Although the premium quality of Kavalan whisky is well- recognized by global awards, its price setting remains too high as a new entrant in the whisky industry. The brand awareness and brand differciation have been built up, but the message that it conveys from promotions losing track of inviting, engaging, and entertaining targeted customers. The connection and association between KCD whisky is loose based on the findings above. Therefore it is recommended as follows:
5.1 Implication of brand communities within the brand of KCD
In lean economic time nowadays, only a few firms comprehend and execute approaches to stir customer loyalty towards a brand, achieve marketing efficiency, and brand credibility provided by that solid communities (Fournier and Lee, 2009). For whisky communities play critical roles in local whisky industry, new approaches for increasing their impacts are suggested.
A) KCD whisky adopts a brand community business strategy
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The whole King Car Group where Kavalan whisky distillery belongs needs to retool every sphere of its business group– from the culture of the organization to its operation management and corporate governance formation – to install the community strategy within. KCD has not developed as a community - based element to firm the connection between the company and its customers. For internal stakeholders such as employees, the habitual and adjoining connection with the targeted customers could accumulate meanings to their service. For instance, cooperate with local hotels to introduce a designated weekly whisky night, served with Kavalan whisky, traditional Ilan cuisine and live music. Educate KCD’s employees to be more knowledge and appreciate ‘the liquid of
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The average year of their working experiences in King Car Group was 4.2 years. In company where there are around 2,100 people. For the sampling selection, 3 were selected from the direct selling store of Kavalan whisky, 3 were the salesman belonging to the sales department, and two were from the head of whisky team. The economic landscape of Taiwan is controlled by small to medium-sized, family owned businesses, which are generally commanded by one, older male family member. King Car Group is no exception. Now the power has shifted to the second generation. The company is run by kind tyrannies where the main family figure who makes all important decisions expects and gains loyalty and compliance from the rest of the employees. Therefore, when price setting issue was obvious concerned mostly by consumers, Ian Chang, the team manager and brand ambassador of Kavalan Whisky, replied, “Due to the high angle share in our maturation process, and 10% of the middle cut is chosen to fill into our bottle, hence we insist on producing the premium quality of our whisky. Also, our president Mr. TT Lee has indicated that maintaining the premium quality is far more important than involving in price cutting war.” According to 3 clerks from the direct selling store and 3 salesman, sales of Kavalan whisky at the first 3-5 years was extremely difficult since consumers had strong doubt on the quality of Kavalan whisky. And price was a strong barrier for them to promote Kavalan whisky. But ever since Kavalan whisky keep crowning with awards, starting from 5 years ago, the selling volumes grow robustly and reach its peak this year after winning the best single-malt whisky in WWA. However, the booming sale does not necessary reflect on their earnings, which means they lack of the motivation to sell the