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Company market research departments

At this time of recession, it is more common to hear of reductions than of expansion in company research departments. It seemed an appropriate time to conduct a quantitative study among major European companies to discover whether this is a general...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Margaret Holmes

September 1, 1994

Towards a truly internal market for advertising communication

A great deal has been written about the challenge of trying to "globalise" advertising in terms of its impact on consumers in different cultures and different parts of the world. More recently, the ability to reach consumers in fifty countries at...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Door-To-Door To Satellite

Authors: Jean Bergevin, Margaret Holmes

June 15, 1994

Duty free

This research programme was carried out with a marketing, not a technical, objective. In a situation where multinational throngs of travellers mill around together in the duty-free environment, it was imperative to find ways of directing products at...

Catalogue: Seminar 1991: The Growing Individualisation Of Consumer Lifestyles And Demand

Authors: Diana Hardie, Margaret Holmes

June 15, 1991

Global attack

Johnnie Walker is the world's largest scotch brand and has enjoyed historicially a dominant position in many markets. However, in recent years the brand has come under some strong competition in many of its leading markets. As a consequence of this...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Terry Hanby, Carol Coutt, Margaret Holmes

September 1, 1989

Unusual research for unusual advertising

A striking new advertising campaign was produced for Benson & Hedges in France. Seven advertisements were prepared, and research was needed to establish, first, whether this campaign projected the image desired for the brand, and if so whether it was...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.2: Qualitative Research- The 'New', The 'Old' And A Question Mark

Authors: Colin Pendry, Margaret Holmes

January 1, 1987

Finding the secret formula that can sell a brand worldwide

In this paper we argue that for many product fields, if a company wants to have truly international influence, it has to find a way of communicating in recognisably the same terms to all its consumers, and the question is not whether this should...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Margaret Holmes, Martin West

June 15, 1986

Unusual research for unusual advertising, mixing methods and minds

A striking new advertising campaign was produced for Benson & Hedges in France. Seven advertisements were prepared, and research was needed to establish, first, whether this campaign projected the image desired for the brand, and if so whether it was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Authors: Colin Pendry, Margaret Holmes

June 15, 1986

A programme of business research across Europe, with critical decisions on capital investment and marketing activity dependent on the results

The brief for this research project came from the Brussels based product manager responsible for commercial stationery products. A new commercial product had been launched with great success in the USA in 1980 and then gradually released to Europe,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Authors: Roy Haworth, Margaret Holmes

June 15, 1984

The use of transactional analysis in the development of a new brand's personality

We have attempted to address in an approach to measurement we have called 'Brand Diagnosis'. Our objectives in doing so were to combine the 'divergence' of a qualitative research methodology with a method of analysis which would simulate the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Max Blackston, Margaret Holmes

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

November 2, 1983