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How and why people buy magazines in the Netherlands

This paper intends to give a survey of the marketing and distribution of consumer magazines in the Netherlands by the Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (United Dutch Publishing Companies). In this report a survey is given of recent research...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Authors: Huybert Boermans, Rob Van Prattenburg

November 1, 1979

Socio-psychological characteristics of book-buyers in the book stores in comparison with book club members

Over the last 4-5 years there has been, in Italy, a rapid growth of book clubs as against a fairly contained growth of book sales in the book stores. This rapid growth has been caused by a type of public which is generally different from that of Book...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Arnaldo Aisa

November 1, 1979

Who wears the pants in the family?

This paper explores the relationship between purchasing influence within the family (i.e., husband and wife) and advertising readership in magazines. It addresses the question: To what extent is purchasing influence, or buying behaviour, related to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: William J. Wilson

August 28, 1977

Public policy and consumer information

Many legislative decisions have been adopted regarding the dissemination of product information to consumers. However, there is very little evidence that consumers' purchase behaviour has been affected by these actions. This paper is an attempt to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Jean-Philippe Faivre

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 1, 1976

Complexity and change in the modern marketing environment

The paper discusses the complexity of the modern marketing environment and the need for a more comprehensive view of buying behaviour. Over the past decade several new factors, such as increasing government intervention in industry and commerce and...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Author: Peter Michael Chisnall

June 1, 1976

Family buying decisions

This paper will look on the different ways people come to their purchasing decision if they live in multi-person households. We show this, in a study with 155 of such households and 1239 persons aged over 10 living in it, a survey sponsored by DAS...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Ernst Braunschweig

August 1, 1975

The female fashion market in Toronto

The study reported here is the first in a series of reports on the market position of the major department stores and specialty chains in the women's fashion market. Unlike most previous studies, this report covers only one product class and all...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: Douglas J. Tigert

August 1, 1975

An effort to analyse the relation between shopping behaviour and product buying behaviour

In this paper an effort is being made to show that consumer data is a very relevant source of information for retailing. Prom the outset it is the intention to extract from the data a typology which on the one hand is sufficiently articulate for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: A. H. J. van Heteren

August 1, 1975

Orientation and behaviour in self-service stores

With the help of the explorative method the knowledge of the housewives who buy in large self-service stores about their shop and their behaviour there were examined, with as underlying question, whether a study of behaviour in the shop is possible...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: Gisela Stengel-Guettner

August 1, 1975