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.

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Say what you will about Wal-Mart and the retailing giants. According to authors Chris Thomas and Rick Segel, of Retailing in the 21st Century, there will always be room for a solid, well-run local store or regional chain with excellent service and or an interesting market niche. Thomas and Segel show students how to be that merchant. This book will help students understand how to start a retail business from the ground up. The authors' focus throughout the book is on being organized and purposeful and knowing every step of the way where the business is going and why. The major goals include learning to strategize, expect the best but prepare for the worst, create a positive work environment, and keep yourself and your staff motivated to find the best merchandise and offer it enthusiastically to your customers at a fair price. After reading this book, students will be prepared to be a successful retailer in the 21st century.

Pharmaceutical Marketing in the 21st Century helps professionals in the pharmaceutical field anticipate and prepare for market changes and advances, and it guides them in adjusting their marketing strategies to remain competitive in the coming era. Ideal for product managers, planners, and strategists, this book puts the past twenty years of pharmacy into perspective and uses it as a basis for predicting the next twenty years. Internationally relevant, this book is now available in Japanese! Distinguished contributors provide a formal conjecture on the nature of various aspects of pharmaceutical marketing in the early part of the 21st century. Utilizing their experience and expertise, they provide pharmaceutical professionals with guidelines for marketing in the coming years. Readers gain insight into what the future may hold in these areas: pricing, product development, distribution, promotion, retailing, market research, and other areas. Experts who make professional speculations in Pharmaceutical Marketing in the 21st Century include these among others: William R. Mattson, Jr. (President, The Mattson Jack Group, St. Louis) and Evan G. Dick (Vice President and General Manager, MedStrategy Management Reports, St. Louis). They compare pharmaceutical marketing of 20 years ago with that of today and use the comparison as a basis for making projections 20 years into the future. David W. Newton (Albany College of Pharmacy). He predicts an increased importance and possible necessity of the pharmacist's role in direct/indirect patient care services. Jerome A. Reinstein (industry consultant and Director-General, World Federation of Proprietary Medicine Manufacturers, London). He explores the increasing number of prescription drugs becoming available over the counter. Pharmaceutical marketers and benefits managers, regulatory officials, drug product managers, advertising agency executives, and politicians will find Pharmaceutical Marketing in the 21st Century a must read as they work today in preparation for the future of pharmaceutical care and marketing.

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.

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