Marketing strategy development for instant clean foods business in bangkok metro metropolis

Abstract

This research was aimed to identify personal factors and consumers’ needs of the marketing mix as well as to study of the strategy development of instant clean foods business in Bangkok Metro Metropolis. To obtain the data, a questionnaire was designed to gather the information from the 400 samples in the study selected by convenience sampling in five out of 50 districts from 50 districts. In-depth interviews were also arranged among five respondents. The statistical analysis was completed by percentage, mean, and SD. The hypothesis was tested by the t-test, F-test, and Oneway ANOVA. To test differences in pairs, LSD was applied at the level of statistical significance at the 0.05. This research employed mixed research method: the quantitative research looked into the quantitative data obtained from the respondents who consumed instant clean foods. Qualitative research relied on the data from the indepth interviews of the clean food business operators. Concerning the marketing mix, the targets groups, and marketing strategies, the research revealed most respondents were single female, who aged 21-30 years old with bachelor’s degrees. The average incomes were 10,000 - 20,000 baht. Their needs related to the marketing mix were the importance of products relevant with freshness and cleanness. They highly focused on food prices and made a wide variety of payments (cash, credit card, online, etc.) The consumers also paid attention to distribution channels at a high level (store sale, convenience stores, various online channels, etc.) and convenient to buy from various reasons such as stores that were close to work, schools, and shopping malls. The consumers also paid high focus on the clean food promotion.