Purpose – Concerns on children's obesity and overweight have been related to food diets with excessive sugar and fat … observation and interviews with school directors and kitchen staff) were combined to analyse children's food-related meanings and …/value – Limited attention has been paid to competing social contexts of children's food consumption at schools and their surroundings …

Investigates whether consumers′ time availability is an important segmentation variable in the convenience and fast‐food … markets. Very time‐poor, somewhat time‐poor, and not time‐poor consumers are compared, and three types of food are examined … segments are investigated with respect to usage of each type of food, importance of benefits sought in a weekday dinner, and …

In recent years, a major food consumption trend in the USA and Canada is that more people are eating more meals outside … their homes. It is predicted that this trend will accelerate in the future. As a result, fast‐food markets will offer … greater growth opportunities for marketers. Presents consumers′ perceptions of and preferences for fast‐food restaurants in …

In this paper we analyze consumer demand for and acceptance of online food retailing using longitudinal data collected … in three studies (1998, 1999, and 2001). Information reported is from online food shoppers in ten US markets. Comparisons … researchers shift their attention toward addressing some of the more troublesome supply side issues of the online food retailing …

children. It measured the children′s income, savings, expenditures, frequency of store visits for purchasing, and determined … the objects of their spending. These data were compared with similar data for US children in order to provide global … marketers with a relative measure of Taiwanese children′s consumer maturity. Overall, the study showed that children of Taiwan …

groups concerned with women. It suggests that women living alone with their children bear a disproportionate share of the … getting worse for women and children, even as it improves for the general population? If it is, why is it happening? And … maintenance levels, significantly raising the level of public support programmes for children, making available reasonable …

. Es erweist sich, dass die Divergenz in den Wachstumsraten der USA und der EU seit 1997 fast zur Gänze auf …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the construction of a core ontology for food. To construct the core … ontologies. Design/methodology/approach To motivate the construction of the core ontology for food, the authors have first … implications The constructed core ontology for domain food can be readily used for developing application ontologies related to …