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Marketing and research in the Arab World

This paper aim at illustrating the challenges felt by blue chip FMCG companies in formulating their marketing mix strategies in today's Arab markets, giving examples of the question marks facing its products, pricing and promotional policies. The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Authors: Bob Williams, Mansour Elganady

June 15, 1987

The use of the buy test technique to evaluate new advertising campaigns in Arab countries

In the rapidly evolving marketing environment in the Middle East, the communication process is becoming increasingly important and hence so is the need to evaluate the efficiency of an organisation's communication activities. The BUY TEST is an...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Authors: Randa Kronfli, Dafni Theophylactou

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1987

Consumer typology in Saudi Arabia

The housewife in Saudi Arabia is an important consumer most notably because of the introduction within the last year of broad scale advertising on the national TV networks. This paper examines the beliefs, attitudes and lifestyle of this group and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Mike Jewell

June 15, 1987

Data gathering and forecasting difficulties in the developing countries

This paper considers the problems of collecting data for sales forecasting and marketing decision making in the developing countries. Included in the discussion is an evaluation of the sales forecasting experience of a small number of Canadian firms...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Authors: Erdener Kaynak, Gillian Rice

June 15, 1987

How methodologies are adopted to provide internationally comparable results

For many years, a debate has been going on, sometimes heated, other times controlled, about the quality of research that is being carried out in the Middle East and how it compares to that of the larger European countries. Why this should be so owes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Yiannis Papadopoulos

June 15, 1987

The changing human values in Kuwait

This study, the first of its kind in the area, provides a model and basis for future studies in order to monitor changes in the moral and social values system overtime, and gives a useful tool for institutions to assess their current policies in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: D. Philippi

June 15, 1987

How extra strong research helped launch extra strong teabags

The research programme was valuable in two main respects. First, it was early experience of a simulated test market in the region which helped in making a launch/no launch decision. In the event the major parameters predicted by the LOCATOR test were...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Authors: Janet Katz, Charles A. Rhodes

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1987

Product testing

This paper sets out to demonstrate that effective product testing can be and is carried out in Arab countries, employing basically the same techniques as in Europe or elsewhere. As the title implies, the paper argues that there is no significant...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Nigel W. Dix

June 15, 1987

Retail audit panels in the Middle East

This paper describes the experience of AMER in setting up and running retail audits in the region. This is confined to our experience because this is the first open discussion on the subject and we cannot, therefore, refer to the experience of our...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Tony Antoniou

June 15, 1987