Brand importance across product categories in the Czech Republic

• Authors: Tomáš Formánek , Radek Tahal
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with customer loyalty to brands and provides an analysis of brand-related attitudes among Czech consumers. Brand loyalty is a very important aspect of competitive marketing and we contribute an empirically supported point of view on the topic. Based on primary data from a complex consumer survey carried out for the purpose of this study, we investigate the extent of brand loyalty across different product categories, mostly fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). For convenience, the analysis of our survey-data may be divided in two main areas. First, product categories are ranked according to their potential power to attract customers’ interest and loyalty towards brands. When loyalty programs are prepared, it is important to discern product categories where loyalty potential is weak from those categories that attract consumer loyalty. Second, sociodemographic features and lifestyle factors from the survey are evaluated with respect to different product categories, by means of logistic regression and subsequent average partial effect (APE) analysis. A detailed and practically oriented interpretation of the empirical results is provided by the authors. However, both corporate marketers and academic readers can use the tables with empirical estimation outputs that are provided in this article to draw their own conclusions, which may be focused on the product category of interest and/or focused on any specific consumer group that is of particular interest. Among other topics, this paper emphasizes the fact that brand loyalty is a highly complex phenomenon and that it can and should be analysed from different perspectives.

Keywords

EN

Product categories; brand; loyalty; customer; FMCG

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Management & Marketing
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 341-354

Dates

published

2016-04-01

online

2016-04-30

Contributors

author

Tomáš Formánek

• University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

author

Radek Tahal

• University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/mmcks-2016-0001