The Purpose of this study was to analysis the characteristics of the consumer purchasing behavior of the automobile by using country image and brand image. Also suggest for automobile brand through a better understanding of the findings.
To accomp...
The Purpose of this study was to analysis the characteristics of the consumer purchasing behavior of the automobile by using country image and brand image. Also suggest for automobile brand through a better understanding of the findings.
To accomplish this purpose, a questionnaire survey was conducted on automobile owners who used to drive Grandeur, BMW, and Lexus, selected by random sampling. From this total, the 202 usable questionnaires were used for this empirical study.
The collected data were analyzed with statistical package, SPSS(12.0 Version). Frequency analysis, reliability test, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis were used for various data analysis.
Major findings of this study can be summarized as follows :
First, the analysis results of the demographic characteristics showed that the automobile buyers varied according to their sex, age, income, occupation, displacement and favorite automobile brand.
Second, the automobile brands were recognized country image and brand image. Especially, this study showed that, BMW's brand image(factorial, symbolic) are above the other automobile brands(Grandeur, Lexus). And, Japan image didn't have good image comparing to two countries images(Korea, Germany).
Third, the only Lexus purchase intension didn't get positive as brand attitude got positive. However, the other brands(Grandeur, BMW) got positive as brand attitude got positive.
Finally, based on this study results the marketing should identify the strong and weak points of their reflect this in establishing their marketing strategy.