The aim of this thesis was to analyze the use of multichannel retailing in Globus hypermarket in České Budějovice. Dispensation was done according to Levy and Weitz (2009) into three main channels {--} retail store, catalogue and the internet which were supplemented by some components of the communication mix. On the basis of the case studies and marketing situation analysis of Globus hypermarket in České Budějovice some measures were proposed to improve the competitive position of this company by the use of multichannel retailing. Partial proposals were devided by particular channels. One of them was also economically evaluate.

The presented diploma thesis deals with the newly opened shopping center Galerie Teplice. The center is currently working on creation of a suitable market position with respect to the existing strong competition. The objective of the thesis is to evaluate the current position of the aforementioned shopping center on the market, then to learn more about its visitors and finally to improve targeting and personalize the marketing communication based on the analysis of results. For this reason the diploma thesis is focused on identifying and analyzing detailed information about the behavior, perceptions and preferences of visitors of designated shopping centers, especially of the Galerie center and on defining of its current positioning in relation to specified competitors.

This dissertation deals with the competitive ability analysis on the basis of srategical methods. The analysis was applied in company Jednota, spotřební družstvo České Budějovice.

Thesis (MTech (Retail Business Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007 / As the retail industry remains persistently competitive, progressive retailers tend to adopt multi-channel retailing (MGR) to gain competitive advantage and to achieve other potential benefits. Many experts argue that MGR widens the retailer's target market and operations to satisfy the needs of a wide range of customers and, subsequently, eam the retailer potential benefits (Dawson, 2002:5; Berman & Thelen, 2004:148-149; Ghanesh, 2004:140; Sotgiu & Ancarani,2004:128). According to Dawson (2002:5), MGR is being used extensively by large retail outlets worldwide to complement their traditional operations, thereby providing the most convenient means for customers to shop while the outlets gain competitive advantage. However, the benefits of MGR are not achieved by retail small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs), OWing to the fact that there are low levels of MGR adoption in retail SMMEs. This therefore limits their market opportunities. The research reported here examines how MGR could become a growth strategy for retail SMMEs. The study necessitated an extensive literature review of retailing and multi-channel retailing, multi-channel strategy and the multi-channel customer. Both qualitative and quantitative data was collected through personal interviews and questionnaires, and from large and small retail outlets and their customers in the Gape Town region. The stUdy found that the large retail outlets studied are doing well with MGR, without having to build concrete multi-channel strategies to integrate their different channels. What contributes to that achievement is their ability to harmonise their channels to achieve channel inter-dependency. The study also revealed that there is not much difference between large and small retailers when it comes to the potential benefits of MGR; therefore size is not a major issue. The differences lie in the different sectors, and with different target markets and different product categories, as these require different mixes of channels. Moreover, retail transactions in an MGR environment are found to follow a cycle of steps within the overall process, in which a customer's visit to one channel often becomes just one step in the purchase process. The study provides a useful guide for retail SMMEs to successfully adopt MeR for their profitability and growth.

The aim of this thesis is to explore innovations in retailing to the foreign market and then propose the concept of recommendations for use in the Czech market. Specifically, I therefore use of secondary data from international websites www.springwise.com collected 20 innovations from around the world, I worked in the case studies. In conclusion, I created a table which shows that innovation is a comprehensive view of the best and I'm here specifically described. I also used the survey research on e-script, which I created design concept

A compra por impulso vem sendo discutida e pesquisada há mais de cinqüenta anos, porém um salto qualitativo ocorreu nos últimos anos com os esforços realizados em busca de modelos explicativos sobre esse tipo de comportamento. Esta tese tem como propósito reduzir essa lacuna no seu corpo teórico a partir do desenvolvimento de um modelo dos antecedentes e das conseqüências das compras impulsivas em dois ambientes distintos de compras: nas lojas físicas e nas lojas virtuais. Além disso, o estudo teve como objetivo avaliar a relação entre elementos ambientais de loja e o comportamento de compra por impulso. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa tipo survey com consumidores com experiência de compra pela Internet, sendo verificadas, a partir do emprego da técnica de modelagem de equações estruturais, as relações existentes entre o ambiente de loja, a impulsividade individual, a circulação na loja e a realização de compras impulsivas. Os resultados do estudo evidenciaram que o ambiente de loja afeta a ocorrência de compras por impulso. A impulsividade, igualmente influenciada por elementos do ambiente em lojas físicas, foi identificada como o antecedente de maior impacto sobre a realização de compras impulsivas. A partir da comparação entre os dois modelos propostos, foram identificadas diferenças entre os comportamentos de compra impulsiva entre lojas físicas e virtuais, principalmente em relação à importância dos elementos ambientais das lojas na Internet sobre as compras impulsivas. Quanto às conseqüências das compras impulsivas, evidenciou-se que as emoções positivas, para ambos ambientes de varejo, são os sentimentos mais freqüentes; os afetos negativos, como culpa ou frustração, não apresentaram grande impacto. Por fim, são expostas as contribuições acadêmicas e gerenciais do estudo, apontando caminhos para novos estudos na área. / Impulse buying has been discussed and researched for more than fifty years, but a qualitative leap occurred in the past few years with the efforts for predictive models about this behavior. This dissertation has as its purpose to reduce this gap in its theoretical body from the development of a model of the antecedents and consequences of impulse purchases in two distinct shopping environments: in virtual and physical stores. Moreover, the study had as an objective to evaluate the relationship between store environment elements and impulse buying behavior. For this purpose, a survey research was conducted with internet purchases experienced consumers. Analysis of the data, utilizing structural equation modeling, verified the relationships among store environment, individual impulsivity, in-store browsing and impulse purchases. The results evidenced that store environment influences the occurrence of impulse purchases. Impulsivity, also influenced by physical stores environmental elements, was identified as an the antecedent of stronger impact on impulse purchases. From the comparison between the two proposed models, differences between impulse buying behaviors in physical and virtual stores were identified, mainly concerning the importance of the environmental elements of internet stores on impulse purchases. As consequences of impulse purchases, positive emotions, for both retail environments, are the most frequent feelings; negative emotions as guilt and frustration didn’t show a strong impact. Finally the academic and managerial contributions of the study are presented, as well as future research on this issue.

CSR has become an important issue in the business practices of retailers worldwide. When it comes to the food sector, retailers are expected to adopt CSR practices and influence their consumers and supply chains to behave in a socially responsible way. Since the food consumption in answerable for 30 per cent of the negative environmentally impact the retailers are suggested to stimulate the green market development and sustainability in both production and consumption practices. This can be done with establishment of the responsible assortment. In relation to that, one of the main tools that food retailers use to create responsible assortment is called CSR labelling. The purpose of this study is to explore how food retail store managers engage to adopt CSR in the store assortment and how private eco-brands contribute to the green-market development in food retail. In order to achieve a widely understanding of food retailers practices when the creation of responsible assortment ant the stimulation of the green market development are in case, a qualitative method with 9 semi structured interviews was applied. The results show that retailers use CSR and eco-labells with the intention to motivate consumers to buy sustainable food products. The retailers are also showing increased attention of controlling the supply chain and influencing suppliers to behave in a socially responsible way. However, the findings indicates that both store managers and consumers need to be better informed about the benefit of the sustainable products.

[pt] O objetivo desta dissertação é estudar o e-commerce como forma de comercialização, explorando as características das empresas que fazem uso desse tipo de comercialização, levando em consideração o foco logístico do fluxo de bens e serviços comercializados via lnternet. O presente trabalho pretende identificar os desafios logísticos do comércio eletrônico, abordando quais os aspectos mais importantes no comércio eletrônico segundo a visão do cliente. Objetiva, ainda, verificar os requisitos básicos para resolver o problema da logística de distribuição e entrega de bens e serviços para o consumidor final por meio de um estudo de caso aplicado ao site da empresa CasaeVideo (www.casaevideo.com.br), que é um ambiente virtual de negócios de comércio eletrônico no mercado varejista. A partir dos estudos dos problemas com relação à Logística Urbana, procurou-se mostrar a relevância da aplicação de novas recomendações de fatores críticos de sucesso, inseridos no modelo em questão, para ambientes de negócios virtuais. / [en] The objective of this dissertation is to study e-commerce as a way of marketing, exploring the characteristics of companies that use this type of marketing, taking into account the focus of logistical flow of goods and services marketed via Internet. This study aims to identify the logistical challenges of electronic commerce, addressing what is the most important in electronic commerce through the perspective of the customer. It also aims to verify the basic requirements for solving the problem of logistic distribution and delivery of goods and services to end consumers through a case study applied to the CasaeVideo s website (www.casaevideo.com.br), which is a virtual environment for ecommerce business in the retail market. From the studies of problems related to the City Logistics, sought to demonstrate the relevance of further recommendations of critical success factors, included in the model in question, for virtual business environments.

The management accounting literature (e.g., Cooper and Kaplan 1988b; Shillinglaw 1982) argues that cost information is beneficial for marketing management in order to improve the business profitability. Accounting for strategic management also proposes the use of accounting information on cost drivers, business strategy, market and competitors (e.g., Shank and Govindarajan 1993). In the accounting and control literature it is also suggested that a company gains if it includes interactive control systems, with the participation of the various functional areas, including marketing, in addition to the traditional diagnostic systems (Simons 1995b). Moreover, the marketing literature states that there is a loss of influence and stature of the marketing department (Webster Jr et al. 2005) and relates this in part to the lack of performance measures (see Ambler 2003b; McGovern et al. 2004; Nath and Mahajan 2008), particularly the financial ones (e.g., Schultz and Gronstedt 1997). The marketing literature also recognises the usefulness of cost accounting information (e.g., Dunne and Wolk 1977; Kirpalani and Shapiro 1973; Winter 1979), in particular the information from the activity-based costing systems for marketing management (e.g., Goebel et al. 1998; Lere 2001). Although the literature in both accounting and marketing note benefits from using accounting information, the interaction, communication and the exchange of information between marketing and accounting departments is poor (Phillips and Halliday 2008; Srivastava et al. 1998) and little researched (De Ruyter and Wetzels 2000; McManus and Guilding 2008). The purpose of this research is to understand what influences the ability of the accounting system to meet the managers’ demand of accounting information, as well as why and how marketing managers are demanding accounting information. In keeping with the exploratory and explanatory research nature of the research an interpretative case study was conducted (see Lukka and Modell 2010; Mason 2002; Yin 2009). Two companies were selected from the Portuguese fashion retail sector (cf. Perloff and Salop 1985; Snyder 1989; Swartz 1983). The data was collected through semi-structured interviews, observation, and documents. The analysis and comparison of these two cases revealed that the use of accounting information was influenced by both structural and functional factors. From the structural point of view, it was important for the two companies to have very detailed accounting information in the system and have the financial and non-financial databases integrated. The mentality of the management control staff – oriented towards the real needs of the managers – was also a key factor. From the functional point of view, it was observed that two complementary forms of transmission of accounting information contributed to the effectiveness of its use. The self-service access to updated information and both automated and customised reports, contributed the accounting information being frequently accessed and interpreted by all managers – particularly commercial and sales managers. The face-to-face presentation and discussion of management accounting reports positively influenced the collective use of accounting information – in order to diagnose problems, find solutions and align the various managers in the implementation of plans. As a result, these interactions were still opportunities for mutual learning. Managers learned the potential of the accounting system and accountants perceived the specific needs of each manager. Therefore, it enabled both financial and management accountants to create and to maintain the management accounting system adapted to the managers' demand. Managers in both companies seek information to analyse sales, control costs and manage profitability. In one of the companies the information was also used strategically – the cost drivers, the market situation and the competitors’ accounting information were analysed. In one company, the accounting information was also used to protect the marketing department, i.e., the accounting information was used to maintain or increase the funds allocated to the marketing budget. In this particular case of marketing performance measurement, the unit of analysis was the marketing project and the metric was the contribution to profits. In conclusion, the marketing managers in these companies do seek management accounting information. Regular face-to-face, multi-functional and multi-hierarchical interaction is a key factor for the use of the accounting system; this is where managers learn the potential of the accounting system and accountants understand the real managers’ needs of accounting information.

The aim of this diploma thesis is a complete analysis of vegetarianism, as a consumer trend, including forecasts of future potential of this trend for the field of retailing in the Czech Republic. The thesis deals with the influence of various aspects of vegetarianism on the market in the Czech Republic. First, vegetarianism as such is characterized. The next chapter describes the supply side of vegetarian products on the Czech market, labeling of vegetarian food and its availability. Then, the thesis deals with with the consumer's purchasing decision-making process in relation to vegetarian products and marketing strategies that are used in relation to vegetarian products. The work is complemented by a questionnaire and a final SWOT analysis. In the thesis, a market potential of vegetarian products with one particular type of positioning was identified.