Retail buying /

• Diamond, Jay.
• Pintel, Gerald.

• Purchasing

• Pearson Prentice Hall,

• 013159236X (pbk.) :
• 9780131592360 (pbk.) :

• £41.99
• £41.99

• Previous ed.: 2005.
• Includes index.
• Formerly CIP.
• Table of Contents SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION TO RETAIL BUYING 1. The Buyer's Role 2. Buying for Traditional Retail Organizations 3. Buying for Discount Operations 4. Buying for Off-Price Retail Operations 5. Buying for Off-Site Retail Operations 6. The Market Specialists and How They Service Retailers SECTION TWO: PLANNING THE PURCHASE 7. Consumer Analysis 8. Multiculturalism: Assessing Needs of America's Major Ethnicities 9. What to Buy 10. How Much to Buy 11. Merchandise Sourcing and Timing the Purchase SECTION THREE: MAKING THE PURCHASE 12. Purchasing in the Domestic Marketplace 13. Foreign Market Purchasing 14. The Importance of Business Etiquette When Purchasing in the Global Markets 15. Wholesale Purchasing on the Internet 16. Negotiating the Purchase and Writing the Order SECTION FOUR: ADDITIONAL BUYER RESPONSIBILITIES 17. Merchandise Pricing 18. The Development of Private-Label Programs 19. Disseminating Product Information to Retail Personnel 20. The Buyer's Role in Planning Advertising, Special Events, and Visual Merchandising

• fashion consumer in the global marketplace a critical appreciation of recent developments
• Retail buying from basics to fashion
• Silent selling best practices and effective strategies in visual merchandising
• Retail buying
• Retailing management
• Contemporary visual merchandising and environmental design
• Supply chain management strategy planning and operation
• business of fashion
• Fashion from concept to consumer
• handbook of logistics and distribution management
• Supply chain strategies customer driven and customer focused
• Retail product management buying and merchandising
• Fashion buying
• Retail product management buying and merchandising
• Careers in fashion and textiles
• Logistics and supply chain management
• Fashion marketing contemporary issues
• Global logistics and supply chain management
• International retailing trends and strategies
• Principles of retail management
• Logistics and retail management insights into current practice and trends from leading experts
• Retail marketing management
• Corporate strategy