Resources Library by ANA

Problems and methods of technical forecasting

The significance of technological forecasting for an individual business lies above all in the designation of 'production-targets' within the framework of a long-term project. By this we mean the positive appointment of possible future areas of...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1970

Author: Klaus Brockhoff

June 15, 1970

Inventory management at store level for large distributors

For many years IBM has been conducting a long-range investigation into the future of retail data processing. It was and still is our aim to design methods and techniques which will allow an automatic replenishment of the items carried in department...

Catalogue: Seminar 1969: The Role Of Market Research In The Distribution Of Consumer Goods

Author: H.J. Gehrig

November 1, 1969

Market research and forecasting the elasticity of demand and its analysis

All market research aims to fix the efficacy of the sales and to know the demand and the influence of certain factors upon the consumers' manifestations and their decisions. The determination of the necessities which must continually satisfy industry...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1969

Author: Mihail C. Demetrescu

August 1, 1969

Market research as a tool for company forecasting and planning

Though my subject centres on the relationship between market research and company planning, let me also make some reference to national economic planning. This is because I think there are many analogies of principle and method between company...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1969

Author: Luigi Pieraccioni

August 1, 1969

Trend projections as an aid to management

This paper deals with problems encountered in trying to fit mathematical line projections to the trends of available data and in combining these projections into an objective forecast of the most probable developments which may effect retail trade...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Author: Madge Dugdale

June 15, 1969

Problem of fact finding and prediction in the marketing of farm products

Throughout this paper, our attention was intentionally focused on the problems and difficulties with which agricultural policy is faced in regard to the 1possibilities and limitations of structural transformation. These were studied in the light of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Market Research On Agriculture And Farmers

Author: Gunther Schmitt

May 1, 1968

Location research for shopping centers (German)

The main problems of location research are: optimum supply of the population with goods and services, preservation and securing of the functional operating of existing centres and creation of new centres in accordance with changes in consumer...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1967

Author: F. W. Fickel

Company: GfK

August 1, 1967

Location research for shopping centers

The main problems of location research are: optimum supply of the population with goods and services, preservation and securing of the functional operating of existing centres and creation of new centres in accordance with changes in consumer...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1967

Author: F. W. Fickel

Company: GfK

August 1, 1967

Market research and forecasting for the chemical industry

This paper reviews the present state of market research and forecasting for the chemical industry; with particular reference to trends in its use and to current efforts to develop scientific techniques for use in the most difficult part of the art :...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1967

Author: B. N. Hutchesson

August 1, 1967