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Advertisers' problems with agency service in the Middle East

"Advertisers' Problems with Agency Sen/ice in the Middle East" is the result of a qualitative application of PDS technology-proprietary to BBDO Worldwide. The Study, recently conducted among a cross-section of decision makers within client companies,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1992: The Opportunity Factors To Business Success In The Post War Middle East

Authors: Harout Krikorian, Lance de Masi

June 15, 1992

The challenges of the Gulf consumer markets in the 1990s

No market can remain easy and unchallenging for ever. A market's qualitative and quantitative dimensions are altered with movements in environmental factors. Changes in business opportunities and challenges are a never ending process. Markets in the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1992: The Opportunity Factors To Business Success In The Post War Middle East

Author: M. Shah Alam

June 15, 1992

Bringing the TV meters to the Gulf

The paper is divided in seven sections. The first section describes in brief the background of the UAE TV Meter System's implementation, outlining the size and the criteria followed in structuring the panel, as well as the period over which the...

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

Author: Fady Rizkallah

January 1, 1994

How can we relate European standards to research in the Middle East?

The main objective of this paper, therefore, is to show through a series of examples and specific applications how the Middle East Marketing Research Bureau has applied and adapted modern market research techniques and standards across the whole...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: George V. Vassiliou

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1984

In search of mnemonics for the Middle East

Finding a mnemonic element or proposition is an important and mighty task for developing strategic and effective advertising campaigns. The task becomes ever-increasingly more critical and difficult when the construction of the mnemonics has to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1992: The Opportunity Factors To Business Success In The Post War Middle East

Author: Mark Carassi

June 15, 1992

The use of retail audit research in developing and maintaining effective retail distribution

The paper gives an overview of the relationships between two key pieces of retail audit information, sales share and distribution. It shows how, if used correctly, retail audit data can give management a means of focussing their resources to increase...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1992: The Opportunity Factors To Business Success In The Post War Middle East

Author: Tony Antoniou

June 15, 1992

Experience of bringing multinational companies on shore

Unilever markets over 1000 brands of packaged consumer goods in seventy five countries. This activity accounts for three quarters of its global sales. Its well-tried market development strategy has been systematically applied to the Arabian Peninsula...

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

Author: R. Gopalakrishnan

Company: Unilever

January 1, 1994

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

Knowledge is scarce

This paper argues that qualitative research can be carried out in Saudi Arabia in the same depth as in the West. Qualitative research can produce the same insight and "feel" for a product that has added so much value to marketing strategies...

Catalogue: MENAP Forum 1996: Pressure On Profit

Author: Tim Swift

Company: Procter & Gamble

March 1, 1996