British Food Journal: Volume 114 Issue 1

World economic crisis impact on organic products consumption: Costa Rica, 2009

Juan Antonio Aguirre Gonzalez

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the economic crisis in organic consumption in order to better understand how to meet the emerging challenges that the crisis…

Assessing the market potential for a local food product: Evidence from a non‐hypothetical economic experiment

Faical Akaichi, José M. Gil, Rodolfo M. Nayga

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market potential of a locally produced and high quality food product (i.e. white bean “Mongeta Ganxet” (MG)) from Catalonia, Spain…

Food safety concern: Incorporating marketing strategies into consumer risk coping framework

Ruth Yeung, Wallace M.S. Yee

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the incorporation of marketing elements into consumer risk coping strategies affects consumer purchase decision during periods of food…

Ethical evaluation by consumers: the role of product harm and disclosure

Pi‐Chuan Sun, Hsu‐Ping Chen, Kuang‐cheng Wang

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of product harm, consumers' product knowledge and firms' negative information disclosure on ethical evaluation of a firm…

Segmentation of Taiwanese consumers based on trust in the food supply system

Mei‐Fang Chen

The purpose of this paper is to segment Taiwanese consumers based on their trust in the food supply system and to demographically characterize each segment so as to aid the actors…

Consumers' perceptions of HPP and PEF food products

Anne‐Mette Sonne, Klaus G. Grunert, Nina Veflen Olsen, Britt‐Signe Granli, Erzsébet Szabó, Diana Banati

The purpose of this paper is to examine consumer attitudes towards apple juice produced by means of two new processing technologies, high‐pressure processing (HPP) and pulsed…

Consumer knowledge about dietary fats: another French paradox?

Laure Saulais, Maurice Doyon, Bernard Ruffieux, Harry Kaiser

The purpose of this paper is to compare knowledge about dietary fats in some dairy products and other foods across consumers from France, (French‐speaking) Canada and the USA. A…

Milk prices in a deregulated market

Jeremy Franks, Sarah Hauser

When the UK's Milk Marketing Boards (MMB) were disbanded in 1994 the formal link between the farm gate milk price with the milk's end‐use was broken. The purpose of this paper is…

Predicting Chinese consumers' purchase intentions for imported soy‐based dietary supplements

Jae‐Eun Chung, Leslie Stoel, Yingjiao Xu, Jing Ren

The purpose of this paper is to model Chinese consumers' purchase intentions for imported soy‐based dietary supplements (DS) based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the…

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