Wellness Marketing. New Strategies for New Trends

A new wellness market is being formed by the convergence of various fields such as functional food, healthcare, pharmaceutical, dental, and fitness. The traditional dental practice evolves towards the model of «smile clinics chains». The traditional pharmacy gives way to genuine retailers with large exhibition spaces, sophisticated merchandising and a wide range within which prescription drugs are only one of the types on sale. The companies in the healthcare industry are gradually miniaturizing and digitalizing their devices. And more, if primary care physicians and dentists use diagnostic equipment once the exclusive domain of clinics and hospitals, and sometimes they buy online through portals, pharmaceutical companies suffer from the competition of cosmetic companies operating in the line of food. With food and functional products - from anti-cholesterol yoghurt that strengthens bones, through dietary supplements – they replace, fir illnesses and diseases which are not serious, some categories of drugs. While gyms and spas on the one hand and clinics on the other come to resemble more and more: the first offer beauty and health treatments, the latter wellness treatments. Thus a new competitive environment that requires special expertise is arising: The Wellness Marketing, where customer and market orientation must be integrated with technological skills essential for success, and where specific strategies are needed and marketing activities targeted. Then what is the identikit of the successful company in the market of Wellness Marketing? The book offers concrete answers, first clearly defining the concept and boundaries of Wellness Marketing, then delving into real cases, the emerging issues, to provide the management of the sector strategic responses and guidance on activities essential to success.