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Using long-term studies in marketing planning

According to Kotler planning means "to decide at the present time what needs to be done in the future." Marketing planning forms part of the overall planning of an enterprise. The marketing-mix being a combination of various kinds of marketing...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Walter Tacke

June 15, 1982

The role of the patient in international research

The paper considers the implications of patients' reactions, attitudes and behaviour in the overall marketing mix for ethical pharmaceutical products. Having considered the patient's influence on the choice and use of drugs, it looks at the use of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Author: David S. Mitchell

September 1, 1981

The launch of the Harmony collection in Italy

This paper shows the possible application to certain publishing sectors of some Market Research methodologies already tested in the Marketing of consumer goods. In this particular case, the Market Research programme carried out before launching the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Authors: Guido Colonna, Arnaldo Aisa, Camillo Dagradi

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

The application of a long and medium term M.M.I.S.A.T Colgate-Palmolive

Only a flexible, sophisticated and scientifically based system can give a satisfactory answer all sides can agree to and use as rational guidelines for the future. Colgate- Palmolive utilizes a MMIS to analyse the effect of its marketing-mix and to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Janine Rouas

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1980

The marketing mix of retailing firms and its strategic and research problems

In order to know the real mechanics of distributive structures, and particularly of their evolution, it is first necessary to identify and analyse the functions they have to fulfil and the way in which they are (or are not) fulfilled. Every retailing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Management Information For Retail Organisations

Author: Giancarlo Ravazzi

April 1, 1974

How research can help to get the price right

In the first place we shall discuss the place of price in the marketing mix for products in general and a newspaper in particular. We shall examine the complexities of the "joint supply" of editorial and advertising space. Next we examine the role of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Marketing And Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Alan Wolfe, Peter Bartram

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

June 15, 1972

Relevance of segmentation for market planning

Segmentation is one of the four alternative strategies of market planning and analysis. As such, segmentation is not simply a set of analytical-tools and techniques but rather a managerial philosophy or a viewpoint about the market place. The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Segmentation And Typology

Author: Jagdish N. Sheth

June 15, 1972

Research for ranges, assortments and multi-brand manufacturers

In many cases, a manufacturer will market not one item but several in a given product group. These may either be in the form of a range, such as a range of different flavours of soup, or as an assortment, such as a mixed assortment of confectionery,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: Lorne James Rothman

September 1, 1966