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The end of fusion fear?

One of the new developments in the field of market research during the last decade is the construction of fusion techniques. We developed a procedure called VENUS. This method was applied in the Netherlands several times, and a cumulation of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Author: Alfred E. Bronner

September 1, 1990

Identification of industrial new product opportunities through utilization of graphic stimuli

This paper describes the evolution of industrial and consumer new product opportunities through the utilization of graphic probe stimuli which helped respondents recall and articulate unmet needs. The findings are based on an actual case history, a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: New Product Development

Author: Gerald L. Patrick

June 15, 1990

Managing excess information

Although information systems are essential tools enabling companies to make the most of their resources when faced with excess information, it is frequently only fair to observe that they are ineffective. From our point of view the principal problem...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: How To Cope With Data Overload

Author: Christian Feuillette

June 15, 1990

Our experiences of forecasting non-fast moving consumer goods products & services

Forecasting new Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sales potential prior to test market has been available, and quite successful for twenty -20 years. During the past eight years, much effort has been devoted to duplicating the forecasting success...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Gilles Hustaix, Lynn Y.S. Lin

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 1, 1989

New techniques in product development using quantitative socio-cultural mapping and qualitative typology research to identify Sspecific target groups

The Scangroup, the Swedish Meat Marketing Association, dominates the Swedish meat market. Strategic discussions based on Monitor research identified socio- cultural segments for a new convenience food concept. The marketing strategy based on these...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Ingrid Berg, Bo Gunnefur, Christina Grenabo

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1989

High-touch research applied to fine fragrance development: The Poison case history

Our research, carried out in the US in 1984 one year before its launch in France, was to determine whether the POISON project was an ugly duckling made of conflicting elements or a winner with a future on the American market, in which case we were to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Research For Flavours And Fragrances

Author: Olwen H. Wolfe

June 15, 1989

A new tool for concept testing in services

Concept testing in the field of services is not yet fully developed. That is why SOFRES and the BUY © TEST network all over the world propose a new tool: the CHOICE © Test. CHOICE © is basically a quantitative method but brings also many...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Strategies For Service Management

Authors: Dominique Saint-Paul, Michéle Monin-Poucin

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1987

Diamonds for men (DFM)

For many years diamonds were strictly and exclusively linked to female stereotypes. De Beers' constant research into new markets had seen in males a new area in which to develop their products. This paper shows how through continuous research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Vanna Bonvini, Lia Colacicco

June 15, 1986

Predicting sales volume and market shares

The paper argues the case for extending the value of much market research data concerned with concept testing, concept/product use testing and usage and attitude tracking studies by employing modelling systems to predict sales volume or market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Peter Sampson, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

November 2, 1983