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Litmus II

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new model, LITMUS II, and how it is being used by major advertisers in North America to develop improved if not "optimal" marketing plans for new products and services.

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Are Interviewers Obsolete?

Authors: Joseph D. Blackburn, Lisa E. Carter, Kevin J. Clancy

June 15, 1984

The past is the future again

Is the past the future again? Will we live to see a relaunch of optimisation? Is it worth the trouble to look into the matter again? Do we now have the chance to use media selection models more efficiently? Could we use all possible means today? Or...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Media Research- Does It Really Affect Media Planning?

Author: Otmar Ernst

April 11, 1984

Cost effective advertising

Advertising performance is probably the most discussed subject amongst marketing and advertising people, particularly in the pharmaceutical field. This paper discusses the way that Ciba-Geigy and their advertising agency, the General Advertising...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Information For Decision Making In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Authors: Frank Collins, Geoffrey C. Brook

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1983

Product/assortment policy from the point of view of manufacturers and retailers, based on a special analysis

The conflict of targets between manufacturers and traders with regard to the product-line to be carried is already existing as long as there are dealers selling merchandise produced by somebody else, the producers. This target cannot be solved even...

Catalogue: Paper 1982: Profitable Cooperation Of Manufactures And Retailers

Author: Manfred Lange

June 15, 1982

The role of the industrial researcher in maximising opportunities for consumer goods manufacturers

Talk to the majority of industrial and consumer researchers and the only things they are likely to agree they have in common are a shared belief in the application of market research to aid the more profitable operation of the company, and a similar...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Industrial Marketing Research

Author: Jonathan P. Shingleton

October 1, 1981

The restructuring of Japan's pharmaceutical business

Japan has only rudimentary pharmaceutical distribution capabilities overseas where competition is also intense. Thus, the outlook for the current core of the national Japanese pharmaceutical industry is bleak. There is no clear evidence that a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Author: Leif Schaumann

September 1, 1981

Optimizing profitability through research amongst retail customers and staff

The study provided measures of the standing of W.H. Smith and its competition on specially-collected attitude dimensions. It also identified which aspects of the staff or the service they provide matter most to customers, and showed how the intensity...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Fred Y. Phillips, Robert Falconer

August 23, 1981

Optimising newspaper sales

This paper is an introduction to the philosophy of supply control systems to optimise newspaper and magazine sales. The construction of the system was started in 1972 as a cooperation between the management of sales and distribution and the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Ivan Biangslev

May 1, 1981

An example of syndicate research (French)

This paper shows an example of the optimization and reduction of a research budget. In 1977 an important research took place, based on 700 telephone interviews, 300 complete descriptions of stores, 300 interviews with points of sale managers, and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Jean-Pierre Piotet, Michel Haski, Francis Georgel

September 1, 1978