Brand Association and Competitive advantange in alcoholic beer products in Kabale District, Uganda.
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2019
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International Journal of Recent Academic Research
Abstract
Brand Awareness is regarded as a very important concept in business because business organizations can use it to
gain competitive advantage. Competitive advantage has been approached by looking at the external environment
of the firm that is how the economic power of firms can be used to create competitive position in an industry.
This study focuses on Resource Based View a model that provides a framework for identifying unique set of
resources and this perspective shifts the approach of assessing competitive advantage from the external to the
internal environment that is the resource power. This study, therefore, set out to determine the effect of brand
Association on competitive advantage in beer products in Kabale district. The specific objective of the study was
to (i) To determine the effect of brand Association on competitive advantage in alcoholic beer products in Kabale
district. The study used a descriptive survey research design. The target population was 1783 including
wholesalers, retailers, customers and brand and marketing managers of Nile Special Lager, Eagle Lager, Senator
Extra Lager, club and Bell beer products in the District of Kabale, South Western Uganda. Multistage sampling
techniques were used in this study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select alcoholic beer products
and producers. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to sample shopping center to collect consumer
information. Shopping centers were selected based on a marketing investigation. Primary data were used and
collected using questionnaires. The descriptive analysis involving computing the mean, standard deviation,
skewness, and kurtosis of the brand Association and competitive advantage variables was conducted. The
inferential analysis was conducted using multiple regression analysis and the t-statistic and the p-value were
adopted to test the hypotheses of the study. The study used the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) as a
tool to process and analyse data. The study found out that brand Association does not significantly affect
competitive advantage in alcoholic beer products and producers in Kabale district, south western Uganda. The
study concludes that consumers of beer products in Kabale district do not attach much association with the beer
brands and hence the levels of associations both positive and negative are very low in Kabale district among beer
brands. The study recommends that brand managers should focus their marketing communications on the
experiential benefits of their product such as fun, excitement, and enjoyment in order to create positive
associations in the minds of beer consumers.
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Brand Association, Competitive Advantage, Beer Products.