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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.1 Introduction
This study intends to explain the contribution of coca cola television advertisement in
creating brand awareness to the customer. This chapter introduces the study and presents the
background of the problem statement of the problem, purpose and objective of the study,
research question as well as significance of the study.
1.2 Background to the Study
In today’s competitive world it is very difficult for companies to compete with each other.
The fierce competition has given rise to various ways through which organizations can
compete with each other. This rapid globalization has given a rise to a fast economic
condition, has had a very signification affect on information and technology. Information
reaches people in a split second and become aware of every company’s goods and services
and the activities that are being rendered by them in order to promote or sale products or
services. As a result the competition gets fiercer and sometimes this either creates challenges
for some companies and for some opportunities. It is here that companies decide of adopting
and sometimes introducing effective marketing strategies in order to sell its goods or services,
and those too must be able to attract the consumer to the product. (Belch & Belch, 2007).
In order to attract the consumer’s some organizations introduce new brand of products
whereas some organizations advertise in order to attract the consumers. The later is
considered to be one of the most influential ways of attracting consumers, since advertising
not only creates awareness about the product among the consumers but also entertains them.
Even though past studies have agreed that advertisement, especially TV advertisement, is the
most effective media source since it attracts consumers attention. Advertisements affect the
perceptions of the consumers and it can influence the consumer’s buying decisions.
According to past research of Chi, Yeh, & Yang, (2009), that there are three factors that make
an advertisement effective; the influence of advertisement on consumer buying behavior, the
communication process, and decision making.
Advertisement has been defined variously by a number of people. According to American
Marketing Association advertising has been defined as a “form of non-personal presentation
and promotion of ideas, goods or services by an identified sponsor.” It is a commercial
transaction which is done in order to promote goods and services, and is directed towards a
vast audience and is not for individuals only. The ultimate goal of advertisements is not to
generate sales or profits; this can only be done once people are aware of the particular
product. The overall goal of advertisement is to create the brand awareness among the
consumers which in affect influences their buying behaviors. (Chunnawala, 2016)
It is the most vital goal of advertisement to influence or persuade the consumers to purchase a
particular product over its competitors. According to Terence A. Shrimp, 2011, advertisement
transfers affect to a brand. There are a various number of arguments that how can the
effectiveness of advertisement be measured (Aaker, and Norris, (2012). Advertisements are a
source of attaining the attention of the consumer; this is done in order to increase the
publicity and hence allow the information to influence the brand awareness and as a result
influences the decision making of consumers (Rossiter and Percy 2017). Further argued by
Keller (2014) that advertisements build brand awareness, which in return strengthens the
attitudes of the consumer towards the brand and their purchasing decisions ((Aaker, and
Norris, (2012). Dahlen (2001) concluded that the increase in advertisement exposures results
in an increased brand awareness and also the attitudes of non-consumers. In this rapid
globalization consumers are well aware of what they will see in an advertisement (Friestad
and Wright 2014), this information not only persuade the particular behavior of consumer but
also promotes the buying of the product (Robertson and Rossiter 2014; Wright 2016).
Whether we realize it or not, advertising is a part of our life. The advertising industry in India
is growing at a rapid pace, and organizations as well as individuals treat advertisements as an
important tool to market their products and services. Specially, television advertisements are
an important means by which organizations “communicate” their products and services to
their customers. However, there are some organizations that are facing difficulties in
delivering the relevant message that can gain awareness, create desired perception and
persuade customers to buy their products and services. Consumer’s attraction towards
television increases with age. Consumers react to advertisement in different manners. It can
be influenced by many factors, such as grownups, intervention of parents, media literacy and
experiences. Such determinants play a key role in understanding television advertisement and
process its content. In the cognitive development children are passing through the stages
helping them to distinguish advertising from program content, recalling and awareness of
advertising, recognizing and understanding persuasive intent of advertising, liking and
skepticism or cognitive defense to advertising.
Advertisement is one of the main instruments used by businesses to communicative and
persuasive effect. It is efficient when target audiences received processes and accepted the
advertising message. Perception is this element for human beings that help them exist in
reality and has significant role of processing information received by sensory system. The
process of perception has been associated with the process of the evaluation of the advertising
messages. Consumers differs each other from the ways how they perceive the information of
particularly advertisement and brands shown in such advertisement. The differences come out
of their previous background, experiences and situations. These factors determine
information choice, its processing and the way of evaluation of the brand.
Moreover, the factors have been shaping since the early consumer and can be resulted by
perception of consumer behavior taken place in that time.
Advertisements are the major influence in the process of buying and selling of products.
Most of companies tend to use different strategies in advertising to appeal to the consumer’s
senses and influence them to buy their product or services. Many advertisements contain
rhetorical devices such as logos, slogans and pathos to persuade the average consumer that
their product is effective and efficient on promoting what people want or need (Jefkins,
2005).
Example of advertisements that have successfully achieved brand recognition by using brand
presence and introduction effectively in their television advertising campaigns include the
award winning ‘The Happiness Factory’ for Coca-Cola, and various automobile commercials
that show the brand logo of a vehicle from different angles early on and frequently
throughout the advertisement. Beverage giant Coca Cola since its foundation in 1886, it has
become a global power in the beverage industry. Pharmacist Dr. Coca-Cola, which was
produced by John S. Pemberton as a medicine and subsequently marketed as a soft drink with
a few changes, has since become the world's best known beverage brand. In 1906, for the first
time outside the United States that began bottling Coca-Cola, it began to be produced in 1964
in Turkey. As of 2017, Coca Cola's logo, the world's third largest food and Beverage
Company, is recognized by 96% of the world's population. Coca Cola, marketing strategy on
television advertising still play an influencer for the most effective brands awareness strategy
hence seems to be the most effective ways and have greater effect to the awareness of their
brands to the customer when they introduced.
Creating brand awareness is one of the key steps in promoting a brand purchase. It is believed
that Coca- cola Kwanza Company benefits through the use of television advertising. It is
clear that Coca-Cola employs television advertisement as an informing strategy in order to
win customers. When coming to purchasing decision, a brand that customers could choose is
the one that they have already seen or heard about. Essentially, consumer becomes aware of a
certain brand which has meaning to them in relation to a product, service, solution or
experience. One of the major reasons for the growing importance of television advertising
over the past decade is that advertising plays a major role in the process of developing and
sustaining brand equity (Belch & Belch 2004; Shimp 2010).
Customers need information to be able to choose between alternative brands (O’Guinn, Allen
& Semenik 2009; Strydom, Jooste & Cant 2000). A brand is often a company’s most
valuable asset because it provides customers with a way of recognizing and specifying a
particular product, should the customers want to choose it again or recommend it to others. A
brand is essentially a marketer’s promise to deliver a specific set of features, benefits and
services consistently to the consumer (Kotler & Keller 2009).
Consumers are bombarded with increasing marketing messages about brands (McKay-
Nesbitt et al. 2011). Fragmentation and rising costs are also inhibiting marketing through
traditional mass media like television .Consequently; marketers are constantly faced with the
challenge to build brand awareness both economically and efficiently in the minds of
consumers. One could thus assume that the building of strong brands begins with creating
brand awareness, so that consumers are able to identify a brand through brand recognition or
recall performance. Although there are many means of creating awareness to customer
regarding brands of the products like social network and radio but still Television for Coca-
Cola seems to be the favorite media for their advertisement that bring awareness to customer.
Hence due to that the researcher attracts to conduct a study so as to investigate the effect of
television advertising on customer’s brand awareness.
1.4 Research Objectives
To assess the effect of television advertising on brand awareness, case of Coca-Cola kwanza
(T) limited
1.4.2 Specific Objectives
i. To examine the relationship between brand awareness and purchase decision of
Coca- cola product.
ii. To determine the extent to which television advertisements increases brand
awareness
iii. To evaluate the effectiveness of advertising strategies used by Coca-Cola Kwanza
Company in creating brand awareness.
1.6.3 Academically
The research paper may be used by other students as a reference when solving similar
problem in their studies and to increase their knowledge and skills basing on advertisement
through the use of television advertisement.
1.7 Scope of the Study
Media
Characteristics of
TV Advertising
Adeole et al. (2005) examined that the impact of advertisement on consumers brand
preference in different areas, the results showed that from five different media used in
advertising Bournivita and how consumers viewed them in order of preference, for most
consumers their preference is television advertising while newspaper and magazine shared
4.44% each and similarly Gezachew (2012) conducted with same topic with reference to
electronics product and found that from advertising media perspective television advertising
is the most preferred by consumers to have awareness. To convey advertising message
experts, celebrities, and common man were preferred by consumers to get reliable
information of the brand. Chandrima (2009) had conducted the research on “The impact of
electronic and print media on consumers brand preference.”
Customers prefer television in comparison to other media since they get both the audio and
visual effects .This also proved that customer’s rely on advertisements shown in media.
Tendon (2011) assessed that the “Impact of advertising on the brand preference of tea.”
variables of the study are advertising, sales promotion, they are source of awareness and
income, age, gender, and education are also independent variables. The study revealed with
the perspective of source of awareness of tea brand, advertising accounts for 72.4%of the
respondents while 2.2% respondents feel that sales promotion schemes create awareness of
the brands. In the side of parameters for the parameters of tea brand, 63.8% of respondents
considered quality of the product (tea) as the most important parameter and only 12.9% of
respondents considered advertising as the most important reason for the preference of tea.
Again the study revealed that age, income, and education have great impact on the brand
preference of tea whereas gender has no impact on the brand preference of consumers.
Sandage and Fruburger (2015) have observed that on measuring communication effects a
marketer can understand what goes in the mind of the receiver of advertised message. Shimp
(2011) has opined that advertising effectiveness has been measured using two primary
constructs, attitude toward the advertisement and attitude toward the brand. These constructs
have been studied in advertising research since the late 70s, focusing primarily on brand
choice and behaviour prediction, and serve as direct antecedents of behavioural intent.
Rossiter and Percy (2015) have opined that the main communication effects of advertising
consist of: category need, brand awareness, favorable brand attitude and intention to buy the
product. They agree that communication objectives may differ from one campaign to another.
However, they have identified two universal communication objectives of advertisements –
brand awareness and brand attitude.
Woodside and Wilson (cited by Sagar et al, 2009) in their longitudinal survey have observed
brand awareness in great detail in light of competing brands, and their purchase behaviour.
Their study has found support to prior models, which have established positive relationship
between top of the mind recall and purchase intention. Frandin et al and Moriarty (as cited by
Marshall and Robert 2008) have observed that effectiveness measures are often dependent on
the goals of a communication campaign and they differ across campaigns. However, it is also
true that marketers Jacoby et.al (2007) has indicated the significance of brand awareness, by
stating consumers respond more strongly and decide to buy known and established brands.
Hoyer and Brown (2010) conducted a controlled experiment on the role played by brand
awareness in the customer choice. They have observed that brand awareness is a dominating
variable in the choice decision. They opine that in a purchase of product which has low
involvement, basic brand awareness is also enough to affect the product choice. Even if the
attitude towards brand is not well developed the brand awareness would be enough to
influence the buyer.
Aaker (2011) has stated brand awareness creates value in at least four ways. Unless the brand
name is established, the rest of the communication cannot take place. Thus, all the other
associations of the brand are anchored to brand awareness. It also provides a sense of
familiarity to the brand. In low involvement products, there is a possibility that even in
absence of evaluation; awareness alone would result in brand choice. Name awareness can be
a measure of presence and commitment. Brand awareness helps brand enter into the
consideration set. Keller (2001) in a laboratory experiment has studied how the competitive
advertising and its recall affects the brand evaluations.
It was seen that the advertisement recall leads to improved evaluation, even in absence of
competing advertisements. He has also noted that brand awareness comprises of brand
recognition, which confirms prior exposure and recall, which in turn confirms whether brand
name can be retrieved from the memory when given the product category cue. Brand
awareness affects consumer decision making by influencing the formation of brand image.
The brand name is like a file which is made in the minds of the customer. All the facts,
feelings related to the brand are stored in the file. When such file is not readily accessible, the
facts and feelings of the brand are misfiled. Thus, he emphasizes the importance of brand
awareness, as all other information and feelings would be linked to that specific file created.
2.5 Research Gap
The extensive literature review on the subject of TV advertisement effectiveness revealed
some gaps, which provided a good opportunity to conduct this type of research. Firstly, from
the literature review a strong need to study TV advertisement effectiveness of products of a
chosen category in the Tanzanian context was found. It was also observed that most studies
were based on popular brands. The problem of such research is that when popular and old
products are selected for study, it may downplay the effect of advertising. In such cases
people may be using products since childhood and their purchase behaviour would be
attributed to their liking of TV advertisement. Thus, to overcome this gap this study chose to
include recently launched products.
There is a dearth of research which talks about an entire product category as a whole. The
study addresses this gap by focusing on, the most advertised product category on TV. The
other gap seen in most of the studies was that, their selection of brands ignored the level of
advertisement spends. Mostly effectiveness studies gain importance when advertisement
spends is higher, thereby increasing the stake of the brand. This study tries to bridge this gap
by taking into consideration not just advertisement spends, but also including the three
highest advertisement spenders on TV. The empirical research on this topic in Tanzanian
context was not much; therefore a need was felt for this type of research in Tanzanian
context. Thus, this study aims to overcome the above mentioned gaps found during the
review of literature.
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