Today, the enterprise has realized enormous value of sports and had concern and invested in sports marketing such as supporting world big sports events like the World Cup and Olympic Games and operating domestic sports teams and participating in sport...
Today, the enterprise has realized enormous value of sports and had concern and invested in sports marketing such as supporting world big sports events like the World Cup and Olympic Games and operating domestic sports teams and participating in sports in order to improve corporate recognition, preference.
The purpose of this research is to closely examine of the corporate sports team activity can form and consolidate corporate image and the preference to sports team can have influence of the preference of the enterprise and consumer's purchase will of product.
This paper considered and adjusted the past researches to corporate image and sports marketing to grasp the theoretical development presented by this paper. It made conceptual research model and established three hypothese based on it. These hypotheses were tested using the data collected by a questionnaire survey.
The conduct this research, the paper sampled three pro-baseball team fans of Samsung, LG and Hyundai in Seoul, measured their preference of corporations and product purchase will. It collected 126 copy questionnaires of the total 150 copies, analyzed them using SPSSWIN statistical analysis programs and obtained the following result.
First, sports team activity positively works in forming and consolidating corporate image.
Second, the preference to sports team has an influence on the preference of the team.
Third, the preference to sports team has an influence on the product purchase will of consumer.
Through this study, the following conclusion can be drawn out.
First, the enterprise should make strategic use of sports marketing to improve corporate image to secure competitive superiority with.
Second, the enterprise operating sports marketing should enhance corporate image by selecting the kind of business fit for each pro-sports game and create an chance to recognize product advertising and expand product sales.
Third, the enterprise should boldly invest in training sports marketing specialists to develop specialized sports marketing activity.