This study tries to compare Private Brand (hereafter PB) and National Brand (hereafter NB) in terms of selection property and satisfaction when purchasing Home Meal Replacement (hereafter HMR) food products.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is ...
This study tries to compare Private Brand (hereafter PB) and National Brand (hereafter NB) in terms of selection property and satisfaction when purchasing Home Meal Replacement (hereafter HMR) food products.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to suggest useful implications for the enhancement of selling HMR products In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a total of 779 samples (PB brand: 396, NB brand: 383) were collected from consumers who have purchased HMR food products using the online survey M company from October 12, 2017 to October 16, 2017. The data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 statistical program including analysis of frequency, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, paired-samples t-test and IPA analysis.
The result of analyzing the research project is as following. The selection properties that are consisted of 26 questionnaire were grouped in six factors, ‘taste’, ‘price’, ‘design’, ‘diversity’, ‘awareness’ and ‘nutrition’, and most of the six factors had higher importance than satisfaction towards the PB and NB brand. As a result of IPA analysis, PB brand had ‘price’ in 1 Quadrant, ‘nutrition’ in 2 Quadrant, ‘design’ and ‘awareness’ in 3 Quadrant, and ‘taste’ and ‘diversity’ in Quadrant 4. In NB brand, it was shown ‘price’ in 1 Quadrant, ‘nutrition’ in 2 Quadrant, ‘awareness’, ‘diversity’ and ‘design’ in 3 Quadrant and ‘taste’ in 4 Quadrant.
The result and implication of this study leads to a consideration that shown that both PB and NB brand have higher importance than satisfaction, it is shown that the brand cannot meet the expectation of the consumers think is important, and therefore need a method for enhancement of satisfaction. Also as a result of IPA analysis, in ‘price’ of 1 Quadrant, PB and NB brand both showed that it meets satisfaction of the consumers and the importance they think but showed big difference when comparing the mean values, therefore it is considered that quality and economic power that fit the price range is necessary. Additionally, ‘nutrition’ in 2 Quadrant also appeared that PB and NB both cannot satisfy as much as consumers think is important. It was opposed with the idea that as a characteristic of HMR, there will be less attention on nutrition. This can be seen that it is caused by the increase of consumers with frequent uses of HMR food product and in order to increase the reliability in nutrition aspect, the national policy seems necessary such as producing safety additives or food safety certificate mark. The importance and satisfaction showed both low in 3 Quadrant which may have less attention here, but as PB brand’s ‘design’ showed high importance and satisfaction, if the packing becomes simple and the products’ images are clearly showing, it is thought that this will enhance the purchase of the consumers. In addition, ‘diversity’ and ‘awareness’ of NB brand are also high which can be considered that information delivery through internet and SNS should be done more often. Since 4 Quadrant has higher satisfaction than importance but at the same time PB and NB brand both show high importance, better results can be expected if there are more trials such as free sample before the release of new product or before development of small quantity HMR food product for single-person household.