Resources Library by ANA

Research requirements of a mail order house

For La Redoute, 1992 Europe is a process in which the group has already engaged itself. Irrespective of the measures taken at Community level, La Redoute has to ask itself two fundamental questions: our trade at European level, can it be...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: Countdown to 1992

Author: Martine Lekeu

June 15, 1990

Standardizing research in a heterogeneous Europe?

Structural changes in Europe and in the environment of the firm are affecting European marketing strategies and the need for information. Information will have to be future-oriented, will have to predict consequences, will have to cover the European...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: Countdown to 1992

Author: Dirk Huisman

Company: SKIM

June 15, 1990

The ARF audit of procedures for media audience research studies

This report describes a new framework for ARF audits of media audience research surveys. The goals of the new framework which is called “The ARF Audit of Procedures” are to expedite and standardise the auditing process and reporting and to...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) B.V.

January 1, 1990

A new segmentation tool for marketing in the 90's

The main topic of this paper is the analysis of new needs for information about customers in the context of international marketing in the 1980's and, especially, in the 1990's. Bernard Cathelat, initiator of life style studies since 1970 and his...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Bernard Cathelat, Roger Wyss

September 1, 1989

Managing a research company towards standard services and consultancy

In the most recent years demand for services to business enterprises has significantly grown because of various factors. Market research and management consultancy have both profited by this growth but the link between these two services still...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Carlo Erminero

Company: Demoskopea

June 15, 1988

From agency to consultant

This paper has the appearance of a check list. It might well serve that purpose for a market research agency when composing a more or less standardised offering to the parties in a given marketplace. In the context of this seminar it is meant to make...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Kees Fiolet

Company: IBM Corporation

June 15, 1988

Usefulness and future of syndicated/standard services in the business-to-business research field

The paper shows that the development of market research in some segments of business-to-business can be drastically influenced by the development and production of syndicated/standard products. The authors show some definite indications about this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Authors: Jean Oddou, Dominique Vanmarsenille

June 15, 1988

What price consultancy?

This paper is written from the viewpoint of a London-based market research agency which undertakes all types of international market research. The paper is primarily concerned with the opportunities that may exist for the researcher in the middle...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Michael Wilsdon

June 15, 1988

Possibilities and impossibilities of standard business-to-business research

The paper shows that standard methods in business-to-business research have a very promising future when one looks at the market developments. It will be made clear, however, that these possibilities are only very short-term and that the marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Dick Heinhuis

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1988