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Saving energy with lighting systems

This report gives a short description of a two-step survey executed in July 1981 and January 1982 with two target groups - firms and population. Two statement-batteries - nearly the same for the two target- groups - one for the attitude to the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Werner Till

Company: GfK

June 15, 1982

Qualitative market segmentation with panels

In saturated markets the need of segmentation is increasing. By the method of cluster analysis all members of a panel are separated in relevant segments for this product category. The efficiency and validity of the segmentation is proved by comparing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Authors: Joachim G. Baum, W. Twargawa

Company: GfK

June 15, 1982

The measurement of attribute importance for industrial products

Market segmentation is one of these concepts that can also be applied to industrial buying behaviour. In this connection one basically has a choice between either using a priori defined segments or finding the biases of consumer segmentation in a set...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Industrial Marketing Research

Author: Rob R. van den Heuvel

October 1, 1981

Accommodating national differences in international approaches

The paper sets out to discuss some general aspects which affect the communicative value of pharmaceutical advertising effectiveness in general. After some general statements on international campaigns as a means to communicate with doctors a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Author: Richard L.P. Hugen

September 9, 1981

Information styles in Switzerland

The present paper gives the results of a comprehensive investigation, modelled on the methodology of lifestyle studies, into the reading and information styles in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. On the attitudes and behavioural patterns...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Author: Edith Riemerschmid

June 15, 1981

Why do some products fail and others succeed?

The opening discussion attempted to identify specific factors which can discriminate between success and failure of new products in the market place. Rather than spend time trying to find suitable definitions of the terms, success and failure, it was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: New Product Development

Author: Philip Hill

October 1, 1979

Component analysis in clustering

The last few years have seen a great development of the use of clustering in market research, either for specific operations or as part of more universal operations. These two types of approach - specific or universal - meet different objectives and...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Daniel Caumont

Company: Nestlé

February 1, 1978

Sense and non-sense in cluster analysis

Cluster analysis has become a very popular multivariate method in market research during the last five to seven years. Its wide propagation does this method probably owe to the simplicity of its basic ideas. But contrary to this simplicity stand some...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Gunda Opfer

February 1, 1978

Factor analysis

The paper shows how different versions of factor analysis applied to the same data can lead to different results. In contrast, factor analyses of data which differ can lead to the same results. These are two major limitations of the technique. Two...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: Martin Alan Collins, Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, Gerald J. Goodhardt

June 15, 1976