This new text aims to give the student a full understanding of the basics of marketing in a concise and accurate way, whilst remaining user - friendly. The book is designed to cover all the essential areas of marketing, following the conventional marketing planning model. Real life case studies have been used to enable the student to learn how marketing works in the real world and to give them a chance to see how the theory applies to real situations. The book should be ideal for students on short or one semester introductory marketing courses and it will be particularly useful to the student not specialising in marketing, but wanting an overview of this vital business discipline.