Market-oriented new product development of functional beverages

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dc.contributor.advisorBogue, Joseph
dc.contributor.authorSorenson, Douglas J.
dc.contributor.funderEnterprise Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-10T10:02:01Z
dc.date.available2011-10-10T10:02:01Z
dc.date.issued2006-01
dc.date.submitted2006
dc.description.abstractStrategic reviews of the Irish Food and Beverage Industry have consistently emphasised the need for food and beverage firms to improve their innovation and marketing capabilities, in order to maintain competitiveness in both domestic and overseas markets. In particular, the functional food and beverages market has been singled out as an extremely important emerging market, which Irish firms could benefit from through an increased technological and market orientation. Although health and wellness have been the most significant drivers of new product development (NPD) in recent years, failure rates for new functional foods and beverages have been reportedly high. In that context, researchers in the US, UK, Denmark and Ireland have reported a marked divergence between NPD practices within food and beverage firms and normative advice for successful product development. The high reported failure rates for new functional foods and beverages suggest a failure to manage customer knowledge effectively, as well as a lack of knowledge management between functional disciplines involved in the NPD process. This research explored the concept of managing customer knowledge at the early stages of the NPD process, and applied it to the development of a range of functional beverages, through the use of advanced concept optimisation research techniques, which provided for a more market-oriented approach to new food product development. A sequential exploratory research design strategy using mixed research methods was chosen for this study. First, the qualitative element of this research investigated customers’ choice motives for orange juice and soft drinks, and explored their attitudes and perceptions towards a range of new functional beverage concepts through a combination of 15 in-depth interviews and 3 focus groups. Second, the quantitative element of this research consisted of 3 conjoint-based questionnaires administered to 400 different customers in each study in order to model their purchase preferences for chilled nutrient-enriched and probiotic orange juices, and stimulant soft drinks. The in-depth interviews identified the key product design attributes that influenced customers’ choice motives for orange juice. The focus group discussions revealed that groups of customers were negative towards the addition of certain functional ingredients to natural foods and beverages. K-means cluster analysis was used to quantitatively identify segments of customers with similar preferences for chilled nutrient-enriched and probiotic orange juices, and stimulant soft drinks. Overall, advanced concept optimisation research methods facilitate the integration of the customer at the early stages of the NPD process, which promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to new food product design. This research illustrated how advanced concept optimisation research methods could contribute towards effective and efficient knowledge management in the new food product development process.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEnterprise Ireland (Advanced Technology Research Programme 2001)en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSorenson, D.J., 2006. Market-oriented new product development of functional beverages. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/436
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://library.ucc.ie/record=b1552139~S0
dc.rights© 2006, Douglas J. Sorensonen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectFunctional food and beverages marketen
dc.subjectNew product developmenten
dc.subjectProbiotic orange juiceen
dc.subjectChilled nutrient-enriched orange juiceen
dc.subjectStimulant soft drinksen
dc.subject.lcshFood industry and trade--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshNon-alcoholic beverage industry--Irelanden
dc.subject.lcshFunctional foodsen
dc.subject.lcshNew products--Marketingen
dc.subject.lcshProbioticsen
dc.subject.lcshBeverages--Marketingen
dc.titleMarket-oriented new product development of functional beveragesen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen
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