These days marketing communication environment is converted into the relations between brand and consumer from the relations between product and consumer. This is because consumers' interests are moving to brand where individual character is important...
These days marketing communication environment is converted into the relations between brand and consumer from the relations between product and consumer. This is because consumers' interests are moving to brand where individual character is important as the quality of products and service is standardized. The reorganization of marketing communication environment for brand-orientation proves special and differentiated communication and it should be conducted between consumer and brand.
Effective brand marketing communication is possible by differentiation of brand, and this means overall differentiation as well as differentiation in each area of composition factor of the brand. In the case of advertisement and promotion, this is utilized as communication measure to present primary contact point to most consumers. Recognized brand is saved as image through a series of information process procedure including direct and indirect experiences. Since the use experience of products is derived from the secondary consumer activities, strategic approach in marketing area is needed.
In marketing situation where brand competition is fierce, unless you
provide providing transcendental experience factor to consumer, it is difficult to secure superiority. The problem is how to form a brand identity as a image to be friendly recognized and pursued by consumers.
The differentiation of brand identity is to build differentiated brand image that is brand association unique to the brand by managing all knowledge related to the brand recognized by consumers. Therefore, companies should make concentrated marketing efforts to form more powerful brand association than competitive brand by selecting only parts which can provide competition priority among countless association.
However, despite of the assumption that there is close relationship between the increase of brand property and these conditions of brand association, most existing studies could not clearly disclose what information processing procedure the brand association goes through, and how it affects to forming brand property with what kind of relation structure.
Thus, the purpose of this study is, first, to set up relation between the concept of brand association, type of relation between consumer-brand and quality level, quality of recognized brand and loyalty to brand through existing literature works. Secondly the study purpose is to confirm and analyze the degree of brand association, quality of recognized brand and loyalty of brand by systematical examination method to consumers. third study purpose is to analyze relation between the degree of association, love/passion which is consumer-brand relation, self-associated factors and quality of recognized brand. fourth purpose is to analyze relation between love/passion which is consumer-brand relation, quality of recognized and self-associated brand and loyalty to brand. Finally, this study is to analyze the relation between love/passion which is consumer-brand relation and self-association, and analyze the indirect path from brand association through recognized quality of brand to loyalty to the brand. Also, in order to achieve these purposes, this study assumes recursive model composed of linear path where conditions of brand association, love/passion in consumer-brand relation and self-association go through the recognized quality of brand to loyalty to brand. And this study intends to verify that how the degree of brand association, consumer-brand relation and recognized quality of the brand are mutually affected and what kind of effects they apply. This is to review the structural mechanism for the degree of brand association and consumer information processing procedure in the relation between the recognized quality of the brand and loyalty to the brand.