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Futures for European food distribution

This paper reports the findings of a survey of views of members of the food chain in ten European countries. The survey was undertaken in early 1986 and respondents came from all sectors of the food chain. The purpose of the survey was to obtain...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Retail Strategies For Profit And Growth

Author: Susan A. Shaw

June 4, 1986

The opinion leader concept in agriculture

One of the major concerns of agricultural marketing is to identify opinion leaders among a population of farmers since they supposedly influence others in the choice of agrochemicals, seeds fertilisers, farm equipment etc. The survey described...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Agricultural Marketing Research in Europe

Author: Jean Pierre Ville

Company: BVA Group

June 15, 1985

International delusions

The observations in this paper relate especially but not only to one massive international tourism survey. In a period of six months, that survey required eight market research companies to work closely together to find appropriate respondents....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: David T. Bottomley

June 15, 1985

Changes in energy supply and use into the future

A main purpose of the paper, however, was to attempt to look beyond the recession and in this connection the author conducted his own survey among European energy experts, with a view to obtaining a better appreciation of both recent energy trends...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Author: John D. F. Martyn

June 15, 1984

Evaluating the effectiveness of anti-drinking and driving advertising

Each year the Central Office of Information presents a campaign against Drinking and Driving at Christmas, and usually evaluates its effectiveness by surveys before and after the campaign. This paper describes an experiment to devise and test a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Authors: Tony Twyman, Simon Godfrey, Robin Jones

June 15, 1984

Market research survey data

In producing this paper the author has tried to show that: 1. A large scale market research survey can be used as a data-bank model of the market of households or customers in which one is interested; 2. Such a model is capable of interrogation in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Market Research And M.M.I.S.

Author: Frederick J. Johnson

January 25, 1984

Research into export opportunities of small and medium size companies

Two of the export organizations, each acting on its own responsibility, commissioned a wide scale survey in 1982. The purpose of this survey was to establish which bottlenecks are encounted by exporting small and medium-size companies in their export...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Theo Hess, Linda Keemink

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1983

The role of research in strategic planning for a multi-national pharmaceutical company

The main aim of this paper is to focus on the role of research in strategic planning for a drug company, taking a particular programme of surveys amongst doctors as an example of the contribution which research can make.

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: David S. Mitchell

June 15, 1983

Reliability and sensitivity of research surveys

Elements of the design and operation of large scale surveys introduce sources of error not adequately dealt with in normal textbook formulae. Nevertheless, it is often possible by comparing the results of replicated surveys to arrive at objective and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1983