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Research in new product development

New products are the lifeblood of marketing. Even the most successful products have a life stage, and so marketing companies are continually looking to develop new products and re-stage existing ones. It is almost universally true that the best...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Julian R. Bond, Joseph Debacq

September 1, 1998

Developing a volume estimation procedure for new agrichemicals

The Agrochemical division of Monsanto in Europe were looking to develop a means to evaluate their new herbicides in terms of their likely volume potential in the market. Research International was briefed to adapt a simulated test market procedure...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: New Methodologies In Test Marketing

Authors: Dany Theunens, Stafford Crossman

June 15, 1988

Forecasting the sales impact of new product improvement

This paper summaries the authors' experience in estimating the sales impact of product quality improvements, made to new products. The paper describes the manner in which a particular forecasting technique takes account of product evaluation in its...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Authors: Lynn Y.S. Lin, Stephen Factor

Company: Burke, Inc.

October 26, 1987

New product introduction based on pre-test market data

In this paper the current version of a pre-test market system will be described which is designed to perform a comprehensive analysis of individual choice, perception and preference data, offers different ways to compute market share estimates, takes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Authors: Ingo Böckenholt, Wolfgang Gaul

October 26, 1987

The use of conjoint analysis in forecasting and price elasticity for a new pharmaceutical entry

This paper presents a quantitative marketing research survey through the use of multivariate techniques to address several pre-launch issues of a new product. The main emphasis in the analysis is the use of the conjoint model to determine the actual...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: Mila C. Montemayor-Orr

June 15, 1987

The role of qualitative research in planning new industrial products

This study illustrates the use of focus group research in the development of a new product in a high-technology field. Most U.S. high technology firms conduct very little formal market research, and they rarely conduct qualitative market research as...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Problem Solving In Industrial Marketing

Authors: Eric Almquist, Yvette Kirby

February 26, 1986

The importance of being the first in a rapidly growing market

Sanoma bought Tecnopress in the beginning of 1983 with the aim of broadening its range of publications, which consisted largely of family and women's magazines. Negotiations between Tecnopress and Sanoma produced agreement to the effect that there...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Quality In Publishing

Authors: Jukka Miettinen, Jorma Sairanen

November 27, 1985

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

Perspectives on the new product development process

Productivity and success in the new product area could be vastly improved through increased concentration and thinking in the early stage planning phase; particularly, in terms of defining the strategic role of the new product, identifying and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Author: Joseph Plummer

November 2, 1983