Managing Retail Productivity and Profitability

Managing Retail Productivity and Profitability
Author: Dominic Laffy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349246212

Managing productivity and profitability in retailing has taken on a particular role since the onset of the recession of the late 1980s. Productivity can be improved simply by rationalising low performing stores, merchandise ranges and by reducing the number of suppliers and employees. However, this is not necessarily a long term solution. The purpose of this text is to propose a means by which a more proactive approach may be taken to improving both productivity and profitability. The book develops a model based upon management ratios typically used in retailing businesses for planning and control purposes. The model encourages the use of existing performance data to evaluate overall company productivity and profitability together with performance characteristics of individual functions. An additional feature of the approach is the facility to explore the impact of changes to the retail offer suggested by customer research responses. To facilitate the use of the concepts and the model used, a disk is also available, containing the application of the model to a number of the case studies and a facility for the user to input their own data.

Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management

Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management
Author: Tim Jackson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1350318302

The first academic textbook covering European retail fashion buying and merchandising. It provides a unique insight into best practice across the fashion industry.

Successful Technological Integration for Competitive Advantage in Retail Settings

Successful Technological Integration for Competitive Advantage in Retail Settings
Author: Pantano, Eleonora
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466682981

The advent of new technologies has been an impetus for rapid development in several industries, including the area of retail services. These recent advances push industry leaders to infuse new innovations into their various systems and processes. Successful Technological Integration for Competitive Advantage in Retail Settings examines the various effects of changing markets and subsequently how these changes cause retailers to meet consumer demand by integrating more sophisticated, advanced innovations in their daily practices. Focusing on corporate strategies, innovation management, and relevant case studies, this book is a pivotal reference source for researchers, practitioners, and developers interested in recent innovation trends within the retailing industry.

International Retail Marketing

International Retail Marketing
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2007-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136393811

International Retail Marketing combines a broad thematic overview of the key issues concerning international retail marketing with a series of incisive cases and examples of industry practice from markedly different sectors as fashion, food and healthcare. The authors provide an accessible and wide-ranging outline of the fundamentals of the subject, such as trends in retail marketing, strategy and logistics, and buying and merchandise management within an international perspective. Contributions from Europe, North America and Asia show the dynamics affecting international retailing through a variety of case. Key discussion points are highlighted throughout the text, giving a hands-on focus.

EBOOK: Retail Marketing

EBOOK: Retail Marketing
Author: ENNIS, SEAN
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0077157664

EBOOK: Retail Marketing

Digital Marketing and Consumer Engagement: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Digital Marketing and Consumer Engagement: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1755
Release: 2018-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522551883

Consumer interaction and engagement are vital components to help marketers maintain a lasting relationship with their customers. To achieve this goal, companies must utilize current digital tools to create a strong online presence. Digital Marketing and Consumer Engagement: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an innovative reference source for the latest academic material on emerging technologies, techniques, strategies, and theories in the promotion of brands through forms of digital media. Highlighting a range of topics, such as mobile commerce, brand communication, and social media, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for professionals, researchers, academics, students, managers, and practitioners actively involved in the marketing industry.

Principles of Retailing

Principles of Retailing
Author: Rosemary Varley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137354526

Principles of Retailing is a comprehensive, academic text on Retail Management, which takes a UK and European perspective. It is ideal for both undergraduates and postgraduates studying retailing as part of a Retailing, Marketing or Business degree.

Generation Y in Consumer and Labour Markets

Generation Y in Consumer and Labour Markets
Author: Anders Parment
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136631232

Generation Y in Consumer and Labour Markets explores the role of people born in the late 1970s and 1980s as consumers and coworkers in an emerging post-modernist society. Having grown up in a branded society overcrowded with commercial messages and a never-ending supply of choices and opportunities, Generation Y not only influences consumption patterns, they also bring their values to work life, thus changing the attitudes towards the employee-employer relationship and how work is being done. Generation Y particularly see work as a venue of self-realization and the boundaries between work and leisure time are becoming blurred—thus the consumer and labor markets converge in some critical dimensions. This book delves into the substantial research body on characteristics and behaviors of the Generation Y, including their relation to other generations and the role of understanding generations in developing effective and attractive organizations. It further outlines the experiences and best practice for attracting, recruiting, selling to, and communicating with Generation Y, based on the author’s experiences from hundreds of organizations where he has been involved as a consultant – offering the reader a better understanding of generations in marketing research, and the impact of generations in employee-employer relations.

Retail Product Management

Retail Product Management
Author: Rosemary Varley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415327145

This text represents a specialist text resource for students of retail management or marketing courses and modules, providing the reader with the opportunity to acquire a deeper knowledge of a key area of retailing management.