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From Rugrats to Spice Girls

This paper traces the history of characters up to the mid-nineteenth century, and thereafter through five ages of character development. Research is described that regularly plots the popularity of characters among children over a number of years....

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: How To Be Number One In The Youth Market

Author: Carrick James

October 22, 1997

Business, spirituality and the new millennium

This paper traces and explains the interrelationship of three important fin de siecle phenomena as they are occurring in North America: 1) the intensification of socio-psychological responses to the end of the second millennium and the approaching...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Author: Hazel Kahan

September 1, 1997

From evolution to revolution

Competitive advantage can rest with getting the right information to the right people at the right time allowing them to take the right action. Information providers, and in particular market researchers, have a key role to play in this process. We...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1997: Sharpening Tools For The Future

Author: L. J. M. MacMillan

Company: GSK

June 15, 1997

The poor, the bad and the ugly

There is only one answer: we have to search for new tools! Our search will be successful if we follow the new trends. For the pharmaceutical industry, we can identify seven main trends: o global harmonization, o block-buster phenomena, i. e. the...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1997: Sharpening Tools For The Future

Author: Dieter Korczak

Company: GP Forschungsgruppe

June 15, 1997

The value of research

Technological developments and market factors have caused or stimulated strong growth in most Western economies in recent times. Over the years, the level of market research activity in different directions has also increased considerably. With...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Authors: Bert Van Herberg, Mario van Hamersveld

Company: Philips International

September 1, 1994

Efficient consumer response

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss a new movement that will affect consumers world-wide in the next few years. It is an area where research is at the very heart of decision making in companies. This movement is called Efficient Consumer...

Catalogue: B2B Marketing Seminar 1994: Reengineering Of Traditional Market Research

Author: James Rose

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1994

The seductiveness and reality of new technologies for the next generation of electronic media

As communication technologies hurtle down the information highway, audience researchers increasingly adopt technology-based measurement. The lure of technology solutions seduces us from traditional paper diaries, from household tuning meters, from...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Ronald S. Kolessar, Roberta M. McConochie

Company: Nielsen

May 1, 1994

The integration of the two Germanies and the implications for an agrochemical company

The reunification of the two German states was necessarily associated with a large number of changes in social and economic systems of the former GDR. The most important components of economic change were the removal of socialist planned economy and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: European Agriculture In Transition

Authors: P. Smits, R. Barten

June 15, 1992

Health food between Western and Eastern countries- Definitions, regulations and nutritional approaches

The health food trend, being a direct consequence of the world ecologi- cal movement, is present more and more in our areas too. It manifests itself in a great interest in the relation between diet and health, be- ing evident in the real flood of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: European Agriculture In Transition

Authors: Ignac Kuller, Branco Pavlovic

June 15, 1992