Speciality food orientation of food related lifestyle (FRL) segments in Great Britain

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 498-510

  Wycherley, Aoife ^a,b   McCarthy, Mary ^b   Cowan, Cathal ^a  

^a ASHTOWN FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

British consumers; FRL (food related lifestyle); Lifestyle segmentation; Speciality food

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949100149     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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