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New phase of trade marketing
Category management is primarily perceived as the way that a retailer professionalizes their organization. Ever since its introduction, the concept has influenced the interaction between suppliers and their selling models; trade marketing is the suppliers’ response to the increasing power of retailers. In Chapter 15 the terms ‘trade marketing’ and ‘shopper marketing’ were introduced. In Figure 15.3 I described shopper marketing as an evolutionary phase within the trade marketing discipline. Rather than creating new hype and suggesting that shopper marketing is brand new, I recommend thinking of shopper marketing as the advanced phase of the trade marketing discipline. In this chapter I explore ...
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