RIS ID
34808
Abstract
The Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula: Manufacturers’ and Importers’ Agreement (MAIF) prevents manufacturers and importers from advertising infant formula. However, toddler milks, which share brand identities with infant formula, are advertised freely; and recent research suggests consumers fail to distinguish between advertising for infant formula and for toddler milk. This study examined whether Australian parents recalled having seen advertisements for ‘formula’. Most respondents (66.8%) reported seeing an advertisement for infant formula, with those who had only seen non-retail advertising more than twice as likely to believe that they had seen such an advertisement as those who had only seen retail advertising. This suggests that toddler milk advertisements are functioning as defacto infant formula advertisements in Australia. Thus the MAIF is failing to achieve its stated purpose.
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Publication Details
Berry, N., Jones, S. & Iverson, D. (2010). Toddler milk advertising in Australia: the infant formula ads we have when we don’t have infant formula ads. In P. Ballantine & J. Finsterwalder (Eds.), ANZMAC Annual Conference 2010: Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference 2010 - 'Doing More with Less' (pp. 1-8). Christchurch, New Zealand: Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury.