Title: Three Chosen Football Clubs' Marketing Towards Fans Objective: Analysis of the marketing program three football teams and its application towards the fans on the literature, obtained materials and conducted interviews. Methods: Marketing analysis was performed by analysis of internal and external documents and publications relating to the topic, followed by unstructured interviews with fans and semi structured interviews with representatives of clubs SK Slavia Praha and FC Flora Tallinn. A case study was based on the study of sport organizations and institutions and captures descriptions of the relationship and defines the complexity of the problem. This descriptive case study is supported by SWOT analysis. Results: Comparison of marketing programs of examined football clubs and the ways in which these programs are applied. Keywords: Marketing, marketing mix, sports marketing, communication, fans

The diploma thesis deals with the analysis of marketing activities of chosen commercial corporation. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first, theoretical, part covers key concepts for this thesis which are retail and marketing. Retail is presented in context with business, individual retail store formats and retail trends. Then there are described marketing tasks, marketing process including marketing strategy, marketing plan with marketing mix and estimate costing. Components of communication mix are described in a closer detail. The practical part covers introduction of the company, its history and structure. Then analyzes main competitors, customers and includes SWOT analysis. From these analyses deduces company's objectives. Then there are described and analyzed single components of marketing mix, and elaborately communication activities. The communication activities are in context with the communication campaign started at the end of the year 2010. At the end of the practical part there are suggestions and improvement proposals followed from foregoing analysis.

I concerned with concept of marketing communication strategy from the point of view of firm's participation in trade fair. Theoretic part includes introduction to opportunities of marketing and marketing communication and defines meaning of trade fair within communication mix. Practical part describes preparing and presentation of the firm ESAB in trade fair, further I evaluate efficiency and success of the participation in trade fair which is based on my own experience and available data and documents. Last but not least, I offer definite proposal that could contribute to increase in efficiency of presentation and advise of other opportunities that firma ESAB could use when creating communication strategy.

This research explores the attitudes held by marketing managers about building their company's corporate reputation, and about the impact of their actions on performance. In an environment of costly brand building, declining customer loyalty, and increasing scrutiny from stakeholders who demand corporate responsibility and transparency, a concern for corporate reputation is increasingly important for everyone in the company, including marketing managers. The marketing literature, however, has not explored how managers who are concerned about the reputation of their companies can effectively adapt marketing strategy for reputation enhancement. The theoretical justification for this research is grounded in stakeholder theory, dynamic capabilities theory, and strategic choice theory. The study contributes to the marketing strategy literature and the nascent field of stakeholder marketing. It makes a theoretical connection between the corporate-level construct of reputation orientation, and its impact on functional-level decisions about marketing strategy. Reputation orientation is the concern that top management and employees share about their company's commitment to nurturing a positive corporate reputation among key stakeholders. A scale for reputation was conceptually defined and empirically tested (Churchill, 1979). It consists of three dimensions: consciously created corporate identity, internal identity dissemination, and external stakeholder impact. Reputation orientation was found to be a valid and reliable construct that was further tested within the framework of how marketing managers formulate, implement, and evaluate their strategic marketing decisions. This research also tested the impact of stakeholder-conscious marketing strategy on corporate reputation and marketing performance. / The results from the empirical research indicate that organizations with a reputation orientation devise and select marketing strategies that focus on the needs and concerns of customers and other key stakeholders. Reputation orientation guides a stakeholder-conscious marketing strategy, such that marketing strategy decisions take into consideration both the impacts on corporate reputation and marketing performance without sacrificing either. The implications for marketing practice is that marketing managers can deliberately choose marketing strategies that build a strong corporate reputation by considering the concerns of customers and other key stakeholders at the earliest stages of marketing strategy formulation. / by Deborah Goldring. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web. FboU

The aim of this diploma thesis is to collect data and to analyze the current marketing communication of the selected company and then evaluate its effectiveness.The thesis identified the shortcomings of this company's marketing communication, suggested suitable improvements and introduced examples of their implementation in the new marketing communication plan.

O propósito do presente estudo foi investigar como se articula o anúncio publicitário impresso, uma das mais importantes formas de enunciação do discurso persuasivo do marketing, e sua evolução ao longo do tempo. O período de análise correspondeu às últimas quatro décadas, período de grande relevância para se entender a constituição do ambiente contemporâneo do marketing brasileiro. O foco principal do estudo foi dado à imagem como elemento composicional dos anúncios, mas também foi analisada sua relação com elementos verbais, como o título e o texto das peças. Integrando fundamentos teóricos de diversas vertentes, como a semiótica (com destaque para a linguística estruturalista), a psicologia cognitiva (e os estudos aplicados ao comportamento do consumidor) e trabalhos específicos relacionados com a comunicação de marketing, foi elaborado um instrumento de codificação para classificar as diversas dimensões em uma amostra probabilística de 800 anúncios publicados na Veja, a principal revista de interesse geral do mercado brasileiro, abarcando edições entre os anos de 1968 e 2008. As dimensões consideradas foram tanto quantitativas (como o número de palavras no título e texto e o espaço alocado a estes elementos; o número de elementos visuais e o espaço alocado a fotografias, ilustrações e técnicas mistas), quanto de características qualitativas, com a classificação dos anúncios quanto a rotas de elaboração presumidas (centrais ou periféricas), temas utilizados (informativos, comportamentais ou simbólicos), estratégias de manipulação dos enunciatários (tentação, sedução, intimidação ou provocação) e também quanto às valorizações fundamentais implícitas na enunciação do discurso (valorizações prática, crítica, utópica ou lúdica). Trata-se, portanto, de uma pesquisa descritiva conclusiva, com utilização combinada da análise de conteúdo com estratégias semióticas para a abordagem dos fenômenos analisados. O pressuposto do trabalho - confirmado pelo teste das várias hipóteses propostas - foi de que no período ocorreu um aumento do uso de imagens em anúncios impressos, com correspondente redução do número de palavras no texto. Além disso, o uso de técnicas estatísticas bivariadas e multivariadas forneceu evidências para se concluir que as imagens vêm ganhando novas funções retóricas, passando de apoio aos elementos verbais para uma função predominante, de sustentação do discurso persuasivo. Como achados adicionais, mas relevantes para a compreensão dos fenômenos da comunicação de marketing, estão o aumento do uso de técnicas mistas e indícios da transferência das funções comunicacionais do corpo do texto para o título dos anúncios. Além do instrumento de análise de características objetivas para a investigação de enunciações persuasivas, as contribuições oferecidas pelo estudo também são de interesse gerencial, pois fornecem um quadro de referência da evolução dos discursos utilizados pelos anunciantes na elaboração de suas campanhas e, desta forma, proporcionam comparação das estratégias utilizadas. / The aim of this study was to investigate the articulation of print advertisement, one of the most important forms of persuasive discourse enunciation in marketing, and its evolution through time. The period of analysis defined were the last four decades, which are extremely important to understand the establishment of the contemporary Brazilian marketing environment. The main focus of the investigation was imagery as an advertisement composition element, but also its relationship to verbal elements such as the title and text of the print ad. Integrating theoretical foundations from diverse sources, such as semiotics (especially structural linguistics), cognitive psychology (and consumer behavior studies) and specific works on marketing communications, a coding instrument was developed to classify the various dimensions found in print ads. The probabilistic sample included 800 ads published in Veja, the main general interest magazine in the Brazilian market, from issues between 1968 and 2008. The dimensions considered were both quantitative (like the number of words in the title and text and the space given to them; and the number of visual elements and the space allocated to photographs, illustrations and mixed techniques) and of a qualitative nature, i.e., a classification of the ads according to presumed elaboration routes (central or peripheral), themes used (informative, behavioral or symbolic), enunciatee manipulation strategies (temptation, seduction, intimidation or provocation) and fundamental valorizations implicit in the discourse enunciation (practical, critical, utopian or ludic). It is, therefore, a descriptiveconclusive research using a combination of content analysis with semiotic strategies to address the phenomena under scrutiny. The core assumption of the study confirmed by the testing of the various proposed hypotheses was the occurrence of an increase in imagery use in print advertisement during the period, with a corresponding decrease in the number of text words. Besides, the use of bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques supplied evidence to conclude that images have been gaining new rhetorical functions, going from support to verbal elements to a more predominant function of sustaining persuasive discourse. As additional findings, also relevant to understand marketing communications phenomena, are the increase in the use of mixed techniques and the transfer of communicative functions from the body text to the ad title. Besides supplying an objective analytical tool to investigate persuasive statements, the study also offers contributions for management as it provides a framework of the evolution of discourses used by advertisers in their campaigns, thus allowing for comparison of the strategies utilized.

I focused my dissertation on the marketing strategies used by Czech subsidiaries of international pharmaceutical firms. There were two main aims of my dissertation. Firstly, to characterize the nature of the pharmaceutical industry, differentiate it clearly from consumer goods industries and identify how these differences influence the marketing strategy used. To reach this goal I used desk research. Secondly, I carried out primary research among 46 large international pharmaceutical firms that run subsidiaries in the Czech Republic. The main aims were to find out what marketing strategy they use (global, modified global, regional, local, or a combination of these), how and where it is created, how it is financed, whether they prefer the promotion of the company name or of individual brands and what communication channels they use.

Pour les organisations, la marque est un actif intangible qui peut représenter une valeur inestimable dans un contexte concurrentiel. La personnalité de la marque est définie comme un ensemble de caractéristiques humaines qui décrivent la marque (Aaker, 1997). Celle-ci donne une identité à la marque tout comme chaque individu est décrit selon son tempérament, ses valeurs, son attitude, ses émotions, etc. Il est ainsi possible de définir une marque avec des adjectifs comme féminin, sincère, sensible, etc. La personnalité de la marque corporative est créée puis transmise par les organisations à l'aide de différentes stratégies de communication comme par exemple via le site Internet de chaque organisation. Le site Internet de l'organisation est alors utilisé pour créer ou renforcer le lien entre le consommateur et la marque. Dans cette étude, nous nous somme intéressés à la personnalité de la marque corporative ainsi qu'aux différents éléments qui peuvent influencer la perception du consommateur à propos de celle-ci. Nous voulions analyser cette perception dans un environnement physique ainsi que dans un environnement électronique et voir s'il existe des différences de perception à travers le temps. Ainsi, l'objet de ce mémoire est d'analyser l'impact du site Internet d'une organisation sur la perception de la personnalité de la marque en fonction de plusieurs variables. Nous avons élaboré un cadre conceptuel comportant six hypothèses de recherche et deux périodes de temps. Nous avons analysé la perception de la personnalité de la marque de l'organisme des Y du Québec, lequel a réalisé des changements majeurs sur son site Internet entre ces deux périodes de temps. Les six hypothèses correspondent aux variables qui peuvent influencer la perception des consommateurs soit: l'attitude envers l'organisation, la qualité du service offert, la personnalité des individus, la personnalité des employés, la réputation corporative. La sixième hypothèse regroupe toutes les variables précédentes. Les résultats nous montrent que la perception des consommateurs a changé suite aux modifications effectuées sur le site Internet de l'organisme des Y du Québec. Comme cet organisme est présent physiquement grâce à ses différents centres dans la région métropolitaine de Montréal ainsi qu'électroniquement grâce à son site Internet, la perception des consommateurs a changé dans un environnement physique et électronique, c'est-à-dire celui où les individus connaissent les centres ainsi que le site Internet. L'attitude envers l'organisation, la qualité du service offert, la personnalité des employés ainsi que la réputation corporative possèdent une influence sur la perception de la personnalité de la marque. Cependant, cette influence diffère avant et après les modifications effectuées sur le site Internet de l'organisme. La personnalité humaine, quant à elle, ne possède pas d'influence sur la perception de la personnalité de la marque peu importe la période de temps. Après, les modifications effectuées sur le site Internet, la personnalité de la marque des Y du Québec, tout en étant sincère, adopte un côté plus moderne. Les consommateurs se basent sur les informations qui leur sont diffusées électroniquement sur le site Internet mais également physiquement comme par le biais des employés. Le nouveau site Internet de l'organisme a permis de transmettre de nouvelles informations au public sur la mission et sur la cause de l'organisme ainsi que sur des actions concrètes à l'initiative de l'organisme. Ceci a ainsi modifié la perception de la personnalité de la marque en termes de sincérité, de créativité et de modernité. La double présence de l'organisme, soit physique et électronique, doit amener les gestionnaires à offrir au consommateur un lien entre ces deux environnements de façon à ce que le consommateur puisse comprendre la mission de l'organisme. Les employés doivent adopter une culture commune de gestion de la marque de façon à délivrer au consommateur un message clair et la personnalité voulue. Aussi, le site Internet représente une plateforme idéale pour communiquer des informations au sujet de l'organisation au consommateur ainsi que pour lui faire vivre une expérience intégrant plusieurs éléments du modèle d'affaires. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Personnalité de la marque, Gestion de la marque, Perception des consommateurs, Stratégies de communications, Internet.

Cette étude exploratoire vise à identifier les outils de communication marketing les plus performants pour les entreprises québécoises de logiciel. Pour ce faire, nous avons d'abord relevé les outils de communication marketing présentés dans la revue de littérature. Par la suite, nous avons rencontré un échantillon de six entreprises québécoises oeuvrant ou ayant oeuvré dans l'industrie du logiciel au «business-to-business». Avec ces dernières, nous avons effectué une entrevue semi-dirigée afin de connaître leurs pratiques en communication marketing. Nous avons ainsi pu connaître les outils de communication marketing utilisés par ces entreprises. À partir de ces cas, nous avons effectué un «benchmarking» en les comparant avec trois entreprises considérées par les experts de l'industrie comme étant des «leaders» en communication marketing au «business-to-business». Ceci nous a permis de dégager, en premier lieu, les outils de communication marketing utilisés par les entreprises québécoises rencontrées. Et par la suite, nous avons pu identifier ceux utilisés par les multinationales étudiées. Cette étude dégage les outils de communication marketing les plus performants au «business-to-business» grâce à l'approche du «benchmarking» afin d'aider les entreprises québécoises de logiciels à se tailler une place de choix dans cette industrie hautement concurrentielle. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Communication marketing, Business-to-business, Entreprises québécoises, Logiciels, «Benchmarking».

This study investigates the role of integrated marketing communications in building customer based brand equity. The study was conducted in Pietermaritzburg and Durban in South Africa using the consumers of the Coca Cola brand as the study subjects. The aim of the study was to determine the differential effect that knowledge of the Coca Cola brand has on consumers’ responses to the marketing of the brand. The study commenced with a survey of literature related to the fields of integrated marketing communications and customer based brand equity. The theoretical framework was determined to be the customer based brand equity model of Keller (2008: 60). For the empirical research, the quantitative research methodology was employed. The primary data was collected from a sample of 285 Coca Cola drinkers from Pietermaritzburg and Durban in South Africa. The findings from the theoretical survey revealed that there are several promotional mix tools that can be used to market a brand and that these can be used in brand building to precipitate the strong, favourable and unique brand associations that are necessary for the development of brand equity. The results of the empirical study revealed that the Coca Cola brand does indeed employ several marketing communications tools and that they have been integrated in such a way that they present a cohesive and consistent message. Respondents revealed that this integration of communications has an impact on their attitudes and beliefs about the brand. The research determined that Coca Cola is a highly salient brand in the minds of consumers and that they hold positive associations about the brand. The study determined however that although they hold strong, favourable and unique brand association of the brand in their minds, the majority of respondents do not have the attitudinal attachment, active involvement and sense of community that are necessary for brand resonance. / Thesis (M.Com.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.