The purpose of this study is to establish the marketing strategy, that strengthens the brand royalty of their own in apparel industry and that can induce consumer's brand switching against competitive brand. This might be done by suggesting influencin...
The purpose of this study is to establish the marketing strategy, that strengthens the brand royalty of their own in apparel industry and that can induce consumer's brand switching against competitive brand. This might be done by suggesting influencing factors on the brand switching for fashion goods and consumers' responses to marketing communication.
This study is classified into theoretical and experimental study. The theoretical approach is a modeling study where attempt was made to materialize the type of consumer's brand switching based on the previous study in variety seeking as inner motivation and marketing communication contact as outer stimuli. And involvement, information search, realization of difference in brands, and level of consumers' satisfaction were investigated as fashion-related variables. In addition, communications for advertising, sales promotion, personal sales, visual merchandising were selected as variables to the consumers' response to marketing communication of fashion goods and they were used to construct the model for consumers' response to cognition, attitude, and purchasing.
Experimental study was done, using the survey, to prove the models for consumers' responses to brand switching and marketing communication suggested by the theoretical study. The survey was conducted through two preliminary questionnaires. It was used as a criterion to prove the validity of the main survey and analyze the reliability. It analyzed at last five hundred ninety-two women in the age of twenty to thirty years old who live in Seoul and the suburban of Seoul.
Following are the summary of the results revealed through the experimental study.
First, brand switching behavior of consumers for formal dress is attributed to two extremes the inner motivation of variety seeking tendency and marketing communication contact, complex variety seeking group, true variety seeking group, derived variety seeking group, and variety avoiding group. Those examined theoretical study and showed character to brand switching motivation of each group.
Second, the structure of low dimension related fashion according to factor analysis, which affects brand switching, is composed to involvement in 5-dimension, information search in 3-dimension, brand difference perception in 2-dimension, consumers satisfaction in 3-dimension. the character of purchasing situation of the types of brand switching showed difference in the purchasing of frequency and price. it showed the meaning difference the types of brand switching about low-dimension related fashion.
Third, in order to construct for consumers' response about marketing communication confirmatory factor analysis of LISREL was performed. The results showed that variety seeking tendency and level of communication contact, which are all external variables, are directly related to communication cognition. It was found that communication cognition of an internal variables affects communication attitude, communication attitude to brand cognition, brand cognition to brand attitude, brand attitude to purchasing behavior. Total influence of marketing communication shows passive relationship among all variables and the level of influence was found to be purchasing behavior, attitude for brand, cognition for brand, attitude in communication, and cognition in communication.
There was a direct correlation among the variables that were suggested to analyze the consumers' response as to marketing communication of fashion goods. The relationship between cognition and attitude response to marketing communication shows meaningful passive correlation in VMD communication, sales promotion communication, personal sales communication, advertise communication. However, it doesn't show a correlation among the cognition on advertisement style, of service, and preference between the cognition of service and advertisement style. Further, there wasn't any similar correlation between cognition to salesperson and preference of advertisement style.
The cognition response to marketing communication the types of brand switching shows difference in all communication variables except the service promotion of sales promotion communication. As to attitude response, it was found meaning difference in all communication variables except the sales promotion through price adjustment.
In the response to brand cognition, as consumers' responses to marketing communication, it was found that there was a noticeable difference of groups in all communication variables except the sales promotion through price adjustment and service improvement. In brand attitude and purchasing behavior it also showed the difference in every aspect except sales promotion through service improvement.
Based on the results of this study the types of brand switching in fashion goods can be classified by the variety seeking tendency, as inner motivation, and level of contact communication as a outside stimuli. In addition this study showed a correlation among the factors for brand switching related to variables of fashion. Further, the study on the model of consumers' response to marketing communication of fashion goods and characters of marketing communication of groups will provide a competitive marketing strategy by suggesting a persuasive communication strategy to attract to consumers of its own brand and other brands.
Key Words : Fashion goods, Brand switching, Variety seeking tendency, Level of communication contact, Communication cognition, Communication attitude, Cognition of brand, Brand attitude, Purchasing behavior.