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The impact of changes in retailing on promotions research

No one would dispute that over the last two decades there has been a dramatic shift in the balance of power between manufacturer and retailer. Whilst perhaps most evident is the grocery sector this has extended to roost other areas of retailing. This...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Below-The-Line And Sponsoring

Author: Maureen Johnson

November 6, 1985

A programme of business research across Europe, with critical decisions on capital investment and marketing activity dependent on the results

The brief for this research project came from the Brussels based product manager responsible for commercial stationery products. A new commercial product had been launched with great success in the USA in 1980 and then gradually released to Europe,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Authors: Roy Haworth, Margaret Holmes

June 15, 1984

Optimizing profitability through research amongst retail customers and staff

The study provided measures of the standing of W.H. Smith and its competition on specially-collected attitude dimensions. It also identified which aspects of the staff or the service they provide matter most to customers, and showed how the intensity...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Fred Y. Phillips, Robert Falconer

August 23, 1981

The role of the employee in retail profitability

In 1976, Woolworth's management were given a clear indication that a problem existed when MORI presented the findings of a major study they had carried out on the attitudes of Woolworth employees to the company. Although the main objective of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Keith Willoughby, Robert M. Worcester

Company: IPSOS

August 23, 1981

The impact of change on retail strategy, structure and performance

This paper focuses on the analysis of change across three distinct, but interrelated environments: 1) consumer; 2) economic and 3) retailing. Past failures in retailing research have resulted from a lack of focus and direction and from attempts to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Douglas J. Tigert

June 15, 1980

Promotion and the retailer

ESOMAR has asked me to make some comments on "Promotion and the Retailer". In short I was to face you as a retailer and present you with some personal experiences and comments on the subject of promotions. So far so good. When I read the papers...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: The Contribution Of Research To Decision Making Promotions

Author: K. J. L. Alberdingk Thijm

June 1, 1976

Management information system for the retail menswear industry

It is only comparatively recently that U.K. menswear retailers have begun to implement modern management techniques and information systems. However, those systems that do exist lack any foundation in an understanding of the market processes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Fashion, Research And Marketing

Authors: Gordon S.C. Wills, David F. Midgley

December 4, 1974

Fashion merchandising

This paper is based on experience and experiments over a number of years in a small chain of shoe shops, all concentrating on women's and men's fashion shoes. The paper tries to make an assessment of the factors that are influenced by fashion in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Fashion, Research And Marketing

Author: Martin D. Callender

December 4, 1974

Market research as an aid to the corporate marketing decisions of retailers

There is no doubt that the main information required for the management of a retail business is fast and accurate internal statistics on sales, costs and profits. I have tried to demonstrate why this should be supplemented by information which can...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Management Information For Retail Organisations

Author: Martin Simmons

April 1, 1974