TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENT AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS OF SMI IN SKIN CARE PRODUCT
This paper reports the outcome of a study on the Technological Component and Its Impact on the Success of SMI in Skin Care Product. It has been found that the skin care product produced by local entrepreneur do contain technologically advance ingredients. However it was found that the foreign...
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my.utem.eprints.41552015-05-28T02:40:07Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4155/ TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENT AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS OF SMI IN SKIN CARE PRODUCT Nordin, Mohd Ridzuan Kasim, Raihani Mohd Husin , Mohd Haizal Mohamad, Imran Syakir TP Chemical technology This paper reports the outcome of a study on the Technological Component and Its Impact on the Success of SMI in Skin Care Product. It has been found that the skin care product produced by local entrepreneur do contain technologically advance ingredients. However it was found that the foreign products tend to have more sophisticated ingredients such as proprietary and specially formulated chemical compounds. It has also been found that the local products also lag that of the foreign product as far as the inclusion of natural ingredients are concerned. As for the approach towards highlighting the technological component, the entrepreneurs of local SMI is yet to catch up with that of foreign products. In specific this paper present the quantitative study conducted by means of questionnaire administered to working women in Melaka. The objectives of the study were to determine the consumption pattern of facial moisturiser by consumers of different demographic characteristics in Malacca, followed by identifying the most frequently used brands whether they are of local or foreign brands and finally to determine the factors influencing consumer in deciding to purchase a particular facial moisturiser. The results indicated that facial moisturiser is the second most commonly used daily facial care product after the facial cleanser. Foreign brand facial moisturiser was preferred than the local brands. The technological content of the moisturiser, in specific the facial moisturiser’s ingredient was found to be the most important factor influencing consumer’s preference to purchase a particular brand of facial moisturiser. 2007 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4155/1/PaperICEI2007_IEEE.pdf Nordin, Mohd Ridzuan and Kasim, Raihani and Mohd Husin , Mohd Haizal and Mohamad, Imran Syakir (2007) TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENT AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS OF SMI IN SKIN CARE PRODUCT. In: International Conference for Engineering and ICT (ICEI 2007) , 27-28 Nov, 2007 , Equatorial Hotel, Malacca, Malaysia . |
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This paper reports the outcome of a study on the
Technological Component and Its Impact on the
Success of SMI in Skin Care Product. It has been
found that the skin care product produced by local
entrepreneur do contain technologically advance
ingredients. However it was found that the foreign
products tend to have more sophisticated ingredients
such as proprietary and specially formulated
chemical compounds. It has also been found that the
local products also lag that of the foreign product as
far as the inclusion of natural ingredients are
concerned. As for the approach towards highlighting
the technological component, the entrepreneurs of
local SMI is yet to catch up with that of foreign
products. In specific this paper present the
quantitative study conducted by means of
questionnaire administered to working women in
Melaka. The objectives of the study were to determine
the consumption pattern of facial moisturiser by
consumers of different demographic characteristics
in Malacca, followed by identifying the most
frequently used brands whether they are of local or
foreign brands and finally to determine the factors
influencing consumer in deciding to purchase a
particular facial moisturiser. The results indicated
that facial moisturiser is the second most commonly
used daily facial care product after the facial
cleanser. Foreign brand facial moisturiser was
preferred than the local brands. The technological
content of the moisturiser, in specific the facial
moisturiser’s ingredient was found to be the most
important factor influencing consumer’s preference
to purchase a particular brand of facial moisturiser. |
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TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENT AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS OF SMI IN SKIN CARE PRODUCT |
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