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From product development to product launch

While there is an extensive literature which deals with the subject of new product development, very little reference is made to the launch or commercialisation phase. Similarly, most texts on marketing management appear to assume that products are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Industrial Marketing Research

Author: Michael J. Baker

October 1, 1981

New products

This paper is concerned with the generation and screening of new product ideas. It does not concern itself with the development of products, brand names, packaging or advertising of the ideas which survive the screening process and is thus only the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: New Product Development

Author: Ronald W. Artingstall

October 1, 1979

Measuring editorial needs

In November 1978 a new tabloid newspaper was launched in the Midlands and Northern areas of England. It was positioned directly against existing popular newspapers. Marplan, on behalf of The Sun, monitored its launch in order to predict its sales...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: John Clemens

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

November 1, 1979

Star track

This paper describes the thinking and planning that lay behind the launch of Britain's newest daily newspaper, the Daily Star, and the role played by research in the overall marketing operation. The main research project described in this paper was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Iain McLellan

November 1, 1979

We are still confused- But on a higher level

Most case stories are. written when the success is an established fact. This paper is a case where part of the story was written in advance, in the form of objectives. To be precise, it is a case story the outcome of which is not yet known. The story...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1965

Author: Niels Vinding

June 15, 1965

Forecasting the sales impact of new product improvement

This paper summaries the authors' experience in estimating the sales impact of product quality improvements, made to new products. The paper describes the manner in which a particular forecasting technique takes account of product evaluation in its...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Authors: Lynn Y.S. Lin, Stephen Factor

Company: Burke, Inc.

October 26, 1987

Fast-developing markets in Estonia

The paper concentrates primarily on the development of the Estonian consumer market in 1992-1994, the first years of free market economy. The changes in the market are examined from the point of view of different indicators: objective ones, such as...

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Triin Vihalemm

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

April 1, 1995

GM Hungary

In March, 1992 a white Opel Astra rolled off of the assembly line at the new plant of GM Hungary in Szentgotthard (sent-goat-hard), near the Austrian border.' The significance of the event was signaled by the presence of Prime Minister Jozsef Antall....

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Cyril C. Ling

April 1, 1995

Qualitative research on American blend cigarettes

Gallahers is considering launching an American blend cigarette from Benson & Hedges. Some depth interviews were initially conducted with Gallaher personnel in the Manchester and Lond on factories to elicit some initial responses to the cigarette....

Catalogue: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive Collection

Author: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive

March 2, 1971