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Acquisitions Editor: Julia Helms Icy
Development Editor: Andrew Goss
Permissions Manager: Sara Jillings
Production Editor: Ian Stoneham
Manufacturing Manager: Richard Lamprecht
Marketing Manager: Scott Dustan
Original eighth edition en titled Principles of Marketing
published by Prentice Hall Inc.
A Simon & Schuster Company
Upper Saddle River
New Jersey, USA
Copyright © 1999 by Prentice Hall Inc.
First European Edition published 1996
Second European Edition published 1999 by Prentice Hal! Europe
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Text and cover design: Design Deluxe, Rath, Avon
Typeset in lOpt Caslon 224 Book by Goodfellow and Egan, Cambridge
Printed and bound in Italy by Rotolito Lombards, Milan
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0-13-262254-8
1 2 3 4 5 0,3 02 01 00 99

Contents

Preface xiii
Guided Tour xx
About the Autfmrf; xxii

Part One
Marketing and the
Marketing Process 2

.Summary 32
Key Terms 33
Discussing the Issues 33
Applying the Concepts 34
References 34
Case 1 Amphitrion: Your Ultimate Host in
Greece 36

Chapter 2
Chapter 1

Marketing in a Changing World:
Satisfying Hitman Needs 4
Chapter Objectives 4
Preview Case Nike 4
Introduction 7
What is Marketing? 9
Needs, Wants and Demands 10
Products and Services 11
Value, Satisfaction and Qua l ity 11
Exchange, Transactions and Relationships 12
Markets 14
Marketing 15
Marketing Management 16
Demand Management 16
Marketing Management Philosophies 17
The Production Concept 17
The Product Concept 18
The Selling Concept 18
The...