This study aims to investigate how consumers perceive variety in grocery stores and further how private brands have affected consumers? perceptions of variety in grocery stores.The study focuses on the perceptions and attitudes towards variety and the impact of private brands on perceived variety. Hence, a qualitative rather than quantitative study has been used. Photo elicitation has been used in both focus groups and in-depth interviews, which have been the empirical data collection of the study. Scientific articles and books have also been used in the process.

Purpose and aimThe purpose of this thesis has been to create a deeper understanding about the impact that the digitalization of the music business in the early 2000s and also the latter change, that in this paper is referred to as the sociodigital change, has had on artist brands. We will also analyze the positive and negative effects that this development may have had on the already existing brand environment and lastly also review the true importance of the professional industry?s competence. We have chosen the following research question in relation to the purpose; In what way has the basic conditions for artist brands within the music industry changed since the digitalization of the music industry in the early 2000s? MethodFor this study we initially took an inductive approach as we formed hypotheses based on experiences and previous knowledge which we then corroborated with theories.

The purpose of this thesis was to study the importance of an artist?s personal brand from a record company and artist management perspective. We also aimed to investigate how these companies work to create and maintain an artist?s personal brand. The study conducted was a case study based on interviews with staff members of a major record company, Universal Music AB, and an artist management, United Stage Management Group AB.

There are many eco-brands on food products. It can be confusing for the consumer to know which one to trust or choose and since July 2012, there is an EU law and a mandatory EU organic label that must be displayed on all food products marketed as organic, eco or bio.Organic brands from a consumer perspective have previously been studied in England. This is a similar study in the form of focus groups, to explore and examine how consumers perceive and trust organic brand or labels in Sweden. It also explores which knowledge consumers have regarding why a product has an organic brand and what it means.The study shows that consumers perceive organic brands by brand recognition rather than knowledge regarding what each label means. It also shows that the consumer is confused by and skeptical to the wide range of markings and symbols on organic food products.

The purpose with this thesis is to investigate how Swedish clothing companies create and communicate a personality for their brand. Case studies were conducted with three companies: Nudie Jeans, Koppartrans and J.Lindeberg. These firms can be considered as established clothing brands nationally as well as internationally. The study found that individualism, logotype and moral standpoints play an important role in the creation and the communication of a brand?s personality.

The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the marketing in Swedish politics. To clarify and compare the Swedish politics to traditional and commercial marketing strategies is not always simple but at the same time we must understand that the practical work political institutes practice, fuse with many theories and marketing is one such theory. To understand this, I chose to investigate which marketing areas and how within service management, brands, segmentation, positioning/image and marketing channels, affect the politics in Sweden? This study is based on qualitative method in which I had five interviews with politicians. The conclusions can be found in the chapter five..

The retailing landscape has become even more competitive with an increasing number of store formats. One result of this can be seen within different retail-chains as they launch different formats that operate under the same name. Thus, consumers now have many alternatives and substitutes when it comes to choosing which format to shop from. This phenomenon has led consumes to shop across stores for the same brand. The objective of this study is to explain how consumers respond to various offers in different store formats and to determine whether the results differ if we compare a familiar brand with an unfamiliar brand.

The purpose of this study is to investigate and increase the understanding of how the two commercial companies IKEA and SAS and the two aid organizations/nonprofit organizations UNICEF and Save the Children use perceptions of Christmas to produce messages in their Christmas advertising/commercial film. The study also discusses if there may be communicative and pictorial similarities and differences in how these brands constructs messages in commercials, and why it may be that the brands choose to use these messages in commercials based on the recipient possible interpretations. The theories used in this study are promotional culture, framing theory, preferred meaning, semiotics (denotation and connotation), myth and rhetoric (ethos, pathos and logos). The method used to answer the purpose and issues are the qualitative method that uses the theories semiotic and rhetoric to analyze the material. The study's results derived from the qualitative content analyzes of the material (the brands IKEA, SAS, UNICEF and Save the Children Christmas advertising films) show that IKEA message might want to show that they want to help the customer and that they pay attention to the customer needs.

Den kommunala avfallstaxan är den avgift kommunen tar ut för att hantera hushållens avfall. Utformningen av taxorna skiljer sig mycket mellan kommuner. En variant är att tillhandahålla vägning av det vanliga brännbara avfallet, hushållet faktureras därefter utifrån hur mycket det har slängt i soporna. Frågan är om invånarnas källsortering påverkas av att kommunen har en viktbaserad taxa? Skiljer sig den eventuella effekten beroende på om det är glas, tidningar, plast- eller pappersförpackningar som källsorteras? För att besvara detta skattas fyra regressionsmodeller, en modell för vardera av de undersökta materialslagen.

I museet eller i galleriet är distansen uppenbar, saker sätts bakom glas och transformeras till konsteller etnologiska föremål. Men vi skapar också ett eget glas mellan oss själva och omvärlden.Verkligheten är ingenting utan våra fantasier och illusioner. Om verkligheten bara skulle varanågon sorts klar, ofiltrerad verklighet skulle det bli outhärdligt att leva i den. Fantasin bygger vårverklighet. Det ena existerar inte utan det andra.

AbstractArtists ? the invisible assets; a qualitative study about the view on music rights and artist brands as intangible assets within music companies.This paper is a study of what view representatives from Swedish music companies have on activating music rights and artist brands as intangible assets. Throughout the paper, a discussion is held regarding what the representatives think about activating these intangible assets. From this, we have identified and analyzed possible pros and cons to such activation.Our interest to this question was brought to us when we realized that most music companies in Sweden have intangible assets without activating them. This is, even though these are their main source of income.

This work is about presenting the weave in a new and different context, by bringing textile and glass together. The work is characterized by material and shape experiments with silver and copper weave and hand blown glass. From experiments and sketches, the work has resulted in four sculptures, symbolizing four selected stages in a lifecycle; the birth, the development, the maturity and the death. One important part of the work has been to combine different materials and techniques.Studies of literature, sketching, handweaving and integration of silver and copper weave in the glass have been important methods in the working process. Inspired by the flower, the human being and the universe, a story about the life cycle has taken shape.The paper describes the working process with choices and analyses.

Det här examensarbetet utreder sambandet mellan frukost och studieork/studieresultat. Mitt syfte har varit att ta reda på om det finns något samband mellan grundskoleelevers frukostvanor och deras studieork/studieresultat samt hur många procent av eleverna som äter frukost regelbundet och hur en sådan kan se ut. Jag har använt mig av litteraturstudier, djupintervjuer och enkätfrågor för att få svar på mina frågeställningar. Resultatet som framkommer är att om eleven sköter sitt frukostätande på ett bra sätt så påverkas prestationsförmågan i skolan positivt. Om eleven däremot slarvar med frukosten påverkas skolprestationen negativt.

Denna studie behandlar området butikskommunikation och hur en glas- och presentbutik kan utforma butiksmiljön utifrån kundernas rörelsebeteende.Syftet är att ge förslag på hur Cervera:s butik (Boländerna i Uppsala) kan utveckla kundflödet, dvs. få sina kunder att röra sig på en större del av butiksytan och komma i bättre kontakt med sortimentet.Informationsinsamlingen har skett genom en observationsstudie av kundernas rörelsemönster samt kompletterats med kortare kundintervjuer. Olika metoder för strategisk varuplacering har testats i butiken för att undersöka deras användbarhet.Slutsatser vi kunnat dra är att butiken kan utveckla kundflödet genom att utforma ett högervarv, dvs. ett kundvarv som går i moturs riktning. Genom att placera varor strategiskt kan kunderna lockas av att följa kundvarvet igenom butikens alla avdelningar samt komma i bättre kontakt med butikens sortiment..

There are two main reasons for why companies engage in sponsoring and Event Marketing; affecting the brand awareness and/or the image of the brand. Historically the main focus within the research field has been on how sponsoring and Event Marketing can create and achieve high brand awareness. More research regarding the image transfer from event to brand has been requested and this study is to be considered as an attempt to begin filling this gap. Today we see more and more brands choosing to arrange their own events; hoping to attain a more direct connection between the event and the brand. This trend raises questions such as - Do brands arranging their own events receive more image transfer from event to brand compared to brands sponsoring the same kind of event? - Are there any differences between an established well-known brand and a new unknown brand? - Will an event fully owned by a brand attract more or less people than an event arranged by someone considered to be less biased? These are some of the questions asked and answered within this thesis.