If some two different things were to have same performance, and same contents, people nowadays tend to lean towards the one that is more beautiful or pretty. Peculiarly, the society has changed from a industrial society to informational society and pe...
If some two different things were to have same performance, and same contents, people nowadays tend to lean towards the one that is more beautiful or pretty. Peculiarly, the society has changed from a industrial society to informational society and people are focusing more on sensibility and feeling through an experience.
In the reality where the survival of a company is intensified, the most fiercely competed category within the beverage market that is most demanded by consumers is the Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage category. Companies are trying everything they can to increase the market share and product awareness as well as to generate relatively greater number of sales from Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage competition.
In other words, those businesses that produce and sell such beverageshave been putting lots of efforts and budgets into the development of container and packaging of the product in order to produce the best of the best product. In addition, companies are adopting new containerdesign for a development of unique product packaging that competitors may not have chances against.
This research concentrates on the phenomenon that emerges from the behavior of companies to invest tremendous amount of resources in beverage container design in order to survive in the on-going competitive environment. Moreover, the research is carried on in purpose of finding the influence of package container design, in a sense that it continuously stimulates sensibility that emerges through perception and awareness such as container shape, touch, convenience, and etc when consumers select a Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage, towards the consumer sensibility.
This very research has executed an empirical analysis in following ways of the effect of the concept, definition of elements, shape, importance of organizationand etc that are designed to deliver the absolute image of a company, on sensibility through consumer’s information processing.
First of all, plastic container designs were considered as well as the consultation of previously completed researches and related literatures regarding consumer’s information processing procedure, sensibility marketing, sensibility design in order to come up with a research model based on the collected data.
Also, the research carries out an empirical analysis to analyze the real-life application of 1.5 Liter plastic bottle for Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage developed and launched through domestic beverage companies and if such a research development activity are recognized properly during consumer’s information processing procedure, if it allows for a formation of positive perception, as well as if it acts as an element that supports the formation of goodwill towards consumer’s sensibility.
Subjects in this very research who reside in metropolitan region from age groups of 20 to 50. The primary investigation was executed with Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage 1.5 L plastic bottlefrom 4 different domestic beverage companies in order to investigate general recognition about Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage by collecting data on consumers’ purchasing experience, number of times for drink consumption,and responses in regard to the recognition of 1.5 L plastic bottle.
As for the secondary investigation, the research has selected Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage 1.5 L plastic bottle from 4 different domestic companies as well as 4 different plastic bottles from other companies, in total of 8 plastic bottles were grouped into two equal category. Once the questioning begins, subjects were exposed to four selected and unselected plastic bottlesto where then subjects will record if they remember or recognize them. In order to make an equal environment for the experiment, labels and contents of the product were removed and then filled with water, which is then exposed to the subjects for a step-by-step inspection for each process of perceptive, sensational, emotional response, and the order in which they are remembered in purpose of examine possible differences that may emerge during a consumer’s information processing procedure.
The resulting outcomes are as following,
First of all, the design sample of Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage 1.5 L plastic bottle that was not selected in the questionnaire and the design sample of domestic Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage 1.5 L plastic bottle of four different domestic companies were compared where the second sample on the questionnaire turned out the highest for the container’s distinguish-ability.
Second of all, in regards to the cognitive response according to each container category, B Company’s design sample of Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage 1.5 L plastic bottle was the highest among 4 domestic companies’ design samples, especially from female subjects.
Third of all, in regards to the sensibility response according to each container category, the highest one was the container of company B which had gone through a change in its shape. In other words, fancier the container was higher was the sensibility response.
Last of all, in regards to the intention of purchase through remembrance, cognitive response and sensibility response, the highest was the one from company B, among 4 different domestic beverage companies’ Fruit-type Vegetable & Fruit Juice Beverage 1.5 L plastic bottle, which seemed to have a comfortable grip as well as its uniqueness that stands out to be remembered in a different way than others
Like so, the research proved the importance and necessity of bottle design, with newly developed plastic bottleshape and its composition elements, as a tool that allows consumers recognize, and through change in sensibility through perception and product selection recalled from the memories leading them to ultimately purchase the product.
Especially, at the contact point of sales where the competition between domestic beveragecompanies is most fierce, it is observable that companies are spending extraordinary scale of resources in order to achieve all sorts of things from making consumers remember the product or the brand to standing at the front of line in asserting the importance of package container design and sales. It is necessary that such efforts identified and examined in this research need to be further developed so when it is applied into the real-life circumstance, it can bring out the most out of the consumers by making them recognize the package container design rather easily and instantly.