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List of Contributors | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Understanding Fashion Marketing | |
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An Introduction to Fashion Marketing | |
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What is fashion? | |
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What is marketing? | |
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What is fashion marketing? | |
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Fashion marketing in practice | |
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How fashion marketing can help the fashion industry | |
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What fashion marketers do: five examples | |
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Ethical issues in fashion marketing | |
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An overview of the fashion marketing process | |
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Summary | |
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Further reading | |
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The Fashion Market and the Marketing Environment | |
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Introduction | |
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The development of the fashion market | |
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The fashion market: size and structure | |
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Marketing environment | |
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Micro marketing environment | |
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Macro marketing environment | |
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Trends in the marketing environment | |
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Summary | |
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Further reading | |
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Understanding and Researching the Fashion Purchaser | |
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The Fashion Consumer and Organizational Buyer | |
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Introduction | |
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Why study the fashion buyer? | |
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Fashion consumer decision making | |
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Psychological processes | |
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Sociological aspects of consumer behaviour | |
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The organizational buyer | |
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Summary | |
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Further reading | |
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Fashion Marketing Research | |
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Introduction | |
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The purpose of marketing research | |
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An overview of the marketing research process | |
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Problem definition and setting research objectives | |
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Research design | |
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Data sources | |
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Practical sampling methods | |
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Primary data collection methods | |
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Data collection methods | |
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Questionnaire design | |
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Attitude measurement and rating scales | |
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The role of marketing research in new product development | |
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Forecasting fashion | |
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The Internet as a research tool | |
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International Marketing Research | |
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Summary | |
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Further reading | |
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Target Marketing and Managing the Fashion Marketing Mix | |
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Segmentation and the Marketing Mix | |
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Introduction and overview | |
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Mass marketing and market segmentation | |
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Segmentation: rationale, bases and strategy | |
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Positioning and perceptual mapping | |
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The fashion marketing mix | |
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Summary | |
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Further reading | |
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Designing and Marketing Fashion Products | |
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Introduction | |
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The importance of fashion products | |
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The nature of fashion products | |
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The fashion industry and new product development | |
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Retail buying sequence: autumn and winter season | |
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The product mix and range planning | |
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Fashion and related lifecycles | |
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Summary | |
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Further reading | |
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Pricing Garments and Fashion Services | |
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Introduction | |
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Different views of price | |
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The role of price decisions within marketing strategy | |
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External factors influencing price decisions | |
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Internal factors influencing price decisions | |
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Main methods o | |