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The excitement, challenges, and controversies of global marketing.   Global Marketing strives to reflect current issues and events while offering... conceptual and analytical tools that will help readers apply the 4Ps to global marketing.   The new edition focuses on the recent changes in the world, including the global financial crisis.

The globalization of companies is the involvement of customers, producers, suppliers, and other stakeholders in the global marketing process. Global... marketing therefore reflects the trend of firms selling products and services across many countries around the world. Drawing on an incomparable breadth of international examples, Svend Hollensen not only demonstrates how global marketing works, but also how it relates to real decisions around the world.

Packed with cultural, company, and country examples that help explain the paradoxes international marketers are likely to encounter, Global Marketing... and Advertising, Third Edition, offers a mix of theory and practical applications as it covers globalization, global branding strategies, classification models of culture, and the consequences of culture for all aspects of marketing communications. In this Third Edition, author Marieke de Mooij includes new topics and updated information and findings from recent studies and helps readers apply global marketing concepts to the management of global branding and marketing communications. New and Continuing Features Includes new topics, including global public relations, culture and the media, and culture and the Internet, along with more extensive coverage of consumer behavior Helps companies define cross cultural segments to better target consumers across cultures Shows how culture affects strategic issues, such as the company's mission statement, brand positioning strategy, and marketing communications strategy Includes both recent and classic advertising examples from various parts of the world Demonstrates the centrality of value paradoxes to cross cultural marketing communications Uses the Hofstede model to help readers see how their understanding of cultural relationships in one country/region can be extended to other countries/regions Instructor Resources on a password-protected Web site at www.sagepub.com/demooij3instr, includes discussion questions, PowerPoint slides, illustrations from the book, sample test questions, and film clips available to qualified instructors by contacting SAGE Customer Care at 1-800-818-SAGE (7243) between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. PST. Global Marketing and Advertising is intended for use in courses in International or Global Marketing and International or Global Advertising, and is also a valuable resource for practitioners in global marketing departments of global companies and advertising agencies.

Hailing from America, Europe and the Middle East, the authors of Global Marketing provide a truly international and comparative perspective to the study... of marketing. Examples are provided from across the continents encompassing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In addition, well-researched multinational companies are explored and give justice to the breadth and depth of this field. Cases on well-known companies, such as Disney, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), and Corona are supplemented by cases on lesser-known and smaller companies from emerging markets, such as Proton Car from Malaysia and San Lu from China. In addition to short, end of chapter cases that can be used in classroom discussion, the book also boasts longer, end of book cases which require integration of multiple chapters and synthesis of knowledge to identify and solve international marketing problems.