The authors examine consumers' valuation for food-away-from-home products with and without nutritional labels using experimental auctions. They presented subjects with three different nutritional information schemes: a European Union type label, a United States type label, and a traffic-light...

This study identifies several socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of individuals who have consumed food away from home using the recent 1987-1988 National Food Consumption Survey (the individual intake portion). The analysis was performed using logit analysis. The significant...

New Zealand's statutory marketing boards and the agribusiness industries they represent are of significant importance to the country's agribusiness sector and economy. The rapidly changing economic environment in New Zealand provides an opportunity to consider the nature and structure of the...

Various economic liberalization measures have been adopted by the New Zealand Government since mid-1984. These economic reforms accelerated competition and pace of change among agribusiness firms. Agribusiness decision makers were found to be aware of the importance of strategic planning. This...

This article constitutes a trial of the use of scanner data to investigate the demand for fresh beef products (brisket, chuck, ground, loin, rib, round, and all other beef). Own-price elasticities are negative, statistically significant, and in the elastic range. Own-advertisement elasticities...

This study examines the effect of sociodemographic and economic factors on food away from home (FAFH) expenditures by meal occasion. Results generally suggest that Western, smaller, white, higher income households without children and with a higher number of earners spend more on breakfast away...