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Understand Africa

Africa is the world's most diverse and most challenging continent for marketers: normal rules of research do not always apply. African markets have a bad reputation, enhanced by media bias, preconception and prejudice but the continent as a whole has...

Catalogue: Congress 2006: Foresight

Author: Tendai Mhizha

June 15, 2006

Making global innovation work for global companies

While there is a significant body of research on the organizational climate that is conducive to innovation, most of this research has a strong 'western' bias, concept, practice or culture. How much of this 'climate' is easily translatable to the...

Catalogue: Innovate 2006

Authors: Sangeeta Gupta, Rajiv Inamdar

Company: Nielsen

May 10, 2006

Branding national assets amidst global diversity

Globalization trends and regional integration in Latin America have brought major pressure to define which national assets are unique and, therefore, how a country, its people and its economic profile can be characterized in order to ensure...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Authors: Fabián Echegaray, Leonardo Athias

Company: Market Analysis

May 8, 2006

Building in the BRICs

The BRICs markets- Brazil, Russia, India and China- are coming under increasing focus. As well as being seen as potential future cornerstones of the world economy, they are significant markets today in their own right. International brand owners...

Catalogue: Global Diversity 2006

Authors: Geoff Wicken, Roberto Lobl, Polly Carter

Company: IBOPE Inteligencia

May 8, 2006

Made in Asia

Many experienced companies realize that Asia is not one market but rather consists of multiple markets. However, while companies focus on tailoring products and brands for local consumers, they are overlooking an important fact in understanding...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2006

Authors: Giana Eckhardt, Sunny Hahn, Myoungwha Choi

Company: McKinsey & Company

March 19, 2006

Tomorrow is a new consumer!

The world is looking intensely at Asia today, as it moves rapidly towards becoming not only the world's largest producer and consumer, but also the largest productive workforce. Marketers and policy makers everywhere are keen to know how to exploit...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2006

Authors: Sangeeta Gupta, Smita Bhosale

Company: Nielsen

March 19, 2006

Research World (March 2006)

We’re taking a look here at China and India, two countries that recently are increasingly being regarded - after Japan and Korea - as the driving forces behind the global economy in the 21st century. Nowadays a third of the global population...

Catalogue: Research World 2006

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

March 1, 2006

Mind the gap

A decisive growth potential lies in emerging markets whose prospective buyers are less well known to many global car manufacturers at present. In emerging markets the basic socio-cultural environment for the formation of preferences with respect to...

Catalogue: Automotive 2006

Authors: Bettina Staudenmaier, Ulrich van Hormann

Company: GfK

February 27, 2006

Branding passport

It has been widely reported that multinational companies are spending a significant proportion of their marketing budgets in growing economies.Unfortunately, they are not always winning the battle against their marketing-savvy local rivals.Using...

Catalogue: Brandmatters 2006

Author: Lorna Walters

February 8, 2006