This study examines the roles of cholesterol information and advertising in explaining consumption trends for fats and oils, focusing on butter. Results suggest increased consumer awareness of the health effects of blood cholesterol has contributed to the secular decline in butter consumption in Canada. Although consumers' responses to negative information appear to outweigh their responses to positive information, the industry advertising campaign launched in 1978 by the Dairy Bureau of Canada has had a positive effect on butter demand.
McDonald, William F. (author), Ward, Ronald W. (author), and Ward: Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida; McDonald: Senior Vice President, Marketing and Economic Research, United Dairy Industry Association, Rosemont, IL
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA: New York : John Wiley & Sons
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06180
Goddard, Ellen (author), McFaul, Arlie (author), Reynolds, Anderson (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1991-05
Published:
USA: New York : John Wiley & Sons
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06227
AGRICOLA IND 92004087, This analysis indicates that generic advertising expenditures, ceteris paribus, generated rightward shifts in demand for fluid milk in the Texas Market Order over the period January 1980 to September 1988. Generally, the results from this study are in agreement with previous research efforts which suggest that generic advertising can increase the demand for fluid milk. Importantly, in this analysis, the impacts of television and radio advertising have been effectively disentangled. Television advertising generates a response that wears off more quickly that radio advertising. Also, the long-run effect of radio advertising is about 1.75 times greater than the long-run effect of television advertising. (original)
