Mass merchandisers’ entry into food retailing threatens traditional grocers’ market share. In response, traditional grocers and food manufacturers adopted Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) as an industry-wide set of supply chain management strategies that focused on cutting costs and...

Leading representatives of the European grocery industry formed the European Efficient Consumer Response (ECR-)Initiative in 1995. The goal of this strategic alliance is set to reengineer the way business is done in the industry by implementing cooperative strategies between retailer and...

This paper critically evaluates the proposed structure and contents of a frequentlydiscussed Category Management (CM) model in the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) context. Based on this we present an extensive empirical study where the datafrom a survey of 202 household representatives are...

Die Analyse der Wirkung von Verkaufsförderungsmaßnahmen auf den Absatz oder Erlös von Konsumgütern gehört zu den mit am meisten erforschten Problemkomplexen in der quantitativen Marketingforschung. Allerdings untersuchen die Mehrzahl der Arbeiten lediglich die kurzfristigen Wirkungen von...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The economic downturn in South Africa since mid 2008 has transformed the motor vehicle industry into a seriously competitive marketplace. Both large and small dealerships are finding their volumes and margins under increasing pressure. Sandown Motor Holdings (Pty) Ltd has a new...

The pharmaceutical industry invests its sales force in contacts with doctors, making visits and publicizing its drugs, in orderfor them to prescribe these products to their patients. This work discusses the structure of the pharmaceutical market and howmarketing strategies are used by...

There is a recent trend among manufacturers of consumer packaged goods such as Proctor & Gamble to eliminate sales promotions and replace them with everyday low prices on their products. The objective of this study is to investigate whether and how such a significant change in promotional...

Straipsnyje teoriniame lygmenyje analizuojamos bei pagrindžiamos vieno iš organizacijos taikomo rėmimo komplekso elementų – pardavimų skatinimo – taikymo vartotojų lojalumo formavimui galimybės. Teoriniame lygmenyje pagrindžiamas vartotojų lojalumo traktavimas vienu iš...

Disertacijoje yra nagrinėjamas pardavimų skatinimo poveikis vartotojų lojalumo formavimui. Išanalizavus, apibendrinus ir susisteminus mokslinę literatūrą, atliekama teorinė marketingo minties mokyklų raidos analizė, nustatant bei išskiriant vartotojų lojalumo sampratos užuomazgas...

The dissertation is aimed to explore the impact of sales promotion on customer loyalty formation. After evaluation and generalization of scientific literature, theoretical analysis of the evolution of schools of marketing thought is performed. Special attention is paid to the genesis and...