Profiling European traditional food consumers

British Food Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 871-886

  Vanhonacker, Filiep ^a   Lengard, Valérie ^b   Hersleth, Margrethe ^b   Verbeke, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NORWEGIAN FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consumer psychology; Demographics; Europe; Food products; Product image

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955301602     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00070701011067479     Document Type: Article

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