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Protective Factors Influencing the Use of Nasal Hygiene Products.
KROUPOVÁ, Veronika
This diploma thesis is a loose continuation of the bachelor thesis titled Impact of the Advertising Campaign on the Sales of Products of Pharmaceutical Companies and its Impact on the Consumer. The theoretical part was appropriately expanded to include new findings mentioned in modern literature in order to identify all protective factors that may affect the use or purchase of nasal hygiene products. Attention is paid to the associated processes such as marketing, marketing communications and consumer behavior of the customer. In connection with the subsequent analysis health issues are also mentioned. In the practical part, the success rate of individual advertising campaigns in the years 2007 - 2010 on Nasivin and Sterimar in connection with sales that occur subsequent to influenza, non- influenza diseases and allergic diseases morbidity in the population of the Czech Republic is evaluated. Buying habits of a customer ? a possible Nasivin consumer, what medication he/she uses to treat rhinitis, and what brands of nasal decongestants he/she knows are analyzed. In connection with the product Nasivin and Sterimar, the relationship of a customer and a pharmacist, with regard to the product brand and practices in recommendations, is analyzed. The data were obtained from several sources. The company Merck Serono provided me with information on advertising campaigns and sales results in 2007 - 2010. The market research agency Median provided the data for the target customer analysis. The third data source was the agency STEM / MARK, from which I received background data on consumers' buying habits and practices of pharmacists when recommending products. The fourth source of data was the State Institute of Public Health with information relating to respiratory and allergic diseases. By the carried out analysis a close correlation between the sale of products and the occurrence of respiratory diseases, but not allergic diseases, was proved. The company knows well how to target customers and their needs and it respects the products seasonality. It should focus primarily on acquiring new customers and stop the existing customers´ move to competition. In the discussion and the conclusion the issues of health, the Czech health care system and the prevention of civilization-related diseases are mentioned.
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Consumer Behaviour on the Financial Market
TŘEŠTÍK, Miroslav
The outcome of this thesis are the weights of each parameter of payment methods that are used to interpret consumer recommendations and conclusions. The research revealed that consumers mostly used payment method for purchases from online stores is delivery, although it does not seem like a good choice. Instead of delivery, I may recommend credit card payment, which has only one weakness and that is security. This weakness can be put down by purchasing only at trusted sellers. It is also meant to be the fastest way of payment. Also payment through a text message is convenient and easy. The results of my thesis can be used by consumers to help orient themeselves between the payment systems used for online store purchases, as well as the operators themselves.
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Consumers' attitudes to sustainable consumption issue
DALÍKOVÁ, Pavlína
Sustainable consumption represents consumption considerate to the needs of current and future generations. This term is quite usual since 1992 but the question is how much we have involved main principles of the sustainable consumption to our lifestyles. This thesis deals with this issue. The consumer behavior is affected by numerous external and internal factors. Traders respectively their practices are one of the major factors which involve our consumer behavior. The analyzed corporation Tesco Stores ČR, a. s. is good example in context of sustainable development (consumption). As an another step to this sustainable development (consumption) I present a strategy connected with extension of loyalty system Tesco Clubcard by green points. This can support on the one hand the sustainable consumption and on the other hand the promotion of good image of the corporation, expanding the customer base and increasing sales in this category.
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Consumer behaviour on the market with toners and print cartridges
SULEKOVÁ, Klára
The aim of this diploma thesis was to describe consumers{\crq} behaviour in the market with regards to print cartridges and to recommend the most suitable products to them on the basis of the established preferences and attributes. I used a questionnaire survey and a calculation of print cartridges parameter weights using the method of multi-criteria decision making. I found from the survey that the respondents mostly own ink multifunction equipment. Among the most commonly used printer makes are Hewlett Packard, Cannon and Epson. However, the proportion of less significant makes has dropped in the last three years. The respondents mostly buy original cartridges in shops and they buy black cartridges more often than colour cartridges. The main criteria for choosing a certain cartridge are price, quality and availability. The obtained information helped me select suitable cartridges for consumers. I found that cartridges are more readily available on the market in comparison to toners. When evaluating measurable attributes (price, quality and environmental friendliness) I calculated that in most cases it pays to buy renovated cartridges, especially for the evaluated cartridge from the makes HP and Canon and for toner makes HP and Epson. Epson cartridges contain a chip which prevents their renovation which is why I would recommend the purchase of a compatible cartridge. For the Canon toner I would recommend the purchase of a compatible cartridge too. In summary of my recommendations I would advise consumers to look closely at the price, volume, quality, producer and possibility to renovate when purchasing cartridges. I would further recommend buying ink printers as it is difficult to get cartridges for laser printers. I would point out that in most cases a rule applies: the cheaper the printer the more expensive the cartridge.
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Consumer preferences' based testing of consumer products
VALDMANOVÁ, Markéta
I used questionnaire investigation to reach the goal of my thesis. I wanted to ascertain the behaviour of users in the market when using the relevant product and to establish the importance of the attributes of digital camera for the user on the base of the research. Further my task was to set the weights of the individual attributes for multi-criteria decision-making. To compare the offered products with the help of the selected technique of multi-criteria decision-making and to suggest suitable products for the users on the base of the weights found out. The ascertained data and results will be further utilizable for consumer organizations, specifically for the Spotřebitelský institut SOS, o.p.s. (SOS Consumer institute, quasi-public company). I came to the following results after having evaluated my research. Most respondents own digital cameras, most frequently brand PANASONIC, CANON and OLYMPUS. The highest percentage of respondents use their cameras to record the personally significant moments, identically most frequently several times a week or several times a month. The main reason to choose a new camera is its function and price and the users are most frequently ready to spend between 3 001,- and 9 000,- CZK. Respondents prefer black and silver digital camera. As I supposed that there would be certain differences among the parameter preferences between genders and experiences of the users, I divided the respondents into individual segments in which I performed my further research. If I should assess the parameters most preferred by the respondents, there are certain differences between genders and experiences of the users. It is possible to say generally, on the base of the ascertained highest values of weights, that all user segments prefer the following parameters: noise (sensitivity), camera speed, battery durability, megapixel resolution and optic zoom. The clearly unimportant parameter is the possibility of printing directly from the camera that is on the last place of importance in all segments. I compared 25 digital cameras on the base of multi-criteria decision-making and the ascertained weights. I can recommend more or less the following 7 suitable products to the individual segments: Canon PowerShot SX1 IS, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500, Canon EOS 40D, Canon Ixus 870 IS, Casio EX-V7, Canon EOS 50D, Nikon D300.
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Consumer behaviour on the meat products market
PROKOPOVÁ, Lenka
The main object of my dipoloma work was to analyse consumer`s and shopping behaviour on the market with meat and meat products. Then on the basis of this analysis I should recommend products with consideration of various consumable recommendations to product consumers. For making up this work I have used the study of expert literature as well as the collection of secondary sources. I have obtained the secondary sources by carrying out the questionnaire investigation. From this questionnaire investigation the real consumer`s and shopping manners on the market with meat and meat products in the Czech Republic emerged. I have compiled the informations acquired by the investigation into graphs so that the results were well-arranged. In addition I have analysed the graphs in words. In the next part of my work I was pursueing whether the consumers follow the consumable recommendations concerning meat and meat products consumption. I have compared these recommendations with the research results and I have formulated a concrete consumable recommendation.
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Attitudes and behaviour of households regarding the pension reform
KARASOVÁ, Iveta
The target of my bachelor work was to describe and to evaluate attitudes and consumer behaviour of the households in relation to the upcoming pension reform in the Czech Republic and to recommend suitable products for the households to ensure themselves for the retirement. Primary data were obtained from the questionnaire investigation made by means of internet . Final outcome of my bachelor work was execution of common reccomendation for the consumer.
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How do differences between roles of men and women influence consumer behavior
Strašáková, Lenka ; Koudelka, Jan (advisor) ; Pešek, Ondřej (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to observe dissimilarities between men and women. My survey is focused on differences among men and women especially in areas of perception of media, spending of free time, relation to some kinds of products and overall position of the men and women in the society. Methods that are used in this thesis are analysis of MML-TGI data, content analysis of television advertisings and interview. Results of all the three methods are summarized and evaluated in the end.
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Marketing aspects of consumer price perception
Tsiligiannis, Georgios ; Karlíček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Král, Petr (referee)
This thesis focuses on two theoretical approaches from the marketing literature: first, the degree to which consumers tend to associate a higher product price with a higher quality (price-perceived quality relationship) and second, the assumption that odd prices (prices set just below the nearest round figure) generate higher than expected demand at that level. The thesis concludes that there seems to exist an overall positive weak correlation between product price and perceived quality, which is also product/market specific, and that the effects of odd pricing on demand have been mixed and inconclusive. Important managerial implications arise from these conclusions. On the same grounds, an empirical study examines the relation between product price and actual product quality and shows that the relation is actually very weak for products falling into the category of electronics. Lastly, a second empirical study shows that odd prices prevail in the retail sector of the Czech Republic.
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