• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Segmenting the grey market: the case for fifty‐plus “lifegroups”
  • Beteiligte: Carrigan, Marylyn
  • Erschienen: Emerald, 1998
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Marketing Practice: Applied Marketing Science, 4 (1998) 2, Seite 43-56
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1108/eum0000000004485
  • ISSN: 1355-2538
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  • Beschreibung: Discusses changes in world demographic trends which are creating a growing ‘grey market’: consumers aged over fifty years. Reviews previous research and its limitations, while raising the issue of marketers mistakenly treating the grey market as homogeneous. Suggests sports centres in particular have a product which could be attractive to grey consumers, but one which tends to be marketed inappropriately. A lifegroup matrix based on more appropriate segmentation is suggested, management implications considered, and future research routes discussed.