The purpose of this study was to analyze what effects the apartment house brand images would have on consumers' impressions with the apartment houses and thereby, provide for some basic data useful to construction companies' marketing strategies for a...
The purpose of this study was to analyze what effects the apartment house brand images would have on consumers' impressions with the apartment houses and thereby, provide for some basic data useful to construction companies' marketing strategies for a sustainable management of their brands.
The results of testing the hypotheses set for this study can be summarized as follows;
First, as a result of analyzing effects of the apartment house brand images, household management image impressed consumers most, followed by health-environmental image, high-tech image, status-raising image and emotional image in their order. On the other hand, those consumers who had ever purchased the brand was significantly more impressed with its image.
Second, consumers' impression with the emotional image differed significantly depending on their gender, age, academic background, job, monthly income and types of the houses owned by them. Their impressions with the status-raising image differed significantly depending on monthly income and types of the houses owned by them, and their impressions with the household management image were significantly different depending on gender and types of their housing ownership. And their impressions with the high-tech image differed significantly depending on age, job, monthly income and scale of their houses.
Third, the most effective brand image for consumers was household management image, followed by health-environmental image and status-raising image in their order.
Fourth, most of the consumers answered that the most important element affecting the apartment brand images was quality of apartment houses, followed by price and constructors' images in their order.
Based on the above findings, the following suggestions were put forwards;
First, it is necessary to continue to research into the apartment house brand images associated with consumers' ego-images. Furthermore, if a strategy matching the apartment house brand images with consumers' ego-images should be implemented, it would well improve consumers' attitudes towards the brand and thereby, induce them to purchase it.
Second, it is required of constructors to develop and publicize their apartment houses across the entire processes of building apartment houses, focusing on the healthy and environmental-friendly living conditions.
Third, it is essential for constructors to highlight their differentiated apartment house brand images to sharpen their competitive edges and invoke and maintain consumers' favorable impressions with their apartment house brands.