For the decades, there has been constant growth of environment-friendly food consumption with the consumer's income level and consumer's growing needs of high quality food. and it is expected that growth of the consumption of environment-friendly food...
For the decades, there has been constant growth of environment-friendly food consumption with the consumer's income level and consumer's growing needs of high quality food. and it is expected that growth of the consumption of environment-friendly food will be a long-term trend in korea.
But the south korean agricultural food is facing turbulent market conditions. Under the changed market condition, The objectives of this study are to develop and test a research model specifying the relationship between customer loyalty and sale of environment-friendly food in korea.
The target population of this research is consumers in seoul and some major cities. they are judged to have bigger environment-friendly food buying power and represent the future environment-friendly food consumption trend in korea.
To set up a research model and find theoretical basis for the research, the literature study on the existing consumer's purchasing behavior was conducted. And through initial research based on environment-friendly food industry report and government reports, a number of important variables which are judged to influence environment-friendly food buying decision were selected.
The major factors identified in decision to buy environment-friendly food include the demographic variables, product attributes, and marketing factors.
Each of the three sets of factors is divided into more specific factors, which were used as independent variables in the statistical analysis.
The questionnaires were made based on the suggested research model. they were distributed to consumers in seoul and major citis on a random basis. After 519 questionnaires were collected, Frequency, percenage, T-test, One-way ANOVA, Factor analysis, and multiful regression were conducted with the use of the Statistical Package for Social Science.(SPSS 14.k)
Results acquired from statistical analysis can be summarized like the following.
The label-related components were important factors effecting the satisfaction and the loyalty.
Also this study indicate that the customer loyalty is positively related to producer, ingredient indication, advertisement, and negatively related to price.
Demographic characteristics can partially explain differences in the brand loyalty.
The satisfaction and the trust were factors effecting the costomer loyalty.
The relationship between satifaction and customer loyalty is recently argued by many scholars. the study revealed that customer loyalty was significantly depending on the customer satisfaction. customer satisfaction is also preceding variable to customer loyalty So it is natural for producers to build up customer satisfaction as a consumer management stratege.