Abstract Cucumber is the second most frequently consumed vegetable after tomatoes, 33 % are eating cucumber every day. The purpose of this work is to examine if there is any product development of cucumber in Sweden, and if so in what way. A questionnaire was used with a number of questions regarding quality, origin, supply and the way cucumbers were used, and the person was also asked to choose between the normal large cucumber and the minicucumbers. This was answered by totally 100 persons in two different stores, ICA Maxi in Löddeköpinge and a discount store with a large supply of fruit and vegetables and where a large share of customers are immigrants, Özen All Frukt in Malmö. The results from questionnaire show that in some of the issues the results vary a lot between the two stores.

Lifestyle magazines portray women in different manners and have an influence on how media consumers create self-images. The importance of knowing how different visual representation of the female acts out in magazines with large target audiences is therefore of weight for the magazines? readers to understand. This thesis analyze how the two lifestyle magazines ELLE and LOVE portrays women in images and how they in turn create ideal images of women.The thesis has been conducted through a qualitative analysis of 5 images from each magazine that represents the magazines artistic styles. The theories used in this study are semiotic image analysis and visual text analysis viewed from a gender- and discourse perspective.The conclusion of this thesis is that ELLE portrays women as strong, happy and feminine, with at tendency towards androgyny, while LOVE describes women as inferior and sexual objects constructed for the male gaze.

Syftet med denna studie är att få en ökad förståelse för den kongruens av uppfattningar kring ett varumärke som kan uppstå mellan en avsändare och en mottagare. För ändamålet har vi använt oss av en kvalitativ metod med främst intervjuer som empiriinsamling. Intervjuer har skett med kunder till vårt fallföretag Smedmarks, med Smedmarks ledning samt med experter inom varumärkesområdet. Detta för att undersöka vilken bild företaget har av sig själv samt vilken bild dess kunder har och om det finns överensstämmelse sinsemellan.Vi har kommit fram till att det i viss mån alltid finns en form av kongruens mellan ett företags och en kunds uppfattningar kring ett varumärke. Frågan är till vilken grad.

The purpose of this thesis is to do a critical review of the aid organization SOS Children?s Villages text- and video campaigns, from a postcolonial perspective. Our purpose is divided into two questions: Are there colonial values in the advertising campaigns? Which language- and image strategies are used by SOS Children?s Villages to put across their messages? Our material consists of 10 selected video clips, and four printed ads that are made up of an image and a short text, which are part of a campaign named: Inte ett enda barn ska behöva vara ensamt (translation: Not a single child should have to be alone). We have chosen to use text- and image analysis as a method in our review of the material.

Businesses role in society is changing. Corporations are expected to take responsibility, not only for their traditional business conduct, but also for social and political issues. A rise in globalization and international trade has led to an increased interest in the concept of CSR. Accordingly, stakeholders are expecting multinational companies to be accountable for existing issues in developing countries. New business models are needed to meet increased expectations of responsibility and shared value creation. Based on an understanding of the need for new business models a multinational corporation is studied in a local context, where a radically new way of doing business is developed.

SammanfattningTitel: Syns man inte, finns man inte? GANT Swedens hantering av image och relationer viaInstagram och Pinterest.Examinationsdatum: 2014-01-07Kurs: Examensarbete inom Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Public relations ochinformation, 15 högskolepoäng (15 ECTS). HT2013, Kandidatkurs: Medie- ochkommunikationsvetenskap, 30 högskolepoäng (30 ECTS).Författare: Linda WängborgHandledare: Jonas JonssonExaminator: Christian ChristensenNyckelord: sociala medier, public relations, imagehantering, relationshantering,kundrelationer, mode, GANT Sweden, Instagram, PinterestSyfte: Mitt syfte har varit att analysera hur det ökade användandet av fotobloggar, somInstagram och Pinterest, har påverkat GANT Swedens hantering av image och relationer.Teori: Den teoretiska modell som har använts under skrivandets gång är baserad på tidigareforskning, om det traditionella samt nya medielandskapet, imagehantering ochrelationshantering, där främst författare som Evert Gummesson (1998), Lars Åke Larsson medflera (2002) samt Mats Alvesson och Kaj Sköldberg (2010 och 2005) har varit i fokus.Metod: En kvalitativ metod har använts där en mailintervju med GANT Swedens PR-ansvarigKarolina Skande har genomförts och även intervjuer med två fokusgrupper, vilka tillsammansutgör min primära data. Sekundärdatan utgörs främst av information som har inhämtats frånGANT, Instagram och Pinterests hemsidor samt tidningsartiklar och dylikt.Empiri: Praktisk erfarenhet har tillgodogjorts genom den primära och sekundära datan där jaghar fått kunskap om GANT Swedens och deras målgruppers syner på hur fotobloggar somInstagram och Pinterest påverkar hanteringen av image och relationer hos GANT.Slutsats: Det nya medielandskapet med fotobloggarna Instagram och Pinterest har bidragitmed ändrade förutsättningar för modeindustrin och GANT Sweden. Maktrelationen har ändratform där de traditionella trendsättarna har fått ge plats åt potentiella kunders ökade inflytande.Idag tenderar kunderna att agera som säljare åt företagen vilket gör att kundrelationer blir alltviktigare inom imagehantering..

Within the fields of business as well as the academic, there is a growing interest for the role images play in an organized conception of the world. This paper acknowledges the relevance of such images and ideas, and its purpose is to examine the fixed ideas and conceptions of the world as they appear in a Swedish organizational context. The Swedish Trade Council is a hybrid organization between the state and private sector with an outspoken purpose of defining an image of the outside world for small and medium size enterprises in Sweden. The underlying question in focus for this study is: What central conceptions of the world appear in the Swedish Trade Council?s information films ?Världens möjligheter?? Within organizational studies, a postcolonial theory has to a large extent been overlooked.

On September 4, 2013, two men were shot in the suburb Biskopsgården in Gothenburg. This was the catalysts to a very problematic autumn in both Biskopsgården as in another suburb, Hisingsbacka. The local media reports of the events were very through, where the newspaper Göteborgs-Posten took a leading role. It?s these reports which form the basis, the so called material of our essay.

När ett företag väljer att etablera sig på en utländsk marknad är valet av marknadsföringsstrategier av stor betydelse och rätt beslut kan leda till stora konkurrensfördelar. Ett grundläggande beslut måste fattas omgående om företaget ska använda sig av en standardiserad marknadsföringsstrategi eller anpassa den till varje specifik marknad. Företagets image och i vilken grad imagen är överförbar är viktiga aspekter som bör tas hänsyn till vid etablering i utlandet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att utifrån AdaptStand-Processmodellen undersöka i vilken grad det svenska företaget Björn Borg väljer att anpassa eller standardisera sina marknadsföringsstrategier på den holländska marknaden samt belysa hur företaget hanterar sin image. För att studera detta genomfördes en personlig intervju med vice VD i Sverige och en elektronisk intervju med säljchefen i Holland.

The availability of digital models of real 3D objects is becoming more and more important in many different applications (e-commerce, virtual visits etc). Very often the objects to be represented cannot be modeled by means of the classical 3D modeling tools because of the geometrical complexity or color texture. In these cases, devices for the automatic acquisition of the shape and the color of the objects (3D scanners or range scanners) have to be used. The scanner presented in this work, a Shape from silhouette scanner, is very cheap (it is based on the use of a simple digital camera and a turntable) and easy to use. While maintaining the camera on a tripod and the object on the turntable, the user acquires images with different rotation angles of the table.

Background: Brand strategy tends to become an important management issue. It is therefore interesting to reach a greater understanding about how companies work to make their existing brands stronger. The purpose of a brand is to influence the customers? view of the brand image. The literature is insufficient concerning how leaders handle the process of repositioning a brand, in order to change the brand image.

Syfte: Syftet är att undersöka vilka värden ett konsultbolag bör kommunicera, för att attrahera entreprenörer i etablering- och uppstartsfasen. Metod: Primärdata har insamlats genom kvalitativa semi-strukturerade intervjuer genom för vår uppsats relevanta respondenter. Sekundärdata har främst baserats på vetenskapliga artiklar, rapporter och teoretisk litteratur. Teoretiska perspektiv: Vi har baserat vår teori utifrån relationsmarknadsföring, image och imageförändringsteori och är kompletterad med konsult-klientrelationsteori samt teori rörande entreprenörers behov och personliga egenskaper. Empiri: Primärdata har insamlats genom kvalitativa semi-strukturerade intervjuer med Malmö Nyföretagarcentrum, professorn i entreprenörskap Hans Landström samt entreprenörer i etablerings- och uppstartsfasen.

Foreign aid is a very debated and controversial topic. The most recent studies have focused more on GDP growth and foreign aid correlation, however not much of the debate has focused on what kind of foreign aid should be given. The most common foreign aid is budget support, often a bilateral funds transfer between two countries. This kind of foreign aid can be both conditional and unconditional from the donors? perspective.

This essay is about the hostility towards strangers and foreigners within a Swedish historic context, not only towards foreigners coming from another country, but also directed to people within the Swedish society among the ethnic Swedes themselves. From their accounts of the concept I will discuss why and how this hostility towards strangers has developed and been expressed when they were younger, but also how they perceive the phenomena today as it express itself..

During the last decade a number of studies have been published that investigate how the most fundamental aspect of political organization, the regime type, affects population health. The results unanimously show that citizens of democracies live longer and healthier lives than citizens of non-democracies. Many explanations for this have been suggested, among these are that democracies redistribute more and invest more in salutogenic resources, and that the tendency of dictatorships to control the media negatively affects the ability to spread information crucial to public health. When these mechanisms are controlled for, however, it turns out that democracy has a large residual correlation with for example life expectancy, which suggests that other mechanisms are also involved.In this paper two new mechanisms regarding the possible psychosocially mediated health effects of the regime type are investigated, namely political repression, and the possible negative effects this might have on the levels of chronic stress, and autonomy, which connects to a large previous literature in social epidemiology. In the paper an ecological cross-country design is used and country-level data, provided mainly by the World Bank and Freedom House, is analyzed with a simple multiple OLS-regression model.