scholarly journals The Impacts of Young Consumers’ Health Values on Functional Beverages Purchase Intentions

Author(s):  
Hsiao-Ping Chang ◽  
Chun-Chieh Ma ◽  
Han-Shen Chen

Internationally, there is increasing recognition of the importance of proper diet values and habits, a balanced intake of healthy food products, and rates of obesity control encompassing information on fat content and calories. In this context, some beverage manufacturers have shifted to marketing their products as having fewer calories and more functional benefits. This study aims to develop an extended value–attitude–behavior (VAB) research model that includes three constructs, namely, cue to action, self-efficacy, and health orientation, to explore the impacts of university students’ health values on their purchase intentions concerning functional beverages. The results indicated that university students’ interest in functional beverages was significantly affected by their health values. Besides, both interests in functional beverages and health orientation were significant predictors of purchase intention, while cue to action and self-efficacy were not. Based on these results, enhancing consumers’ education about food security is suggested. Furthermore, the findings provide crucial insights for marketing channels, suggesting the beverage industry can target consumers’ health values concerning health beverages as the key to purchase intention and attract business by developing practical marketing strategies.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6735
Author(s):  
Ganesh Dash ◽  
Debarun Chakraborty

This study explores the relationship between digital marketing practices, customer satisfaction, customer involvement, and purchase intention. The focus is on the life insurance digital marketing strategies during a pandemic and the resultant lockdown and shutdown. This work sought to analyze the digital transformation of marketing practices and the customers’ resultant purchase intentions. COVID-19 was taken as the prevailing pandemic and its impact on the digital transformation of marketing strategies. Five dimensions of digital marketing strategies with eighteen items and three items each of customer satisfaction and purchase intention were considered for practical purposes. It used structural equation modeling to study 535 responses of life insurance customers. Findings indicate that SEM/SEO, display, and E-CRM practices significantly impacted customer satisfaction and purchase intention. Further, a mediation-cum-moderation approach was undertaken. Customer satisfaction significantly affected purchase intention and played a good mediator between digital marketing practices and purchase intention. Additionally, customer involvement moderated the relationship between content marketing and communication with purchase intention. This research work helps life insurance marketers in general. The digital channel managers expressly understand their key areas of strengths regarding the five dimensions of digital marketing strategies. Accordingly, they frame their plans for decision-making to improve customer satisfaction and resultant purchase intentions. It provides a direction for future adoption of specific marketing strategies during a pandemic and consequent shutdown and lockdowns.


Author(s):  
Rajagopal

This study is carried out in Mexico with an objective to analyse empirically the role of education in a transforming services marketing strategies of the firms. The study is carried on in Mexico through pragmatic investigation among the consumers subscribing to the communication and entertainment services. The analysis of primary data is developed around the theory of action that demonstrates the skills and confidence of individuals or groups towards making decision in acquiring or hiring services to improve their quality of life. The results of the study reveal that knowledge acquired on the services and value perceived by the consumers play key role in determining the intentions to purchases services. This study meticulously rows several arguments on how consumers with high level of education scrutinize the benefits offered by the firms marketing their communication and entertainment services, and build their value propositions on the services bought or contracted.


Author(s):  
Tsaniya Athaya Tsarashafa ◽  
Annisa Rahmani Qastharin

Fashion is receiving more attention these days since it has become a continual existence in a person’s everyday life, especially for the younger generation as it represents their identity. On the other hand, the dynamic competitive environment of marketing-led fashion brands to put in the excess effort to achieve effective marketing strategies. As social media grew, one of the most effective ways to do it is using influencers in the marketing campaign. Influencer marketing is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world, prompting marketers to consider it an essential component of their marketing strategy. This research determines the factors of fashion influencers that contribute to influencing purchase intention. The variables constructed include trustworthiness, expertise, similarity, likability, and familiarity. Further, consumer attitude is proposed to mediate between trustworthiness, expertise, similarity, likability, and familiarity to purchase intention. The research was conducted using a quantitative approach and analyzed using a regression method through IBM SPSS Statistics. From 234 qualified respondents, the results presented trustworthiness, similarity, familiarity, and likability significantly contribute to purchase intention, and consumers' attitudes towards influencers are proven to be mediate the relationships between independents variables and purchase intention. The findings of the study assist marketers and advertisers in the fashion industry in understanding the elements influencing consumer attitudes about fashion influencers and, as a result, better choose influencers capable of establishing purchase intentions in existing and potential customers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-694
Author(s):  
Salwani Arbak ◽  
Rabiul Islam ◽  
Harun Al Rasyid

Purpose of the Study: The aim of this paper is to examine the relation between Muslim women customer offense caused due to Islamic advertising of halal cosmetic products in Malaysia. Methodology: The violation of Islamic ethics on the advertisement of halal cosmetic products and purchase intention was examined through a survey that included 110 Muslim women respondents in Malaysia who used cosmetics. The items used for the operationalization of variables were based on the advertising ethics provided by Quran and Sunnah. The current study confirms that irrespective of their religion, women find those advertisements offensive that do not abide by Islamic ethics, which are universal in nature. Based on the correlation results, this study reveals that violation of Islamic advertising ethics (honesty, racism, sexism, intention, and language) has a correlation with purchase intention. A multiple regression analysis was highlighted and it was found that racism, sexism, intention, and language have negative and significant influence on purchase intention. Only one variable did not have a significant influence on purchase intention of halal cosmetic products in Malaysia. Results: Sexism plays the most critical role in influencing consumers’ intention that makes them avoid buying halal cosmetic products. Furthermore, customer offense created due to violation of ethics has a negative impact on the purchase intention of halal cosmetic products. If advertisers want to attract customers in Malaysia and retain them, then they must avoid creating customer offense by following Islamic advertising ethics. Implications: This study will be beneficial to marketers, advertisers, and companies in developing their advertising and marketing strategies for halal cosmetic products. In addition, this study has implemented the study of Islamic advertising ethic violations and purchase intentions of halal cosmetic products.


To keep pace with the growing magnitude of the online retail platform in the Indian subcontinent, it has become crucial for e- retailers and marketers to decipher the key antecedents of customers’ purchase intention amongst the young Indian online customer. This study attempts to frame a conceptual model for finding the key determinants for online purchase intentions based on the data collected from 238 participants using the structured questionnaire method. Structured Equation Model was used on data collected to test hypothesizes of study. The study highlights that eWOM was the major contributing factor for Indian youth while shopping online This paper contributes to highlighting the importance of these factors and help e-marketers develop more customer specific marketing strategies to enhance the purchase intentions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Boitumelo Vincent Molelekeng ◽  
Hilda Bongazana Dondolo

Celebrity endorsement is the most used strategy since consumers value celebrities in advertisements. Organizations invest in celebrity endorsements in the expectation that they will enhance consumer perception of a product or service, evoke favorable attitudes toward a brand, influence purchase intentions, and eventually increase sales and profits through increased consumer preference for a product, brand, or service. This paper examines the effect of endorser characteristics on purchasing intentions in South Africa. The survey sampled South Africans residing in Gauteng Province. The Qualtrics questionnaire was completed by 145 respondents ranging in age from 18 to 55 and living in various areas of Gauteng Province. Given the research objective, the paper analyzed only responses from participants who stated that they had been exposed to celebrity-related adverts. The findings show that these respondents saw advertisements featuring celebrities. To evaluate the hypotheses, regression analysis was performed. The results reveal that consumer behavior, such as purchase intention, is influenced by attractiveness (β = .271; p < 0.05) and attitudes (β = .520; p < 0.05). However, in this study, expertise (β = .089; p > 0.05) and trustworthiness (β = –.095; p > 0.05) were not related to purchase intentions. Understanding celebrity endorser’s attributes can help organizations determine the most successful marketing strategies for attracting new customers and maintaining existing ones.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 775-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Lopez-Lomelí ◽  
Joan Llonch-Andreu ◽  
Josep Rialp-Criado

Purpose This paper fills a gap in the literature on branding, as local and glocal brands have not received as much attention as global brands from academics and practitioners and the scarce amount of relevant research done on glocal branding strategies is mainly theoretical or conceptual. Design/methodology/approach This paper therefore defines a model relating brand beliefs (brand quality, brand image, brand familiarity and brand as a social signalling value), brand attitudes and brand purchase intentions. The model is then tested with a sample of different categories/types of consumer brands (local, global and glocal). The influence of the type of brand on these relationships is then analysed. Findings The findings suggest that brand quality is the most important driver of brand attitude for any type of brand, and that the relationship between brand quality and brand attitude, as well as between brand attitude and brand purchase intention, is weaker for a glocal brand than for a local or global brand. Originality/value This paper provides new empirical evidence of the influence of brand type on brand associations and attitude configurations and the effects these attitudes have on buying intentions. This work is also relevant for the managers’ efforts to develop more effective global, glocal and local marketing strategies for brand positioning.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Razaz Waheeb Attar ◽  
Mohana Shanmugam ◽  
Nick Hajli

PurposeSocial media is still influencing consumers and is extending social commerce (S-Commerce) use. Different social media activities can influence the users' trust and e-satisfaction at different levels, which in turn influence the purchase intentions. This is evident for the food and beverage industry as S-Commerce mediated by social media can help realise a shorter time to market and meet buyer demands. In addition, credibility factors may influence trust and purchase intentions. Understanding the various factors of influence such as social constructs, namely ratings, reviews and referrals; design constructs such as credibility and features and behavioural constructs such as trust, satisfaction and motivation; and analysing the relationship between these factors and how they influence purchase intentions can provide deeper insights into S-Commerce research, decision-making process and purchase intentions particularly from a food and beverage context.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on trust through social media activities and surface credibility as well as e-commerce satisfaction, the authors have proposed a research model to investigate the purchase intention of consumers in S-Commerce platforms. Survey data were collected from six countries in Asia and analysed using SEM-PLS.FindingsResults indicated that both trust and surface credibility significantly influence e-commerce satisfaction leading to purchase intention. Furthermore, surface credibility, which is a novel predictor for purchase intention in S-Commerce context, is highly significant on e-commerce satisfaction. Besides, encouraged by surface credibility, it was identified that trust significantly affects e-commerce satisfaction and results in purchase intention. This research adds contribution to theory and practice in S-Commerce stream as discussed at the end of the paper.Originality/valueThe results of this research contribute to the S-Commerce literature and have practical implications for practitioners in the food and beverage industry. As such, focussing on these constructs, this paper analyses the relationship between the social media activities, trust, e-commerce satisfaction, surface credibility and intention to buy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Hafiz Fawad Ali ◽  
Ujala Ehsan ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Ahmad ◽  
Maida Imran ◽  
Maheen Zahid

This research study inspects the association among various variables that influence health conscious attitude. Health conscious attitude refers to maintaining an approach in which students are mindful of taking good care of their health. The study emphases on five independent variables like education, lifestyle, eating preferences, purchase intentions and supplements, derived from literature and their impact on the dependent variable i.e. health conscious attitude among the students of University of the Punjab, Lahore Pakistan. Statistical analysis through SPSS showed that health conscious attitude is not influenced by purchase intention whereas education, lifestyle, eating preferences and supplements do influence the health conscious attitude among university students.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 10077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farheen Naz ◽  
Judit Oláh ◽  
Dinu Vasile ◽  
Róbert Magda

In this modern age of digitalization, consumers have access to an ample amount of information regarding a product’s quality and benefits, which makes consumers more conscious of their consumption patterns and their impact on social and environmental development. Likewise, marketing strategies have also taken a dramatic leap forward and started focusing on social responsibility, ethics, and environmental protection. The notion of environmental sustainability has created a market niche over several decades and has captured the market of pro-environmental consumers. However, there are still many latent factors that are obstacles to shifting the behavior of consumers towards buying green products. The present study was conducted to recognize factors that affect the consumers’ behavior when purchasing eco-friendly products. They were collected from 1185 university students in Hungary. To analyze the data, multiple regression and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were used. The results showed that willingness to pay (WTP) and green purchase intention (GPI) are the chief factors that affect the green purchase behavior (GPB) of these students. Environmental knowledge (EK) also has an important and positive impact on the green purchase behavior (GPB) of consumers, although regarding demographic variables, no such influence was noted. To conclude, the study showed that there was no bias in terms of age, gender, or qualification in the behavior of young students, as they have sufficient knowledge of environmental problems and are very willing to pay for environmentally friendly products. This study will create self-awareness among young consumers about their environmentally friendly purchasing behavior. This research will further benefit policymakers and marketers of the EU and Hungary to enhance their marketing strategies to promote their green products and their benefits. Future research can be developed on this theoretical framework and will help academicians to further reduce the research gap by using different constructs and methodologies.


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