Since the 1950s, mineral water has been a ubiquitous mass consumer commodity in Germany. This was due to higher incomes and changing consumer behaviour, which manifested itself in rising consumption. From 1958 onwards, the mineral water industry surveyed its customers by employing qualitative...

Since the 1950s, mineral water has been a ubiquitous mass consumer commodity in Germany. This was due to higher incomes and changing consumer behaviour, which manifested itself in rising consumption. From 1958 onwards, the mineral water industry surveyed its customers by employing qualitative...

Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to determine how factors affecting consumer preferences of bottled water in different cities of Pakistan.Design / Methodology: The is an exploratory research which is conducted through Smart Pls and collected data from the survey questionnaire which...

This article examines evidence for the private rationality of decisions to choose bottled water using a large, nationally representative sample. Consumers are more likely to believe that bottled water is safer or tastes better if they have had adverse experiences with tap water or live in states...

Эффективность функционирования предприятий в первую очередь определяется тем, насколько их стратегические действия соответствуют долгосрочным тенденциям...

В статье описано использование уникальных бальнеологических ресурсов минеральные питьевые воды, термальные воды и лечебные грязи.

Die reichhaltige Angebotspalette im Lebensmittelhandel führt dazu, dass sich die Lebensmittelbranche zunehmend mit Produktdifferenzierung beschäftigt. In diesem Zusammenhang kommt dem (emotionalen) Zusatznutzen, der über unterschiedlichste Produkteigenschaften vermittelt werden kann, eine...

Packaging water -- From containers to contents : branding water -- Frequent sipping : assembling the subject of hydration -- Drinking water arrangements in Bangkok : accommodating bottles -- Enacting water scarcity in Chennai -- Practices of economization : recycling plastic bottles in Hanoi --...

"An NBER digest for this paper is available.The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. In this paper, we examine the impact of poor water quality on avoidance behavior by...

Recent marketing and psychological studies have shown that more choice does not always benefit consumers. This excessive-choice effect (ECE) is examined empirically using food items in four experiments. The first experiment investigates whether people would voluntarily reduce their choice-set...

This paper proposes the description and analysis of the dynamics of an innovation process, which, over ten years ago, enabled a mineral water company to start protecting its underground water and to overcome a classical negative externality problem of no point-source nitrogen pollution. Based on...