Marketing Essentials

Dibb, Sally; Simkin, Lyndon

ISBN 10: 1408011506 ISBN 13: 9781408011508

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

Sally Dibb and Lyndon Simkin are a world-renowned author team. Their textbook Marketing: Concepts and Strategies has long been considered the introduction for students on principles of marketing courses. Now streamlined and made suitable for shorter courses, Marketing Essentials brings Dibb and Simkin's well-established insight and accessible yet academically rigorous material to a new generation of students. Each chapter has been fully updated with topical, theoretical and practical material, lively examples, the views of practitioners and high quality graphics to aid students' understanding of marketing. A wealth of additional support is available to tutors and students on-line.

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About the Author

Sally Dibb is Professor of Marketing at the Open University Business School. The Open University is the largest university in the UK, teaching over 200,000 people every year, and the UK's only university dedicated to distance learning. Before joining the Open University (in September 2005) Sally was a Reader in Marketing and Strategic Management at Warwick Business School (one of the U.K.'s leading three business schools), University of Warwick, U.K. She holds research degrees from the University of Manchester, UK and Warwick University: her Ph.D. examined consumer modelling. She has published widely in U.S. and European marketing journals on the marketing of services, marketing planning, market segmentation and corporate identity, as well as textbooks and practitioner-oriented workbooks on these themes. Sally chairs the U.K. Academy of Marketing's Special Interest Group on market segmentation and until recently, she was Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Warwick Business School. Her consulting clients include a range of companies such as JCB, ICI, Fujitsu, Midland Electricity, Diageo and AstraZeneca. Lyndon Simkin is a Reader at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, U.K. He received his Ph.D. from Bradford University. His research interests are business planning, target market prioritisation, marketing planning, implementation of effective marketing programmes, promotions management and retail marketing. He is the author of other marketing texts and his long-term consulting clients include Calor, Fujitsu, JCB, Raytheon, Royal & Sun Alliance and many retailers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408011506
• ISBN 13: 9781408011508
• Binding: Misc. Supplies
• Number of pages: 480