The Effect of Green Marketing Tools and Strategies on Consumers’ Purchase Intention in Food and Beverage Industry: A Case in Klang Valley, Malaysia
The interaction between businesses and the environment has been an issue since the early of 1970s. Nowadays, consumers are becoming more environmentally responsible and some of them prefer a green product over a conventional one. In response to this, many businesses have produced green products t...
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Format: | Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2013
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Online Access: | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/644/1/MBA%20-%2056.pdf http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/644/ |
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Summary: | The interaction between businesses and the environment has been an issue since
the early of 1970s. Nowadays, consumers are becoming more environmentally
responsible and some of them prefer a green product over a conventional one. In response
to this, many businesses have produced green products to satisfy the consumers’ needs.
Besides, they also have started to incorporate green marketing into their marketing
strategies. They have developed variety tools and strategies to market their green
products and some of them are like eco-brands, eco-ingredients, eco-labels, ecopackaging
and green integrated marketing communications tools. However, their
significant impacts on consumers’ green purchase intention are still uncertain and these
have become the subject of some researches in recent years. On top of that, in Malaysia,
like many other developing countries, not much attention was paid to environmental issue
and this topic has been under-researched. Hence, this research aims to examine how the
green marketing is used by food and beverage industry to influence the green purchase
intention of consumers in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Based on the literature review that
was available, a framework was developed and this research was conducted through
quantitative approach. The data was collected through questionnaires and analyzed by
using Smart PLS and SPSS 20.0 software’s with multiple kinds of tests such as structural
equation modeling and Mann-Whitney. The empirical findings of the study suggest that
eco-packaging, eco-brands, eco-ingredients and eco-label are the green marketing tools
and strategies that will influence the consumers’ green purchase intention of food and
beverage. The results also suggest that female consumers are more environmentally
friendly compare to male as it is proven they tend to respond more positively towards
eco-brands’ products. |
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