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Creating competitive intellectual capital

As organizations evolve from multi-domestic to transnational they need to develop new ways of obtaining sharing and acting upon marketing information. The technological advances that led to the ‘marketing information revolution’ now...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Hans-Willi Schroiff

September 1, 1998

Marketing to men in the millennium

This paper deals with the issues and questions of foreseeing the future and forecasting men's behaviour and attitudes. Specifically it presents the way we can use the input of the latest global RIO (Research International Observer) project to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Panos Assiotis, David Jones

September 1, 1998

Consumer panels

This paper describes how switching data obtained from consumer panels can be used to understand differences in market dynamics across markets and the implication of this on brand strategy. It also attempts to identify the reason that leads to the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Adding Transparency To Brand Management

Author: Arup Bose

June 15, 1998

Why are some local brands more successful than any other brand?

Branding is an inevitable reality of marketing personnel and increasingly more brands are created to be viable in an international context. When crossing borders a question remains: whether to promote international image or to act local. The current...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Adding Transparency To Brand Management

Authors: Aivar Voog, Ulle Parnoja

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1998

A new star is born

The Mercedes A-Class case study offers insight into the strategic considerations of the Mercedes car maker as well as the marketing research methods used. Among other things the survey of the research methods looks into project car clinics the...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1998

Authors: Siegfried Högl, Karsten J. Hennig

Company: GfK

June 15, 1998

Generation Golf

This paper shows how a programme of qualitative research helped to define a target group for Europe's most popular car the Golf. Where traditional demographic profiling was not able to produce sufficient evidence to allow formulation of a target...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1998

Authors: Sven H. Becker, Rolf Dielenschneider

June 15, 1998

The stochastic conditional hierarchy of brand values

This paper proposes a hierarchy of brand values which must be met in order for a brand to be properly positioned in a meaningful long-term and a strategically-competitive manner. These brand values include generic properties functional attributes ...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Adding Transparency To Brand Management

Author: Martin C. van Herk

June 15, 1998

Cross-cultural segmenting and brand extension

Mercedes-Benz launched its first mini-car the A-class in the fall of 1997. Mercedes engaged in number of research efforts prior to the introduction of the A-class. The analysis performed in Norway revealed five major segments. All five segments had...

Catalogue: International Automotive Marketing Conference 1998

Authors: Erik Olson, Hans Mathias Thjomoe

June 15, 1998

Daewoo

Daewoo’s launch into the United Kingdom has been the most successful since records began. This has been achieved by breaking many of the long-established rules of car marketing, one of which concerns the role of research. The paper describes how...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Rachel Walker, Phil Garthside

September 1, 1997