COMUNICAÇÃO DE MARKETING:UM ESTUDO NO SHOPPING AVENIDA CENTER EM MARINGÃ
Resumo
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: A STUDY AT THE SHOPPING AVENIDA CENTER IN MARINGÃ
ABSTRACT
Shopping centers are retailing enterprises that exists since 1966 in Brazil. Their sales represents around 20% of all retailing. In shopping centers’ marketing budgets, communications receives the biggest volume of investments. Marketing communications are compose by advertising, personal sales, sales promotion and publicity. The use of one or more elements depends on which goals the shopping center wants to achieve. The results of this research confirmed many propositions of the studied authors. Although the use o advertising and sales promotion was predominant. This results implies an unbalanced use of the marketing communications’ elements. Publicity and personal sales are best used to achieve trustworthiness and fidelity from consumers.