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The market for TV air-time in Europe

This paper addresses the television media issues facing advertisers in Europe. It examines both the supply and demand side of the markets and then concentrates on the requirements of the demand side, especially from the advertisers' rather then the...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1996

Authors: Michael Cluff, Tom Harper

June 15, 1996

Brief by name, brief by nature

The use of research by local companies in the Middle East region is increasing. While these companies understand the value of research and, in broad terms, what they want from a study, the buyers are often non- researchers who do not fully appreciate...

Catalogue: MENAP Forum 1996: Pressure On Profit

Author: Nigel W. Dix

March 1, 1996

Marketing myopia revisited

The paper represents some of the core concepts first put forward by Theodore Levitt in his epochal paper titled Marketing Myopia linking failure of leadership and decline of industry. Using those concepts, this paper tries to profile the response of...

Catalogue: MENAP Forum 1996: Pressure On Profit

Author: Dhananjayan Kashyap

Company: Unilever

March 1, 1996

Swedish agricultural co-operatives in the European Union

After Sweden became a member of the European Union, an uncertain period arised for the Swedish agricultural co-operatives. Before agricultural co-operatives operated on the domestic market. The surplus production was exported with export subsidies....

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: European Agri-Business Under Pressure

Authors: G. J. Hendriks, Corne van de Klundert

February 1, 1996

The 7 mortal sins in qualitative research

This paper is concerned with illuminating and investigating the discrepancy between the excellent knowledge on good qualitative research and the practice of applied qualitative research. The analysis leads to the conclusion that first of all there is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Author: Udo Reuter

Company: IMW-KOELN GmbH & Co. KG

December 1, 1995

Does market research really contribute to decision making?

Market research definitely contributes a great deal to certain kinds of decisions but leaves a lot to be desired in certain other kinds of decisions. Unfortunately, the marketing decisions where it does not add too much value are often the more...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1995: Making The Decision

Author: Rama Bijapurkar

September 1, 1995

Piloting a "PPD" in the UK

This paper describes the audience measurement problem confronted in the United Kingdom as the number of radio stations available has increased. The conventional diary system - in which stations are pre-listed - is no longer able to cope in some...

Catalogue: Radio Research Symposium 1995

Authors: Roger Gane, John Stockley

July 1, 1995

From consumer marketing to modal marketing

This paper sets out for practitioners the various options for conducting the basic task of marketers and planners - that of defining the market. We provide specific examples of a particular technique - mode analysis - which we find useful and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/JMA/ARF Conference 1995: Triad 2000

Authors: Jon Francis, Nina Davidson

June 15, 1995

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

This paper will present an overview of a two-year development programme involving the transfer of a new, revolutionary instant meal technology from Asia to Europe. The novelty of the technology meant the planners could initiate a classical research...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Successful Product Engineering

Author: Michael M. Roe

June 15, 1995