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A radical approach to life style research in the definition of new publications and mass communication

This paper shows how a radically new approach to life style research can lead us to more effective and persuasive mass communications, and how to detect what kind of new publications will be viable and of high vitality.

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Michaël Burke, Bernard Cathelat

June 15, 1974

A case study illustrating the John Gordon approach

The food trade in the Netherlands tries to make food distribution more efficient by introducing shelf space allocation systems and re-stocking systems. Systems were developed, some focus primarily at shelf allocation, others at re-stocking. Wrong...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: Albert F. Veldkamp

Company: Heineken

August 1, 1975

The use of a panel by a large distribution company

The purpose of this paper is simply to describe a proposal for the use of a consumer panel. The techniques employed are well known and do not call for reference to a bibliography or for complicated theoretical explanation. We deal here with a first...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Marc Galliot

September 1, 1974

New product research

This paper concerns itself with two major areas of New Product Research. Firstly some of the causes of high new product failure rate are discussed. These are attributed partly to political pressures within marketing teams and partly to the inadequacy...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Edward R. Tomlin

September 1, 1974

Cognitive styles

This paper introduces and reviews the concept of consumer cognitive styles as a new basis for segmenting markets. Using empirical data from members of the National Family Opinion Mail Panel, the authors show that consumers varying in cognitive...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Authors: Christian Pinson, Naresh K. Malhotra, Arun K. Jain

September 1, 1980

Observation, ethology and marketing research

An essential question in marketing research is how do we study human behaviour? Marketing research has drawn on two main sources for its answers, psychology and common sense. A third source is offered here, ethology, the biological study of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: John Richer

June 15, 1980

Reorganization of the agricultural distribution in France

This paper deals with the reorganisation of agricultural distribution in France and the implications thereof on marketing research in the agricultural field. Due to internal as well as external factors, the current structure of agricultural...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Identifying Change in European Agriculture

Authors: Brieuc Martin-Onraet, François Attali

June 15, 1987

Understanding the prescribing decision

Traditionally, in trying to understand the determinants of the prescribing decision, pharmaceutical market researchers have focused almost exclusively on the attributes of their drugs as the drivers of the product choice. But we know that physicians...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Global Healthcare 2001: Changes In Competitive Dynamics

Author: David A. Luery

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

April 1, 2001

Joined up research on the eHighway

This paper discusses the research challenges faced by Egg, a leading Internet bank in the United Kingdom, and describes the innovative approach it has taken both in its use of research methodologies and in the technology of the Internet to increase...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2001: Marketing Transformation

Authors: Mark Pearson, Tim Macer

Company: EGG Research & Consultancy Ltd.

September 23, 2001