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Beppo meets Felix

What is the difference between young and old consumers when they look at ads? What are their respective attitudes and projections? This is what we tried to find out. Beppo is a fellow who embodies what advertising used to be. Felix stands for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Gloria Frink

June 15, 1989

How the career of the golden age generation will change German society (German)

Individual and collective ageing is part of a broad social process. Ageing persons are going to mark the face of society in future so greatly that we will have to speak of a graying world. Gerontology is interested in exploring the qualitative...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Annette Niederfranke

June 15, 1989

Bridging the language gap

This paper discusses one approach in bridging the communication gap between consumers and technical experts. Despite being a fairly simple product to manufacture, beer is a very complex tasting product. Consumer taste test results have historically...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Research For Flavours And Fragrances

Author: P. R. Wolf

Company: Molson Coors

June 15, 1989

The added value of a two year guarantee

This paper concentrates on two main areas - the positioning of a furniture retail store using the added value of a two year guarantee on all products and a suggested typology of shoppers. In 1975 it was decided to position the Morkels furniture...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Authors: John Rice, Derek Russell

June 15, 1989

The psychology of fragrance selection

A generally accepted method to define target groups among consumers of cosmetics and fragrances is a socio-demographic analysis. However, demographics such as age, income or education will hardly reveal a person's aesthetical preferences. This paper...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Research For Flavours And Fragrances

Author: Hans-Otto Schmidt

June 15, 1989

Old is gold: But who is old?

The paper is divided in two parts. The first part discusses the demographic, economic and cultural aspects that stand behind the growing importance of elderly people as consumers of goods and services. Elderly people are not a homogeneous lot. The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Gabriele Morello

June 15, 1989

A major research exercise identifying and quantifying relevant consumer groups in over 60's market: The hotel industry

Although the marketing world claims to have woken up to 'grey power' our experience suggests that much of the thinking behind propositions aimed at older people is still founded on cliche and misconception. We formed this view in the course of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Mia Bartonova, Ruth Betts, John Martindale

June 15, 1989

The mature market

In recognition of past neglect of mature consumers, Colgate-Palmolive is changing its ways. The initial steps have been taken and a continuing program will be maintained. The intent is to enrich the knowledge and understanding of mature consumers,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Jacklyn H. Posner, Meryl Bass, Jim Figura

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1989

The over 50's (French)

The optimal marketing profit depends on the five elements which go together to male up the marketing mix those being: market, product, price, advertising, distribution. The study which SECODIP realised aimed to confirm the importance of these 5...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Olivier Geradon de Vera

June 15, 1989