Działalność marketingowa w spółdzielczym sektorze bankowym i jej specyfika

The aim of the paper is the discussion of used and possible to use marketing actions by cooperative banks and peculiarity of them. The considerations had accomplished with reference to marketing-mix and based on marketing composition, which includes product, place, price, promotion and personnel. It was found that in the scope of product policy cooperative banks initiated a lot of innovative solutions and there were only banks, where participate in turnover of goods. It was also indicated to growing consciousness of benefits, where resulting from making use of brand among the cooperative banks, which can notice in Poland and is clear sign of that products of them are equal in offer of commercial banks. The place of services is based on classical channels like a chain of outlets, which undergo the development on result of merging with different cooperative banks, but more and more often the result of independent process. The price policy of cooperative banks, especially of them, which work on rural areas, is determined by mainly appearance of location and information benefits. On the other hand personnel of cooperative banks complete a chain of them outlets. The role of personnel changes with size of bank and using of information technology.