Abstract:

This research had as the main objective to examine Caramac in relation to competitive products and to evaluate two television commercials for Caramac ('Football Match ' and 'Malvern Hills'). The detailed objectives were as follows: 1. To establish what Caramac is seen to be made of, and how it compares with chocolate-based count lines; 2. To determine the 'perceived' market for Caramac 3. To assess how this perception is changed by exposure to the two commercials 4. To evaluate the two commercials in terms of whether or not they are comprehensible, the mood communicated its appropriateness to Caramac, identification with the situations shown, etc.

About this collection:
Peter Cooper (1936-2010) was co-founder of Cooper Research & Marketing, later CRAM International, with his wife Jackie French. Cooper studied Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester where he became a Lecturer in the early 1960s. He became involved in conducting commercial Motivational Research and by 1968 opened Cooper Research & Marketing in Manchester. Cooper was one of the key pioneers of what we now know as Qualitative Research. CRAM opened its London office in Wimpole Street in 1970 and moved to 53 St Martins Lane, WC2N 4EA, in 1972 where it remained until Peter's passing in 2010. The company changed its name to CRAM International in around 1985/86, reflecting the increasingly international nature of its work. The CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive Collection, which includes commercial research reports and early academic papers, has been preserved by Peter's children, Diana, Helen and Jonathan, and his colleague Simon Patterson. The scanning of the Archive has been supported by ESOMAR, AMSR, Peter's colleague Dr Alan Branthwaite & family, the Cooper family, and QRi Consulting. The CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive Collection is managed by QRi Consulting. The CRAM logo and CRAM International name are Registered Trademarks and the property of QRi Consulting.