The consumer's response to the cosmetics pursues the qualitative changes through the improvement of living standard, the continuous research and development of cosmetics company and the research of life style. According to such changes, the purpose of...
The consumer's response to the cosmetics pursues the qualitative changes through the improvement of living standard, the continuous research and development of cosmetics company and the research of life style. According to such changes, the purpose of this study is to understand the change of consumer's purchasing behavior by the life style of cosmetics consumers and the theory of purchasing behavior's effects on the decision-making, conduct the positive research and provide the basic materials of establishing marketing strategy of cosmetics industry in Korea.
The life style is divided into four as follows;
First, the ego of a specific product shows the lowest trend, but the marketing strategy should be established by placing the focus on the fact that the consumers purchase the goods depending on the neighboring environment and the ego of the product is lowest as a negative type which respects the opinions of social groups such as consumer group. Second, in the purchasing behavior of cosmetics by active type consumers, the display of shop may be a major strategy by emphasizing the fact that it is the group with the strong impulsive purchasing trend and since it is the positive purchaser group with the highest satisfaction of the image of cosmetics quality and company, it has a potential as the continuous customers. Third, the vogue followers have a strong trend of pursuing a change and shows a low conservative trend and social activity, so the marketing strategy should be established in order that the purchasing is made according to the vogue. Finally, sincere and economic purchaser type who has a strong planned purchasing trend and shows a low response in consumption or change pursuit trend has a higher trend in the ego of product than other life styles, and once it is established as the consumer class of a specific product, it plays the roles as the steady consumers, but they show the lowest satisfaction of cosmetics price and then the marketing strategy is required through price differentiation.
As a result of research, there is no difference by types in the consumption of cosmetics and application types according to life style. There is no significant difference in preference of cosmetics purchasing place, factor which gives a priority in purchasing cosmetics and frequency of make-up according to life style, but the various characteristics in the type of purchasing behaviors are shown.
As the limitation of this study, first it is on the problem of the representative nature of a sample. It is difficult to examine the conditions of the whole cosmetics consumers by limiting the object of the sample to Kwangju city. In addition, since the objects of the research are the women in twenties and thirties, it cannot stand for the whole cosmetics consumers. Second, as the problem of measurement, this study uses multiple choice system and five point scale in the questionnaire and it contains the limitation of research instrument which cannot exclude the suggestion of answer items and centralization trend.