Management Science Letters (Jan 2012)

A study on effects of packaging characteristics on consumer's purchasing confidence

  • Naser Azad,
  • Leila Hamdavipour

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 397 – 402

Abstract

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Packaging plays an important role on marketing products and services in many competitive environments. A good packaging can increase sales of products, reduces the level of inventory, which yields to higher profitability. In this paper, we study the relationship between a good packaging program and customer's confidence as well as customer's attraction on purchasing goods and services. The paper uses a questionnaire based on Likert scale and distributes among the target population of this survey and the information of packaging are divided into two groups of visibility and informative. The results indicate that a good and label with detailed and precise information on product could significantly impact customer's confidence while other visible information do not have much impact on customer's confidence.

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