By W. H. BLACK, senior animal husbandman, and R. L. HINER, assistant animal husbandman, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry; L. B. BTJRK, marketing specialist, Agricultural Marketing Service; LUCY M. ALEXANDER, associate specialist in foods, Foods and Nutrition Division, Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, and C. V. WILSON, associate animal husban...

The research paper aims to identify significant factors affecting towards the Social Media Marketing which can influence and affect the Brand Image of organizations in the hospitality sector. The identified factors include the following; 1. Positivity, 2. Consistency, 3. Differentiation, 4. Personality, and 5. Engagement Opportunities on Social Media. A framework was developed to highlight the ...

BACKGROUND Targeting of marginalized groups with aggressive tobacco marketing has been identified as exacerbating health disparities. However, interpretation of such targeting by groups varies, from surprise and outrage to regarding such marketing as evidence of social legitimacy. We sought to learn how an often-overlooked marginalized group, older adults, would respond to industry documents of...

Early studies on the factors that influence the operating performance within the biotech/pharmaceutical industry mainly focused on the establishment of technological capability or the effects of innovation in terms of increasing competitiveness. Nevertheless, there are few studies on the process, marketing and strategic direction for innovation concerning biotechnology transfer. Due to technolo...

Marketing practices that promote calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods directly to children and adolescents present significant public health risk. Worldwide, calls for government action and industry change to protect young people from the negative effects of food marketing have increased. Current proposals focus on restricting television advertising to children under 12 years old, but current psy...

I consider the direct marketing targeting problem in situations where 1) the customer's experience quality level varies from occasion to occasion, 2) the rm has measures of these quality levels, and 3) the rm can customize marketing according to these measures and the customer's behaviors. A primary contribution of this paper is a framework and methodology that allows the manager to assess the ...

Cloud computing is currently revolutionizing the ICT landscape by providing novel, scalable and cost & energy e cient models for on-demand access to geographically distributed computing resources. As well as any other industry branch (e.g. manufacturing, civil engineering) the ICT industry Cloud infrastructures such as data centers in particular are responsible for considerable amounts of CO2. ...

The pack is a marketing tool for the tobacco industry - its shape, colour, fonts, descriptors and logos attract and mislead smokers. Health warnings on cigarette packs serve as a knowledge reminder for smokers to quit smoking. Plain packaging eliminates brand imagery elements from cigarette packs and has many benefits, including the reduction of intention to smoke and the denormalization of smo...

The paper deals with the pharmaceutical industry's links to the knowledge industry, through powerful marketing strategies. With the aim of scientifically legitimizing its products, the pharmaceutical industry interferes with the production of medical knowledge. In the form of a mechanism for directing economic interests, it funds drug research, biases its results and stimulates the production a...

OBJECTIVE To examine tobacco industry marketing of menthol cigarettes and to determine what the tobacco industry knew about consumer perceptions of menthol. METHODS A snowball sampling design was used to systematically search the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu) between 28 February and 27 April 2010. Of the approximately 11 million documents available i...