Investigating the effects of brand experience components on power of brand in food industry

• Main Authors: Naser Azad, Ashkan Arabi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2014-10-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Power of brand; Brand loyalty; Food industry; Pricing factor; Physical attributes
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/msl_2014_292.pdf

This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the effects of brand power experiences on power of brand in food industry. The study deigns a questionnaire in Likert scale consists of 23 questions, distributes it among 208 randomly selected people who purchase foods from three different food chains in city of Tehran, Iran. Using structural equation modeling, the study has examined the effects of six factors influence the most in our survey including Brand loyalty, Physical attributes, pricing factors, functional characteristics, brand association and brand position. The results of our survey indicate that pricing factors and brand position were the most important influential factors followed by functional characteristics and physical attributes. However, the survey does not confirm the effects of brand loyalty and brand association on brand power.