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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

Evaluation of a corporate image campaign

Many corporations have begun intensive advertising campaigns to improve their public images. These programs involve taking a strong stand on matters of public policy. This paper will examine two diverse approaches to the problem. One company has...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: Malcolm B. Ochs

June 15, 1981

Value for money

In product fields in which children are interested and deeply involved (like sweets), they are strongly price-conscious. Despite the fact that they finance their purchases only partly by their own pocket money and rely widely on other "resources"...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Gernot Schwentner

Company: Unabhängiges Meinungsforschungsinstitut INFO GmbH

June 15, 1980

Translating qualitative research findings into successful advertising and marketing action

The paper sets out to show the unique role that carefully executed qualitative research can play in providing a detailed understanding of consumer behaviour within a given market, and of the attitudes, imagery, wants and needs which underlie and...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Mary Goodyear

June 15, 1980

Editorial contents, attractivity and motives for female readers of magazines

This paper tries to clarify some of the contents of the medium quality and shows one rather simple way of measuring the expectations of the female readers of a number of selected Swedish Consumer magazines. In two subsequent studies in 1977 the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Kjell Sjögren

November 1, 1979

The effects of economic and social changes on the children's market

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects in the UK children's market of the economic recession and its resultant social changes. It will consider how changing patterns in adult behaviour are handed down to children and how they react to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Author: Shirley Greenberg

Company: Ogilvy

October 1, 1978

Children in Germany

This paper deals with the attitudes and consumer habits of children aged from 12 to 14 years. The data were taken from a study 1) carried out in 1977 by 10 magazine publishing houses in West Germany. The sample consisted of 3000 subjects aged from 12...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Author: Wolfgang Machnik

October 1, 1978

Launching new financial services to consumers

The paper describes one approach used by several banking and insurance companies in the launching of profitable new financial products. Despite extensive research over the past decade, a number of unresolved questions in the banking and insurance...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: David Winton, Elizabeth H. Nelson

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1977

Research to measure and improve quality standards in Mallorca hotels

A survey based on 2000 personal interviews, each lasting about one hour was conducted amongst Thomson clients in Mallorca. Consumer attitudes towards food, quality of service in the dining-room, bar service, hotel entertainment, bedrooms and other...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Travel And Tourism

Authors: Gordon Heald, Brian Gurnett

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1977