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The application of market research to retail merchandising

As the retail trade faces up to the reality and consequences of retail saturation together with an increasingly demanding customer, so it is being forced to understand and react to that consumer. Gone are the days of pile it high, sell it cheap...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Authors: Maureen Johnson, Gill Welch

June 15, 1989

The buying process in large scale distribution

There is a large amount of research which deals with the buying behaviour of organizations and which brings to the fore the concept of "Buy grid" where a buying centre and the different phases in the buying process are identified. Our research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Anne Marie Schlosser, Jean-François Boss, Jose P. Dionisio

September 1, 1988

The buying process in large scale distribution (French)

There is a large amount of research which deals with the buying behaviour of organizations and which brings to the fore the concept of "Buy grid" where a buying centre and the different phases in the buying process are identified. Our research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Jose P. Dionisio, Anne Marie Schlosser, Jean-François Boss

September 1, 1988

7,8,9 out! Could this be the future of market research in companies?

Marketing researchers have traditionally been very active in refining techniques and methods for obtaining better information. In their day-to-day practical work they are not so accustomed to examining their own behaviour. In particular, there is an...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Author: Ulrich Lachmann

Company: Philips International

September 1, 1988

Moving forward with innovative research technology

In this paper, the authors take as their theme the growth of new product development research technology, and in particular simulated test market modeling in the U.S.A. Emphasis is not placed on the various models themselves but on the uses and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/JMA/ARF Conference 1988: Innovation In Marketing, Advertising And Research

Authors: David Pring, Robert J. Burgess

June 15, 1988

Strong brand personality and multi-country appeal

Strong brand personalities seem to need deep roots into local culture, whereas multi-cultural ambitions rule out names with only specific geographically limited meanings. As names are expected today to concentrate much of the projected positioning,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/JMA/ARF Conference 1988: Innovation In Marketing, Advertising And Research

Author: Olwen H. Wolfe

June 15, 1988

Analysing family purchasing for better media planning

Many consumer decisions are based on evaluation processes within families with many persons involved. Up to today, this multi-person character of most decisions concerning durables has not been taken into consideration adequately. In addition to that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Authors: Franz Böcker, Walter Hubel

Company: GfK

October 26, 1987

Message power and marketing strategy simulations

A micro-behavioral marketing model provides the conceptual framework to explain free choice decision making among consumers who purchase our products or services. Since it is a micro model, it portrays the decision making of each individual...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Author: August P. Hess

October 26, 1987

The impact on marketing research Of MMIS and scanning data

This paper is on the sales and marketing information needs that such scanner data now makes available to manufacturers and retailers and the MMIS required to exploit these data.

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: M.M.I.S- Useful For The User

Authors: R. G. Whyte, T. MacNeary

June 15, 1987