Factors for Successful Lubricant Brand: A Study of Positioning Strategies in Indian Lubricant Market
Published: 2019
Author(s) Name: Gautam Srivastava & Sandhya Rai |
Author(s) Affiliation: Assist. Prof., GL Bajaj Inst. of Tech. and Mgt., Greater Noida, U.P., India
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Abstract
Brand Positioning as the act of designing the
company’s offer so that it occupies a distinct and
valued place in the mind of the target customers.
Brand Positioning is the process of promoting
buyers to form a particular mental impression
of our product relative to our competitors. Brand
Positioning is a ‘part of brand identity and value
proposition that is to be actively communicated
to the target audience, and that demonstrates
an advantage over competing brands. A brand
could develop distinction in a chosen field by
developing associations related to product
performance. It focuses on the brand’s delivery
on the functionality expected by customers. The
brand could develop associations on the intrinsic
product dimensions like durability, reliability,
price, style or service. This research paper focuses
on the need of brand positioning of automotive
lubricant in Indian market. This study represents
an approach of factor analysis to determine the
effect of brand positioning of lubricant on
consumer perception. An empirical study has
been conducted in Delhi region to find out the
perceptions of consumers towards the
automotive lubricants. Survey has been
conducted with the help of structured
questionnaire to determine the different attributes
responsible for brand positioning lubricant oil.
Factor analysis has been done to reduce the
number of factors and identifying only the
important factors for brand positioning of automotive lubricant for four wheeler segments.
Further, reliability test has been conducted to
test the reliability of the important factors.
Keywords: PSUs, Perception, Reliability, Brand Positioning.
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