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Marketing Communication Tools Ab.&Amp;Fitch

Submitted by szerpe on March 31, 2006

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MARKETING HOME ASSIGNMENT

By: Szeremlei Péter

Seminar Leader: Kapitány József

Module Leader: Dr. Tom Owens

Topic:

Communication Tools

Abercrombie & Fitch Co.



1 Introduction

In terms of the general perception of all of the marketing mix elements that a firm may employ, it is perhaps ‘promotion' that is the most prominent ‘P' in the ‘4 P's'. In fact to many people promotion is marketing. Promotion is a part of a firm's overall effort to communicate with consumers and others about its product or service ‘offering'. Both the company and the consumer have needs which they aim to fulfill; the profit making company wishes to improve or maintain profits and market share, and gain a better reputation than its competitors, and the consumer aims to reach his or her personal goals. The total product offering allows each party to move towards these goals, offering a ‘bundle of satisfactions' which fulfill needs in an instrumental and a psychological sense. The phrase ‘Marketing Communications' is generally preferred to the term ‘promotion', this term being reserved for a branch of communications called ‘below-the-line sales promotion'.

2 Promotion or Marketing Communication

In a sense all marketing communication activity is a form of promotion, that is in one way or another is attempting to promote the interest of the brand, product range and/or company. What differentiates ‘above the line' activity from ‘below the line activity' is a somewhat arbitrary division. There is no universally accepted definition of either. Below the line activity is loosely classed as non-media advertising. Basically if an advertisement is submitted to a publication and a commission is paid to the advertising agency to feature the piece then this is deemed to be ‘above the line' communication. If no commission has...

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