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Corporate culture and design management of Shiseido

It is my great privilege to speak about the corporate culture and design management of Shiseido on the occasion of this international meeting organized by ESOMAR. In the course of its 114-year history, Shiseido has built a unique corporate culture on...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR/JMA Seminar 1986: Marketing, Advertising And Research

Author: Yoshiharu Fukuhara

June 15, 1986

Our struggle to penetrate the Japanese market and how we attained success

Japanese brand names such as Yamaha, Cannon, Sony, Toyota and a great many more dominate entire product categories in the Rest. Only a few companies and products seem to have been able to reverse the process and to establish themselves as household...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR/JMA Seminar 1986: Marketing, Advertising And Research

Author: Kiygkazu Aizawa

Company: Nestlé

June 15, 1986

In-depth pharmaceutical competitor analysis

The paper presents an example of a case study of in-depth competitor analysis in the Japanese pharmaceutical industry. Prior to outlining the case study, and to place it in perspective, a brief overview is provided of key points of difference between...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: William Hall

February 27, 1985

The winning marketing strategy of a Japanese company in a tough environment

After a brief history of marketing in Japan, the market environment and the strategy of Japanese companies in 1983 is discussed, as the first subject of the presentation. Japanese marketers believe that innovative product development is the most...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: Shoji Murata

June 15, 1983

Is the Japanese market difficult for foreign exporters to enter?

Several case studies of Japanese and foreign companies will be discussed in an attempt to answer these questions. The case studies are simplified for the purpose of pinpointing specific marketing elements. They do not necessarily give overall picture...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: Tom Hara

June 15, 1983

Practical use of marketing research for area market development

This case study refers to the "A" Company, one of Japan's leading manufacturers of audio/video equipment and home electric appliances. For a long time, the company remained to have a small share in the Sendai Metropolitan district, one of the...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Authors: Tadaaki Funayama, Kazuari Ushikubo

Company: Research and Development Inc.

June 15, 1983

Marketing research works: A case of Mexicana Airlines (MX)

This paper shows a case of the off-line foreign carrier which moved into the Japanese market to develop its market potentiality and used a simple in-house telephone monitoring survey from its customers such as travel agents, wholesalers and airlines....

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: Akira Nagashima

June 15, 1983

The restructuring of Japan's pharmaceutical business

Japan has only rudimentary pharmaceutical distribution capabilities overseas where competition is also intense. Thus, the outlook for the current core of the national Japanese pharmaceutical industry is bleak. There is no clear evidence that a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Author: Leif Schaumann

September 1, 1981

Can a general research practitioner contribute in the area of non-OTC pharmaceuticals

This paper attempts to bring together observations relevant to the Western Pharmaceutical Market Researcher gained by a Western based research company operating in Japan. Some of the problems in this field are already highly visible, e.g., those...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Authors: George Fields, William Hall

September 1, 1981