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Developing integrated forecasts in an increasingly complex, global pharmaceutical market

As decision-making for prescription pharmaceuticals becomes increasingly pluralistic, forecasting the market share of a new product or line extension is more difficult than ever, especially in global, international applications. This paper presents a...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1995: Pharmaceutical Marketing Research- The Challenge For Growth

Authors: William F. Mckenna, Girish Patwardhan, Juliet J. Goodfriend

June 1, 1995

Charting the cultural future of markets

This paper presents a framework for charting the cultural future of markets, from the standpoint of developing culturally insured marketing strategy for a firm. It is drawn from our experience of having to forecast the cultural future of the Indian...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Authors: Monty Alexander, Rama Bijapurkar, Virginia Valentine

September 1, 1994

Towards 2000

The aim of this paper is to define the directions that should be pursued by retail panel research in the next 6 years. A mini-survey was conducted among the major responsible persons in market research at an international level in the clients'...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: The Changing Faces Of Panel Research

Author: Elisabetta Osta

June 15, 1994

Economic trend indicator surveys as a management tool

The aim of this paper is to study so-called economic trend indicator surveys and their relevance as tools to prognoses and forecasts. The history of economic trend surveys is long, although the 1960s and 1970s paved the way for the rising popularity...

Catalogue: B2B Marketing Seminar 1994: Reengineering Of Traditional Market Research

Authors: Kristian Rikard-Petersen, Morten Bekholm

June 15, 1994

How to forecast the European crop rotation and its economic consequences

In 1993 B.V.A. and A.I.G.C. (Agro Industries et Grandes Cultures) pooled their experiences to offer their clients an economic observation during the 1st year of the CAP Reform. B.V.A. survey was conducted in 7 European countries. The sample was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Authors: Sylvie Darier, Emmanuel Gras

Company: BVA Group

June 15, 1994

Will the E.C./C.A.P. semi-compulsory set-aside scheme lead to a musical chairs dance among machinery manufacturers?

Combine harvester sales can be linked to total arable area, the changes in the cropping patterns, the number of holdings (and the changes in farm size), farmers’ incomes and expected priorities in their investment decisions. At New Holland we...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: From Farmer To Consumer

Author: Alfons-Pierre Ameel

June 15, 1994

Value of a forecast or putting the pieces together

A forecast is the summary of all of the qualitative and quantitative, primary and secondary research on an issue, therapeutic class, or business opportunity. The forecast represents the best judgment of the market research group which combines market...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1994: Meeting The Pressures By Intelligent Resourcing

Author: Bill Lawson

June 1, 1994

We're out of the trenches

The downward pressure on pharmaceutical product prices and the level of profitability is already forcing companies to consider how to cut costs and to gain the most out of the money that is spent. An improvement in the way resources are allocated...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1994: Meeting The Pressures By Intelligent Resourcing

Author: Alan J. Bowditch

June 1, 1994

The audience for digital interactive television

The paper begins by examining the rhetoric of current commentary about the "information superhighway". Though that commentary has become somewhat polarized between optimists and pessimists, their respective arguments are impossible to mediate without...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Author: Scott C. Mcdonald

May 1, 1994