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... A range of spreads and dips as novel vegetarian ready-to-eat foods are being introduced on the (European) retail market to response to an increasing number of vegetarian’/flexitarian’ consumers and the shift towards plant-based foods consumption. This innovative food group was explored by a product survey (n = 369) in Belgium. The spreads and dips were classified on the presence of main ingredient ...
... Following the success of BVA Live in June, BVA is now looking forward to the London Vet Show. BVA marketing and events officer Harriet Innes offers an early look at some of the sessions that will be on the programme this year. ...
retail marketing, etc ; hail; prices; wines; Switzerland; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to analyze the treatment effect of a hail weather shock in a specific Swiss wine-growing region. We exploit a natural experiment from Switzerland's Three Lakes wine region in 2013 and examine its impact on the country's retail market. We find statistically significant (1%-level) effects of –22.8% and +2.8% for the volume and price of wine consum ...
marketing strategies, etc ; food quality; people; questionnaires; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Product-focused emotion research remains popular and continues to advance, both with respect to product insights and methods for obtaining these. The present research primarily contributes to the latter by showcasing consumer segmentation based on product-elicited emotional associations obtained using the circumplex-inspired valence × arousal single-response emotion word questionnaire (CEQ). This ...
marketing strategies, etc ; consumer education; lifestyle; obesity; Europe; Show all 5 Subjects
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... To obtain a comprehensive picture of current food lifestyle patterns, this study aims to identify consumer segments with a focus on health‐related considerations, and to profile segmented consumers based on demographic characteristics. As an adaptation of the food‐related lifestyle instrument, consumer segmentation indicators in this study capture four dimensions: ways of shopping; importance of q ...
retail marketing, etc ; electricity; energy policy; markets; questionnaires; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This paper studies the effects of various economic and psychological factors on the switching behavior of large-scale electricity consumers in Turkey. Switching frequency and switching direction are two variables used to analyze switching behavior. The former is concerned with how often retailers change their suppliers. On the other hand, switching direction measures the direction of switching pre ...
retail marketing, etc ; Current Population Survey; employment; labor; Show all 4 Subjects
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... State and federal minimum wage hikes are likely to impact the retail industry, including grocery stores, which employs a large number of less-well-compensated part-time workers. Despite its relevance, it is not clear whether minimum wage increases affect full- and part-time retail employees differently. We use state-level monthly data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to show that minimum w ...
marketing strategies, etc ; case studies; food quality; sensory evaluation; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Check-all-that-apply (CATA) has become a popular method for obtaining a consumer-based sensory characterization. In most case studies, consumers are also asked to evaluate the set of products according to a liking scale with the aim to identify the key sensory attributes associated with the most liked, or disliked, products. The common approach consists, first, in the identification of consumer se ...
marketing strategies, etc ; flavor; food quality; linear models; markets; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Consumers’ hedonic appreciation is important for the commercial success of a product. To formulate appreciated products, sensory and hedonic data of some existing products are often linked to each other. Because existing products represent only a limited sensory space of investigation, asking consumers to characterize their ideal product can provide relevant additional information to understand th ...
Carlo Schmitt; Klemens Schumann; Katharina Kollenda; Andreas Blank; Olivier Rebenaque; Théo Dronne; Arnault Martin; Philippe Vassilopoulos; Fabien Roques; Albert Moser
wholesale marketing, etc ; case studies; decentralization; energy; markets; France; Germany; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The energy system decarbonization leads to a decentralization of generation and flexibility. Among the new concepts to integrate distributed flexibility are local energy markets. While a broad range of research investigates local energy markets on a distribution grid level in detail, research on their system impact has been limited. Therefore, we develop a framework to investigate different config ...
retail marketing, etc ; clothing; fabrics; research; supply chain; world markets; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Supplier evaluation, including supplier selection and performance evaluation, has become a critical issue for apparel retailers within the apparel supply chain dealing with severe competition in the global market. An effective evaluation of suppliers requires considering both the quantitative and qualitative performance aspects and integrating the efficiency measurement. In an attempt to address t ...
wholesale marketing, etc ; electricity; energy; models; operating costs; prices; turbines; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This paper proposes a novel bi-level strategic energy trading framework to minimize the operation cost of the distribution network (DN) interacting with peer-to-peer (P2P) transactive energy hubs with electric vehicles. A distribution system operator at the upper level minimizes its total cost from purchasing electricity in the wholesale market, generating with its own microturbines, and selling e ...
marketing strategies, etc ; journals; mass media; neural networks; refining; social networks; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This study examines how brand communication influences consumer‐based brand equity (BEQ) through social networking sites in the presence of brand attachment (BAT) as a mediator. The outcomes related to consumer‐BEQ, such as consumers’ pay intention and loyalty to a brand and a brand’s vocal ability, are also explored in this study. An empirical investigation for 498 responses was carried using Sma ...
marketing strategies, etc ; cluster analysis; food consumption; literacy; nutrition information; questionnaires; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The aim of this study is to identify consumer groups based on nutrition information-seeking behavior and how it relates to food consumption. Although the Chinese public can now access nutrition information through different channels, research on the segmentation of homogeneous consumer groups seeking nutrition information is lacking. This study closes this research gap and, in doing so, also shows ...
wholesale marketing, etc ; assets; automation; electricity costs; energy; models; time series analysis; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Electricity price forecasting in wholesale markets is an essential asset for deciding bidding strategies and operational schedules. The decision making process is limited if no understanding is given on how and why such electricity price points have been forecast. The present article proposes a novel framework that promotes human–machine collaboration in forecasting day-ahead electricity price in ...
marketing strategies, etc ; food quality; lifestyle; phytonutrients; quality of life; self-efficacy; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Segmentation based on psychographics data is a relatively new topic and one of the current trends of consumer research within the sensory and consumer research fields. In this paper, Japanese consumer segmentation was conducted based on General self-efficacy (GSE) self-assessment collected in a phytonutrient supplement study. The aim of this study was to understand the influence of GSE on self-rep ...
wholesale marketing, etc ; agriculture; logit analysis; markets; prices; risk factors; surveys; transportation; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Facing the changes in China’s agricultural products marketing channel, smallholder farmers with different characteristics choose various strategies to obtain more benefits. To analyze factors affecting smallholder farmers’ marketing channel choice, we classify four types of channels—Broker Channel, Farmers’ Retailing Channel, Wholesale Market Channel, and Cooperative Channel—and inspect 14 variabl ...
marketing policy, etc ; agricultural industry; automation; employment; labor; labor market; occupations; risk; Ireland; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Automation has the potential to transform entire agricultural value chains and the nature of agricultural business. Recent studies have emphasised barriers to adoption, as well as issues related to labour market and cultural outcomes of automation. However, thus far, very little attention has been afforded to the regional variations in the potential for automation adoption or threats to agricultur ...
retail marketing, etc ; chickens; markets; minced beef; models; prices; raw meat; red meat; scanners; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Rigid price setting and high organic price premiums have been perceived as major purchase barriers to organic meat products. While emerging price and product differentiation have been reported for organic products in other categories, empirical evidence for the organic fresh meat market is lacking. We estimate a hedonic pricing model based on German household scanner data for fresh red meat and po ...
wholesale marketing, etc ; consumer surplus; electricity; energy policy; market power; market prices; markets; ownership; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Electricity storage is likely to be an important factor in balancing fluctuations in renewable generators' output, but concentrated ownership could lead to market power. We model this for short-term (daily) storage in the British electricity wholesale market, with generating companies acting as either price-takers or Cournot competitors. We discuss how competitive storage charging and discharging ...