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Measuring editorial needs

In November 1978 a new tabloid newspaper was launched in the Midlands and Northern areas of England. It was positioned directly against existing popular newspapers. Marplan, on behalf of The Sun, monitored its launch in order to predict its sales...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: John Clemens

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

November 1, 1979

The dangerous quest for certainty in market forecasting

This paper shows how a large pharmaceutical firm developed a series of market forecasts in probabilistic terms, explicitly incorporating the principal uncertainties affecting the future sales of new pharmaceutical products. Such probabilistic...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Foresight Or Hindsight?

Authors: Michael M. Menke, Jacques P. Pezier

March 1, 1977

Efficiency analysis of a sales force

The purpose of this paper is to describe a method whereby the problem of salesforce efficiency can be solved. We have discovered how to deduce simple rules from available quantitative data and how the application of these rules can lead to a coherent...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Didier Truchot

August 1, 1975

Efficiency analysis of a sales force (French)

The purpose of this paper is to describe a method whereby the problem of salesforce efficiency can be solved. We have discovered how to deduce simple rules from available quantitative data and how the application of these rules can lead to a coherent...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Didier Truchot

August 1, 1975

Management information system for the retail menswear industry

It is only comparatively recently that U.K. menswear retailers have begun to implement modern management techniques and information systems. However, those systems that do exist lack any foundation in an understanding of the market processes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Fashion, Research And Marketing

Authors: Gordon S.C. Wills, David F. Midgley

December 4, 1974

A comparison of sales forecasting methods

The purpose of this article is to present a comparison of three alternative methods for sales forecasting - trend analysis, time series analysis and regression analysis. Rather than looking at the theoretical differences, the focus is on practical...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1971

Authors: Spyros Makridakis, Steven Wheelwright

June 15, 1971

Market research as an aid for premium buying policy

In modern marketing (free) gift campaigns are frequently applied. At the end of 1968 and in the beginning of 1969 a free gift campaign was carried on in The Netherlands for BRIO margarine. This campaign was packaging, sending to the effect that the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1970: The Practical Application of Market Research

Authors: P. J. Dobbenberg, Ger C. Schild

Company: NIPO

September 1, 1970

The analyses of sales figures over a number of years as a basis for sales forecasting

When we analyse a series of sales data, the first problem posed is to find out the meaning of each figure which makes up the series; identification of the possible links which each figure has with the preceding one can be the starting point for...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1970

Author: Giorgio Palmili

June 15, 1970

A system for medium-term sales forecasts for short-lived consumer goods (German)

A system of drawing up medium-term sales forecasts has been developed for the range of a large concern in the food industry and is intended to form part of the integrated operations planning in the logistic sector. The forecasts in this system are...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Authors: W. Klopsch, O. Kuhl

June 15, 1969