This study has purpose on presenting basic data for marketing strategy development on outdoor wear brands and middle-aged consumers by analyzing benefits sought, motivation of climbing, importance of store attributes and purchase frequency in accordan...
This study has purpose on presenting basic data for marketing strategy development on outdoor wear brands and middle-aged consumers by analyzing benefits sought, motivation of climbing, importance of store attributes and purchase frequency in accordance with the forms of store and purchase places depending on middle-aged consumers’ lifestyles and climbing behavior. This study has targeted male and female consumers between their 40s and 60s, who live in Seoul and Gyeonggi area. The survey was done as convenient sampling and 340 surveys were collected from January 4 until February 10, 2012. For analysis, SPSS 12.0 Package Program was used for factor analysis, reliability analysis and t-test, while for ANOVA and post-analysis, Turkey’s post-hoc test was conducted.
Results of this study’s analysis are as follows.
First of all, as we analyzed motivation of climbing according to their lifestyles, all of three factors were meaningful. If people put more values in their health and self-satisfaction, their motivation for health improvement was higher. When they have lower intention of leisure, while stronger inclination for self-satisfaction and achievement, they thought showing off to others is important. Those, who think social life and achievement are more important, climbed for socializing.
Second, as we analyzed benefits sought of outdoor wear depending on lifestyles, all seven factors were significant. If people have stronger inclination in leisure, self-satisfaction and health, they pursued convenience. When they consider social life and achievement are more important, they concerned more about trend, function, application in daily lives and conformity. In addition, those who put more values in social life, achievement and health thought showing off brands of outdoor wear is significant. People with higher inclination in social life believed economic factor is more essential. Moreover, people who does not mind about self-satisfaction, but care more about social-life, achievement and health, thought design of outdoor wear is more important.
Third, after analyzing benefits sought according to motivation of climbing, all seven factors were meaningful. People with higher motivation to improve health but lower motivation to show off considered convenience of outdoor wear is significant. On the other hand, those who put lower values in health but higher values in showing off and social life, they thought conformity of outdoor wear is more important. People with stronger inclination for showing off and social life highly regarded facts such as displaying brands, trends, function and application in daily lives, while, other people with stronger inclination for health and social life considered design is more vital. When people climb to show off to others, they thought economic factor is the most significant aspect.
Fourth, we found radical differences in benefits sought depending on wealth of experiences. Group of experience between two to five years and between five to twenty years commonly set higher values in showing off brands, trend, function and conformity. Nevertheless, only the group with experience of between five to twenty years considered design more importantly The group with more than twenty years of experience put higher values in convenience of outdoor wear, while those with less than two years of experience did not think convenience significantly. We could not find major differences in importance of store attributes.
Fifth, we found meaningful dissimilarity in benefits sought and importance of store attributes depending on frequency of climbing. Groups with those who climb once in every 2 to 4 weeks, once a week, and more than twice a week, commonly put higher priority in convenience of outdoor wear. The group with the least frequency, who climbs once every 2 to 4 months, did not consider convenience, trend, function and conformity importantly. The group that climbed for more than twice a week has stronger inclination for convenience, trend, function and conformity, but lack inclination towards application in daily lives. For importance of store attributes, they cared location convenience and sales promotion more significantly.
Sixth, we found an enormous difference in benefits sought of outdoor wear in accordance with their spending time on climbing. Those who spend four to five hours put higher priority in convenience of wears, while did not consider application in daily lives. Contrarily, the group who spends less than two hours thought application in daily lives was more important rather than convenience. The group between two to three hours tries to use outdoor wear in their everyday lives. We could not find major differences in importance of store attributes.
Seventh, there were meaningful differences in lifestyles, motivation of climbing, benefits sought of outdoor wear, importance of store attributes, and purchase frequency in accordance with the forms of store and purchase places depending on gender. Female prioritizes in self-satisfaction than males, and also think aspects of importance of store attributes such as sales promotion, salesperson and shop environment were significant too. When they purchase outdoor wear, they preferred department stores and shops nearby their residences. Male has stronger inclination for social life and achievement, while regarding trend, function, application in daily lives, design and conformity importantly. Men preferred stores nearby climbing trails and rest areas in highways.
Eighth, we found dramatic differences in lifestyles, motivation of climb, benefits sought of outdoor wear, importance of store attributes, and purchase frequency in accordance with the forms of store and purchase places depending on age groups. Those in their 40s prioritize in leisure, meaning they climb for socializing, while they put more values in convenience and design of outdoor wear, product of store attributes, sales promotion activities and service of salesperson. Contrarily, people in their 60s highly regarded socializing, but did not consider about showing off to others. Also, they did not care much about convenience and design of outdoor wear, product store attributes, sales promotion activities and service of salesperson. Those in their 50s have stronger inclination towards convenience of outdoor wear and product in stores.
Ninth, we found a significant difference in lifestyles, motivation of climbing, benefits sought of outdoor wear, importance of store attributes and purchase frequency of each type of store and purchase places in accordance with their income. The group with comparably higher income of between four to five million KRW set higher values in leisure, self-satisfaction and health, while setting lower values in showing off and socializing. They consider convenience of outdoor wear, product of store attributes and location convenience importantly, while prefer franchise stores and shops nearby their residences. Those people with income between two to four million KRW participate in climbing for socializing and prefer to apply outdoor wear in daily lives. On the other hand, the group with income lower than two million KRW said they climb to show off and think prices are important.
As we can see from above results, this study can be outlined as study on lifestyles and purchasing behavior in accordance with climbing behavior of middle-aged consumers. Therefore, this study is meaningful as it provides basic data on developing marketing strategy on outdoor wear.