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The role of fruit in the Japanese gift market: Situationally defined markets
Author(s) -
Gehrt Kenneth C.,
Shim Soyeon
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6297(199809/10)14:5<389::aid-agr5>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - situational ethics , metropolitan area , consumption (sociology) , marketing , psychology , market segmentation , advertising , business , social psychology , sociology , geography , social science , archaeology
This research demonstrates the importance of situational influence on Japanese fruit consumption by delineating a situationally defined market structure for a broadly defined array of gifts including fruits. This is done by characterizing 18 gifts with respect to pertinent situational factors and clustering the gifts in terms of the similarily of their situational characterizations. Findings reveal four multiproduct gift segments (three involving fruit) including: Low Gravity, Practical, High Luxury, and Moderate Luxury. The questionnaire, developed on the basis of a focus group interview conducted in Tokyo, yielded 785 responses from housewives residing in seven metropolitan areas. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.