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Reservations about FRY as a method for general readership studies

In this contribution I should like to summarise what for me are currently the main issues of concern about the use of the First-Read-Yesterday (FRY) method in general readership studies. When we talk today about this method, we think mainly about two...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Author: Erhard Meier

June 15, 1990

The game of information intelligence

This paper deals with the way a company, Philips, has organized its marketing information activities for communication and information systems. The concept of business intelligence is introduced as a way of organizing and controlling the enormous...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: How To Cope With Data Overload

Author: Peter J.A. Groot

Company: Philips International

June 15, 1990

George Gallup

GEORGE GALLUP is executive head of the Gallup Organization, Inc. Author of many books and articles on public opinion research, he has been the recipient of five awards for outstanding achievement, including the Advertising Gold Medal Award -1964 and...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Authors: Rena Bartos, George Gallup

June 15, 1990

Guruism to globalism?

How does the research buyer gauge the value of alternative qualitative proposals - that is, value in the broadest possible sense of input to the marketing process within the client company? The researcher/research company who has enjoyed previous...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: Qualitative Research- How Are We Preparing For The Future?

Authors: Roger Jupp, Robin Challis

June 15, 1990

Henry Brenner

HENRY BRENNER has been associated with several research companies, many of which he founded. These include NPD Research, Acker Retail Audits, McCollum/Spieiman, OPOC Computing, Marketing Evaluations, and Home Testing Institute, among others. He is a...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Authors: Rena Bartos, Henry Brenner

June 15, 1990

A. C. Nielsen, Sr.

ARTHUR C. NIELSEN is the founder and chairman of A. C. Nielsen International, Inc., and its subsidiaries around the world. Best known for his pioneer work in television audience measurement, he now heads the world’s largest marketing research...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Authors: Charles Pearson, Arthur C. Nielsen

June 15, 1990

Alfred Politz

ALFRED POLITZ is the founder of Alfred Politz Research Inc. He has been the recipient of several leadership awards for his creative consumer and industrial research techniques and was named to the Marketing Hall of Fame in 1953. A frequent...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Authors: Rena Bartos, Alfred Politz

June 15, 1990

Frank Stanton

FRANK STANTON served as president of the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1946 to 1971. He is associated with some of the country’s top corporations as a director and trustee, including Pan American World Airways, Atlantic Richfield...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Authors: Rena Bartos, Frank Stanton

June 15, 1990

Compatibility between decentralisation and cohesion

In designing, implementing, developing and maintaining the organisation of a multinational computer services company, one must first of all respect the constraints linked to service. In its development, as well as in its management, GSI has preserved...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: Countdown to 1992

Author: Jean Luis Brousse

June 15, 1990