TY - BOOK AU - Perreault,William D. AU - McCarthy,E.Jerome (Edmund Jerome) TI - Essentials of marketing: : a global-managerial approach SN - 0071116338 U1 - 658.8 PY - 2006///] CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill/Irwin KW - Marketing N1 - With: Applications in basic marketing : clippings from the popular business press, 2005-2006 edition; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Chapter one. Marketing's value to consumers, firms, and society; Chapter two. Marketing strategy planning; Chapter three. Focusing marketing strategy with segmentation and positioning; Chapter four. Evaluating opportunities in the changing marketing environment; Chapter five. Final consumers and their buying behavior; Chapter six. Business and organizational customers and their buying behavior; Chapter seven. Improving decisions with marketing information; Chapter eight. Elements of product planning for goods and services; Chapter nine. Product management and new-product development; Chapter ten. Place and development of channel systems; Chapter eleven. Distribution customer services and logistics; Chapter twelve. Retailers, wholesalers, and their strategy planning; Chapter thirteen. Promotion - introduction to integrated marketing communications; Chapter fourteen. Personal selling; Chapter fifteen. Advertising and sales promotion; Chapter sixteen. Pricing objectives and policies; Chapter seventeen. Price setting in the business world; Chapter eighteen. Developing innovative marketing plans : appraisal and challenges ER -