Overview -- Retail Success and Key Drivers -- Retailing in the Global World: Case Study of Metro Cash #x0026; Carry -- Entrepreneurship in Retailing: Leopold Stiefel#x2019;s #x201C;Big Idea#x201D; and the Growth of Media Markt and Saturn -- GLOBAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND MARKET TRENDS -- Retail Trends in Europe --...

Retailing stands as an exciting, complex and critical sector of business in most developed as well as emerging economies. The retailing industry is being buffeted by a number of forces simultaneously, like increasing competition within and across retailing formats, and others. This work offers...

This book is the first to focus exclusively on International direct marketing (IDM), integrating state-of-the-art knowledge, best practice and unique data. The first part is a comprehensive, well-structured review, covering all relevant sources from academic journals to practitioner magazines....