Retail Advertising and Promotion explores how today's retailers can effectively reach their existing customers while also attracting and retaining new ones. The only advertising book that focuses specifically on the retail industry, it covers historical perspectives, ethics, regulations, and current trends while featuring practical information on planning and budgeting and advice on how to work with advertising agencies. All forms of advertising media are covered, from newspapers and magazines to television, radio, outdoor advertising, and the Internet. The book also discusses promotional tools such as special events, visual merchandising, and public relations, providing students with all they need to coordinate successful advertising and promotional initiatives on behalf of a retail business. Instructors, contact your Sales Representative for access to Instructor's Materials.

Every step in the promotional activities of a fashion retailer is given thorough examination in this one book, from researching consumer attitudes to planning advertising budgets, from determining strategy to preparing ad copy and layout. The book also provides strong coverage of the often-omitted topics of merchandise presentation, visual merchandising and fashion shows.

Retail Marketing and Branding, 2nd Edition looks at how retailers can make more out of their marketing money with retail best practices in branding and marketing spend optimization. The second edition of Retail Marketing and Branding includes the following updates: * New and updated case examples * Updated figures and examples throughout * New interviewers with recent experiences * Additional chapters

With crisp and insightful contributions from 47 of the world’s leading experts in various facets of retailing, Retailing in the 21st Century offers in one book a compendium of state-of-the-art, cutting-edge knowledge to guide successful retailing in the new millennium. In our competitive world, retailing is an exciting, complex and critical sector of business in most developed as well as emerging economies. Today, the retailing industry is being buffeted by a number of forces simultaneously, for example the growth of online retailing and the advent of ‘radio frequency identification’ (RFID) technology. Making sense of it all is not easy but of vital importance to retailing practitioners, analysts and policymakers.

Edition numbering starts over again with the title change; the earlier edition is called sixth edition but is the first under the new title.

Now in its fifth edition, this popular textbook continues to provide a comprehensive insight into the world of advertising and promotional communications. Unique in its approach, the authors situate the key concepts of marketing communications from the perspective of advertising agencies and provide insight into what a career within an ad agency might be like. Their critical approach grounded in up-to-date research allows the reader to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of marketing and advertising, including business, socio-cultural, media studies and consumer culture theory perspectives. Along with striking full colour visual advertisements and illustrations, new examples and case studies, this fifth edition has been fully updated to include: Two brand new chapters on Social Media Advertising and Digital Advertising Commentary on how the COVID-19 pandemic has and will impact advertising The evolving role of advertising agencies in the post digital era Emerging forms of advertising and promotion, including the role of influencers