Counterfeiting is an illegal activity that continues to boom in the 21st century. Many research studies regarding counterfeiting undertaken in the past have had a strong focus on the supply side of the industry, whereas few studies look to consumer demand and even fewer towards consumer demand for counterfeit products in an emerging African market. The aim of this research study, therefore, was to provide a descriptive analysis of the South African consumers‟ intention to purchase authentic luxury fashion brands versus counterfeit products and secondly, to examine if various demographic groupings differ in their purchase intentions. In order to achieve the research objective, an extensive literary review was conducted on the global counterfeit problem with specific focus on the South African counterfeit industry. The concept and value of branding was highlighted, followed by a discussion on consumer behaviour in conjunction with the decision-making process and the consumers‟ intention to purchase. An empirical study was conducted with UNISA students residing within the areas of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape through a mixed method approach. Qualitative research formed the first leg of the study and assisted in identifying past purchase behaviour of authentic and counterfeit luxury fashion brands. Once identified, these brands were then utilised in a quantitative survey to satisfy the research objectives. The results of this research study indicate that South African consumers‟ have a high intention to purchase authentic luxury fashion brands versus a low intention to purchase counterfeit products. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)

In a time when Americans are waking up to the health consequences of consuming fast food, researchers have discovered that fast food restaurants seem to be located in greater concentrations near primary or secondary schools. While this phenomenon affects the food environments of some children and carries implications as to their short term and long term health (which has also been well researched), this paper focuses primarily on fast food restaurants that are within walking distance of schools. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to integrate geospatial, business, demographic, and food quality data, I use linear regressions to examine whether and which fast food restaurants achieve greater sales by being closer to schools. By including an interaction term in my regressions, I find that low-quality, unhealthy fast food restaurants are rewarded with higher sales when in proximity to schools than identical restaurants that are farther away. Conversely, higher-quality fast food establishments actually earn lower sales when in proximity to schools. This paper adds to the existing literature by using fast food sales near schools to infer the dietary choices of children, evaluate the success of location strategies employed by the fast food industry, and offer new insights to public health professionals.

The Parade of Homes began in 1948 as a novel form of sales merchandising and publicity. The model house, on display at the Parade of Homes, was a powerful advertising tool employed by postwar merchant-builders to sell modern design to a new market of informed consumers and second-time homeowners. Using House & Home as a primary source, I contextualize the postwar housing industry and the merchandising efforts of builders. Then, through an examination of the 1955 Parade of Homes in Houston, Texas, I analyze the early Parade of Homes events and the language of domestic modernism that they showcased. / text

A temática da publicidade encontra-se normatizada no Código de Defesa do Consumidor a partir de princípios e cláusulas gerais, que, se virtuosas pela abrangência interpretativa, igualmente passíveis de desencadear grande insegurança jurídica quando não calcadas em consolidada doutrina e parâmetros interpretativos concretos. Nesse contexto, a presente tese tem por escopo conferir nova e detalhada sistematização ao tema e, fundamentalmente, fornecer ao operador do direito diretrizes palpáveis à análise da enganosidade e abusividade nas mensagens publicitárias. Trata-se, por exemplo, da necessidade de se analisar a (i)licitude da publicidade a partir da figura do consumidor como critério interpretativo central do artigo 37 CDC, procedendo-se a uma releitura do conceito de consumidor médio. No exame da publicidade enganosa, em especial no âmbito da sua tutela difusa, propõe-se, ademais, o critério de investigação do consumidor típico da publicidade, a partir do qual o potencial de indução em erro poderá ser melhor apreendido. A tese aborda ainda o conceito de dado essencial para configuração da enganosidade por omissão e ressalta os efeitos das mensagens secundárias ao slogan principal da publicidade. Tema igualmente novo refere-se à adoção das pesquisas de mercado na constatação da (i)licitude da publicidade. No que tange à publicidade abusiva, o trabalho se lança ao exame e delimitação de seus conceitos indeterminados, destaca o aspecto da tutela dos valores da coletividade e demonstra a impropriedade de uma análise puramente subjetiva e individual dessas peças publicitárias. O presente estudo apresenta ainda um quadro sistemático das técnicas publicitárias mais freqüentes, i.e., merchandising, publicidade redacional, teaser, exagero publicitário e mensagem de tom excludente, publicidade testemunhal e comparativa, analisando suas implicações no âmbito do direito do consumidor. Por fim, aborda-se a responsabilidade civil na publicidade ilícita e os pressupostos do dever de indenizar. Examina-se a reparação do dano moral (individual e coletivo) e o aspecto punitivo de tais indenizações, bem como os sujeitos da responsabilidade civil e a existência (ou não) de uma responsabilidade solidária entre anunciante, agência, veículo e celebridades. / Advertising is regulated by the Consumer Defense Code (CDC) according to principles and general rules that, notwithstanding being characterized by their constructive scope, may give rise to legal uncertainty whenever they are not grounded on settled legal doctrine and concrete constructive parameters. In this context, the present thesis aims to grant new and detailed systematization to the issue, and provide lawyers with tangible directions to analyze the deceptiveness and abusiveness within advertising messages. It regards, for instance, the need to analyze advertising (un)lawfulness from the consumers standpoint as the core constructive criterion of article 37 of the CDC. At this point we scrutinize in details the concept of reasonable consumer. Upon examining deceptive advertising, especially with regard to its diffuse protection, we propose, in addition, the typical consumer investigative criterion in advertising whereby potential error induction may be better understood. The thesis also addresses the essential data concept to configure deceitfulness by omission, and underscores the effects of secondary messages on the main advertising slogan. Likewise, the theme is related to the adoption of market research to ascertain advertising (un)lawfulness. Considering abusive advertising, this thesis examines its undetermined concepts, highlights the protection of collective values, and evidences the inadequacy of its subjective and individual analysis. The present study also offers a systematic table of the most frequent advertising techniques, i.e., merchandising, copywriting, teaser, exaggerated and excluding advertising, testimonial and comparative advertising, analyzing their entailments within Consumer Law. Finally, the work addresses the liability related to unlawful advertisement and the elements that determine the duty to indemnify. Pain and suffering redress (either individual or collective) and the punitive feature of such indemnification are examined herein, as well as the liable subjects and the existence (or not) or joint liability among the sponsor, advertising agency, media vehicle and celebrities.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edney Mota Almeida.pdf: 2477208 bytes, checksum: 0d0b4f18e1ae448c9c944cf2aea0cc43 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The entail - or not - about to the journalist job to the merchandising with the marketing and propaganda, has making many discussions in the last times. With the advanced of the publicity and the marketing in many entertainment areas and the editorials journalisms, the opened TV in Brazil does not resist the constant investments of the publicity money designed to their programs. The sort "round sportive table" looks to be the privilege focus where you may verify these kinds of things. The television companies (tv senders) use their famous presenters to make easiest to get financial recourses. However a part of the journalistic c1ass doesn't accept and resists articulating its jobs with the publicity and the merchandising. After the and of the 1990 decade this discussion increase and the more resistant journalists to be as a "merchandising boy" lost their spaces in the opened tvs that show the sort "round sportive table". Only those professionals whose have accepted the new economic order and the marketing imposition would continuous in their functions. In some analyses made, excepting by the Globo and Cultura TVs (the first one because it doesn't have in their exhibition the sort program named "round sportive table" and the second because it has a character of a public tv ) the other opened tvs - Rede TV, Bandeirantes TV and Gazeta TV - have adopted this articulation between the both languages, journalistic and publicity,. ln this context, this dissertation has the objective to presents, the historicity of the "round sportive table" on the tv, between Rio - São Paulo, as well a critical observation about the insertion of the merchandising in this kind of tv show. It had evaluated an hypothesis that exists two "schools" of sportive journalisms and for that , make the analysis of the professional trajectory profile of the following journalists: Milton Neves, as well a publicist and Juca Kfouri outstanding journalist because bis militant position ahead of the denunciations of irregularities in the world of the sport. The research grew with the method of for the Critical Analysis, with theoretical approach based in the area of the Social Sciences by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu ideas; in the Theory of Communication, of journalist Eugenio Bucci; in the Political Theory, of Antonio Gramsci in what he refers to the study of the process of symbolic fights in the midia field while social phenomena. They are gatered like this and discussed the authors different texts, among other that they dialogue with the interviewees of this work, in order to if they obtain knowledge on the discussion in subject / A vinculação - ou não - do trabalho do jornalista ao merchandising, ao marketing e propaganda, tem provocado inúmeras discussões nos últimos tempos. Com o avanço da publicidade e do marketing em todas as áreas do entretenimento e de editorias do jornalismo, a TV aberta no Brasil não tem resistido aos constantes investimentos de verbas publicitárias destinadas as suas grades de programação. A mesa-redonda esportiva constitui-se como lócus privilegiado onde se pode verificar esse estado de coisas. As emissoras de tevê se valem de seus apresentadores "famosos" para facilitar a captação dos recursos financeiros. No entanto, uma parte dos profissionais do jornalismo se recusa a articular seu trabalho à publicidade e o merchandising. Esse debate se intensificou, desde o final da década de 1990, e jornalistas esportivos mais resistentes ao papel de garoto-propaganda perderam seus espaços nas tevês abertas que exibem mesas-redondas esportivas. Os que aderiram à nova ordem econômica, e aceitaram imposições mercadológicas,permaneceram em suas funções. Nas análises feitas, a exceção das TVs Globo e Cultura (a primeira, por não incluir a mesa redonda esportiva em sua grade de programação; a segunda, por seu caráter de rede pública de televisão), as demais tevês abertas - Rede TV, TV Bandeirantes e TV Gazeta - adotam a articulação entre as linguagens jornalística e publicitária. É neste contexto que esta dissertação objetivou apresentar um histórico da mesa-redonda esportiva na tevê, no eixo Rio-São Paulo, bem como um levantamento crítico de informações sobre o surgimento e incorporação do merchandising nesse tipo de programa. Avaliou, ainda, a hipótese da existência de duas "escolas" de jornalismo esportivo e, para tanto, acompanhou as trajetórias e os perfis profissionais dos seguintes jornalistas: Milton Neves, também publicitário e Juca Kfouri, destacado por sua postura militante diante de irregularidades no mundo do esporte. A pesquisa desenvolveu-se metodologicamente pela Análise Crítica, com abordagem teórica fundamentada na área das Ciências Sociais pelas idéias do sociólogo Pierre Bourdieu; na Teoria da Comunicação, do jornalista Eugênio Bucci; na Teoria Política, de Antônio Gramsci, no que se refere ao estudo do processo de lutas simbólicas no campo midiático, enquanto fenômenos sociais. Assim são reunidos e discutidos diferentes textos dos autores, entre outros, que dialogam com os entrevistados deste trabalho, a fim de se obterem conhecimentos sobre o debate em questão

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After the and of the 1990 decade this discussion increase and the more resistant journalists to be as a "merchandising boy" lost their spaces in the opened tvs that show the sort "round sportive table". Only those professionals whose have accepted the new economic order and the marketing imposition would continuous in their functions. In some analyses made, excepting by the Globo and Cultura TVs (the first one because it doesn't have in their exhibition the sort program named "round sportive table" and the second because it has a character of a public tv ) the other opened tvs - Rede TV, Bandeirantes TV and Gazeta TV - have adopted this articulation between the both languages, journalistic and publicity,. ln this context, this dissertation has the objective to presents, the historicity of the "round sportive table" on the tv, between Rio - São Paulo, as well a critical observation about the insertion of the merchandising in this kind of tv show. It had evaluated an hypothesis that exists two "schools" of sportive journalisms and for that , make the analysis of the professional trajectory profile of the following journalists: Milton Neves, as well a publicist and Juca Kfouri outstanding journalist because bis militant position ahead of the denunciations of irregularities in the world of the sport. The research grew with the method of for the Critical Analysis, with theoretical approach based in the area of the Social Sciences by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu ideas; in the Theory of Communication, of journalist Eugenio Bucci; in the Political Theory, of Antonio Gramsci in what he refers to the study of the process of symbolic fights in the midia field while social phenomena. They are gatered like this and discussed the authors different texts, among other that they dialogue with the interviewees of this work, in order to if they obtain knowledge on the discussion in subject / A vinculação - ou não - do trabalho do jornalista ao merchandising, ao marketing e propaganda, tem provocado inúmeras discussões nos últimos tempos. Com o avanço da publicidade e do marketing em todas as áreas do entretenimento e de editorias do jornalismo, a TV aberta no Brasil não tem resistido aos constantes investimentos de verbas publicitárias destinadas as suas grades de programação. A mesa-redonda esportiva constitui-se como lócus privilegiado onde se pode verificar esse estado de coisas. As emissoras de tevê se valem de seus apresentadores "famosos" para facilitar a captação dos recursos financeiros. No entanto, uma parte dos profissionais do jornalismo se recusa a articular seu trabalho à publicidade e o merchandising. Esse debate se intensificou, desde o final da década de 1990, e jornalistas esportivos mais resistentes ao papel de garoto-propaganda perderam seus espaços nas tevês abertas que exibem mesas-redondas esportivas. Os que aderiram à nova ordem econômica, e aceitaram imposições mercadológicas,permaneceram em suas funções. Nas análises feitas, a exceção das TVs Globo e Cultura (a primeira, por não incluir a mesa redonda esportiva em sua grade de programação; a segunda, por seu caráter de rede pública de televisão), as demais tevês abertas - Rede TV, TV Bandeirantes e TV Gazeta - adotam a articulação entre as linguagens jornalística e publicitária. É neste contexto que esta dissertação objetivou apresentar um histórico da mesa-redonda esportiva na tevê, no eixo Rio-São Paulo, bem como um levantamento crítico de informações sobre o surgimento e incorporação do merchandising nesse tipo de programa. Avaliou, ainda, a hipótese da existência de duas "escolas" de jornalismo esportivo e, para tanto, acompanhou as trajetórias e os perfis profissionais dos seguintes jornalistas: Milton Neves, também publicitário e Juca Kfouri, destacado por sua postura militante diante de irregularidades no mundo do esporte. A pesquisa desenvolveu-se metodologicamente pela Análise Crítica, com abordagem teórica fundamentada na área das Ciências Sociais pelas idéias do sociólogo Pierre Bourdieu; na Teoria da Comunicação, do jornalista Eugênio Bucci; na Teoria Política, de Antônio Gramsci, no que se refere ao estudo do processo de lutas simbólicas no campo midiático, enquanto fenômenos sociais. Assim são reunidos e discutidos diferentes textos dos autores, entre outros, que dialogam com os entrevistados deste trabalho, a fim de se obterem conhecimentos sobre o debate em questão

I dagens samhälle handlar det om att vara så effektiv som möjligt för att vinna tid. Som Benjamin Franklin en gång sa att ”Tid är pengar”, är något som vi människor allt mer tagit fasta på då vi ställer höga krav på utvecklingen och dess teniska förmågor. Idag har de flesta människor tillgång till en dator med internetuppkoppling som vi dagligen utför sysslor vid. Det kan vara allt ifrån jobbrelaterade aktiviteter, hålla kontakten med nära och kära, söka information om vad som händer i världen och i vår omgivning, till mer nöjesinriktade delar såsom online spel och shopping. Just shopping via internet är något som vuxit väldigt mycket under det senaste årtiondet, de flesta människor idag har förmodligen någon gång köpt något via nätet eller haft tanke på att göra det. Syftet med denna uppsats är att uppmärksamma de säljfrämjande exponeringsverktyg som kunden anser bör finnas med i produktinformationen på webbutikerna för att de ska leda till ett köp hos dem. Detta för att öka kundnöjdheten online. Visionen är att öka förståelsen kring den produktinformation som konsumenten behöver för att kunna känna sig trygg i att handla kläder på internet. Vår kvantitativa undersökning ämnades för målgruppen män och kvinnor i åldrarna 18-35 år men den gemensamma nämnaren av intresset att handla kläder på internet. Undersökningen behandlade frågor som rör exponeringsverktygen på webben. Vi frågade hur respondenterna upplever de säljverktyg som finns idag, de utvecklingsmöjligheter vi funnit som finns inom klädexponeringen samt om de svarande själva hade idéer eller förslag på vad de skulle vilja se i produktinformationen i den perfekta webbutiken. De slutsatser som kunde dras utav vår studie var att en utveckling av de säljfrämjande exponeringsverktygen är önskad av våra respondenter då intresset för att handla kläder via internet är stort. För att konsumenten ska kunna känna sig säker när denne handlar kläder på internet bör webbutikerna arbeta med att skapa den befintliga produktinformationen så lik en fysisk klädexponering som möjligt. Detta kan uppnås genom utvecklingsmöjligheter såsom modeller med olika kroppsformer, virtuell 3D docka enligt egen längd, vikt och mått, virtuell butik samt omfattande produktinformation och högupplösta bilder.Today´s society is all about being as efficient as possible to win time. Benjamin Franklin once said “Time is money”. This is something we human beings have taken seriously as we raise our demand for development and its technological abilities. Today most people have access to a computer with wireless Internet connection from where they perform different chores. It could be anything from work related activities, staying in contact with loved ones, searching information about what’s going on in the world and in our surroundings, to more entertainment-oriented activities such as online games and shopping. Shopping online is something that has grown fast in the fashion industry in the last decade, and most people today have probably bought something or at least have thought of doing so.The purpose of this essay is to highlight the sales promoting exposure tools which the consumer find necessary in the product information found in web shops to lead them to purchase. This is to increase customer satisfaction online. Our aim is to increase the understanding of what the customer needs in form of product information to feel safe when buying clothes on the Internet.Our quantitative study is based on men and women aged 18-53 with a common interest in buying clothes on the Internet. The research deals with questions regarding exposure tools on the web. We asked the respondents how they perceived existing sales tools, the potentials for development in clothing exposure that we found and also if the respondents themselves had any ideas of what they would like to see included in the product information in the perfect web store.The conclusion we could draw from our study was that sales promoting exposure tools are needed by our respondents since the interest in buying clothes online is great. In order to make the customer feel sure when buying clothes on the Internet the web shops ought to work towards making the product information as similar to a physical exposure of the clothes as possible.This can be achieved through new developments such as models of various body types, virtual 3D dolls according to the consumers own measurements and weight, virtual stores and through comprehensive product information and high definition images. / Program: Butikschef, textil och mode

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:17:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Simone Ribeiro de Oliveira Bambini.pdf: 2352212 bytes, checksum: 1cfd17fcb4e0b6bc8105d2229a5712ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-05 / In our days, In Brazil, all communication graduations tend to ignore the human body in communication relationships. This sector was built with no consideration to the human body importance in the communication relationship. Consequences of that behaviour are very clear e can be perceived in every phase of the communication relationship. The subject identification was the starting point for a research, which has been detailed here in the format of a paper, which has identified the urgency in modifying the actual education of futures communication professionals, creating new communication practices. In order to respond to this question, this research has focused in what occurs with the social communication within companies. Its object is the human communication study within companies, investigating the human body impact in the communicator education, as it understands the relationship between communication theory taught in the universities and obstacles for the creation of new and expected companies practices as the central point. Its objective is to discuss this process and strategies applied by communication professionals from the market as being a result of the bibliography which are adopted by communication graduations and are part of these professionals education. While mapping the actual situation, it has been surged the theory that it is possible to relate what is taught in the universities in public relationship, publicity, merchandising and marketing graduations, with the criticism absence of these professionals in the market. This was the starting point for the proposal that another bibliography, more adequate to encourage students to apply a critic reflection, could be included in actual universities, to help future professionals to become able to deal with this growing society complexity / No Brasil, os cursos de comunicação social tendem a ignorar o papel do corpo humano nas relações comunicacionais. O campo está formado sem considerar a relevância do corpo humano nessas relações. As conseqüências dessa postura epistemológica são hoje muito claras e podem ser percebidas em todas as instâncias do processo comunicacional. A identificação desse quadro foi o agente propulsor de uma pesquisa, aqui relatada em forma de dissertação, que identificou a urgência em propor a modificação da atual formação do futuro profissional de comunicação, para que novas práticas de comunicação possam surgir. Para tratar dessa questão, a pesquisa focou o que sucede com a comunicação interna nas empresas. Fez do estudo da comunicação humana nas organizações o seu objeto, investigando-o a partir do estudo do corpo como impacto na formação do comunicador, pois se entende como central a ligação entre as teorias da comunicação ensinadas nos cursos de comunicação social e a impossibilidade do surgimento de novas e desejáveis práticas empresariais. O objetivo dessa pesquisa é discutir o processo e as estratégias praticadas pelos profissionais de comunicação no mercado como sendo tributárias da bibliografia que os cursos acadêmicos de comunicação adotam e com a qual formam esses profissionais. Ao mapear esse quadro, emergiu a hipótese de que se pode relacionar o que se ensina aos estudantes de comunicação social nos cursos de publicidade, propaganda e marketing com a ausência de comportamento crítico dos profissionais atuantes no mercado. Vem daí a proposta de que uma outra bibliografia, mais adequada a estimular a reflexão crítica do estudante de comunicação social, seja incorporada ao currículo vigente, para tornar o futuro profissional mais apto a lidar com a crescente complexidade da sociedade

Many philosophical subjects attempt to analyze the basis of human welfare. Theories of desert, distribution of property, and happiness tend to dominate philosophical discourse. Mental credit, which is the mental acquisition of credit for one’s accomplishments and the satisfaction one derives from this credit, is absent from this discourse despite its underlying role in the way people think about their lives. Mental credit is an eternal cognitive good that deserves thoughtful attention and pious decisions for implementation. The following theory of mental credit seeks to serve as a unifying theory for the mental calculations that guide life’s most imperative decisions, satisfaction, and impact one has on the world.

This research study acquired a consumer response centred approach to visual merchandising stimuli, in an attempt to holistically consider this area of the retail industry. Consumers‟ perceptions towards visual merchandising displays and the effect these displays have on consumer behaviour were exposed. The primary research question that pended from the preliminary literature was to determine the effect of visual merchandising displays on consumer perceptions. Explorative research was performed and qualitative data were collected by means of focus groups and naïve sketches. The data was analysed by means of a thematic analysis process. Perceptions of visual merchandising displays that were identified were subliminal in creating an interest and desire to further peruse the merchandise and aesthetically to beautify the store. Consumers expressed that the impact that visual merchandising displays had on their buying decisions depended on their personal preferences. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)