With the development of the people’s living standard, the package of a product does not only have the function of protecting the product, it also plays an important role in marketing the product. In this case, a good package should always convey the...
With the development of the people’s living standard, the package of a product does not only have the function of protecting the product, it also plays an important role in marketing the product. In this case, a good package should always convey the key features of the product to the customers to draw their attention. At the sales stage, the package of a product can heavily influence customers’ purchasing intention. Especially for the gift-packaged products, if customers have no use experience, they tend to select gift products depending on their package.
Based on this viewpoint, this study makes an analysis of the investment models on how the characteristics of a product package influence the customers’ purchasing intention by changing the customers’ attitude towards the product.
This study starts with an investigation on packaging, which is followed by a theoretical background study on the customer attitude and purchasing intension, and then it takes the ordinary consumers questionnaire study as empirical analysis.
To prove this concept, a questionnaire survey has been taken among the customers in Xi’an, China. In order to confirm the internal consistency, a Cronbach’s Alpha parameter has been calculated to verify the reliability of the survey, and an exploratory factor analysis is done to prove the validity. Moreover, a regression analysis has been carried out to further prove the conclusion of the study
The major findings of this study are as following:
First of all, among all the characteristics of a product package, the environment-friendliness , convenience, and visual image are the most importance ones that influence the customers’ attitude towards the product. The customers’ attitude can vary along with these three characteristics.
Secondly, these three characteristics of the product package have a positive correlation with the costumer purchasing intention. In another word, customers can start to have purchasing intention directly due to the product package characteristics.
Thirdly, the environment-friendliness, convenience, and visual image of the product package can have a positive correlation with the costumer purchasing intention by steering of customers’ attitude towards the product. It means that the product package change the costumer purchasing intention while changing their attitude towards the product.
Based on the relevance analysis between the package characteristics, consumer attitude and consumer purchasing intension, this study is expected to have lots of help for the future research:
On one hand, this study result can assist managers to set up a strategic program during new products introduction or existing products market extension; on the other hand, for the theme of environmental conservation, managers could prevent over package, and use more environment-friendly marketing strategy.