Corporate credibility influences purchase intent because consumerperceptions ofthe trustworthiness and expertise of a company are part of the information they use to judge the quality of the company's products and therefore whether they want to buy them or not (Fombrun 1996). Lafferty and Goldsmith (1999) found that corporate credibility had a positive effect on purchaseintentions. Thisempiricalevidence for the influence of corporate credibility on purchase intentionsis consistentwithWinters (1988), who also reported that as the perceived credibility of a companyincreased, so did sales. In addition, Davis (1994) found that an overwhelming majority of consumers have stated that their product purchase decisions are at leastinpartinfluencedbytheviewofthe parenteompanys "good citizenship.