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An Empirical Outlook of Brand Equity - A Marketing Mace to Ensure Unwavering Customer Base


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1 Department of Management Studies, Ballari Institute of Technology and Management Bellary, India
     

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Problem Statement: Businesses nowadays are dwindling under dogmatic antagonism of competition. Emergence of MNCs, liberalisation, advent of IT has opened the floodgates of competition, resulting in intensification of rivalry and customer switching. Brand equity plays vital role in upholding the customers; but developing and maintaining the positive brand equity is a mammoth task.

Approach: A survey was conducted to ascertain brand equity of Hotel Pola Paradise; identify factors affecting brand equity; formulate marketing strategies to augment the brand equity in customer's minds.

Methods: Data were analyzed using statistical techniques such as, Factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, Correlation Coefficients, KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy) and Bartlett's test, Scree Plots and percentage analysis.

Results: The assessment unearthed various factors affecting Pola's brand equity; factors such as varied menu, quick service and friendly staff behaviour were prominent.

Conclusions/Recommendations: Recommendations include changes or new initiatives in following aspects, all of which contribute to brand equity - Sales process, Public relations strategy, Advertising strategy, Trademark&protection strategy, Through these initiatives, Pola Paradise can reflect in higher sales through larger footfalls; loyal clientele of repeat customers, continuous profits which help in making the Pola Paradise a successful longlasting brand with augmented popularity.


Keywords

Brand Equity, Liberalisation, Footfalls, Loyal Clientele.
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A. Mahesh
Department of Management Studies, Ballari Institute of Technology and Management Bellary, India

Abstract


Problem Statement: Businesses nowadays are dwindling under dogmatic antagonism of competition. Emergence of MNCs, liberalisation, advent of IT has opened the floodgates of competition, resulting in intensification of rivalry and customer switching. Brand equity plays vital role in upholding the customers; but developing and maintaining the positive brand equity is a mammoth task.

Approach: A survey was conducted to ascertain brand equity of Hotel Pola Paradise; identify factors affecting brand equity; formulate marketing strategies to augment the brand equity in customer's minds.

Methods: Data were analyzed using statistical techniques such as, Factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, Correlation Coefficients, KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy) and Bartlett's test, Scree Plots and percentage analysis.

Results: The assessment unearthed various factors affecting Pola's brand equity; factors such as varied menu, quick service and friendly staff behaviour were prominent.

Conclusions/Recommendations: Recommendations include changes or new initiatives in following aspects, all of which contribute to brand equity - Sales process, Public relations strategy, Advertising strategy, Trademark&protection strategy, Through these initiatives, Pola Paradise can reflect in higher sales through larger footfalls; loyal clientele of repeat customers, continuous profits which help in making the Pola Paradise a successful longlasting brand with augmented popularity.


Keywords


Brand Equity, Liberalisation, Footfalls, Loyal Clientele.

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