Health-related attitudes as a basis for segmenting European fish consumers

Food Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 448-455

  Pieniak, Zuzanna ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^a   Olsen, Svein Ottar ^b,c   Hansen, Karina Birch ^d   Brunsø, Karen ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumer; Fish; Health; Segments

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FISH; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

FRANCE; POLAND; SPAIN;

EID: 77956183890     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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