companies in this sector. These paper analyses vertical alliances from the perspective of 98 traditional fashion retailers...

There is a clear tendency for the Romanian retailing to adapt to the requirements of the international market. If in the years following Romania’s adherence to capitalism the indigenous retailing was marked by a strong segmentation in small retail units with low turnover, retail chains were...

Devising an effective means of measuring retail brand equity has become an intense preoccupation of, and a real challenge for, the technical literature. Many characteristics have been debated over time as to which of them make a real contribution to building retail brand equity (image) and some...

Developing businesses in compliance with the principles of sustainability has been a tough challenge in our century. A planned, integrated and properly coordinated orientation towards environment protection, involvement in activities of society and local communities, supporting and streamlining...

A key challenge in the 21st century is identifying how to satisfy consumers’ needs in the best manner possible, whilst ensuring companies’ financial profitability. Scientists play a major role in achieving this goal, as research methods, techniques and tools have continuously evolved. In the...

In order to shape the customers' image about a retailer, a retail brand or a retail format, the retail company may appeal, in addition to the marketing tools, to the corporate culture (the company's own perspective) and the company's reputation (how the company is perceived by the public)....

Unlike many markets where a fierce competition exists between hundreds or, some-times, thousands of competitors, the public services sector (waste management, pro-vision of water, district heating, gas, electricity or public transportation etc) often face quasi-monopoly situations when very few...

Shopping cards as well as customers' clubs related to retailers are often investigated in literature. While the perception and the effects of those marketing instruments have been often discussed in western countries, there is a lack of studies for eastern European countries. The present study...