tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80715135135702356462024-03-08T01:17:31.241-05:00Pierre Chandon's BlogI am the L'Oréal Chaired Professor of Marketing, Innovation, and Creativity at INSEAD.
On this blog, you can access my research on food marketing and my branding cases.
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</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-21600158292856857912013-09-05T15:49:00.002-04:002013-09-05T15:51:16.625-04:00The emotional power of defeatsDo you think that team defeats are not such a big deal for a fan? Listen to this fan who broke down while calling a talk radio. It's hard not to feel bad for him. I also doubt that he ate only broccoli after that.<br />
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In this paper, we show that defeats by your favorite football (or soccer) team make you eat more and less healthy food, especially if they were narrow, unexpected, and against an opponent of the same strength. The flip side is that victories make us eat slightly better. Fortunately if you are rooting for a losing team, there is a simple solution if you want to eat healthily: After a defeat, reflect on what is important to you (maybe your family, God, or...another sport). This self-affirmation will eliminate the effects of the defeat.<br />
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Cornil, Yann and Pierre Chandon (2013) “From Fan to Fat? Vicarious Losing Increases Unhealthy Eating, but Self-Affirmation Is an Effective Remedy,” <i>Psychological Science</i>. Access the paper <a href="http://faculty.insead.edu/pierre-chandon/documents/Cornil%20Chandon%20From%20Fan%20to%20Fat%20Psych%20Science%20Online%20First.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Here are some mentions in the press:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2013/08/when-nfl-team-loses-its-fans-eat-more-junk-food-study-finds" target="_blank">MinnPost</a> (very detailed article)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-fat-20130905,0,2296118.story" target="_blank">Chicago Tribune</a> (editorial)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2398790/How-football-makes-FAT-Supporting-losing-team-causes-fans-binge-fatty-sugar-laden-food-following-defeat.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10257304/Supporting-a-losing-sports-team-bad-for-health.html#disqus_thread" target="_blank">Financial Times</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10257304/Supporting-a-losing-sports-team-bad-for-health.html#disqus_thread" target="_blank">Telegraph </a></li>
<li><a href="http://news.discovery.com/human/health/how-to-not-become-a-fat-football-fan-130821.htm" target="_blank">Discovery Channel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37140/title/Football-Losses-Tied-to-Junk-Food/" target="_blank">The Scientist</a></li>
<li><a href="http://it.ibtimes.com/articles/54680/20130822/calcio-tifo-cibo-ricerca-studio-sconfitta-squadra.htm" target="_blank">La</a><a href="http://www.lastampa.it/2013/08/23/cultura/opinioni/editoriali/la-tua-squadra-vince-mangi-meglio-U8v5hdduqU4OMUAQXiIoTO/pagina.html" target="_blank"> Stampa</a> (in Italian)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lavanguardia.com/salud/20130821/54378696795/aficionados-recurrir-grasas-saturadas-azucar-equipo-pierde.html" target="_blank">La Vanguardia</a> (in Spanish)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lapresse.ca/sciences/201308/22/01-4682120-les-partisans-dequipes-perdantes-mangent-moins-bien-que-les-autres.php" target="_blank">La Presse</a> (in French)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.liberation.fr/sports/2013/08/23/le-poids-de-la-defaite-pour-les-supporteurs_926687" target="_blank">Libération </a>(in French)</li>
<li><a href="http://gundem.milliyet.com.tr/kotu-futbol-kilo-aldiriyor-/gundem/detay/1753469/default.htm?ref=OtherNews" target="_blank">Milliyet </a>(in Turkish)</li>
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Are you at risk of eating junk food after a defeat? Take the <a href="http://knowledge.insead.edu/business-finance/marketing/sports-defeat-can-make-you-fat-2582" target="_blank">test </a>and see if you are at risk of going from fan to fat!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-41676084878795669392013-05-17T13:54:00.003-04:002013-05-17T13:54:45.895-04:00<span style="font-family: inherit;">My latest case <span style="text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US">“<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8071513513570235646" name="OLE_LINK4"></a>L’Oréal in China: Marketing Strategies for Turning Around Chinese Luxury Cosmetic Brand Yue Sai” is out!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US">This case was </span></span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">written with <a href="http://haiyang.com/" target="_blank">Haiyang Yang</a>, INSEAD PhD 2013, who will join the Carey School of Management of John Hopkins University in July 2013. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-US">This multimedia case study contains video interviews and television commercials which can be viewed at</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/loreal-china"><span style="color: windowtext;">www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/loreal-china</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: 0in;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: 0in;">Instructors can order the case and teaching note from <a href="http://www.ecch.com/">www.ecch.com</a>. The teaching note contains the username and password that instructors will use to access a lot of additional information, including </span>interviews of the Alexis Perakis-Valat, the CEO of L'Oréal China, Stéphane Wilmet, the General Manager of Yue Sai, Ronnie Liang, Yue Sai's marketing director, and interviews of consumers, retailers, and journalist about Yue Sai’s
bold repositioning and its strong results. The website also contains an extensive PowerPoint presentation for instructors. </span><br />
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including how cultural beliefs and rising national pride influence Chinese
consumers’ attitudes toward Chinese and Western luxury brands. It also
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local markets and (2) the trade-off between functional and lifestyle value
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You can access the full WSJ article <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324485004578424650545311848.html">here </a><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-4335050934958493322013-04-10T05:24:00.006-04:002013-04-12T15:31:26.916-04:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this short video, my co-author </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nailya Odabayeva demonstrates how our brain, because it adds the changes in height, width, and length of objects instead of multiplying them, fails to notice even large downsizing when the package is elongated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This video was produced by</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Peter McGraw (check out his </span><a href="http://blog.petermcgraw.org/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">blog</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">), another marketing professor but at the University of Colorado. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing. You can already download the paper<b> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4o92a6goyzgctm4/Ordabayeva%20Chandon%20Predicting%20Size%20Impressions%20April%2013%202013.pdf" style="text-indent: -24px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">here</span></a></b><span style="text-indent: -24px;">. You can download the Excel Macro that will help you determine the optimal dimensions to obtain the desired size impression <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1les1i0acut79w5/Size%20Impression%20Macro.xlsm" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Ordabayeva, Nailya and Pierre Chandon (2013) “Predicting and Managing Consumers’ Package Size Impressions.” <i>Journal of Marketing</i>.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-63427899970814747572013-03-29T03:54:00.000-04:002013-03-29T03:54:03.317-04:00Featured in film about the food industryRemy Burkel wrote an interesting 52 minute documentary about the food industry during which he interviewed Kelly Brownell, many food scientists. I had recreated several famous experiments for him in our behavioral lab in Paris (<a href="http://www.inseadlab.com/">www.inseadlab.com</a>) but, in the end, only appeared during a short sequence filmed in a supermarket outside Fontainebleau.<div>
To watch the movie, go to: <a href="http://www.france2.fr/emissions/infrarouge/diffusions/26-03-2013_40994">http://www.france2.fr/emissions/infrarouge/diffusions/26-03-2013_40994</a>. It can also be viewed in many ways on Youtube including here</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-91559643833500887442013-02-15T06:51:00.005-05:002013-03-29T03:46:26.569-04:00New publication on the effects of packaging on overeatingMy latest paper "How Package Design and Packaged-based Marketing Claims Lead to Overeating," is now publicly available, free of charge, on the site of <i>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</i>. You can download the pdf <a href="http://aepp.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/1/7.full" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Because packaging reaches consumers at the critical moments of purchase and consumption, it has become an important marketing tool for food manufacturers and retailers. In this paper I review a number of published studies on marketing, nutrition and public health on the effects of packaging-based communication and design on perceptions of food and its consumption. I first review how the marketing, health and nutrition claims on packaging create “health halos” (i.e., make foods appear healthier than they are) lead to higher consumption yet lower perceived calorie intake. I then show how packaging cues, shapes and sizes bias people’s perception of quantity and increase their preference for supersized packages and portions that appear smaller than they are. Finally, I review the evidence on the effectiveness of public policies designed to limit the biasing effects of packaging on food perceptions and preferences.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-60653412590366538312012-12-05T10:23:00.005-05:002012-12-05T10:23:55.422-05:00ecch case award ceremony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
A few pics from the ceremony during the INSEAD alumni reunion during which we received the ecch global case award for <a href="http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/renova/home/" target="_blank">Renova Toilet Paper: Avant-garde Marketing in a Commoditized Category</a>. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-2698998041891268582012-11-21T16:30:00.004-05:002012-11-21T16:31:28.652-05:00Can Food Marketers Not Make Us Fat?<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">As consumers, we’ve grown accustomed to hearing conflicting information about nutrition. What’s new is that we are now confused about how we should think about food marketers themselves. Just when it seemed that “big food” had been officially designated as</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v07.i17" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the tobacco industry of the new millennia</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">, news reports tell us that junk food producers are having a hard time and that food companies may one day receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In the last few weeks we’ve heard how Hostess brands, the makers of Twinkie and Sno Ball, has gone under, prompting a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/twinkie-junkies-raid-stores-as-hostess-brands-plans-to-shut-down/2012/11/17/0d9a8cfe-3077-11e2-af17-67abba0676e2_story.html" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">feeding frenzy</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">for the last items on the shelf and on eBay. And that PepsiCo is cranking out “good for you” products that are not just ”fat-free” but actually “</span><a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/pepsi-unleashes-so-called-fat-blocking-soda-on-japan.html" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fat blocking</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">”. So, are food marketers really making us fat, and is any other way possible?</span><br />
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For the lead article of this month’s issue of Nutrition Review (“<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00518.x/pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Does Food Marketing Need to Make us Fat? A Review and Solution</a>”), Brian Wansink and I scoured a host of marketing studies and examined current marketing trends to answer this question (watch video interview <a href="http://knowledge.insead.edu/business-finance/marketing/labelling-packaging-and-other-eating-enticements-2315" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>). We identified changes that food companies can implement to help consumers eat less while growing their business.</div>
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1. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00518.x/full#ss2" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pricing</a> is one of the strongest influences of marketing on obesity and explains why obesity mainly plagues lower-income consumers. Within the last thirty years, the price of food has drastically declined, prompting people to consume more. If fast food prices were increased by a mere 10 percent, the obesity rate would decrease by 0.7 percent. People accelerate their consumption of products purchased at what they regard as a lower price. Fortunately, this also works for healthier foods. For example, offering quantity discounts can induce consumers to purchase more fruit and vegetables. Even better, these short-term incentives, far from backfiring when they end, can develop people’s taste for healthier fare</div>
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2. Through <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00518.x/full#ss6" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">marketing communication</a>, food marketers are masters at getting people to crave and consume the foods that they promote. Often, advertisements are geared to respond to the short-term desires expressed by the consumer for tastier, more convenient and less expensive foods. So, it’s not surprising that 72 percent of television advertising for food promotes candy, cereal, and fast food. A <a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3172629?uid=3738016&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101392866981" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">study</a> in Montréal proved that banning television advertising during children’s programming reduced consumption of sugared cereal and trips to fast food restaurants. However, simply promoting foods as healthy to consumers may not be effective because of the perception that they taste worse. We propose that healthy foods should be re-branded on non-health-related benefits like natural taste or sustainable production. Health benefits are just not that motivating, especially for kids and teens.</div>
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3. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00518.x/full#ss12" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The tastiness and package size</a> of a food product can have an effect on satiety and how much a person ultimately consumes. Increasing the flavour complexity and number of components in a food improves its overall tastiness rating. Offering healthy foods that have more flavour complexity, such as a fruit salad (instead of a whole fruit) can increase consumption due to both variety and convenience. We know that larger package sizes can lead people to eat more. But reducing the size of less healthy foods by elongating the packages makes the size reduction less visible, which should make choosing a smaller size more tempting. Furthermore, restaurants should offer smaller portions on the menu. Even if nobody chooses them, they make other portions look bigger and encourage people to eat less.</div>
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4. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00518.x/full#t4" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The eating environment</a> may promote “mindless” consumption that prompts people to eat more food than they realise. We know that the more visible and accessible a food is, the more of it will be consumed. So displaying healthy foods in highly visible areas will increase consumption. For example, fast food restaurants could display attractive pictures of salads and vegetables more prominently, and grocery stores could replace candy with fruit and healthy snacks at the register. This and previous research shows that small changes in the eating environment can make a significant difference to our waistlines.</div>
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Overall, it is hard to argue—as some still do—that bad parenting, not food marketing, explains obesity. Understanding the four ways in which food marketing is making us eat too much – as well as solutions to counter this trend – will determine which food marketers will have a hard time making money without making us fat, and which ones will make more by selling less.</div>
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Food marketers have taken the blame for seducing consumers into over-eating. But expert researchers claim it doesn’t have to always be this way…<br />
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The U.S. has the dubious honour of leading the “rich world” on the fatty front: government statistics show one in three American adults and one in six American children is obese. Critics of the food industry blame food companies for the way they market bigger servings and higher calories for bigger profits.<br />
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“One thing that I really want to make sure that people understand is that marketers are not trying to make us fat,” says Pierre Chandon, L’Oréal Chaired Professor in Marketing – Innovation and Creativity at INSEAD. “In fact, with very few exceptions, all the people I’ve met in food marketing, whether they are producers or retailers, are really concerned about obesity, privately as citizens and also as business people because they know it is not sustainable if the business is based on just making people fat.”<br />
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The major obstacle, however, is to change the food industry’s current business model. “What food marketers are doing is creating and promoting products that are high in calories, high in salt, sugar and fat, that are easy to consume and purchase everywhere, and that are inexpensive and tastier than the healthier alternatives like fruits and vegetables. Food marketers have also supersized their portions, because it’s so much more profitable for them to do that. Consumers like it because it’s cheaper, except that there’s a big problem: we don’t realise how big the portions are and we overeat them.”<br />
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However, alternative approaches exist, as Chandon explained in the lead article of this month’s issue of Nutrition Reviews “Does food marketing need to make us fat? A review and solutions”. Chandon and his co-author, Cornell professor Brian Wansink, show how marketers can use the 4 P’s of marketing (product, price, place and promotion) to increase their corporate bottom line fat without doing the same to customers’ waistlines.<br />
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A healthy price<br />
Chandon’s article shows that ready-to-eat foods high in sugar and fat, especially those consumed outside the home, have experienced the steepest long-term price decline over the years, contributing to obesity, particularly for low-income households. “If you paid full price for some cookies, you will wait for a special occasion to eat them. But if you got them on a discount, then you may be eating them for no reason,” said Chandon.<br />
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However, pricing tactics can also work for healthful foods. In his research, Chandon describes how consumers preferred bonus packs when buying healthy or “virtue” foods – ie, get more for the same price, because it is easy to justify buying them in larger quantities. Stockpiling food then increases consumption. “In our research, we found that if the food is more visible at home, if it’s taking all the space in their fridge, people eat more of it,” Chandon explains. Click here for more pricing findings.<br />
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Health halos<br />
Fresh fruits may be healthier than processed foods, but not all the foods that claim to be healthy can be consumed without moderation. One should beware of falling prey to a “health halo”, which is the tendency to perceive a food that scores high on one aspect of nutrition e.g. low-fat, scores high on all measures of healthy eating, including weight control.<br />
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However, what may be considered “healthy” isn’t always less fattening. “Apple juice has more calories than Coca-Cola, but people just don’t realise this because it is considered a healthy drink,” says Chandon. “What happens then is that people think that, if it is healthy, I can eat more, and then people end up, without knowing it, with a much higher calorie intake,” he adds. Click here for more ways in which health halos make us overeat.<br />
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Geometry to the rescue<br />
Chandon suggests food marketers take a psychological approach to selling food in a more healthful way. That starts with packaging. “The mind is very bad at geometry. If you double the size of something, it doesn’t look twice as big – it looks 50 to 70 percent bigger,” Chandon explains. “So, part of the solution is to downsize portions and packages in a smart way, which means by elongating them. This way, you can cut up to 24 percent of the size and volume without people noticing it. This helps increase the acceptance of more natural, healthier, smaller portions of food.”<br />
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Chandon suggests these same principles also apply to restaurant servings, where the temptation is to eat everything put in front of you. “The research shows that you should serve the “unhealthy” food in smaller plates and in tall elongated glasses, because the eye being so bad at estimating volume, people would think that there is more than there really is. And you should serve water, for example, in conical glasses or fat wine glasses because people will underestimate how much water there is, and therefore consume more of it.” Click here for more findings on how packaging can help people eat better.<br />
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Rebrand health as an identity issue<br />
Chandon’s research also found that nutrition is the least important factor when consumers choose a food item; taste, cost, and convenience come first, in that order. This is why educational campaigns exhorting people to eat healthily have consistently failed—health is just not that motivating, especially for children and teens.<br />
For example, sales of fruits and vegetables improve when pictures of celebrities or licensed characters are featured on product labels. So a pre-packaged box of salad with a sticker of Mickey Mouse, or simply branding carrots as “Superman X-ray vision”, can make children eat more vegetables.<br />
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As for older children and teenagers, Chandon says it is about marketing an identity or lifestyle. “You can rebrand healthy food in terms of sustainability; no harm to animals; tastier, fresher; or simpler, more natural. It’s always amazing for me to see teenagers who cannot stop eating chips and junk food, but all of a sudden would make a drastic change when they decide to become vegetarians. Why? Because now it is a big deal. It’s about changing the world. It’s an identity change.”<br />
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You are what you eat<br />
Despite his focus on food, Chandon himself is slim. “Well, it’s partly genetic, so I don’t want to take full credit for it. At the end of the day, you don’t want to make every food decision a battle because you are going lose most of them. I don’t buy full-calorie soft-drinks. If you just rely on some simple traditional ideas, and you eat the food that your grandmother used to cook during lunchtime, and without thinking too hard about it, then it’s easier to make those decisions.”<br />
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“The big moralistic, prescriptive approach of saying, ‘Eat this, not that, and be good’ just doesn’t work. But if you change a little bit of your environment stealthily, the plates you have at home, the kinds of food you buy, where you store it, how big the portions are, you may be able to reduce it by 100 calories, which is driving most of the gain in weight. It’s not going to be enough for people who are really obese, but for the majority of us who are gaining weight by eating an extra 100 calories a day, these small changes may actually be enough.”Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-62228821233668810692012-10-20T16:44:00.004-04:002012-10-20T16:44:53.368-04:00Nutrition Review paper published in open accessMy review paper--"Does Food Marketing Need to Make Us Fat? A Review and Solutions"--has now been published by Nutrition Reviews. It is available in open access <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00518.x/pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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In this article, Brian Wansink and I show the different ways marketing actions (communication and pricing, but also changes in the food's quality and quantity and changes in the eating environment) make people eat more than they realize. In addition, we provide multiple examples of win-win strategies for public health and corporate profits designed by savvy markers concerned about public health or about the sustainability of their business. We have also added multiple suggestions of innovative marketing strategies that benefit consumers and food companies.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-78336921491468249032012-10-08T16:18:00.001-04:002012-10-08T16:18:34.180-04:00Join me on Friday October 12 at 18:00 on INSEAD's Fontainebeau campus during the <a href="http://bit.ly/VGorll" target="_blank">alumni reunion weekend</a>. The president of the <a href="http://www.ecch.com/" target="_blank">ecch </a>(European Clearing Case House) will award the 2012 global ecch award (overall winner) to my latest case study: Renova Toilet Paper: Avant-Garde Marketing in a Commoditized Category. To learn more about the case, visit <a href="http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/renova/home/">http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/renova/home/</a>. Instructors can email me to get access to instructor-only teaching note, PowerPoint presentations, video interviews and TV commercials. To learn more about Renova, visit <a href="http://www.wellbeingworld.com/">http://www.wellbeingworld.com/</a>.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-37262447511640472932012-07-13T20:38:00.002-04:002012-07-13T20:38:51.558-04:00What a great week!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />What a week! <br /><br />Just back from a live interview with Callie Crossley, host of the Boston Show at Boston Public Radio. Great conversation! I'm amazed by the depth of preparation and the skills required for live radio/tv. Bravo! You can listen to it <a href="http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Boston-Public-Radio-1936/episodes/Fri-71312The-XL-Factor-40169">here</a>.<br /><br />Yesterday, the third episode of the BBC documentary “The Men who Made us Fat” with a long interview (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18601093">here</a>). I just wish they had mentioned INSEAD instead of HBS :). Not to forget great talk with Jonathan Hall from H20 talk radio (<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/h2oforhealth/2012/07/11/food-marketing-nutrition">here</a>). <br /><br />Oh, and my research was mentioned in <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18767425">BBCNews</a>, <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/us-usa-sugarban-calories-idUKBRE86405D20120705">Reuters</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/sugary-drinks-nutrition-obstacles-_n_1650115.html">Huffington Post</a>.<br /><br />It's time to go on vacation!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-74368135831540976862012-07-13T20:24:00.000-04:002012-07-13T20:24:12.949-04:00Boston Public Radio interviewListen to my interview with Callie on Boston Public Radio, WGBH, NPR's station in Boston, on July 13, 2012.<br />
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-36860940817077217132012-07-11T15:32:00.003-04:002012-07-11T15:37:01.862-04:00Interesting Reuters story about how people don't understand that beverages have calories. I'm quoted. http://reut.rs/MZcbpWAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-78703088753281942062012-07-11T10:44:00.000-04:002012-07-11T23:06:05.322-04:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">July 12: Watch the third episode of great BBC2 series "The Men Who Made Us Fat" with Jacques Peretti. Watch a preview my interview <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18601093" target="_blank">here</a><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18601093"> </a>and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00v361b">here</a>.<br /><br />Disclaimer! Contrary to what is said on the BBC website, I am a Marketing Professor at <a href="http://www.insead.edu/">INSEAD</a>, the international business school with campuses in France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. This academic year (2011-2012), I was a <i>visiting scholar</i> at Harvard Business School, not a marketing professor there. It's a nuance but an important one!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03818984674986118699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071513513570235646.post-90953742574373291852012-07-11T10:27:00.002-04:002012-07-11T23:06:44.815-04:00<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen to the July 11 2012 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H20 show </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">during which I talked </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with Jonathan Hall @Hallwater</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> about soda, health, and marketing in the US and France.</span><br />
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