The Health Functional Food is a specific category which purchase is followed by the effectiveness of function after the intake. Since the health functional food was distributed by door-to-door sales, complains about dazzling advertisements and uneasy ...
The Health Functional Food is a specific category which purchase is followed by the effectiveness of function after the intake. Since the health functional food was distributed by door-to-door sales, complains about dazzling advertisements and uneasy safety took place often among customers.
Thereby, Food & Drug Administration and council of consumer organization made legal standards and exercise strict controls in order to build a safe market of health functional food.
The purpose of this study is to figure out which factors affect consumers in purchasing health functional food. The results may provide an information TV Home Shopping to position as a secure distribution channel of health functional food.
Convenience in ordering, accurate delivery, and secure electronic commerce are the strong points of TV Home Shopping in compare to internet and catalog shopping.
Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the effects of health condition of individual, the characteristics of product, and the properties of TV Home Shopping on consumers’ purchasing decision. The results indicate that brand credibility and effectiveness of the product have strong effects on consumers' purchase. This suggests that TV Home Shopping may need a strategy to concentrate on well-known brand.
As a consumer think her/himself not healthy, she/he has a tendancy to purchase more health functional food and the opposite is also true. Therefore, continuous emphasis on needs for taking health functional food can be a good strategy.
In conclusion, marketing strategy on health functional food for TV Home Shopping should focus on brand credibility, effectiveness of the product, convenience of ordering and accurate delivery.