On August 5th, 2010, Paul Marchant, the CEO of the UK’s wildly popular discount clothier Primark, announced a new store opening on the poor relation end of London’s Oxford Street. The Primark store on the opposite end, up-scale Marble Arch, had opened in 2007 and, despite concerns about its location among higher end retailers,...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Marketing ’
Primark: £10? Ooh that’s Expensive!
The Recession: How to Come Out on Top
Companies often slash marketing budgets when a recession hits. In short, the existing literature does not provide much guidance as to whether one should increase or decrease the marketing spend during such downturns.
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Zinio: “Byting” into a Paper World (Condensed)
In the late summer of 2006, Raúl Suárez, managing director of Zinio Spain, was talking with Joan Solà, CEO of AccesoGroup, about how they could make Zinio into a profitable and viable business in Spain. As CEO of AccesoGroup (a prominent media intelligence and analysis company within Spain), Solà had signed a franchise deal...
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Big Brother: Endemol’s Big Hit
This case describes the history of the Big Brother television show format, thought up by Endemol, which represent the global launchof the “reality show” concept. Following years of extraordinary success, Endemol and its Spanish subsidiary Zeppelín are thinking about how to vary the format to recover audience viewing levels. Fillat D.; Nueno Iniesta,...
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The Anatomy of Diffusion
This note introduces the theory of innovation diffusion, using the a range of diffusion curves to illustrate the dynamics. The case explains how these forms (and consequently the speed of diffusion) depend on factors related to the products (relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, ease of trying out the product, observability and risk) and on word...
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Real Madrid brings Hollywood touch to sport
"The soccer business maps the movie industry closely," says José Luis Nueno.
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Rituals: Enrich Your Life
Rituals, an innovative concept in the area of home and body cosmetics, was born within the European Home and Personal Care (HPC) division of Unilever. In 2003 the company faced several challenges as it prepared to roll out its brand to other European nations, reconsider its distribution channels or find financial resources or partners...
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The Recorded Music Industry
The Recorded Music Industry Music has become one of today’s great global industries, generating world retail sales of US$27 billion to $38 billion during the 1990s, by satisfying the diverse music appetites of people around the globe and popularising new artists and music styles. Recorded music in turn belongs to a group of copyright-based...
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Mango
Mango, a company now a household name to women in more than 50 countries around the world, traces its roots back to the 1970s, when Isak Andic Ermay, born in Istanbul of Sephardi origins, started selling shirts imported from Turkey in the “Mercadillo de Balmes”, a kind of pocket-size Carnaby Street just off Balmes...
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Muxxic Latina
Muxxic Latina, the international recording company created by PRISA and Universal Music Group for the purpose of establishing a joint presence in the booming U.S.Latin music market, not only wants to create a uniform platform with which to penetrate Spanish-speaking countries, but also they want to actively participate in the globalisation of contemporary music...
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