CHAPTER – VI FINDINGS, SUGGESTIONS AND CONCLUSION
6.1 Introduction
The success of a fully depends on ability to attract new customers towards its brand. In particular, it is momentous for the survival of a company hang on to current customers, and to make them loyal to the brand. Firm selling brands with high rate of loyal consumer have a competitive advantage over other firms. Brand loyalty consumers reduce the marketing cost of the firm as the costs of attracting a new customer have been found to be about six times higher than the costs of retaining an old one (Rosenberg and Czepiel, 1983) . Brand loyalty plays an indispensable role in organization’s profitability and future growth of the products. Loyal customers attach with their
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Findings pertaining to objectives Five
The following are the findings pertaining to the objective five- to build the construct the brand loyalty models of consumer packaged food products.
Through the Karl Pearson’s co –efficient of correlation exposed that there is a relationship between factors of brand loyalty and consumer packaged food products.
Through the correlation and chi-square analysis it is showing that out of the ten elements all the elements were leads to brand loyalty of chocolate such as brand image, brand perspective, brand trust, brand commitment, perceived quality, brand awareness, brand satisfaction, brand association, brand performance, risk aversion.
It is found that out of ten elements nine elements were leads to brand loyalty of chocolate such as brand image, brand perspective, brand trust, perceived quality, brand commitment, brand awareness, brand association, brand performance and risk aversion.
It is identify that out of ten elements nine elements were leads to brand loyalty of packaged milk brand perspective, brand trust, perceived quality, brand awareness, brand satisfaction, brand performance, brand image, risk aversion and brand
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Implications of the Study
Brand loyalty is an important concept which is eagerly noticed by manufacturers, marketers, and buyers. Since, brand loyalty indicates the close associations between the product and the users, it is essential to study the brand loyalty.
Packaged food market is highly competitive which has enormous number of varieties. Hence, it is indispensable to study brand loyalty of consumer packaged food category. Though these types of studies customer brand desires can be identified.
By identifying brand loyalty of a particular brand, the manufacturers and marketers can identify the factors influencing brand loyalty. Therefore, they can manufacture better goods and offering better service to the customers.
Customer wants, tastes and desires are always dynamic in nature and it is always changing in time to time. Hence, it is very important to study the brand loyalty and its influencing variables so as to know the brand loyalty of a particular
Core Competency(ies) of the Company The core competencies of Yum! is its ability to build up its supply chain quickly in new locations leading to above average procurement of packaging, key in the fast food industry. These factors combine to allow locations to hit the ground running and do what Yum! Brands locations do best; providing low cost items to their customer in a quick and timely fashion both domestically and internationally.
SUPPLY CHIAN NETWORK OF TARGET VALUE CHIAN ANALYSIS OF TARGET Value chain analysis is a set of inter - linked value creating activities performed by the organisation that begin with inputs, go through processing and continue up to outputs manufactured to customers. It is the set of activities that creates additional value for the customer. Value chain plays a central role in improving cost efficiency, quality and customer responsiveness. Each activity in the value chain adds to the value of product in each process from its creation to delivery.
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Question 2: To do a resource-based analysis of any organization, it needs to go through different steps, first identify the three categories of the resources , the tangible ,intangible, and the human resources , second identify the capacity of the organization to put its resources for a desired end and in good use, third to decide on suitable strategy for the organization we need to do SWOT analysis to determine the organization strength and weakness compared to the competitors, third what are the key successful factors of the organization that can be determine by identifying the customers of the organization and their needs, and what the organization will do to survive the competition ( Hall&Keynes,2015) also audit analysis to Ford resources , and value chain analysis to Ford activities . In the next section, there will a brief explanation about the steps mentioned above , followed by an application to each step to, Ford motor which was incorporated in Delawae in 1919, it is a global automotive industry leader in Dearborn and Michigan, distributed vehicles across six continents the core business of Ford , designing and manufacturing cars, marketing , financing and servicing a full line of Fords cars, trucks, SUVs, and electrified cars, and Lincoln luxury car (Ford annual report,2015). Resource-based view (RBV) is an essential theory for strategic managers , considering the organization resources the assets , capabilities organization
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