Research Article

Asian Journal of Dairy and Food Research, volume 37 issue 2 (june 2018) : 95-99

Urban brand awareness and preferences for milk products: An empirical Study on Kolkata Metropolitan

Arnab Roy, Ravinder Malhotra

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¹Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bengaluru-560 065, Karnataka, India.

Submitted25-11-2017|
Accepted13-02-2018|
First Online 06-06-2018|
doi 10.18805/ajdfr.DR-1330

Cite article:- Roy Arnab, Malhotra Ravinder (2018). Urban brand awareness and preferences for milk products: An empirical Study on Kolkata Metropolitan. Asian Journal of Dairy and Food Research. 37(2): 95-99. doi: 10.18805/ajdfr.DR-1330.

ABSTRACT

The dairy market has been growing progressively over the years and is now bigger than the other food market but their lies a great state wise inequality in India in terms of consumption pattern of dairy products. Though Kolkata’s economy is increasing through sectorial shifts from necessary food to high value foods but in terms of per capita expenditure, Kolkata remain relatively behind. Consumers brand preferences represent a fundamental step in understanding consumer behaviour. A deeper understanding of such preference can help marketers’ better design marketing program and build a long term relationship with consumers. This warrants an empirical study for such specific rural pockets to help marketers improvise the dynamics of segmentation and marketing mix variables to capitalize their efforts to the fullest in rural markets. The present study was conducted in purposively selected Kolkata Municipality area to explore the rural consumer buying behavior through brand awareness and influence of demographic factors on brand preference. Kolkata Municipality area is divided into 16 borough and each borough consists of several wards. Hence, five boroughs were selected randomly and from each borough two wards were selected randomly.The results indicated that there were no statistical relationships between age, gender, education with dairy products preference. But there was statistical relationship between occupation and gender with the brand preference consumers in the Kolkata metropolitan in West Bengal.

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