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Consumers' distribution work in turbulent time

The shopping habits of Finnish households were studied for the first time extensively in 1975. Since then there have been changes in the structure of the retail trade, and the consumers' social and economic environment has also changed in many...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: Uolevi Lehtinen, Ilkka Leind

June 15, 1982

End user research

This paper focusses on a comparative study of 16 British and West German machine tool manufacturers, which shows clear differences in the extent of user involvement in the product development process. Broadly speaking in the West German companies,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Industrial Marketing Research

Author: Stephen T. Parkinson

October 1, 1981

Optimizing profitability through research amongst retail customers and staff

The study provided measures of the standing of W.H. Smith and its competition on specially-collected attitude dimensions. It also identified which aspects of the staff or the service they provide matter most to customers, and showed how the intensity...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Fred Y. Phillips, Robert Falconer

August 23, 1981

Rare target groups

Finding samples representing segments of the general population when the rate of strike (percentage of the segment in total population) is inferior to 20%, is becoming a common performance asked from the practitioner by client marketing companies....

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Alain Zwilling

May 1, 1981

A sample drawn from a transient and/or briefly resident population, estimate of the universe and expansion of sampled results in a survey of users of the Ticino park

The area bordering the Ticino river, in Italy, has been recognized as a zone of particular naturalistic interest and, as such, placed under the protection of a special official body. Some years after the institution of the Park, the "Consorzio Parco...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Authors: Lucio Casaroli, C. De Rosa, M. Engel, G. Spinelli, Ferruccio Lusardi

Company: Demoskopea

May 1, 1981

Tracking the elusive innovator

This study created and implemented a new method for locating and profiling innovative consumers. The innovators were identified as such by virtue of ownership of products warranted or given status as innovations by the consumer sample researched....

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Emma Auer

May 1, 1981

From little ACORNS...

The objective of this paper is to describe the use of a new UK system of area classification, to assist in resolving problems of sample representativeness, sub-sample matching and minority sampling. Other applications of the system, as a descriptive...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Simon J. Orton

May 1, 1981

Consumer behaviour of young people

During the last years the interest in young people's consumer behaviour has greatly increased. Young people as almost emancipated partners in the process of purchase decision are supposed to be educated in order to become consumers like adults. They...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Liselotte Fessel

Company: GfK

June 15, 1980

Energy saving in private households

The programme of research described here is ambitious. Not many products have the benefit of so high an expenditure on research. What emerges is the complexity of the consumer’s choice. Admittedly the decision involved is a conscious and...

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

Authors: Nicholas Phillips, Elizabeth H. Nelson

June 15, 1980