This thesis is a study on customer's choice of bean coffee shop and brands and the objective of this research is to explore the factors which have influence on customer's choice about bean coffee brands and shops. Due to the wide spread of the new bea...
This thesis is a study on customer's choice of bean coffee shop and brands and the objective of this research is to explore the factors which have influence on customer's choice about bean coffee brands and shops. Due to the wide spread of the new bean coffee shops in 1980s and the development of espresso coffee preference in 1990s, those bean coffee and espresso-sipping cultures have been thriving and shaping the dominant coffee preference culture. Now bean coffee shop is not only just a place to drink coffee but a place to attract customer's attention for spending time for various purposes.
The luxuriousness of bean coffee products, the change of the shop loving pattern, the shift of coffee tasters, all are bringing not only quantitative growth but also qualitative ones.
And as the expansion of espresso coffee market and the widening of the qualified bean coffee shops, the polarization between the conventional coffee shops and the espresso coffee shops are getting diversified and conspicusous.
Briefly speaking, the purpose of this research is to find out what elements does affect customer's choice of the bean coffee brand and how significant they are: to examine the degree of customer satisfaction; to display whether these elements are to shape custoemr's intension to repurchase and revisit the shop; to show the overall customer satisfaction.
As the research methodology, I adaopted the survey research, especial the questionnaire for the period from 1st October in 2002 to 14th October in 2002 - that I used simultaneously both questionnaire and direct interviews for the customer who were visiting bean coffee shop located in the area of Myeong-Dong and Kangnam station.
The questionnaire containing 28 questions, and 310 samples were distributed and 281 samples(91%) were recollected. There, I excluded 23 samples(7.4%)-no-respond and poorly answered ones and finally coded 258 sampels(83.2%) and analyzed them.
The specific methods used in this reswearch were the frequency analysis, one-away ANOVA, multiple regression analysis.
And the results of analysis were as follows:
First, the demographic characteristics of customers were that most of the custoemrs visiting bean coffee shop were women who were in there 20s, and 30s and their career groups were mostly students, businessman/women, professionals.
Secondly, customer's preference were shown that they purchased brewe coffee for its exquisitely unique taste and flavor and drank regularly cup of coffee in a day and visited the stop average 2-3 times a weel The visiting hour was shown mainly from 5 to 8 pm. They were sittin on average 30 minutes to one hour.
Third, the primary reason to choose the rewed coffee was as presumed for the taste; and the selecftive factor to purchase the bea coffee brand was accorded to the diversity of manu choice; and the facto to choose the bean coffee store showed that the shop awareness had significant influence on customer's overall satisfaction.
Fourthly, there were positive significance in the relationship between the selective factors to choose bean coffee brands and shops and customer' along with customer satisfaction.
Thus, I as a deliberate and serious researcher strived to explain th current shifting trend to purchase bean coffee bean rather tha post-preferred instant coffee and as a result could realize that customer selected specific bean coffee brand and shop because of its exquisite tast and flavor.
I had attempted to take comparative analysis by using customer' personla background and lifestyle yet I had to limit the scope of thi research as an initial attempt - more focusing on practical method.
And I am expecting more differentiated comparative analysis which coul shed light on the market-oriented research by followers.