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Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 & 2, 2006, The Marketing Institute Jan 2006

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 & 2, 2006, The Marketing Institute

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practise in marketing. This is a special issue on " the island view of relationship marketing and networks".


In The Eye Of A Storm: Battling With The Discounters In A Local Market, Mary Wilcox, Edmund O'Callaghan Jan 2005

In The Eye Of A Storm: Battling With The Discounters In A Local Market, Mary Wilcox, Edmund O'Callaghan

Case studies

Chris Harmon, senior manager with the Moriarty Group of SuperValu symbol stores, sat at his desk contemplating the future. Despite the intensifying challenges of a dynamic grocery market he was well satisfied with the success of the Group’s three supermarkets. The three stores, owned by Luke Moriarty, operate under the aegis of the Musgrave Group of independent SuperValu retailers. These independent retailers had not only survived Tesco’s arrival in Ireland, but the group as a whole had grown market share.


Rte Publishing Ltd, Gerry Mortimer Jan 2005

Rte Publishing Ltd, Gerry Mortimer

Case studies

The publishing division came into being as RTE Publishing Ltd in May 2003. Muirne Laffan was appointed Executive Director of RTE Publishing. Having spent several years in New York with the advertising agency McCann Erickson, Muirne had joined RTE to head up its commercial activities division some 18 months previously. With the reorganisation, some of these activities had been moved. Thus, for example, TV programme sales became part of the TV division to ensure that issues involved in programme sales were incorporated into programme planning at an early stage.


Green Engineering Services Limited, Gerry Mortimer Jan 2005

Green Engineering Services Limited, Gerry Mortimer

Case studies

“Sometimes in my darker moments I think that, if I had ducks they’d drown, and this is one of those moments. You will have heard the announcement that Fruit of the Loom are closing down the remainder of their operations in the northwest”, Manus Green said, discussing his latest predicament with his friend and occasional advisor Paul Staunton. Manus with his wife Claire, was owner of Green Engineering Services Ltd., a small precision engineering company based on an industrial estate in West Donegal.


Buy4now: Ireland's Online Shopping Centre, Joseph Coughlan, Aileen Kennedy Jan 2005

Buy4now: Ireland's Online Shopping Centre, Joseph Coughlan, Aileen Kennedy

Case studies

In February 2004 the CEO of Buy4Now, Ali Murdoch, finds himself in the enviable position of having several growth avenues and opportunities for company expansion to pursue. Domestically, he has issues such as customer acquisition and retention, new processes such as Central Checkout technology, growth in the adoption of broadband technology, the addition of new partners to the portal and the management and growth of advertising revenue demand attention. Recruiting additional staff is also on the agenda for 2004 across several functional areas.


Food Retailing In Ireland: At A Crossroads Of Change, Edel Foley Jan 2005

Food Retailing In Ireland: At A Crossroads Of Change, Edel Foley

Case studies

As a consultant in comparative retailing systems, Ulrike Johnson is responsible for advising international retailers about brands, markets, and key drivers of change. Her current assignment involves advising a European food retailer about current trends and prospects in the food retailing business in the Republic of Ireland, with a view to assessing the possibility of entering the market.


General Records (Ireland), Thomas Cooney Jan 2005

General Records (Ireland), Thomas Cooney

Case studies

Standing outside a pub, Billy Barrett and Martin Murphy faithfully obeyed the no smoking ban that was now a feature of the Irish social scene. As they smoked their cigarettes, they discussed the singer/songwriter who played inside the premises that they stood against so nonchalantly. The gig was enjoying a great reception, with the crowd enthusiastically applauding the eclectic mix of blues, rock, and traditional music. ‘Well, Billy, how would fancy starting a record company?’ asked Martin, as if it was not really a challenge. ‘The singer playing inside wants to record a CD but she has no label. I …


The Determinants Of Charitable Donations In The Republic Of Ireland, James Carroll Jan 2005

The Determinants Of Charitable Donations In The Republic Of Ireland, James Carroll

Masters

This thesis explores the variable that affect the probability of donating and the variables that affect the size of donation by Irish households. The datasets employed are the Irish Household Budget Surveys, 1994/1995 and 1999/2000, which are analysed using a tobit model and a double-hurdle model with an inverse hyperbolic sine transformation. Between 1994 and 2000, Ireland witnessed a remarkable and well-documented economic boom. This thesis provides insight into how the determinants of charitable donations change in an economy such as the Republic of Ireland’s, which has undergone such rapid economic and cultural changes. To date there has been no …


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 & 2, 2004, Unknown Jan 2004

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 & 2, 2004, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


Irish Marketing Review,Vol. 16, No. 2, 2003, The Marketing Institute Jan 2003

Irish Marketing Review,Vol. 16, No. 2, 2003, The Marketing Institute

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practise in marketing.


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 16, No.1, 2003, The Marketing Institute Jan 2003

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 16, No.1, 2003, The Marketing Institute

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practise in marketing. This is a special issue on " boundaries and interfaces in marketing ".


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2002, Aidan O'Driscoll Jan 2002

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2002, Aidan O'Driscoll

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in Marketing. This is a special joint issue in association with the Korean Academy of Marketing Science on " Researching the Cybermarket".


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2002, Unknown Jan 2002

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2002, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


Iontas.Com: Marketing A Software Product, Gerry Mortimer Jan 2002

Iontas.Com: Marketing A Software Product, Gerry Mortimer

Case studies

The year 2001 was a momentous one for most companies in the IT sector with dramatic drops in both profit and market sentiment. Few businesses in the sector were immune to the upheaval. Fortunes had been lost, at least on paper, and many dot.com businesses had folded. While telecoms businesses had been the hardest hit among established concerns, the gloom was widespread.


Focusing On Logistics To Improve Customer Service: The Case Of Transnational Optical, Mary Wilcox Jan 2002

Focusing On Logistics To Improve Customer Service: The Case Of Transnational Optical, Mary Wilcox

Case studies

Siobhan Ward, Supply Chain Director for Transnational Optical in Ireland, considered what the plant management team had to achieve. The team had decided that decisive action was needed to increase control of the supply chain with a view to improving customer service and removing ‘noise’ from the system.


Stuart Crystal, Gerry Mortimer Jan 2002

Stuart Crystal, Gerry Mortimer

Case studies

In August 1995 the crystal manufacturing firm of Stuart and Sons was purchased by Waterford Wedgewood plc. The company, which had been family owned since its inception, had not been profitable for some years. After the takeover the initial focus was on operational issues. Those took longer to resolve than had been anticipated.


Who Cares, Wins: The Students 10k Walk For The Chernobyl Children's Project, Joe Mcgrath Jan 2002

Who Cares, Wins: The Students 10k Walk For The Chernobyl Children's Project, Joe Mcgrath

Case studies

Julian de Spainn, President of the Union of Students in Ireland looked around The Hub, a student bar in the Dublin City University campus. He was exhausted. So were the twenty or so people around him. Most of those present were fellow officers in USI. Earlier that day, Julian had witnessed a unique event in Irish student history. It was an event of which he was justifiably proud.


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001, Unknown Jan 2001

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2001, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


Irish Marketing Review, Vol.14, No. 1, 2001, Unknown Jan 2001

Irish Marketing Review, Vol.14, No. 1, 2001, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


Working Up A Tan, Gerry Mortimer Jan 2001

Working Up A Tan, Gerry Mortimer

Case studies

Ann McLean looked down again at the brochure on her desk. The blue-eyed, white toothed blond, complete with her glowing tan, stared back at her. She opened the small A4 sized brochure and quickly scanned its contents. It was typical ‘Americanese’ and was obviously targeted at the beauty saloons and beauticians. It extolled the virtues of a tanning system called ‘Sunkissed’. She had promised her friend, Susan, that she would at least give her an indication later that week, of whether she was prepared to invest in a project to launch the tanning system in Ireland, and possibly the UK.


Facilitators And Inhibitors Of Supply Chain Innovation-Prospects For Supply Chain Managment In The Irish Grocery Sector, Joan Keegan, Edmund O'Callaghan, Mary Wilcox Jan 2001

Facilitators And Inhibitors Of Supply Chain Innovation-Prospects For Supply Chain Managment In The Irish Grocery Sector, Joan Keegan, Edmund O'Callaghan, Mary Wilcox

Articles

Supply chain management is one of the most significant strategic challenges currently facing the Irish grocery sector. The UK grocery market with its emphasis on composite deliveries via regional distribution centres is extremely sophisticated; the Irish grocery sector, however, is in the embryonic stage of implementing central distribution. The potential to develop innovative supply chain systems is mediated by both national logistic-related variables and company characteristics. In addition to competitor activity and market forces, drivers and inhibitors such as economic growth, consumer preferences, the regulatory environment and physical and technological infrastructure influence the evolution of supply chain systems. This paper …


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2000, Unknown Jan 2000

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2000, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


National Irish Bank: Coping With A Crisis And Beyond, Gerard Mortimer Jan 2000

National Irish Bank: Coping With A Crisis And Beyond, Gerard Mortimer

Case studies

As March 1998 drew to a close, management at National Irish Bank (NIB) would have been forgiven for believing that the bank’s situation could not get any worse. The bank had just issued a robust defence of its position in relation to an off shore bond scheme which had been the subject of much media and political debate for the previous two months. In particular, it had severely criticised RTE, the state owned television and radio corporation, and the two RTE journalists who had broken and dominated the story.


Euroclicking And The Irish Sme: Prepared For E-Commerce And The Single Currency, Pierre Mcdonagh, Andrea Prothero Jan 2000

Euroclicking And The Irish Sme: Prepared For E-Commerce And The Single Currency, Pierre Mcdonagh, Andrea Prothero

Articles

There is much technological hype (see Gates, 1999) as to the consequences of operating within cyberspace (Gibson, 1994) in an e-commerce capacity, at a time of operationalising European economic union within "Euroland". Debates centre on the need to theorise cyberspace (Besser, 1995) and the individualisation offered from organisations in serving e-customers, both from business to business to consumer perspectives. There is however, limited investigation as to how small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are preparing for this electronic or euro transmogrification. This article seeks to redress this by providing insight into these issues and draws upon an empirical analysis of …


Superquinn Alive And Kicking: An Illustration Of Innovation In The Irish Grocery Market, Edmund O'Callaghan, Mary Wilcox Jan 2000

Superquinn Alive And Kicking: An Illustration Of Innovation In The Irish Grocery Market, Edmund O'Callaghan, Mary Wilcox

Conference proceedings

Superquinn is one of Ireland’s most successful indigenous retailers operating in an intensely competitive grocery market. Despite the arrival of large overseas retailers and an increased level of acquisition and alliance activity, it has survived and thrived. The company attributes its success to its innovation strategy. The practice of innovation now permeates all facets and functions of the Irish grocery sector and consequently is a pre-requisite for maintaining competitive advantage and ensuring business success. This paper illustrates many Superquinn innovations, and relates its strategy to themes within innovation literature. Based on an in-depth interview with its managing director, Feargal Quinn, …


Irish Marketing Review, Vol.13, No. 2, 2000, Aidan O'Driscoll Jan 2000

Irish Marketing Review, Vol.13, No. 2, 2000, Aidan O'Driscoll

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practise in marketing.


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 12, No.1, 1999, Unknown Jan 1999

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 12, No.1, 1999, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.


Waterford Crystal: The Chairman's Challenge, Gerry Mortimer Jan 1999

Waterford Crystal: The Chairman's Challenge, Gerry Mortimer

Case studies

As he eased his car out the gates of Castlemartin on a lovely evening in May 1995, Redmond O’Donoghue mused on the meeting which had just finished. Dr A.J.F. O’Reilly, non executive Chairman of Waterford Wedgwood Plc, had brought senior management of the group to his Irish residence in County Kildare for an informal discussion on future strategy. The group comprised two distinct major subsidiaries, Waterford Crystal which produced crystal glass and Josiah Wedgwood whose main business was ceramic tableware. Redmond was Chief Operating officer of Waterford Crystal. With the impending retirement of the current Chief Executive, Paddy Galvin, Redmond …


Blooming Clothing, Edel Foley Jan 1999

Blooming Clothing, Edel Foley

Case studies

Blooming Clothing was established in 1985 by O’Byrne and two other partners. The aim was to specialise in a niche of the women’s outerwear market: maternity wear. The company started business with a retail outlet in Dublin and sold maternity wear under the Blooming label, which it outsourced through local suppliers. When this arrangement proved unsatisfactory, Blooming turned to manufacturing its own lines.


Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1999, Unknown Jan 1999

Irish Marketing Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1999, Unknown

Issues

The Irish Marketing Review deals with issues, developments, research and practice in marketing.