marketing research
Noun
Meaning
research that gathers and analyzes information about the moving of good or services from producer to consumer
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After three years he became assistant at the Institut für Wirtschaftsbeobachtung der deutschen Fertigware, a marketing research institute.
As an example, a marketing department could ascertain (via marketing research) that consumers desired a new type of product, or a new usage for an existing product.
They came from Aimia's research partner CROP, a Montreal-based marketing research company which Poole says has been using the questions in Canada for 30 years.
In contrast, marketing research relates to all research conducted within marketing.
It is highly likely that consumer purchases are tracked and used for marketing research to increase the efficiency of marketing and advertising; in fact, this can be one of the purposes of the loyalty card.
The marketing research process spans a number of stages, including the definition of a problem, development of a research plan, collection and interpretation of data, and disseminating information formally in the form of a report.