Relationship between Purchase Intentions for Luxury Brands and Customer Experience - Comparative Verification Among Product Categories and Brand Ranks

Kazutoshi Fujiwara; Shin’ya Nagasawa

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Relationship between Purchase Intentions for Luxury Brands and Customer Experience - Comparative Verification Among Product Categories and Brand Ranks

Kazutoshi Fujiwara, Shin’ya Nagasawa

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This paper aims to provide empirically validated evidence on the effect that experiences, which was proposed by Schmitt [1], have on purchase intentions. For this study, I chose GODIVA, Meiji, Ferrari, and Toyota as subject luxury brands and conducted comparative analyses between product categories (food and cars) and brand ranks (luxury brands [Note 1] and mass brands). The results suggested the following: 1) Providing customers with satisfaction through the five senses and positive feelings by taking advantage of advertisements, products, and store designs is something a brand must achieve at the very least, regardless of brand rank, for the product categories of food and cars, and providing this value alone will not be enough for luxury brands to distinguish themselves from mass brands. 2) Both food and car luxury brands make an attempt to distinguish themselves from mass brands by producing emotions that will make consumers want to have an active connection with other consumers or voluntarily recommend the brand to others. 3) Conspicuousness, which has been believed to be a typical motive for the consumption of luxury brands since the 19th century, does not necessarily apply today.

DOI	10.11648/j.sjbm.s.2015030201.11
Published in	Science Journal of Business and Management (Volume 3, Issue 2-1, March 2015) This article belongs to the Special Issue Customer Experience Management / Marketing Branding
Page(s)	1-10
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Luxury Brand, Customer Experience

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Kazutoshi Fujiwara

Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; International Operations Division, Kikkoman Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Shin’ya Nagasawa

Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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