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Forecasting without data a fool's dream?

This paper reviews many of the problems associated with forecasting in China, discusses alternatives to get round these problems and then reports a case history using a novel approach to forecast sales of a valuable but high cost drug in China.

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Authors: Mark Ahn, Colin N. Maitland

November 1, 1996

Global advertising research approaches

It has taken a relatively short time for Millward Brown to evolve from a small agency in the United Kingdom to our first work in Asian markets in 1987 - a third stage in steady globalization of the company and its research products. Our own research...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Authors: Jeremy Green, Terry Willie

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

November 1, 1996

Transnationalisation of marketing strategies

Eastman Kodak, unlike many of the other top American corporations, has recognised that market potential for their products existed outside of the United States, and specifically in Asia, decades ago. Kodak has a long history in Japan. Kodak products...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Authors: David Garrett, Simon Friend

November 1, 1996

Who decides for the undecided customer?

Within grocery retailing, there seems to have been a shift to a more customer oriented perspective. As indicated by the empirical studies presented in this paper, grocery stores customers seem to be generally satisfied, and lack clear notions of how...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC Symposium 1996: Research Methodologies For 'The New Marketing'

Authors: Carina Holmberg, Anne Magi

November 1, 1996

Relationship marketing and design participation

Relationship marketing is conveniently thought of as a means of building forms of customer loyalty which transcend preferences for particular products. This implies a conceptual divorce between the customer-supplier relationship and the process of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC Symposium 1996: Research Methodologies For 'The New Marketing'

Authors: Murray Clark, Anne Tomes, Peter Armstrong

November 1, 1996

Affinity credit card

The outcomes of the planned research programme will be a quantification of the attributes of the credit card issuer, the affinity group and the affinity credit card holders, which underpin their relationship with each other. It will throw...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EMAC Symposium 1996: Research Methodologies For 'The New Marketing'

Authors: Suzanne Horne, Pete Naude, Steve Worthington

November 1, 1996

What turns them on and what turns them off

Traditional marketing has long recognized the important role of market research. Perhaps the one area where the marketer and the market researcher might actually agree to disagree is the. extent to which gut feel and experience are considered as...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Author: Chris Robinson

November 1, 1996

Hair and cosmetic products in the Japanese market

The objective of this paper is to bring to the fore the type of research required to launch specific cosmetic and hair products in a culture which is difficult to define, such as the Japanese culture, in order to respond precisely to consumer...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Author: Catherine Becker

Company: SORGEM IMR

November 1, 1996

Are you talking to me?

In the rapidly growing markets of Asia, new products, brands and services will increasingly compete for consumer attention. As marketers move towards building global brands, the need for market data which are actionable and provide real insight into...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Authors: Martine Thiesse, Finola Gowers

November 1, 1996