Title: The proposal of improving the adidas company promotion in partner fitness centers Objective: Aim of the diploma thesis is implementation in marketing communication for partner fitness centers of adidas company. The thema is based on situational analysis of the company and marketing custommer behavior research. These phases are the starting point for proposals of implementation of existing communicational channels which is focused on utilization of particular comumnicational channels and designing new possibilities of marketing communication supporting adidas corporate identity. Methods: Marketing research 1.qualitative method - in-depth interview 2.quantitative method - questionnaire SWOT analysis Results: The research results show that adidas is among the top sporting goods producer in fitness. In spite adidas fights for its target customers primarily with American rival Nike. It is necessary that adidas maintain competitiveness in the field of fitness, even though currently does not put sufficient funds, as in the other key categories. This can be achieved by the intensive use of inexpensive communication channels. Key Words: Marketing, marketing communication, marketing mix, sponsoring, promotion, sales promotion, public relation, customer. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This diploma thesis focuses on the visual presentation of the Department of Physical Education Faculty of Education of the Charles University. Its aim is to analyse the current situation in the unified visual style of the department and propose improvement through a new graphic manual. The theoretical part contains information about the Department and its functioning, about cooperation with the university sports club and about the presentation of the department at various events. The theoretical part explains the background issues of the corporate identity and corporate image and shows how the selected departments at the Charles University in Prague and other Czech universities visually present themselves. The practical part analyses students, graduates, teachers' and the management's opinion of the work and visual appearance of the Department of Physical Education. And the key points of the presentation of the department in the graphic manual are summed and presented here. The knowledge acquired from this thesis and its output are primarily intended for employees of the department and people who will help with the graphical presentation of the department. Secondly, other departments that are planning to create their own visual style can get inspired by this work's models.

The video game industry is a rapidly growing industry due to technology advancements andhas made video games to a mass phenomenon. The diffusion of today’s technologies has created and expanded the video game market, both demographical and geographical, which has attracted more customers and increased the intensity of the competition. Companies in the industry have to professionalize their marketing processes and business strategies in a moreflexible and quickly fashion than before to be able to stay competitive. An overcrowded market with thousands of products released every year creates problems for actors to get recognized. The purpose of this dissertation has been therefore to study small start-ups brand identity in its inception phase within the video game industry to assist their brand strategic approach and be able to strengthen their competitive advantage in a saturated market. The dissertation has adopted the corporate brand identity matrix framework by Urde (2013) and investigated the brand-driven elements in a start-up context; thus, the framework has only been applied incorporation-setting where the companies are large and known. Five indie game developers from northern Sweden participated in the study’s field research. The dissertation shows that the corporate brand identity matrix is adaptable for start-ups and are not dependent on the company size. Findings confirm early signs of brand identity and found correspondence between competence and value proposition, expression and personality and culture and relationship, which address interconnection between its brand-elements and its brand core. The unique findings where they all show signs of social engagements, passion and a fan-centric ambition of doing business and most of all everyone had a “community first” approach and were more inspired to deliver value to its customers rather than how they can achieve value for themselves. A concept model for start-ups in the inception phase of the video game industry has been made based on the empirical results of the study that can be adopted early in a company's start-up process and provide guidance and support for its future brand identity development to address the issues of discoverability.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Celia Lucia do Rosario Braz.pdf: 1126903 bytes, checksum: c664bd4050062b5734819bee8092c1e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The current demands of our society, predicated on the aspects of information economy, culture of service and knowledge society, make the reputation one of the greatest values that an organization can have today, and can be understood as a "vote of confidence" that organization acquired. However, reputation, image and identity are a closely linked phenomena in organizations, to the extent that an identity able to create a good image in the minds of stakeholders can have a positive impact on corporate reputation. At that time, in Brazil, the private nonprofit organizations are not in a comfortable position when it comes to trust in institutions. Thus, the primary objective of this study is to clarify how the institutional identity of a social organization can influence the construction and maintenance of its corporate image and reputation, on the premise that these three concepts are interrelated. To meet this objective, we conducted a case study of qualitative and quantitative approach with the Arco Associação Beneficente, an institution of 22 years that serves children and youth with education services and social assistance. We investigated (i) its institutional identity, composed of the essential attributes of organizational identity and the way these projects are externally - corporate identity, (ii) the general impression that the general public has about the organization - its corporate image, and (iii) evaluation of key stakeholders about the institution - their corporate reputation. Among the results, are: consistency between organizational identity and corporate identity of Arco, except for formal communication factor, a high level of knowledge about the existence of the institution in the region, accompanied by a positive corporate image, and the realization of the strong influence that the institutional identity plays in building and maintaining the reputation of the entity / As atuais demandas de nossa sociedade, calcadas nos aspectos economia da informação, cultura do serviço e sociedade do conhecimento, fazem com que a reputação constitua hoje um dos maiores valores que uma organização pode possuir, podendo ser entendida como um crédito de confiança que a organização adquiriu. Entretanto, reputação, imagem e identidade são fenômenos intimamente ligados nas organizações, na medida em que uma identidade capaz de criar uma boa imagem na mente dos stakeholders pode trazer impactos positivos na reputação corporativa. Nesse momento, no Brasil, as organizações privadas sem fins lucrativos não se encontram em uma posição confortável quando o assunto é confiança nas instituições. Desse modo, o objetivo primordial do presente estudo é clarificar como a identidade institucional de uma organização social pode influenciar a construção e a manutenção da sua imagem e reputação corporativa, partindo da premissa de que estes três conceitos estão inter-relacionados. Para atender a esse intuito, foi realizado um estudo de caso de abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa junto à Arco Associação Beneficente, uma instituição que há 22 anos atende crianças e jovens com serviços de educação e assistência social. Foram investigadas (i) sua identidade institucional, composta pelos atributos essenciais da identidade organizacional e pela maneira como estes são projetos externamente identidade corporativa; (ii) a impressão geral que o público externo tem sobre a organização sua imagem corporativa; e (iii) a avaliação dos principais stakeholders sobre a instituição sua reputação corporativa. Dentre os resultados apurados, estão: a coerência entre a identidade organizacional e a identidade corporativa da Arco, exceto pelo fator comunicação formal, um alto índice de conhecimento sobre a existência da instituição na região, acompanhado por uma imagem corporativa positiva, e a constatação da forte influência que a identidade institucional exerce na construção e manutenção da reputação da entidade

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ADM - Camila K Colnago.pdf: 913602 bytes, checksum: 2bcc5ea6b6a7cb0a09dfc54b017900d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-18 / Organizational communication, understood as a strategic element for management and administration in modern organizations, represents an important means of information flow and relationship between the inside environment of companies and their outside world: their customers, the market and society in general. Communication, as a rule, enables companies to build up their organizational culture and corporate identity and allows them to create a competitive and coherent institutional image. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the role of organizational communication in creating and maintaining a solid and strategically defined image as well as to check on how communication is currently carried out at Brazilian companies in practice. An exploratory and qualitative survey was done through applying non-standardized interviews to nonprobabilist sample, for convenience, in the cities of São Paulo - SP and Vitória - ES. On the occasion, the interviewees, who are professionals in the area of communication, described their professional experiences and practices related to the strategic utilization of organizational communication practices in forming the institutional image of their companies. The survey results showed that companies have been trying to get rid of the old concepts of vertical, instrumental and mandatory communication and that many times they have been able to establish much more participative, dialogic and strategic communication processes / A comunicação organizacional, entendida como elemento de caráter estratégico para a gestão e a administração das organizações modernas, representa um importante canal de troca de informações e relacionamento entre o ambiente interno das empresas e o mundo exterior a elas: seus públicos, o mercado e a sociedade em geral. É a comunicação, via de regra, que viabiliza a construção da cultura organizacional e da identidade corporativa, e que permite que as organizações gerem no ambiente externo uma imagem institucional coerente e competitiva. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar qual o papel da comunicação organizacional na construção e manutenção de uma imagem institucional sólida e estrategicamente definida para as empresas, e verificar, na prática, como é a comunicação praticada nas empresas brasileiras atualmente. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa exploratória, viabilizada através da aplicação de entrevistas despadronizadas, a uma amostra não-probabilística por conveniência, efetuadas nas cidades de São Paulo - SP e Vitória - ES. Na ocasião, os entrevistados, profissionais da área de comunicação, relataram suas experiências profissionais e práticas desenvolvidas acerca do tema questionado, ou seja, da utilização estratégica da comunicação organizacional para a formação da imagem institucional de suas empresas. Os resultados da pesquisas demonstraram que as empresas têm tentado, na medida do possível, romper com os antigos conceitos da comunicação verticalizada, instrumental e mandatória, e têm conseguido, muitas vezes, instituir processos de comunicação mais participativos, dialógicos e estratégicos

Corporate reputation is still consolidating as an important intangible asset for organizations. Unlike other concepts, reputation is multidisciplinary as it is the synthesis of the success factors of a company. The diversity of definitions, perspectives and methods in this field, as well as the lack of a solid body of theory surrounding this concept, highlight the need to investigate in order to add rigor to its study and application. It is for this reason that this thesis main goal is to analyze five of the most important instruments for measuring this phenomenon, in order to create a new multi-stakeholder methodology for measuring corporate reputation which enhance the benefits and exceed the drawbacks that current tools present. / La reputaci��n corporativa se sigue consolidando como un activo intangible muy importante para las organizaciones. A diferencia de otros conceptos, la reputaci��n es multidisciplinaria dado que constituye una s��ntesis de los factores de ��xito de una empresa. La diversidad de definiciones, perspectivas y m��todos existentes en este ��mbito, as�� como la falta de un cuerpo te��rico solido entorno a este t��rmino, ponen de manifiesto la necesidad de investigar de cara a a��adir rigor en su estudio y aplicaci��n. Es por este motivo que en esta tesis doctoral se propone analizar cinco de los instrumentos de medici��n del fen��meno reputacional m��s importantes en la actualidad, con el objetivo de crear un nuevo instrumento multistakeholder para medir la reputaci��n corporativa que destaque los benefici��s i supere los d��ficits que los m��todos hoy presentan.

Titel: När mediabruset tar över- Hur en butik kan använda sig av gerillamarknadsföring Kurs: 2FE07E Examensarbete i företagsekonomi, Kandidatuppsats 15hp, VT2011 Författare: Rebecca Einarsson, Lejla Kurtovic och Izla Seffo Handledare: Martin Amsteus Examinator: Frederic Bill  Nyckelord: Gerillamarknadsföring, Generation Y, Målgruppsanalys, Attityder, Varumärke:företagsidentitet och företagsimage, Varumärkeskännedom. Syfte: Att skapa kunskap rörande hur en butik kan marknadsföra sig mot Generation Y med hjälp av gerillamarknadsföring.    Metod: Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär med ett induktivt angreppssätt. Det är även en fallstudie och primärdata samlades först in genom en djupgående intervju med fallföretaget, därefter utfördes en målgruppsanalys genom en fokusgrupp samt enkät.                                                                                                   Empiri: Det empiriska kapitlet påbörjas med en presentation av Rut m.fl. som följs av en intervju där målgruppen definierades till Generation Y. Utefter intervjun utformades en målgrupssanalys genom en fokusgrupp och enkät. Teori: De teorier som presenteras har härletts av det empiriska materialet och är relevant för de ämnen som tagits upp. Kapitlet behandlar målgruppsanalys, Generation Y, Varumärke:företagsidentitet och företagsimage,varumärkeskännedom samt gerillamarknadsföring. Avslutning: Studiens slutsatser är att gerillamarknadsföring är användbar då den är kostnadseffektiv, tilltalar Generation Y, ökar varumärkeskännedom och igenkänningsfaktorn samt kan skapa Buzz vilket kan leda till Word-of-mouth.                  Vidare forskning: Förslag till vidare forskning skulle kunna vara att studera ämnet mer ingående och skapa vetenskapligt material då gerillamarknadsföring är ett relativt outforskat område. Det skulle även vara intressant att mäta responsen till gerillamarknadsföring, speciellt de förslag som resulterat från denna studie. / When the media noise is taking over – How a store can make use of Guerrilla marketing Authors: Rebecca Einarsson • Lejla Kurtovic • Izla Seffo Tutor: Martin Amsteus Examiner: Frederic Bill 2FE07E Bachelor thesis in Business administration • Marketing programme School of Business and Economics atLinneaus University in Växjö • Spring 2011 Keywords: Guerrilla marketing • Generation Y • Target audience analysis • Attitudes • Brand: corporate identity and corporate image • Brand recognition Traditional marketing has been caught in a vicious circle. People have limited attention and are also limited by money, which means that consumers cannot pay attention to all advertising or buy everything. As companies invest more money on advertising it results in even more messages for people to take in and then it may be difficult for the company to get through the "noise". The consumers also tend to build up defenses against these types of traditional messages and actively avoid it, which do not make it easier for today's marketers so therefore marketers must simply find new ways to catch their attention. The purpose of this thesis is to generate knowledge regarding how a store can advertise to Generation Y by means of Guerrilla marketing. The research undertakes a qualitative data collection. Primarily a case study was undertaken and primary data for the main study was collected through an in-depth interview with the case business, and thereafter through a focus group and a survey that were based on an target audience analysis in order to understand the target audience, which in this study is limited to Generation Y.  Secondary data was collected from academic literature, scientific articles, dissertations and webpages. The theories that are researched are derived from the topics that arose from the empirical data. The findings and conclusion of the study is that Guerrilla marketing is cost-efficient, more appealing to Generation Y, enables a dialogue with the customers, increases brand recognition and recognition factor in general, but mostly it can create Buzz which can turn into Word-of-mouth communication. Guerrilla marketing is a relatively unexplored field and suggestions for further research would be to study the subject more profoundly and to create more scientific material in general. It would also be of interest to measure the response to guerilla marketing and especially to test the Guerrilla marketing suggestions that have resulted from this study on Generation Y.

Guerrilla marketing is a relatively new way of doing marketing. It is initially used by small companies and/or individuals allowing them to act like large companies. However, more and more large companies use Guerrilla marketing these days. The usage of Guerrilla management can bring advantages but can also increase risks. At this moment little research is done about the way how large companies manage the reputational risk associated with Guerrilla marketing. This is a problem in both science and practise. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to contribute to the understanding of how large companies manage the possible reputational risk that Guerrilla marketing and the communication of Guerrilla marketing brings along. This research is based on several theories, both emerging and dominant about Guerrilla marketing, Viral Marketing, Buzz marketing, Reputational risk and Reputational Risk Management. To do the research, in-depth interviews were held with experts when it comes to managing reputational risk and new marketing tools of four large companies based in Sweden. The analyses show that large companies manage the increasing reputational risks in some extend. Main findings are that the companies do not monitor Guerrilla marketing processes and do not have a central coordination for reputational risk management. This shows that not all companies are really aware of the risk that new marketing tools bring along and do not have a solid reputational risk management.

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Baigiamojo darbo tikslas. Išanalizavus UAB „Omnitel“ prekės ženklo kaitą, pasiūlyti korporatyvinio prekės ženklo keitimo bei komunikacijos modelius Pagrindinių darbo dalių trumpas turinys. Teorinėje darbo dalyje analizuojamas vizualinis identitetas bei korporatyvinis prekės ženklas, jo samprata, skirstymas, pateikti valdymo modeliai bei keitimo priežastys. Analitinėje baigiamojo darbo dalyje pateikiami ir analizuojami tyrimo rezultatai apie „Omnitel“ korporatyvinio prekės ženklo keitimą, tyrimo metu buvo atlikta dokumentų analizė ir anketinė apklausa. Projektinėje darbo dalyje suformuluoti tokie sprendimai: • Pateikti pasiūlymai, kaip kompanija „Omnitel“ galėtų pagerinti savo korporatyvinio prekės ženklo pokyčių pristatymą; • Pateiktas korporatyvinio prekės ženklo keitimo modelis; • Pasiūlytas modelis apibūdinantis kaip turėtų būti vykdoma korporatyvinio prekės ženklo pokyčių komunikacija. / Aim of the job. To analyze, how was performed changes of „Omnitel“ corporate brand and suggest corporate rebranding and corporate rebranding communication models. Content of the main parts of the job. In theoretical part of this job is analyzed visual identity and corporate brand, it‘s conception, models of management and reasons of corporate brand changes. In analytical part are analyzed and represented research results about „Omnitel“ corporate brand rebranding. Analysis of documents and questionnaire were used in this research In designed part were formulated such decisions: • Were given proposals how „Omnitel“ could present better it‘s corporate rebranding; • Proposed model of corporate rebranding; • Proposed model how should be done communication of corporate rebranding.