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Marketing authorisation

Marketing authorisation: regulatory approval required before a veterinary medicine can be sold. EU routes are centralised (EMA/CVMP, European Commission, Regulation (EU) 2019/6), national, decentralised, and mutual recognition; the US equivalent is FDA's NADA process.

Marketing authorisation of veterinary medicines

Marketing authorization of veterinary medicines is the formal permission from a medicines authority or the European Commission allowing a veterinary medicinal product to be placed on the market.

Marketing channel

A marketing channel, also called a distribution channel, is the chain of intermediaries, including wholesalers, distributors, and retailers, through which goods and services pass from producer to end consumer.

Marketing communications

Marketing communications, also known as marcom, is the set of tools and messages a company uses to promote its products, spanning advertising, public relations, and direct marketing.

Marketing information system

A marketing information system is an organized structure of people, equipment, and procedures that gathers, analyzes, and distributes accurate information for marketing decision makers, developed from the mid-1960s.

Marketing management

Marketing management is the process of analyzing markets, planning strategy and the marketing mix, implementing the plan, and controlling results so customer requirements are identified and satisfied profitably.

Marketing mix

The marketing mix, also called the four Ps, is the set of controllable tactical tools a company combines to influence consumers to buy: product, price, place, and promotion.

Marketing of Avengers: Doomsday

Marketing of Avengers: Doomsday: Disney and Marvel Studios' promotional campaign for the December 18, 2026 film, marked by the March 2025 chair-livestream cast reveal, four Avatar: Fire and Ash teasers, a July 2026 trailer with 503 million first-day views, and the Infinity Vision premium-screen brand.

Marketing plan

A marketing plan is a formal business document setting out how a company will achieve its marketing goals: target markets, objectives, programs, budgets, and success measures.

Marketing research

Marketing research, also called consumer research, gathers information about consumers and markets to guide marketing decisions, part of a global industry worth about $147.5 billion in 2024.

Marketing strategy

Marketing strategy, also called strategic marketing, is an organization's integrated pattern of decisions about products, markets, and resources, made to deliver value to customers and achieve objectives.

Marketplace

Marketplace: a physical place where buyers and sellers meet to trade goods at a set place and time; also called market square, public market, or bazaar. Distinguished from the abstract economic market by its physical site, charter history, and civic role.

Marketplace of ideas

Marketplace of ideas: free-speech theory, from Milton and Mill's On Liberty and Holmes's 1919 Abrams dissent, holding that truth emerges from open competition of ideas rather than censorship.

Marketplace take rate

A marketplace take rate is the percentage of total transaction value flowing through a marketplace that the platform keeps as revenue, typically platform revenue divided by gross merchandise value (GMV).

Markha

Markha (Марха) is a 1,181-km river in Yakutia, Russia, a left tributary of the Vilyuy in the Lena basin, rising on the Vilyuy Plateau. Its basin holds Yakutia's diamond fields and the Kraton-3 (1978) nuclear explosion site; not the Ladakh Markha River.

Markham (Venusian crater)

Markham is a 71.8-km impact crater on Venus at 4.1°S, 155.6°E, IAU-named in 1994 for aviator Beryl Markham, known for its 450-km impact-melt outflow across a slope under 0.1 degree.

Markham Street Circuit

Markham Street Circuit: temporary 3.52 km, 12-turn IndyCar street circuit in Markham Centre, Ontario, designed by Tony Cotman, replacing Toronto's Exhibition Place race from 2026; features a double-sided pit lane and Turn 5 hairpin.

Markham, Ontario

Markham, Ontario: a city in York Region northeast of Toronto, founded 1794 by Berczy settlers, population 338,503 (2021), Canada's densest technology hub with 1,500+ tech companies.

Markhor (مارخور)

Markhor (مارخور, Capra falconeri), a corkscrew-horned wild goat of Central and South Asian mountains and Pakistan's national animal; Near Threatened since 2015 with roughly 5,754 mature individuals, recovering through community-based trophy hunting.

Markie Post

Markie Post (Marjorie Armstrong Post, 1950-2021) was an American TV actress known for Christine Sullivan on Night Court (1984-1992), Terri Michaels on The Fall Guy (1982-1985), and Hearts Afire; died of cancer in Los Angeles at 70.

Markieff Morris

Markieff Morris is an American professional basketball power forward, drafted 13th overall by the Phoenix Suns in 2011, who won an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020.

Markiplier

Markiplier (Mark Edward Fischbach, born 1989) is an American YouTuber and filmmaker known for indie-horror Let's Play videos, the In Space with Markiplier series, charity livestreams, and his self-distributed 2026 hit film Iron Lung.

Markis Kido

Markis Kido (1984–2021) was an Indonesian badminton player who specialized in men's doubles and, with Hendra Setiawan, won the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medal.

Märkisches Viertel

The Märkisches Viertel is a large modernist housing estate in the Reinickendorf district of northern Berlin, built between 1963 and 1974/75 with roughly 17,000 apartments for about 40,000 residents.

Markit

Markit was a financial information company founded in London in 2003 by Canadian banker Lance Uggla to provide credit default swap pricing data, merging with IHS in 2016.

Markita Patricia Landry

Markita Patricia Landry, also known as Markita del Carpio Landry, is a scientist and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley who develops near-infrared nanosensors for imaging brain chemistry.

Markiyan Shashkevych

Markiyan Shashkevych (Маркіян Шашкевич, 1811–1843) was a Ukrainian poet and Greek Catholic priest who led the literary revival in western Ukraine and initiated the almanac Rusalka Dnistrovaia of 1837.

Markku Koskela

Markku Koskela is a Finnish engineer and physicist who co-founded Oura, the Oulu-based maker of the Oura Ring sleep tracker, in 2013, leading its research and development.

Markku Kulmala

Markku Kulmala, born 1958 in Forssa, Finland, is a Finnish physicist and Academician of Science at the University of Helsinki known for research on atmospheric aerosols and new-particle formation.

Markku Laakso

Markku Laakso, born 1949, is a Finnish physician-scientist and professor of internal medicine at the University of Eastern Finland who researches the genetics of type 2 diabetes.