Understanding Consumers and Their Preferences Purchasing Food with Product Quality Labels: Insights from the Czech Market

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.cebr.390" target="_blank" >10.18267/j.cebr.390</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Understanding Consumers and Their Preferences Purchasing Food with Product Quality Labels: Insights from the Czech Market

Original language description

Companies with product quality labels, often micro-companies or solo-entrepreneurs, do not have the marketing know-how of retail chains and are being outpaced in communication in current fast online environment, especially on social media platforms. Current literature does not provide this specific knowledge, what are the important product quality characteristics which should be talked about in the marketing campaigns? How should these campaigns be targeted? Thus, the aim of this article is to examine the product quality characteristics important for Czech consumers purchasing food products with a quality label and find suitable consumer characteristics for better targeting of marketing campaigns. The data was gathered through questionnaire survey by professional marketing agency Ipsos, the sample of 1050 Czech consumers was filtered for consumers purchasing regional products or other products with product quality label. The main statistical method used is Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn's test with Bonferroni correction as a post-hoc test. The product quality characteristics are divided into 7 categories and sorted by their importance. The significance of third-party information being the most positively evaluated product quality characteristic suggests a shift in consumer trust. The study identifies demographic variations in quality perception, with older consumers (ages 54-65 and 36-44) valuing brand, composition, and price, while younger consumers (ages 18-26) prioritize eWOM and online availability. Higher education levels correlate with a greater focus on price and communication as quality indicators, while gender differences reveal distinct preferences, such as women favouring traditional packaging and environmental friendliness, and men prioritizing eWOM and quality processing. Also, the archaic nature of quality labels in Czechia is highlighted. Implications for Central European audience: The results of this study reveal the most important food product quality characteristics for Czech consumers and might be applicable to neighbouring countries with high preferences for quality labels, such as Poland and Slovakia. This study also provides consumers characteristics usable in targeting of marketing campaigns, usable as a premise for further research in Central European countries.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central European Business Review

ISSN

1805-4854

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105013306429