Trend and marketing mix factors affect toward purchasing behaviors for Korean cosmeceuticals of working women in Bangkok

Abstract

The purposed of this research “Trend and marketing mix factors affect toward purchasing behaviors of working women in Bangkok” was to study (1) the relation between personal factors of working women in Bangkok and the marketing mix factors of Korean cosmeceuticals (2) the trend of using the Korean cosmeceuticals of working women in Bangkok. The samples of this study were 400 working women in Bangkok. The questionnaires were implemented as the tool for data collection. The statistics methods were used for analyzing data; Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation and Chi-Square. The results were found that: The results were showed that most of respondents had range of age between 20 to 30 years old, hold Bachelor degree, single and lived with the parents. Their monthly income were 15,001-20,000 bath and work with the private companies. They have bought face care cosmeceuticals and the reason of buying is products’ quality. Innisfree is the most popular cosmeceuticals brand. The price which they spent each time are not more than 1,000 baht. The places where they buy the products is health & beauty shops such as Boots, Watsons, Matsumoto, First Drug and EVEANDBOY. The purchasing frequency is once a month. They decided to buy the products by themselves and the information about Korean Cosmeceuticals come from the Internet. This research was found that the respondents are continually going to buy Korean Cosmeceuticals. They will interest to buy whitening product for next purchase. The hypothesis testing results showed that (1) monthly income age and education have mostly related to purchasing behavior of Korean Cosmeceuticals (2) monthly income has mostly related to the marketing mix factors. (3) product, place, and marketing communication have mostly effected to purchasing behavior