Archive for the ‘Retail’ Category

Communities Dominate Brands

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 Communities Dominate Brands Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century Tomi T Ahonen and Alan Moore (about 250 pages, hardcover, Futuretext Ltd, March 2005) Communities Dominate Brands: Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century is a book about ...

P&G sees the Light, the rest of the world now has to follow

Sunday, January 16th, 2005Late in 1999, I began my research into the changing landscape of media, marketing and communications. The blogs of many people, the surveys; Yankelvich, The Chartered Institute of Marketing, Deutsch Bank - they all say the same. That conventional marketing ...

Easy Riders Raging Bulls from movies to searching for experiences

Thursday, November 18th, 2004In the book Easy Riders Raging Bulls , the impact of films on our culture is described thus in the words of Susan Sontag:It was at this specific moment in the 100 year history of cinema that ...

From Interruption to Engagement

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004Linda Wolf, chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett Worldwide, offered her own assessment of the paradigm shift (in marketing communications), which she says involves exposure giving way to engagement, interruption giving way to permission, and broadcasting giving way to customization. So ...

All change on the high street

Monday, September 27th, 2004Tesco threatens big names on the high street Was the headline in the FT September 25/26 2004 This is what Chris Brown-Humes had to sayTesco's stunning half-year end results were not just bad news for direct competitors such as ...

How does a company reduce prices to a level lower than their operating expenses and still make money?

Monday, September 20th, 2004Is the question that Chris Hoyt asks writing for Reveries. Hoyt answers his own question:Well, this is exactly the problem that most supermarkets face today. Wal-Mart's 2004 average gross margin at 22.5 percent is now lower than ...

Context is King

Monday, August 16th, 2004Interbrand has recently published the list of the top 100 brands, reported in design week29 July 2004, Design Week By Mike Exon Apple and Amazon have made the biggest gains in brand equity this year, with ...

Even Longer Goodbye

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004P&G bankrolled commercial television and was the biggest spender on broadcast advertising. But P&G have realised that this dinosaur of a business model is no longer financially tenable. That the costs of marketing are rising whilst the effectiveness of that activity ...

The Long Goodbye or Are You Talkin’ to Me?

Saturday, May 15th, 2004Finally I have got round to responding to this article written by Nick Kettles When the Chartered Institute of Marketing produces a report "You talkin to me? Marketing Communications in the age of consent." One knows that things in the world of ...

Its life, but not as we know it

Friday, April 2nd, 2004 The changing retail high streetBy Alan Moore, Ross Sleight, & Axel Chaldecott As a child, I remember experiencing the strange but curiously wonderful smell of the tobacconist, or the lure of the sweetshop, with its dark wooden counter and rows and ...

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