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Message on a Bottle: Colours and Shapes in Wine Labels

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de Mello, Luiz
Pires Gonçalves, Ricardo

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Wine consumers rely mainly on the label to infer the quality of a bottle. But there is little empirical research on how colours can be interacted with shapes in the design of wine labels. This study draws from an experiment using data from Spain and shows that there are strong preferences for selected colour-shape combinations in label design. Surprisingly, colour alone does not elicit as strong preferences as certain shapes do, at least when they are assessed irrespectively of the shapes featured in the label. Other combinations, on the other hand, are very resilient, especially those that contain colour hues, such as brown, yellow, black and green, in labels with salient rectangular and hexagonal patterns.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 11145.

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Keywords: Wine; Label; Colour; Shape;

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M31 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Marketing
L66 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Food; Beverages; Cosmetics; Tobacco
M39 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Other
C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior

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  1. Pires Gonçalves, Ricardo, 2008. "Consumer Behavior: Product Characteristics and Quality Perception," MPRA Paper 11142, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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