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The use of market research to segment and communicate effectively with the market for travel and entertainment cards in the countries of Western Europe

This paper outlines how the European Market Research Department of the American Express Card Division has used market research to help its individual marketing teams (based in the various European countries) develop segmented marketing and...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Author: Paul Szwarc

Company: American Express Company

June 15, 1982

The degree of information in advertisements

The degree of information contained in advertisements currently is a hot issue. Some consider it part of the social responsibility of marketing people not to publish only 'empty' advertisements, others have stated that more informative advertisements...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Authors: Costa Tchaoussoglou, Rob R. van den Heuvel, Jetty M. M. Plasschaert

June 15, 1981

Advertising, promotions and direct marketing

The paper begins with an analysis of the spectacular development of the direct marketing Europe and the United States, followed by an examination of the causes of this development. The second part of the paper stresses the crucial importance of...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: Sylvère Piquet

June 15, 1981

Defence-inducing advertising

This paper discusses the research applied to the development of the Scottish Health Education Unit's publicity material, and outlines the two major problems incurred. The first is that, unlike much of product advertising, most health publicity is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Author: D. S. Leathar

September 1, 1980

Levi's: The art of staying ahead

Founded in 1850, Levi Strauss is now the largest clothing manufacturer in the world. The historical development of the Company is traced, and the astonishing growth in the blue jean market from the 1950s onwards. The way that the Levi Strauss Company...

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

Authors: Judith Blundun, Christine Restall

June 18, 1980

News from the world of children and adolescents

This marketing tool has already been in use for a year in France, and its international growth is to begin in November 1980 with the setting up of a barometer of child-oriented themes in Great Britain; extension to the leading industrialised...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Joël-Yves le Bigot

June 15, 1980

How to adapt research techniques to design and asses image advertising

This paper proposes the thesis that corporate advertising is not a new type of advertising, but a relatively new application of normal advertising practice. It can successfully be planned and assessed with the techniques that have been developed for...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Alan Wolfe

June 15, 1980

Standardising advertising for the international market

Should advertising of various products and services be standardized in the international market, or are there too many cultural obstacles? Should gasoline or petrol products, a hand lotion, clothing, and other products be advertised in essentially...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Steuart Henderson Britt

June 15, 1980

How research can help the creative man in advertising

This report of a discussion nearly thirty years ago contains more questions than answers. Would it he so different today ? It begins promisingly, with a creative man asking the questions. He breaks down the problem into the same three stages as in...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Authors: H. Jones, Graeme Cranch, Henry Durant

June 15, 1980