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Czynniki różnicujące skłonność do zaakceptowania nowych produktów żywnościowych
Factors Differentiating Willingness to Accept New Food Products

Author(s): Sylwia Żakowska-Biemans
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Social development, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Instytut Badań Rynku, Konsumpcji i Koniunktur
Keywords: consumer; acceptance; food; segmentation; innovations;

Summary/Abstract: In order to determine the factors differentiating the propensity to accept new food products a survey was conducted with a representative sample of 933 consumers responsible for purchasing food. The research results show that 6.2% of respondents comprise the group of innovators in terms of time needed to accept new food products. They belong to people aged from 20 to 29 years, with good income situation and mostly living in the cities from 100 to 500 thousand residents. As a result of the cluster analysis a 5-segment solution emerged, among which the most willing to accept new food products were consumers representing the segment of ‘Ecological’, in which a high share of consumers demonstrating pro-environmental preferences in the food consumption domain, those valuing the ‘naturalness’, looking for food with favourable price-performance ratio, and sensory properties were recorded.

  • Issue Year: 363/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 384-398
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish