Recently, as media environment developed, the number of consumers who considered that it was important to show their purchased goods through social media increased. These consumers choose and buy products that give high satisfaction by satisfying thei...
Recently, as media environment developed, the number of consumers who considered that it was important to show their purchased goods through social media increased. These consumers choose and buy products that give high satisfaction by satisfying their affective needs based on a lot of information obtained through media. Accordingly, emotional marketing activities inducing consumers to buy the products by providing a meaning or personal story rather than emphasizing goods themselves become more important than before. And day marketing generates profit by selling a product containing the meaning of the day using an anniversary.
As a typical example, Korean chocolate market grows by 11% or more per year due to Valentine’s day. It is possible to find that launching diverse goods getting out of typical rectangular solid chocolate leads to high level of consumer satisfaction. Necessity of new strategy came to increase, which would satisfy customers’ demand for classy products and cultural needs in food industry where competition became more fierce as days went by.
This paper is intended to grasp bakery goods choice attribute according to special day marketing, and to study an effect produced on consequent consumer satisfaction and recommendation intention, and then to be used as baseline data for further research relating to the development of special day marketing goods in the future.
This study was carried out for consumers who had bought bakery goods on a special day in Seoul. And among 320 questionnaires to which participants responded, 271 questionnaires were used for empirical analysis. This study carried out regression analysis for frequency/factor/validation/reliability test, and used SPSS Win18.0 package.
The results of this study are summarized as follows.
First, it was shown that, among special day bakery goods choice attributes, brand, quality, price and design had positive (+) correlation with satisfaction.
Second, among special day bakery goods choice attributes, brand, price and design had positive (+) correlation with recommendation intention. And it was shown that quality did not have significant effect on recommendation intention.
Third, it was shown that recommendation intention increased, as satisfaction with special day bakery goods increased.
The results of this study imply the following.
First, there is difference in choosing bakery goods according to characteristics of special day. So, it is necessary to grasp customer’s needs. And diverse goods development and marketing strategy suitable for those is required.
Second, it is shown that satisfaction has significant effect on recommendation intention. Accordingly, it is thought necessary to carefully grasp correlation among goods, satisfaction and recommendation intention, and to develop suitable goods so that consumer can be satisfied with goods, and then has an intention to make a recommendation, not goods simply focusing on production and consumption. In other words, it should be possible to widen the range of consumer’s choices through the development of diverse goods which are creative and can be reflect the meaning of the day.
The limitations of this study and future research directions are as follows. The consumers who had bought bakery goods according to special day marketing in Seoul were arbitrarily selected as statistical population. And samples were drawn by convenience sampling. So, there are limitations in generalize the results of this study. Accordingly, in the further research, it is necessary to increase the number of samples in more areas. And bakery goods according to special day marketing should be developed after specifically grasping customers’ various needs, differently from conventional bakery goods. So, it is thought that data will be more useful if the details of more subdivided attribute of and intention to purchase goods are covered in the further research.
It is to be hoped that a study on marketing to derive consumer’s satisfaction and recommendation intention will be carried out through establishment of marketing strategy based on the characteristics of special day and the subdivision of goods choice factors meeting the bakery goods consumers’ demands according to special day marketing