DocumentCode
1778816
Title
How to improve the customer loyalty in the cosmetics industry
Author
Tsung-Ju Yang ; Chun-Hung Liu
Author_Institution
Inst. of Service Ind. & Manage., Minghsin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hsinchu, Taiwan
fYear
2014
fDate
25-27 June 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
In recent years, the market of the cosmetics industry is growing in the world. The cosmetics companies are constantly develop and marketing many cosmetics products for the consumers´ demand. The competition in the cosmetics industry is increasing. However, the products knowledge of many cosmetics consumers was limited. How to obtain and maintain customer loyalty becomes an important challenge to the cosmetics industry. To understand the decision-making process of consumers will help the cosmetics companies to improve the customer relationships successfully and maintain their competitive advantage. Therefore, the study is to investigate the consumers´ decision-making process from the important factor of brand, product, services and customer relationship management. The researchers establish a framework to study the relationship among brand image, product quality, service quality, relationship quality, and customer loyalty in cosmetics industry. The researchers use questionnaires method and use SPSS and AMOS statistical software to analysis the samples of the cosmetics consumers. The empirical results show that: first, brand image of the cosmetics positively impacts on both customer perceived product quality and service quality. Second, customer perceived product quality and service quality both positively impact on customers´ relationship quality. Third, the customers´ relationship quality has a positive effect on customer loyalty. The results show that the brand image of cosmetics helps to improve the customer perceived product quality, service quality and relationship quality, and then impact on customer loyalty. Therefore, improving brand image, product quality, service quality and relationship quality would improve customer loyalty in the cosmetics industry. The effects of antecedent variables on customer loyalty are different; therefore, understanding the decision-making process of customers´ will help the cosmetics companies to manage customer relationshi- efficiently.
Keywords
consumer behaviour; cosmetics; customer profiles; decision making; product quality; statistical analysis; AMOS statistical software; SPSS; brand image; consumer demand; cosmetic products; cosmetics industry; customer loyalty; customer relationship management; decision making; marketing; product quality; relationship quality; service quality; Companies; Industries; Mathematical model; Product design; Quality assessment; Reliability; brand Image; product quality; relationship quality; service quality;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2014 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-3133-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874105
Filename
6874105
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