Book Description
Boone and Kurtzs Contemporary Marketing has proved to be the premier introduction to marketing text and package, edition after edition. With each edition, this best selling author team builds and improves upon past innovations, creating the most technologically advanced, student friendly, instructor supported text available. The eleventh edition continues to provide the most current and up-to-date content by including coverage on the events over the past year, such as the recession, the terrorist attacks on America, and coverage on the ethical disasters such as the Enron scandal. Realizing that students need a solid understanding of how these events apply to marketing the authors integrate this content throughout the new edition. The changes to this edition are so significant, that this new edition is more like a new text than just a revision.
About the Author
For the past 35 years, Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz have pursued distinguished academic careers. Each has taught at a number of major U.S. and foreign universities and the two have collaborated in writing best-selling books. Their publications have been translated into Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. They have lectured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Boone and his wife live in Mobile, Alabama, where he is an emeritus professor of business at the University of South Alabama and where his collection of Barbizon art, among the finest in the United States, is now part of the permanent collection of the Mobile Museum of Art.
Contemporary Marketing with Xtra! CD-ROM, Audio Chapter Review CD-ROMs and InfoTrac FROM THE PUBLISHER
Boone and Kurtz's Contemporary Marketing has proved to be the premier introduction to marketing text and package, edition after edition. With each edition, this best selling author team builds and improves upon past innovations, creating the most technologically advanced, student friendly, instructor supported text available. The eleventh edition continues to provide the most current and up-to-date content by including coverage on the events over the past year, such as the recession, the terrorist attacks on America, and coverage on the ethical disasters such as the Enron scandal. Realizing that students need a solid understanding of how these events apply to marketing the authors integrate this content throughout the new edition. The changes to this edition are so significant, that this new edition is more like a new text than just a revision.
SYNOPSIS
This textbook describes the strategies used to analyze customer behavior and develop marketing campaigns, products, pricing, distribution channels, and sales promotions. Four audio CDs provide chapter reviews. The eighth edition is listed in the Harvard business school core collection. This eleventh edition adds a CD- ROM that contains digitized videos for a case study of the Krispy Kreme chain. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR