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How to communicate with the older age segment

Life cycle theory is a key element in the practice of advertising and marketing. Over recent years, the emphasis has been on the young, particularly the YUPPIE. Today the emphasis is being redressed because YUPPIES mature and turn into w hat? In 1988...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Bernard C. Bennett, David Bergg

June 15, 1989

Life-style of the elderly in Austria

Partial results of a comprehensive life-style study are presented here. The subsample of 50-to-75-year olds (n=1.500) was subjected to a cluster analysis with the help of 28 variables. Two of the five resulting clusters characteristically...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Rudolf Bretschneider

Company: GfK

June 15, 1989

Selecting advertising routes for older target audiences (more than one way to skin a cat)

Our paper describes TBWA's approach to analysing advertising and how it can be used to isolate the different ways of communicating most effectively to old people as various brands' messages differ. The approach basically involves splitting the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Jane Fiori, Patrick Peigne

June 15, 1989

The elderly segment of the Italian population

This paper draws an outline of that segment of the Italian population aged between 55 and 74 years. The paper sheds light on the behavioural patterns and values of the elderly group compared to those of the average, related to several areas: spare...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Paolo Anselmi

Company: GfK

June 15, 1989

Private sector housing for the very elderly? (French)

In 1986 B.V.A. conducted a study for a real estate developer on a complex of 200 flats for couples and single people in the Paris area. We interviewed people aged 65 - 85 with an income in proportion to such an investment. Apart from the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Geneviève Ville

Company: BVA Group

June 15, 1989

Eating patterns in the over-60 generation

This document provides some finding, drawn from a 650 page study of senior citizens, which was conducted by GIRA. That study was made in order to determine possible marketing opportunities in this segment of the population and to offer timely...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Pierre Germain

June 15, 1989

Overview

It is no news that more people in the United States are living longer than ever before and that they are relatively more vigorous at chronological ages that used to be considered old. This trend toward longer life combined with the social trends to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Rena Bartos

June 15, 1989

The successful aiming of communication at the new generation of retirees (French)

"NOTRE TEMPS" came into the world twenty years ago... in May 1968! Today's generation of retirees has nothing in common with that of 1968. Yet many of the economic decision-makers of 1988 when they speak of today's retirees, evoke memories of their...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Gilles de Courtivron

June 15, 1989

Marketing to an ageing population

For Europe the major demographic change expected over the next thirty years is the growth in the proportion of the population over 50. This trend must be of importance to marketers, and this is particularly the case as there is growing evidence that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Stephan Buck, John Gabriel

June 15, 1989