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The main subject of the thesis “Communication mix of day-care centre“ is a proposition of a communication mix for the starting civic association JOHANKA. The first part focuses on the necessary theoretical data. The second part presents a philosophy of the day-care centre, market analysis, customer, competitors and SWOT analysis. The communication mix is proposed on the basis of the analyses and it will be effective for the day-care centre for gaining awareness in the market with the lowest cost possible.

Diplomová práca sa zameriava na vývoj marketingovej stratégie firmy Mediahost.sk na slovenskom trhu. Analyzuje makro a mikro prostredie v IT priemysle, a to najmä so zameraním na webhosting. Aktuálna marketingová stratégia spoločnosti je popísaná a hlavné ovplyvňujúce faktory sú rozpoznané. Diplomová práca obsahuje návrhy zmien a odporúčania zahrnuté v novej marketingovej stratégii spoločnosti. Navyše, je navrhnutý plán a rozpočet realizácie.

This diploma thesis analyzes the current state of the company and creating a marketing strategy, which aim is to make Tisuvka restaurant and guesthouse popular and visible and increase attendance. The work includes a thorough analysis of the microenvironment, branches environment and microenvironment enterprise together with SWOT analysis. In conclusion, there are presented recommendations for all components of the marketing mix , which should lead to an improvement of the current situation , including an economic assessment of the company.

The role of internet and the digitalized world are more relevant than ever before. The new phenomena of digital marketing has created a paradigm shift of existing marketing with new ways to market. Social media plays a significant role in this change, since it allows businesses to easily engage with its customers and to maintain relationships. For small and local businesses, this change has created great opportunities to interact more with the local audience. However, not all such businesses have the sufficient knowledge to optimize the usage of social media. The focus of the study is to explore the current usage of social media in local businesses context. Furthermore, we will suggest social media marketing strategies that will help local business to improve its customer relations. The qualitative approach is applied in this study by using interviews and observations, which is the main source of primary data collection. The conclusion was that local grocery stores still rely much more on traditional marketing methods. However, local grocery stores still use and value social media, but most are unclear of the true benefits and strategies when using social media. Lacking strategies consist of planning the social media marketing strategies, but also lacks the formal management of critical situations on social media. Overall, local stores perform well in building relations with its customers using social media however, there is a scope of further improvements.

This study aimed to determine the potential of packaging to strengthen brand equity in female apparel retail stores. A field experiment was conducted in the Tshwane metropolitan - a key political, economic and urban area in South Africa - to investigate the potential of packaging to be acknowledged as an additional element of the marketing mix in terms of its influence on consumers’ perceptions of the service offering of retailers and their brand equity. The study was done in the context of an emerging economy, where international clothing brands have infiltrated the market and become widely accessible in recent years. The data was collected by using convenience sampling methods, and the self-completion of a structured questionnaire after respondents acted as mystery shoppers at a Single Brand Retailer (SBR) and a Department Store (DS) that carry the same footwear brand in a major shopping centre in this metropolitan. The SBR offers consumers a branded high quality canvas tote bag after purchase, whereas the DS offers a generic plastic bag irrespective of the type of purchase or the price paid. Willing females, all final year students at the University of Pretoria (n =103) were divided in two groups. Individuals visited the two retailers according to a schedule compiled by the researcher. One group visited the SBR first, followed by the DS. The other group did the task in the reverse order. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, specifically Principle Component analysis using PROMAX and PROCRUSTES rotation for the two scales that investigated the service offering and brand equity respectively, Means, Standard deviations, Cronbach’s Alpha as well as paired and non-paired 2-tailed t-tests. This study confirmed the potential of secondary packaging as an independent element of the marketing mix in the branded clothing retail industry. The packaging construct dissociated it from the construct ‘Product’ as the literature suggests, which confirms that marketing elements adapt over time and that these changes have to be acknowledged in retail. Respondents generally had a less favourable instore experience in the DS compared to the SBR. The packaging format of SBR was also evaluated more favourably, which enhanced perceptions of the overall service offering. This suggests that respondents’ less favourable evaluation of the less prestigious packaging offered in the DS, is partly to blame for the lower overall evaluations of the service offering of the DS. Packaging also contributed/enhanced brand equity as consumers’ perceptions of the packaging formats – irrespective of whether it was a SBR or a DS – positively contributed to consumers’ perceptions of the brand equity of the retailers that they visited. The contribution of packaging towards brand equity was mostly more prominent than the contribution of other marketing elements such Advertising and Promotion. An order effect was noted. Respondents who visited the DS first, were significantly more impressed with the SBR. Those who went to the SBR first, seemed more forgiving and evaluated the service offering and the brand equity lower compared to the SBR but nevertheless evaluated it more favourably than the group that patronized the DS first. Packaging does not seem to relieve post purchase regret. Respondents were more regretful after their SBR experience. Several explanations may be used to explain this and future studies are envisaged to expand the findings. / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Consumer Science / unrestricted

The diploma thesis discusses a marketing communication of the restaurant "Kamera", located in Prague's district of Barrandov. Based on a thorough analysis of the current marketing communication, a new project of its improvement is proposed. The theoretical part defines the groundwork with basic terms as marketing, marketing mix, SWOT analysis, marketing communication, or marketing research. The practical part introduces the restaurant Kamera, describes the current situation and analyses its present communication. The goal of this thesis is to establish a solid analysis of a current marketing communication of a Prague's restaurant, based on a survey, observation, and interviews, and subsequently, propose a new project for improvement of said restaurant's marketing communication with both current and prospective customers.

This Diploma Thesis deals with the issue of Prague musicals celebrity marketing, which is a significant characteristics of the contemporary Prague musical scene. The theoretical part of this thesis introduces the basic theories of celebrity studies and the specifics of marketing mix of musicals, in which celebrities play a significant role. On the margine, the thesis is also focused on current overproduction of musicals and related problems in marketing activities of musical productions. The main part of this thesis is the own research, which was realized by analyzing the promotional materials of the greatest musical productions in Prague, as well as questionnaire survey among the visitors of musical shows. The aim of this research was to assess the contemporary celebrities of the Prague musicals and to assess the influence of celebrities on the decision to go to see some musical.

This study is concerned with how illiteracy impact consumers when navigating through the market place to have their needs met.These effects are researched in the Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The overall goal of the thesis is to investigate the problems that functionally illiterate consumers encounter when navigating through the Marketplace.The results show that functionally illiterate consumers at the Kumasi metropolis do face problems when navigating through the market place and that these problems are related to the retail marketing mix such as product, price, place, people, promotion and process.

The theme of this thesis is the marketing strategy of Expensa company. Expensa joint-stock company provides a unique managing and controlling system for company cash expenditures. This system includes Expensa company payment cards.The aim of this thesis is to (based on current situation) raise potential clients awareness of Expensa company by proposing a partial improvement of marketing strategy. Proposal of new segment which will help Expensa to increase higher market share and competitive ability is the specific output. Theoretical section describes marketing strategies, elements of the marketing mix, forms of situation analysis and three stages of STP strategy. The practical section reflects the theoretical composition.The presented thesis also contains a survey focused on current clients and their perception of marketing communication. The outcome emerging from the analysis is a good source for making a marketing strategy improvement in the future.