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The position and role of research within strategic marketing planning

In this paper I will attempt to do two things. First, I will tell you a little bit about strategic planning and how we have approached this extremely difficult subject. Second, I will attempt to position Marketing Research within the context of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Richard S. Halpern

Company: The Coca-Cola Company

August 23, 1981

Profit from research in social and legal context's

All designing a controlled experiment should begin with the design of the ideal experiment. If the ideal experiment cannot be executed because of financial, factual, moral, or legal obstacles, we should make a systematic effort to save the controlled...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Hans Ziesel

August 23, 1981

Advertising research for increased profitability

Selling more units at lower cost is one of the tasks advertising should perform. There is ample proof that advertising, if perceived, if read or listened to and especially if recalled does cause purchasing. Getting consumers to so react to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Jan Stapel

Company: NIPO

August 23, 1981

Profit from thinking!

The central thesis of the paper is that the profitability of research companies is hindered because market research is not perceived as a profession, either by those who sell research or by those who buy it. The most significant expression of this...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Hazel Kahan

August 23, 1981

Britain at its best

The main body of the paper is concerned with the research programme that was mounted in relation to the £2½ million campaign, 'Britain at its Best', which can be regarded as one of the most successful corporate-image advertising campaigns ever...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Paul H. Drake, John A. Samuels, John C. Penny

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

August 23, 1981

The role of the employee in retail profitability

In 1976, Woolworth's management were given a clear indication that a problem existed when MORI presented the findings of a major study they had carried out on the attitudes of Woolworth employees to the company. Although the main objective of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Keith Willoughby, Robert M. Worcester

Company: IPSOS

August 23, 1981

Budgeting to determine the profit contribution

This paper is a discussion in broad terms of the first two of these areas and in particular, the interaction between the two. Research data is one of the key inputs of the marketing planning process. However as with advertising or below-the-line...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Bill Blyth

August 23, 1981

Identification of persons with the potential for setting up their own business (German)

This paper emphasises methodology and subject matter. The latter serves to illustrate the former. The paper discusses an investigative assignment from the German Federal Ministry of Commerce which, in order to stimulate the rate of economic growth,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Erp Ring

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

August 23, 1981

Improving the profitable use of continuous research

It is probably relatively easy to assess the need for such information when it is only used in-house, but how does an organisation which provides a service to the public at large assess the value of the research it disseminates? This question arose...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Mary Bartram

August 1, 1981