Vol. 2 (8)‚ 2012‚ 434-443 RESEARCH ARTICLE RESEARCH ARTICLE Brand Awareness and Customer Preferences for FMCG Products in Rural Market : An Empirical Study on the Rural Market of Garhwal Region 1 Anupam Jain and 2Meenakshi Sharma* ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the brand awareness in rural area and to study the interest of consumers in branded products of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). The brand awareness is showing increasing tendency everywhere and Garhwal Region
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providing or delivering the world’s best natural health solutions and want to become people’s first choice in healthcare industry. (Blackmores‚ 2011) And for that company has done extensive research to improve company’s understanding of how their brand‚ business and products are perceived (Blackmores‚ 2011). During the month of September in 2011 company announced deal with pharmacy guild in Australia to sell supplements to customers once their prescription are filled for antibiotic‚ blood pressure
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Building brand identity in competitive markets: a conceptual model Bhimrao M. Ghodeswar School of Management‚ Asian Institute of Technology‚ Klong Luang‚ Pathumthani‚ Thailand Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is to identify important elements of brand building based on a literature review and case studies of successful brands in India. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a review of the literature and takes a case study approach. The paper suggests the framework
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AN ANALYSIS OF BRAND SWITCHING BEHAVIOUR SUBMITTED BY ABSTRACT: A proposed integrative approach measured consumer response to various incentives to switch brands. The response measure consisted of both actual behavior (i.e.‚ switching behavior) and an evaluative measure‚ which underlies the behavior. Self-perception theory was utilized to assess consumer switching behavior in response to intrinsic versus extrinsic motives. The integrative approach
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The Impact of Brand Personality on Brand-Aroused Feelings Dr Karen Miller School of Management and Marketing‚ University of Southern Queensland‚ Toowoomba‚ QLD‚ Email: Miller@usq.edu.au Brand managers are increasingly using brand personality to differentiate and uniquely position their brand without really knowing its effects. This study begins to addresses this gap by examining the effects of brand personality on brand-aroused feelings across the product categories of sport shoes‚ mobile phones
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Brand Equity A brand represents a “name‚ term‚ sign‚ symbol‚ or design‚ or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition.” Without a recognizable brand‚ a product is but a mere commodity. It’s more than just a name‚ term‚ symbol‚ etc. – a brand is everything that one company’s particular offering stands for in comparison to other brands in a cate-gory of competitive products. As the value
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Brands and Branding Samsung in India: Brand Building through Customer Service Whirlpool’s Product Innovation and Brand Building Strategies in India: Re-creating the Lost Magic? This case is written to debate and discuss on the issue – In the presence of focused and determined competitors‚ even a wellknown and established player is capable of making all the possible incorrect strategic moves. Established in 1996‚ Whirlpool of India Ltd. (WIL) set out to capture the Indian market with its customer-centric
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opinion‚ Threats is the most important overall because if there is no threats any more‚ companies will not be worried about the quantity of sales. For example‚ NOKIA (mobile phone)‚ if there is just NOKIA mobile exist in the mobile world without other types mobile companies like SONY ERICSSON or SUMSONG‚ then people definitely have to buy NOKIA due to it is the only mobile company. As if I were the CEO of a corporation‚ I would see Opportunities as the most important strategy when I used SWOT‚ because
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Loyalty and betrayal in Hamlet Loyalty is a significant theme in ‘Hamlet’ because Hamlet himself judges people by their loyalty or disloyalty-his mother‚ Ophelia‚ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern‚ Horatio and he acts accordingly. The significance of the betrayal theme is that many of the major events in the play result from the betrayal of one character by another. The most significant act of betrayal is that of Gertrude-whose marriage to Claudius after two months of widow-hood has such a traumatic
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Brand Extensions Brand extension is a marketing strategy according to which a company marketing a product or a service launches a new offering (product or service) that is related to the one of the existing brands of the company‚ but offers different benefits and/or targets a different segment. Organizations use this strategy to increase and leverage upon their brand equity. When a firm is introducing a new product‚ it has the following 3 choices on branding: 1. Developing a new brand for the
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