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Life after 50

The phenomenon of the ageing society in Western Europe is one with which we are aware but with which we have not even begun to come to terms. We still think of the older age group as a homogeneous unit, whereas they are more heterogeneous than...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: The Over 50's In The 90's

Authors: Vicki Drummond, Greg Smith, Leon Kreitzman

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1991

Senior citizens

There is no doubt: The "Senior Citizens Market" is growing all over Europe. Thus developing specific marketing strategies and the adaptation of the touristical offer to the prospective needs of the elderly tourists are becoming more and more...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Travel And Tourism Transition

Authors: Martin Lohmann, Astrid Kösterke

June 15, 1991

All's well that smells well?

Advanced production technologies have contributed to a high quality standard for most branded consumer goods - e.g. detergents. This generally high standard inevitably leads to a high degree of perceived similarity in blind product tests - pure...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: Fine Fragrances And Fragrances In Consumer Products

Author: Haas-Wiili Schroif

June 15, 1991

Researching privatisations

The principal purpose of the paper is to show the help that Market Research Techniques gave to the decision makers of the biggest privatisation ever conducted in Spain. The authors start by describing the company, the aims of the privatisation and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Authors: Pedro Moraleda, Juan Ferrer-Vidal

September 1, 1990

All of the people all of the time: Using advanced autodialer technology with CATI software

The paper describes the implementation of a system using a CATI package and a predictive or statistical autodialer. The autodialer has the capacity to detect if a human voice has answered the telephone and make a connection to an available...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: How To Cope With Data Overload

Authors: Andrew Jeavons, Ed Ross

June 15, 1990

From FMCG to durables

A multitude of predictive systems have been developed for FMCG products, many with a fairly reliable track record. The same cannot be said for durables. In this paper, the authors discuss a range of factors that differentiate both the research...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: New Product Development

Authors: Julian R. Bond, Simon Chadwick

June 15, 1990

A product's changing place in society

There are two main approaches to measuring a product's changing place in society, those that begin by monitoring social values and those based on measuring changing attitudes to the product itself. The differences in approach stem from concern with...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Ian D. Greig

June 15, 1989

Cohort analysis

In the next decades a dramatic change in the age composition of the populations of western societies will occur. The proportion of older people will increase due to declining birth rates after a baby boom. For products whose consumption is contingent...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Author: Hans Georg Prester

September 1, 1988

Advertising effectiveness and marketing productivity where the market cannot afford too much electronic wizardry: The experience of creating and running a single source panel in India

Electronic technology has introduced the personal TV meter and product pack scanning and other devices into sophisticated measurement of advertising and product purchasing. The costs are too high for the methodology to be used in many countries and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Debi Prokash Basu, John Parfitt

September 1, 1988