Resources Library by ANA

Inside the afluent space

Wealth is being created in Asia at an unprecedented pace. In 2006, five of the top ten countries with the fastest growth in millionaires are Asian, including the top three; Singapore, India and Indonesia. The number of Asian billionaires grew 32% in...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Chin Mun Hong, Geoffrey Yan, Sue Phillips

Companies: Ipsos MRBI, American Express Company

April 9, 2008

Real environments

Video has become ubiquitous. Shooting in a digital video format is now within the realm of the mass consumer. All it means is that researchers need to lose their chains of objectivity and start looking at research as a form of narrative. Identify and...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Prashant Ramachandran, Kunal Sinha

April 9, 2008

The quest for on-line quality research

Australia has been one of the countries at the forefront of the development of on-line research, and the industry estimates that at 30% of quantitative research, on-line is the dominant research methodology.The Australian industry has recognised the...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Author: Travyn Rhall

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

April 9, 2008

A tale of two cities

The paper tries to understand the lives of working professionals in terms of the challenges and opportunities that are presented to them in the cities of Shanghai and Mumbai. It tries to find commonalities that exist between the people in two cities...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Sandeep Budhiraja, Kalyan Karmakar

Companies: KANTAR TNS Malaysia, Nielsen

April 9, 2008

Of heads and hearts and cultures apart!

Culture, as we all know (sometimes rather disastrously!), is a powerful mediator across a range of marketing activities. The aim of this paper is to present thoughts on enhancing communication effectiveness for the Indian market by sensitivity to key...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Sangeeta Gupta, Ranjan Samanta

Company: PepsiCo

April 9, 2008

India- One in a billion

As the world becomes a smaller place, and brands become increasingly global, it seems almost evident that we are living in a single continent rather than many. There seems no better benchmark to this phenomenon than youth across the world. Seemingly,...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Suman Srivastava, Nikhil Rawal

Company: IMRB International

April 9, 2008

A global method, a local approach

This paper aims to demonstrate that by looking at the particularly Japanese factors influencing the focus group dynamic and circumstances, the Japanese focus group can become a more useful and even stimulating methodology.This paper will argue that...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Author: Drago Djourov

Company: Flamingo

April 9, 2008

From bullock carts to techno toys

The fortune at the top of the Asian / Indian pyramid has been an established notion for some time now, with more and more affluent urban Indians (like other Asians) being in the market for luxury goods and highend technology products. This is where...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Anjali Puri, Ruchika Gupta

Company: Nielsen

April 9, 2008

Homogeneity or heterogeneity?

Most conversations and presentations about Web 2.0 have focused on Western examples, typically from the United States and Europe. Companies such as P&G, Lego, Albert Heijn, and Unilever tend to get most of the press, along with US-originated...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Ray Poynter, John Shanahan, Jason Ho

Company: Colmar Brunton

April 9, 2008