Purpose: This study examined how the catering business quickly responded and recovered from the threats caused by COVID-19 with the use of social media in Beijing, China. It evidences how various catering businesses in Beijing continued to pursue their businesses after restrictive social distancing measures …

Fashion is under scrutiny. Social activists raise the debate around animal welfare in the apparel industry. With shocking and disturbing images, they are campaigning to attract worldwide media attention in order to highlight serious animal abuse in production of fashion, and influence consumption. Our …

This research assessed consumers’ attitudes towards sustainable and organic shea butter in Nigeria to provide recommendations that contribute to the financial sustainability of the Oke-Ogun Shea Butter of Oyo state, Nigeria.

The generation of food loss and waste is a topic that gained increasing attention over the past years. The most prominent estimate is that a third, or 1.3 billion tons, of the human food produced is wasted every year. The massive overproduction of food products on the one side and the malnutrition of …

Blockchain technology has been rising in popularity since its introduction in 2008. Especially in the food industry and in food supply chains, blockchain could provide a guaranteed safe and reliable traceability system with as few errors as possible. This paper is written for everyone interested in blockchain …

Today, online business offerings are seemingly increasing in popularity in response to consumer demands, reflecting on e-commerce developments. In relation to e-commerce and online service important factors identified in literature include design, customer service, security/privacy, and fulfillment. …

The aim of this thesis was to assess how business processes, particularly logistics and customer service, of an SME coffee retailer in the Netherlands are affected by the implementation of the subscription model while offering products directly to the consumer. Omnichannel retailers are increasingly …

The following research has been conducted to find if there is a need for healthy convenience food for children (aged between 3 and 13 years old) on the German market. The outcome can be important for any business operating in the German food market whose intention is to introduce new products and innovate …

Online food shopping has been a business model on the rise for some time. However, significant increased growth in consumers using e-commerce to purchase food has never been so high as that recorded in 2020. During this year, the world was hit by the pandemic. Governments from countries around the world …

Sustainability has grown to be an important topic in wine-making in the past years and is now more relevant than ever, as the wine industry is experiencing a shift to a more environmental-friendly production of wine. The goal of this research was to identify the consumers’ preferences for the different …