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From a survey of market needs to the designing of a total product

In the light of a series of market surveys begun by the SNCF in 1967, there emerged as a common factor: the second- class passengers' deep dissatisfaction with the service provided. Since the SNCF was also facing the prospect of extensive renewal of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: P. Rapello, Jacques Chauvineau

June 15, 1976

Sequential models for product development and launch

In this paper the authors propose as framework, or spine, a modular behavioural model structure that imbeds the various sequential development tests, sets the guidelines for data collection and processing and provides the logic for various evaluative...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Market Modelling

Authors: P. Malaise, Jacques Blanchard

Company: L'Oréal

June 1, 1975

From broad concept to market test or "the cowl makes the monk"

Everyone acknowledges that product presentation enhances the intrinsic value of a product. For pharmaceutical products, packaging is also a useful part of product presentation. But, product presentation can be an integral part of the product itself,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Pharmaceutical Market Research For New Product Development

Authors: Jean Bigant, Louis Tuvee

March 1, 1975

Product testing methodology in relation to marketing problems

Product testing has been a relatively neglected area in the literature of market research. This paper reviews current thinking and practice, discusses some major methodological issues and indicates some areas for further investigation. The first...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Authors: John C. Penny, L. M. Hunt, Tony Twyman

August 1, 1971

A beer tasting experiment

The objective of this article is to contribute to throw some more light on the following questions: 1. Are consumers able to discriminate among different brands of a product (in this particular case, beer) when the brands are not identified?; 2 ....

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1970

Author: Jokan Arndt

June 15, 1970

Pre-testing

A special study consisting of a survey among 326 housewives, has shown that the friendliness effect in product tests is minimised if the method below is used: The interviewer shows three packs with the same contents, but with different code...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Author: Johan J. M. van Tulder

June 15, 1969

Product testing in an engineering company

The "engineering company" referred to in the title is, in fact, one of the very large American-controlled automotive manufacturers with whom I spent some time heading up the market research activity. For a researcher the unique fascination of these...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1967

Author: Alan M. Leyshon

August 1, 1967

Market research to develop Nescafé "new" And Nescafé "gold"

This report is meant to be a case-study. It does refer to a series of tests, part of a many years' program, the aims of which were: a) to improve the existing product; b) to extend the assortment after having realised that segmentation of human taste...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: Gregor Pohl

September 1, 1966

Market research to develop Nescafé "new" And Nescafé "gold"(German)

This report is meant to be a case-study. It does refer to a series of tests, part of a many years' program, the aims of which were: a) to improve the existing product; b) to extend the assortment after having realised that segmentation of human taste...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: Gregor Pohl

September 1, 1966