Perfume consumption in India

Perfumes have been important in India for millennia and so have the stories connected with them. The perfume business in India is worth billions. A background from which the Indian perfume industry can be understood in terms of the Berger's STEPP model, the consumers' cognitive schemas, consumers' behaviors, and the story of the product, brand, and their customers' stories. Three sets of themes—product perceptions, concerns, and consumers' lifestyle—are identified, each with their own sub-themes that are antecedents to perfume purchasing behavior. Segments in the Indian perfume market are also identified. Each consumer segment has their own behavioral nuances and they consider different aspects of the perfume product taking into account their own income and aspects of the three themes and 19 sub-themes. It is important for perfume marketing managers to consider each aspect of the STEPPs modeland for the Indian government to locate and develop a “Place of Perfume” within India that will eventually challenge the region of Grasse in France as the global perfume marketplace

Evaluating Social Media

Despite the widespread adoption and popularity of social media, research on measuring the quantifiable impact of popular social media platforms remains scarce.To this end, this study attempts to investigate how the influence of social media can be assessed in quantitative terms.The main objective is to develop a new assessment model able to integrate a broad range of criteria such as likes, subscribers, comments, posts, shares, and links.The authors extend previous assessment models focused on individual platforms such as blogs and propose a Social Media Influence Assessment model (SMIA). The process of model development—criteria, dimensions, and formula—and its validation are discussed. The results indicate that social media's influence can be measured in a structured, quantifiable manner by utilising a set of nine criteria grouped into three dimensions: recognition, activity generation, and credibility

Evaluating the success of the economic and premium private labels in retailers positioned at the opposite ends of the price-quality axis

The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the success of private labels positioned as economic and premium from the customer perspective in the retailers that have different positioning strategies. For this aim, two retailers that positioned themselves at the opposite ends on the price and service quality axes and a product category were identified along with a national brand. The research used between-subjects design and data were collected from customers of both retailers via a questionnaire. The success rates of economic and premium private labels were compared between the two retailers. The results indicate that both economic and premium private labels are more credible and favorable in retailers with superior service quality. On the other hand, the customers of the retailer positioned at low price have more tendencies to purchase economic private labels than the customers of the other store, whereas the customers of the retailer positioned at superior service quality have higher tendency to purchase premium private labels than the customers of the other store. © 2020, IGI Global. All rights reserved