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Testing fragrances for personal products in the Middle East

In the Middle East, consumer testing of fragrances for personal products poses all of the same methodological problems as in other parts of the world, plus some particular problems having to do with the place of perfume in Moslem culture. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Author: Ivor Shalofsky

January 1, 1994

How bizarre is the bazaar in Iran?

The paper is divided into three parts. The first part presents an overall picture of an average urban family expenditure in Iran. In this part changes in family consumption level over the last two decades is discussed, while focusing on the present...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Author: Mansoor Ehsan

January 1, 1994

Social change and perceptions of consumers

The present paper deals with the experiences and perceptions of consumers in Hungary, the former CSFR 1 ) and Poland since the revolutionary changes in 1989 up to 1992. The data shown are based on large representative studies conducted in these...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Marketing Integration Of West And East Europe

Author: Gunda Plasser

Company: GfK

June 15, 1993

East meets West?

In this paper, we aim to answer these questions, based on our extensive experience of conducting qualitative research groups across Eastern Europe, namely in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Ukraine and Russia. In the first part of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Marketing Integration Of West And East Europe

Authors: Nicola Evans, Lili Tomlinson

June 15, 1993

Customer driven competitive positioning

This paper describes a sophisticated choice modelling technique for the manipulation of quantative data on customers' needs, expectations, perceptions and values. These feed directly into the development of competitive strategies. Key questions...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: The Ideal Product, The Ideal Costumer, The Ideal Company?

Authors: Bernard Chudy, Roger Sant

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1993

Hitting the moving target

The music consumer of today is an unpredictable and ever changing target. However, they are still consumers. Understanding what choices they are making in listening to and buying music, and how this behaviour may not follow apparent and predictable...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: Timm Sweeney

June 15, 1993

What do women want?

The countries of Central Eastern Europe are evolving very fast: how different are they from each other and from the West? Are differences culturally rooted, or driven by specific national circumstances? This paper discusses some data from a recent...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Marketing Integration Of West And East Europe

Authors: Carla Millar, Christine Restall

June 15, 1993

Performance monitors to aid business decision making

This paper explores how Royal Mail International successfully used a performance monitor to more effectively focus on customer needs in an increasingly competitive market. The main objective of the research was the accurate measurement of customer...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Business To Business Marketing

Authors: Diana Brown, Tom Perrott

June 15, 1992

Do we really understand what consumers want?

This paper describes a research project that attempts to better understand the meaning of some words used frequently by consumers to describe automobiles. In conjunction with a leading UK motor manufacturer, the research set out to try and broaden...

Catalogue: ESOMAR International Automotive Marketing Conference 1992

Author: Lorne D. McMillan

June 15, 1992