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Closing the gap between market research and strategic planning

Market Research and Strategic Planning have a common task: To support management in the never-ending challenge to shape the future of companies and organisations. Neither market research nor strategic planning have the knowledge or the instruments to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Ursula Neugebauer, Joachim Scharioth

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

September 1, 1989

Integrated measuring of the effects of marketing mix variables with special emphasis on the elements of the communication mix

Effective marketing plans are key to product success in today's mass markets. And whether they are effective or not is - to a large extend - determined by the consumer and his reaction to it. For the marketers of consumer goods this means they have...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Petra E. Schauenburg

Company: GfK

September 1, 1989

1992

This paper takes a detailed look at the financial services industry in Europe, with particular reference to the position in the U.K. First we set the scene with a description of where the industry has come from, where it is now and the opportunities...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Stephen Bairfelt, Erik de Kort

August 15, 1989

A new approach to the photo-finishing market

A French leader in the retail distribution of upscale photographic equipment retained the MAC Group to help his organization in identifying and implementing a marketing strategy in photo-finishing. Although our client had a strong market share and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Author: Jean-Francis Harris

June 15, 1989

Is marketing keeping one step ahead of the changing consumer?

Today, there is a parallel demographic change occurring in Canada and the United States which, for many decades to come, will have major implications for the marketing of consumer products in these two countries. The age structures of the Canadian...

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

Author: Thomas E. Muller

June 15, 1989

Customer databank systems: Principles for making today's retail service offer a matter of organisation

Three principles, drawn from several hundred experiments on positioning service businesses, help to summarise why a customer databank system assists the retailer in the continuity of organisation-wide strategic planning. Principle 1 : In marketing a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Authors: Oscar Schneersohn, Chris Macrae

April 24, 1989

Centralised and decentralised marketing research: How to find the "optimal balance" in a multinational pharmaceutical company

Since 1986 the International Marketing Research Department at the Sandoz Headquarters (HQ) has become increasingly involved in multi-country studies, forming one of the cornerstones for the "international core” of New Product Development, Group...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Author: Bernd E. Grobe

June 15, 1988

Spain: Everything under the sun

This paper explains the information system used in devising the marketing plan for Spanish tourism and adjusting the global marketing strategy to meet future needs. Because the objectives of the marketing plan for Spanish tourism were to: design a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Travel And Tourism Research

Authors: Josep Chias, Eulogio Bordas

May 4, 1988

TESI

The paper is intended to explain the basic principles of TESI and to illustrate its scope of application and information. It will also be shown how test market simulation can be used to analyse existing markets, uncover the competitive relations...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Author: Bernd Erichson

October 26, 1987