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Fragrance in Japan

This new interest in developing the fragrance market might be seen as the latest step in an increasing interest in the luxury market among Japanese manufacturers. In the 70s we observed extraordinary activity in investment in the fashion area (KENZO,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Consumer Research In Fragrance Business

Author: Robert J. Wilk

June 15, 1993

The map is not the territory

On April 2,1993, "Marlboro Friday" made the marketing world suddenly sit up and realize: BRANDS WERE DYING. What had gone wrong? This paper suggests an answer. The soldiers of the marketing wars, using marketing research as crutches, have splintered...

Catalogue: Seminar 1994: Building Successful Brands

Author: Philippe Boutié

June 15, 1994

Customer segmentation for the automobile market

We shall look for a segmentation of small car buyers with similar product expectations in France. After discussing the difficulties, we shall describe the data collection upon which the segmentation is based before describing the methodology. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Gerard Yahiaoui, Pierre Da Silva Dias, Marie de Saint Blancard

September 1, 1997

A holistic approach to customer loyalty research

This presentation describes a case study conducted for Microsoft Denmark in 2002.The aim of the presentation is to describe the fruitfulness of involving internal relations of the client company when working with customer satisfaction, thus obtaining...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2003

Authors: Lars Bo Anderson, Christian Agger

Companies: Microsoft, Ulveman Explorative A/S

January 1, 2000

The effect of the Internet on convenience goods

This paper describes the main purposes of a convenience goods website. The use of the website in the development of the product's image, constructing stronger trademarks with deeper meanings, is analyzed. Furthermore, several applications of websites...

Catalogue: Latin America 2002

Authors: Cristóbal Fernández, Claudio Aqueveque

May 12, 2002

Brand effect

Although manufacturers invest a lot of resources to develop their brand, removing the 'brand effect' is sometimes necessary to get a more objective view of the product characteristics. During Car Clinics, the brands' promises can be so strong that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Automotive Marketing Conference 2002

Authors: Claudia Chin, Simon Wilson, Nathalie Sannino

March 4, 2002

Utilizing segmentation throughout the research program as another means of audience measurement

This paper discusses the steps taken by VH1 Research&Planning to imbue a segmentation study conducted in 1999 into other research tools, including qualitative brand work, ethnographic research and quantitative brand tracking, and using results from...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Colleen Fahey Rush, Danielle N. O'Reilly

June 9, 2002

Providing online customers with an 'extraordinary customer experience'in telecommunications markets

This paper examines important issues facing telecommunication firms with regard to their website design. The key finding is that telecom websites are complex by trying to achieve many different roles simultaneously. The paper stresses the importance...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Telecommunications Marketing Conference 2002

Authors: David Jamieson, Matt King

Company: Maritz Research

October 20, 2002

The new retail kids on the block - Changing the way we shop in Asia

The paper describes research that has been carried out into grocery retailing across Asia. Its focus is on the entry of new players into these markets and the impact that they are having. Headlines would suggest that global retailers are driving the...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2002

Author: Peter Gale

Company: Nielsen

December 1, 2002