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Is there one global village for our future generation?

This paper introduces a new service of Roper Starch Worldwide and Just Kids Inc., sponsored by multinational corporations such as Mars, Kodak, and McDonald's, to track the lifestyle and consumption patterns of 7-12 year-olds around the world. While...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Authors: George Carey, Joan Chiaramonte, David Eden, Xiaoyan Zhao

November 1, 1996

Extending our knowledge of consumers through virtual reality

The practice of marketing research is moving towards an emphasis on consumer behaviour as compared to consumer attitudes, impressions, needs, wants, and so forth. This paper discusses problems with typical methods of collecting and analyzing...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Authors: Clive Wright, Stephen P. Needel

November 1, 1996

Regional diversity in China and its impact on pricing strategy

China, with its 1.2 billion people, presents itself as one of the most promising future markets for most multinational companies. China also has a proud and continuous history of more than five thousand years with one written language. However,...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1996: Marketing In Asia

Author: Lynn Y.S. Lin

Company: BBI Group

November 1, 1996

Managing participants' motivation

This article deals with the difficulties a researcher faces when attempting to set up a consumer panel in an emerging nation. Besides explaining panel origin, characteristics and methodology, the purchasing behaviour of 117 homes in the VII Region of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Author: Jorge Zamora

September 1, 1996

Brand evaluation in a cross-cultural context

This paper addresses the widely debated topic of ‘cross-national convergence’ in consumer attitudes and behaviour with respect to global brands. The study is based on a survey of nationally representative samples of the adult population in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: The Big Brand Challenge

Authors: Daniel Weber, Christine Woesler de Panafieu

June 15, 1996

The showroom process

This study analyses the shopping behaviour of Dutch car buyers. It shows the degree of shopping on a brand level. Subsequently, it analyses the degree in which brands are successful in converting prospects - visitors of the showroom - to car buyers,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Building Brand Identity In The Auto Industry

Author: Reg van Steen

June 15, 1996

Attitude to risk

Why is it that your colleague at work, who is the same age as you, has a similar background in terms of educational qualifications, occupation and income - and who falls into roughly the same demographic category as you do - has a personal net worth...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EFMA Seminar 1996: Consumer Trends In Banking And Insurance

Author: Nandita Khanna

May 1, 1996

To buy or not to buy, that's the question

The paper begins with a brief discussion of the changes to the personal sector financial services market since deregulation in the late 1980s, dealing in particular with the impact these changes had on the banking sector in the United Kingdom. A...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/EFMA Seminar 1996: Consumer Trends In Banking And Insurance

Authors: Sue Robson, Mike Jones

May 1, 1996

Challenges of agricultural market research in Russia

Russia is a vast agricultural market; even in the current depressed state of the economy, farm inputs represent multi-billion dollar purchases. Consumer market research is developing rapidly, but with interviewers located in the large cities with...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: European Agri-Business Under Pressure

Author: Vladimir Lapin

February 1, 1996