Recently, space marketing is utilized related to financial and non-financial strategic factors, as it uses spatial design elements as a part of marketing strategy. It combines design area as a spatial aspect with management as a marketing aspect. It h...
Recently, space marketing is utilized related to financial and non-financial strategic factors, as it uses spatial design elements as a part of marketing strategy. It combines design area as a spatial aspect with management as a marketing aspect. It has been strongly high-lighted, since it has various functions and roles to form images of a company and brand identities through gathering customers.
In these days, designs for restaurant spaces are so inclined to short trend and impromptu sentiments that efficient operations could be compromised, when an image of a space doesn’t match with the type of the business. So, the need has long been raised to recognize the relationship of planning elements and spatial design.
Thus, this study purposes to explore the influential factors of space marketing, analyze substantially the connection of the factors with management, and to consider designing characteristics for food-and-beverage spaces by analyzing the examples based on the results of the positive analysis
The methods used in this study are as follows:
First, the correlation of the influential factors of space marketing with operation performance of a store, or a business performance of a company was analyzed substantially, focused on restaurant spaces and using statistical tools. For this study, previous studies were considered related to the influential factors of space marketing based on the proposed examples from domestic case studies. Then, the model and hypothesis for the study were set up, based on the searched influential factors. Via a statistical proof of the hypothesis by the data collected from a survey, the correlation was analyzed between the influential factors of space marketing and business results.
Second, focusing interaction and brand identity which were found as the influential factors of space marketing, the categories were set up to analyze the cases, by theoretically considering the space designing.
Third, in the derived analyzing frame, the designing characteristics of food-and-beverage spaces when applying the influential factors of space marketing were proposed by analyzing the cases at domestic and abroad.
Fourth, a differentiated restaurant space was suggested based on the results of the case studies.
Focusing on the substantial analysis about the correlation of the influential factors of space marketing with a management performance, and the major factors, the following results were obtained related to spatial designing.
1. Among the influential factors, ‘spatial factors’, ‘sensuous factors’, and ‘sentimental factors’, ‘brand identity’, and ‘interaction’ have been founded to influence both financial results and non-financial results. Especially, ‘interaction’ influences most financial results, ‘brand identity’ influences most non-financial results.
2. ‘Interactive factors’ have been found to communicate through differentiated development of an event formation, and ‘brand identity’ has been found to be integrated as a consistent establishing tool both in on-and-off line, being developed as general visual perception system and combined on connections of intimately organized spatial formation.
3. From the results of cases analysis in the derived frame, ‘interactive factors’ appeared to provide experiential spaces, centered on brand contents largely around excitement and interesting, and accept various medium for establishing. And, through consistent development of clear and connected themes, brand stories are embodied.‘Brand identity factors’entail practical actions to consistently integrate, operate, and manage, centered on the internet and publishing, both on intangible on-line and tangible off-line. Visual factors of ‘brand identity’ trigger associations regarding a brand, largely logo, slogan, and package design, in the frame of general visual perception system. And they also form the images as properties of a brand. Brands in the restaurant industry are designing their spaces, by integrating color, furnishing, lighting, finishing materials, and façade in the intimately organized spatial formation, in the general visual perception system. Spatial designing of food-and-beverage spaces, mainly by direct or indirect interactions and the factors of ‘brand identity’,can make intimate relationships with customers, and therefore influence financial and non financial results, at last resulting in business growth.
It is expected that the results of this study, as useful informations, can help the restaurant industry activate space marketing as well as utilize it as a competent means to enhance business operation. It is true that this study has the limit that it limits the influential factors of space marketing under the food-and-beverage industry. So, further, differentiated methods and studies for spatial designing are needed, which are extended to the whole industries, or specialized on specific business types.