Hollow marketing and nongredients: A new marketing approach by food industries in advertising

Many firms that are selling food products, are hoping to get more of customers’ attention, and increase their sales by new marketing strategies. Informing customers about ingredients and health claims look normal but advertising the things that can’t inherently and naturally exist in their food, or...

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Main Author: Nima S. Salami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Westcliff University 2018-04-01
Series:Westcliff International Journal of Applied Research
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Online Access:https://wijar.westcliff.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Salami-2018-21-DOI.pdf
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Summary:Many firms that are selling food products, are hoping to get more of customers’ attention, and increase their sales by new marketing strategies. Informing customers about ingredients and health claims look normal but advertising the things that can’t inherently and naturally exist in their food, or “nongredients,” are new practices that have been termed in this paper as “hollow marketing.” This paper explains this new phenomenon, and its possible economic and social outcomes.
ISSN:2572-7176