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Market research executives in Britain

This paper examines the market research profession in Britain from two view points: who we are at present and how we provide for the continuation of the species.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: John A. Samuels, Peter Menneer

September 1, 1974

Introduction

The seminar was intended to deal with research management both in manufacturing companies and in research agencies but almost inevitably a bias crept in because of the nature of the people who chose to attend and a greater emphasis tended to be...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Managing Market Research As A Business

Author: Julia Ann Burdus

July 22, 1974

An examination of market research's public image

The successful practice of marketing research depends on two factors: 1) the confidence placed in it by the business community; 2) the co-operation of members of the public, usually in their capacity as private individuals, but in the case of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Peter B. Hodgson

September 1, 1972

Comment on the seminar

As we suggested at the Seminar, a first move in this direction can easily be made by the panel companies through greater openness about the implications for market analysis of their sampling approach, ft is no secret that panel research cannot...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Panels

Author: John Saunders

June 15, 1972

Classifying consumers in the 1970s

Classification is a core issue in market segmentation. Through the use of relevant criteria, manufacturers are enabled to assess whether or not particular markets are better treated as homogeneous or, rather, as composed of a heterogeneous collection...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Segmentation And Typology

Author: J. A. Lunn

June 15, 1972

Possible future developments in the field of communications

It is a large order; it is also a blanket order, in that sense that an infinity of communications of widely differing content could bear that title. I have chosen to dwell on possible changes in the mass media; in examining these changes, I have...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Marketing And Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Jean Mée

June 15, 1972

Discrimination testing

This paper is in the nature of a progress report since the author's previous contribution at the ESOMAR Congress of 1966. It starts from the premise that profits on repeat-purchase consumer products can often be increased substantially by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1970: The Practical Application of Market Research

Author: C. Greenhalsh

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1970

Motivational studies in market research

Motivational research is a wide-open field, which corresponds to the needs of our time. As such, it is indispensable, even if, just because its nature is exploratory and future-oriented and, at the same time, sensitive to the needs of the present, it...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1969

Author: Francesco Alberoni

August 1, 1969

Conclusion

Concepts of the meaning, definition, objects and role of industrial marketing research vary in accordance with a number of factors, most of which derive from the researcher's experiences and defined responsibilities and also the types of products and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1969: Research In Industrial Marketing

Author: David W. Newill

March 5, 1969