Flaggskeppsbutiker som marknadsföringsstrategi. : -En undersökning ur ett kundperspektiv.

Sammanfattning:

The purpose of this study was to examine customer attitudes towards flagship stores and how they perceive them. To ascertain this, and obtain answers to the research questions covering the study's main issues, we decided to turn to the customers who recently visited a flagship store.

Our background theory is based upon literature from previous research done on the subject in the form of scientific articles and books. We present the theoretical concept that explains how flagship stores are used as a marketing tool and what impact they have on the new market. These will be helpful in answering our questions when we evaluate our results.!

A theoretical framework, consisting of three value dimensions, was used as a support throughout the implementation of the study. These three values; hedonic, practical and social, should give us a better idea of what customers experience and what they value when they visit the flagship stores.!

The method used in our investigation is of quantitative form, so that it can be feasible on a large crowd to thus contribute to a quantitative result. A questionnaire consisting of closed questions with given answer options on a Likert-scale was distributed to a few selected stores, all located along Stockholm’s most fashionable shopping streets - Gant, H&M Man, Asics and J. Lindeberg. !

The result that we have reached is that customers both value and experience the practical value dimensions more than the hedonic and social ones and that flagship stores are a successful marketing concept. This since the majority of the customers have a positive opinion about them as well as feeling that the experience in the stores have provided them with a more positive view of the brand - which is a direct contributor to the increasing CBBE of the company.