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Retailing and Europe 1992

Researchers and retail companies continue to spend considerable resources on identifying geographic growth opportunities within the European Community for their retail formats. At the most general level, these are increasingly well known and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: Countdown to 1992

Authors: Alan Treadgold, Glenne Gibson

June 15, 1990

Characteristics of a successful retailer

This lecture is about successful retailers, we can also speak of lesser successful retailers. GfK has chosen to research diverse structures in the electrical retail trade to make a difference between successful and less successful valid. The best...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Author: Bert Groot-Enzerink

Company: GfK

June 15, 1989

Retailer/supplier relationships in plastic cards and payment systems

This paper examines the current Australian plastic cards and payment systems situation and describes how and why a 'dominant' retailer is attempting to shape retailer/supplier relationships in this particular channel of distribution so as to add...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Adding Value To Retail Offerings

Author: Steve Worthington

June 15, 1989

Trade research

Trade research is a collective term for a series of specially developed techniques serving the needs and objectives of marketing management at the various stages of the distribution network. Just as the elementary methods of consumer research have...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Authors: Gill Welch, Brian C. Pymont

August 1, 1986

How retailers can profit from scanners

This paper investigates the impact of scanner data on retailers and the uses retailers have made or can yet make of this data. Although scanners are used in many different retailer and wholesaler environments, the focus here is on the development of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Retail Strategies For Profit And Growth

Authors: Jan Willem Bol, Thomas W. Speh

June 4, 1986

Panel research

For those of us from a manufacturing environment panel research means to an overwhelming degree continuous monitoring of markets through retail and consumer panels. In the UK the key operators are Nielsen and Audits of Great Britain (AGB). The AGB...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Author: J. T. Loughray

June 15, 1982

Impact of change on retail strategy, structure and performance

This paper focuses on the analysis of change across three distinct, but interrelated environments: i) consumer; ii) economic and iii) retailing. Past failures in retailing research have resulted from a lack of focus and direction and from attempts to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Douglas J. Tigert

June 18, 1980

Retail information management systems

The retailing sector because of its unique characteristics and its environment is in great need of information. This need is greater as the risk is greater. Small retailers are facing greater risks and, therefore, their need for information is also...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Coskun Samli

June 15, 1980

Retail introduction of new products

During the last decades, the producers' power in relation to the distributors has been weakened, and a further shift in the balance of power between the two can be foreseen. An interesting problem is therefore what producers can do to improve their...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: New Product Development

Author: Jerker Nilsson

October 1, 1979