The brand selection process of consumer is influenced through different internet and external factors that reflect consumer’s individual and cumulative behavior that determine the overall process selection of the brand focusing on the relevant information, purchasing decision making process, usage of the brand, satisfaction from the brand and its impact on the later purchase decision of the consumer based on the perception after using the brand. It further determines the market positioning of the brand and ideas or experience of the consumer in brand selection process (Kardes et al, 2011). The consumer behavior is unpredictable although there are a number of studies conducted on consumer preference to analyze the impact on the brand success. There is significant investment made in different organization to understand the consumer behavior toward different brand and adopt the necessary characteristics within the product structure to modify it as per consumer taste and increase the success factor of the brand and improve the quality of the brand to increase the attention of the consumer toward the brand. The fundamental approach that is noticed in different studies and the core objective of the consumer is to fulfill his or her basic needs and get satisfied. The final decision of consumer to purchase a brand is based on the complex process of preferences alignment and impact of different external factors in this reference (Solomon, 2004). The main objective of a marketer is
The decision-making process is the central component of any consumer behavior model; it is basically the process of perceiving and evaluating brand information, considering how brand alternatives meet the consumer's needs and deciding on a brand. Factors that influence the consumer's choice and the consumer-buying decision process are information, social influences, psychological factors, situational factors and marketing strategies.
Consumers buying decision making play an important role for the success of every company or organisation. Without the investigation into consumers and their buying behaviour companies and organisation and marketer cannot achieved their aims and objective of their goals in the sale of their product. The purpose of this investigation is to explore the relationship between the consumers buying decision making process and the beverage brand products. (Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola) The data for the research has been collected from the UK one of the biggest town in England know as Huddersfield. The result from the research has determining that in the UK, majority of the consumers prefer Coca cola beverage brand than Pepsi and the research result has indicated that consumers buying decision can significant influence the beverage brand product in the UK market the research continue to say that if coca cola has put more focus on consumers buying decision in the UK know what they expected from them and producer according to their customers demand and try to satisfy their need and wants this can lead coca cola toward the success and increase their profit in the UK market
A brand is a portfolio of qualities associated with a name, which in turn invokes certain images to individuals and hold values beyond the benefits of a product (Iacobucci, 2018). Brand association occurs when customers make a cognitive or emotional association with a particular brand. For instance, when a customer sees a certain color, symbol, logo, or name they automatically can make a connection to a particular brand. Brands start with a name that conveys information, suggest their benefits, or can even be named after their founders (Iacobucci, 2018). In the marketing perspective marketers can control the brand which they are marketing by using catching logos, colors, slogans, or even the products shape and appearance. In marketing a marketer can control the message they are trying to convey but cannot really have control over an individual’s association with that particular brand. Once a customer has an association with a particular brand they may favor the brand based on a past experience or even that individual’s sense of style or they may dislike a brand because of an association they
According to Holt (2004), a brand can be defined as a term, name or a design that distinguishes product or service of one manufacturer from others. Brands are normally utilized in advertising, business and marketing. In accounting terms, brand is an intangible asset which is present within every organization. It is most valuable asset that is outlined in the balance sheet of a company. Brands owners need to effectively manage their brands in order to enhance shareholder value. Brand valuation is an important technique that associates money with a brand. Effective branding often results into high sales volumes of a particular product. A customer who prefers a brand is more likely to choose other products which are offered by the same brand. Brand can be stated as a personality that facilitates identification of a company, product or service. It even encompasses relation with other constituents like customers, partners, investors, staff, etc. Individuals distinguish psychological aspect of a brand from experimental
Discuss what is meant by the term “customer orientation”. Illustrate with examples how companies demonstrate their customer orientation by reference to at least two elements of the marketing mix.
Customer’s perception about the particular product is defined as a brand image. In recent days, building a strong brand has been proved to bring financial rewards to organization and becomes a top priority. It is regarded as hard core of any products and services, from small fruit juice shop to multinational organizations. The food manufacturing companies
Race and racism have been around since mankind made its first steps on the planet and it has brought upon violence, submissiveness, cruelty, and sexism into the world. A great representation of these themes and issues was brought by LeRoi Jones, who wrote “The Dutchman”. The play itself is a great representation of the relationships of races in America during the 60’s and can even been connected to today’s society. The Dutchman mainly focuses on the black-white relationship but can also be drawn to other cultures and races. I, myself, can also relate to what LeRoi Jones wrote in one way or another. Being a different culture and not being accepted was the first façade of America that I got
The brand must be distinct and stand out in ways that relevance to consumers’ needs so as to be chosen by the consumers among thousands of brands in the market. However, before consumers respond to the brand’s communication efforts, the brand must be understood and understood correctly. That familiarity leads to a strong, positive consumer-brand connection.
An Analysis of Marketing As defined by Kotler and Armstrong (1994) marketing is “a social process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others”. Marketing is an extensive topic. Primarily when we consider what is marketing we think about the advertising, publicity and selling of a product or service. In actual fact the prime concern of marketing is customers, and the establishment and growth of relationships between organisations and consumers. It consists of studying the wants and needs of the customers and how to make the perfect product which is priced, promoted and distributed in the right place to make it
It has been acknowledge (Romaniuk & Sharp 2004) that Brand salience can be defined as the propensity of the brand to be thought of by buyers when they are in a buying situations. A brand awareness strategy depends on how well known the brand is, Brand Salience is forming image to refresh their memory about the brands that can linked to consumer mind as well as the quantity and quality of the cue to brand links (Olson & Peter 2005), it is very important that consumer can connect to their mind as many cues as possible . The level of consumers’ brand awareness necessary to induce purchase varies depending on how and where they make their purchase decision for that product category or form. The brand attitude is focus on evaluating the brand, according to Schiffman and Kanuk (2007) “attitudes are relevant to purchase behavior are formed as a result of direct experience with the product, word-of-mouth information acquired from others, or exposure to mass-media advertising, the internet, and various forms of direct marketing”
Introduction………. History……… Brand Inventory……… Brand Exploratory……… Gap Analysis……… Recommendations……… Conclusion……… Bibliography………
Understanding consumer buying behavior entails marketing, relationships, and consumer behavior. Consumer behavior comprises all the consumer decisions and activities connected with the choosing, buying, using and disposing of goods and services. Marketers must pay very close attention to consumer behavior that occurs before the purchase and after the particular product has been used. Studying consumer habits is one of the steps in marketing search and analysis. In addition to other basic principles of consumer buying habits, marketers also need to study the decision and actions of real people. Until recent history the study of consumer behavior was focused on generalized consumer decisions. With
The research in consumer behavior and psychology shows that the brand related information determines the probability if the customer will select a particular brand (Mitchell 100). Companies have learned to play with the psychology and emotions of consumers and have succeeded in attracting even those consumers that were not motivated by the traditional advertisements. Companies these days are focusing on the basic psychological principles to understand how to plan and execute the advertisement.
The purpose of this report is to use a variety of research techniques aimed at understanding the role that knowledge and group influences have on a consumer’s decision-making process. Additionally, the report will advise a range of recommendations that an inert brand can adopt to guarantee its inclusion in the consumer’s consideration set of brands.
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate and discuss the importance of analyzing the consumer perception towards local and foreign brands. An argumentative approach has been used to reveal the importance of Consumer perception. Local and foreign brand choice is affected by