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Developing a volume estimation procedure for new agrichemicals

The Agrochemical division of Monsanto in Europe were looking to develop a means to evaluate their new herbicides in terms of their likely volume potential in the market. Research International was briefed to adapt a simulated test market procedure...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: New Methodologies In Test Marketing

Authors: Dany Theunens, Stafford Crossman

June 15, 1988

Summing up and a look into the future from a manufacturer’s point of view

I have been asked to sum up the learnings of this session and to provide some feedback to the presenting institutes on the future perspectives of the various instruments designed for testing marketing alternatives.

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: New Methodologies In Test Marketing

Author: Irene Reuter

Company: Procter & Gamble

June 15, 1988

The European up-scale consumers...Ready to use the services of foreign banks

The opening of the European market in 1992 induces a lot of companies to wonder about the opportunities it would imply for them. Yet, in the assumption that these opportunities actually exist, they would be really available not only for them but also...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Research For Financial Services

Authors: Geneviève van Kesteren, Jacques Maringe

June 15, 1988

Video recorders

The paper reviews the extent to which the video recorder has become an important, and complicating, part of the television audience scene - with implications for all sections of the industry, including researchers. Within a year or two ownership of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Author: Roger Gane

June 15, 1988

Influence of socio-cultural change on attitude and behaviour in relation to financial services

This paper provides an overview on the main direction of socio-cultural change in Germany from 1985 to 1987 and outlines the main socio-cultural types, their growth or decline over the years. Three socio-cultural target groups are described which are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Research For Financial Services

Authors: Eleonore Grimm, Dieter Schmid

June 15, 1988

Interviewing by PC

This paper presents five examples to stimulate broader thinking of how to apply PCs to interviewing. The five examples include: (1) dynamically modifying the questionnaire during its administration; (2) providing respondents with feedback as part of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: The Impact Of New User-Oriented Computer Facilities On Market Research

Author: Joseph Curry

June 15, 1988

A review of the development of geodemographic classifications in Europe and the United States with particular reference to press media analysis

Geodemographics may be described as the applied statistical study of the geographic distribution of population characteristics. The topic of this paper relates specifically to the application of geodemographics classification systems, to marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Author: John W. Whitehead

June 15, 1988

Readers-per-copy revisited

The ratio of the estimated readership of a newspaper or magazine to its net sale or circulation - 'readers-per- copy' - remains a controversial statistic, principally because many people believe, erroneously, either that similar publications should,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Author: Michael M. Brown

June 15, 1988

Sales components as functions of advertising

In France, the new product sales forecasting activity has progressively left the area of measurements done in a real environment in favour of simulated test: those tests are usually cheaper, shorter and much more confidential. The main purpose of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: New Methodologies In Test Marketing

Author: Alain Pioche

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1988