The Influence Of Brand Loyalty

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Brand loyalty is defined by Aaker (1991, p. 39) as a circumstance which shows the tendency of consumers switching to another brand, particularly when the brand makes a change, whether is a change in price or product features. Oliver (1997) characterizes brand loyalty as a sense of commitment to constantly repurchase or repatronise a favored product or service in the future, regardless of any marketing tactics or situational influences that may act upon switching behavior. Aaker (1992) and Keller (2003) noted that brand loyalty means that each consumer whose past and future purchase is the same, they recommend others to purchase or they have the intention to purchase more. Moreover, Brand loyalty is the attitude of brand preference towards a …show more content…

This argument is supported by Solomon (1992) with him discovering that purchase decision that is based on loyalty might become a habit which leads to brand equity. On the other hand, Aaker (1991) described brand loyalty as consumer’s mentality toward a brand that drives them to consistently purchase the same brand. As per Yoo (2000), brand loyalty has the ability to affect consumer choice to buy a same product or brand and cease to switch to other brands. Subsequently, Yoo (2000) reasoned out that brand loyalty is the root for brand’s value. Aaker (1991) additionally contended that brand loyalty is a fundamental component used to assess brand’s value due to the fact that brand loyalty can increase profitability. The consumers who are loyal to a brand will not assess the brand, instead they simply purchase it unquestionably based on their experiences with the brand (Sidek, Yee, and yahyah, 2008). The loyal customers bring advantages to a firm by cutting down costs, encouraging easier strategies implementation, providing time for responding to competitions, creating a barrier to entry, increasing sales volume, protecting firm against detrimental pricing and to retain rather than seek for customers (Aaker 1991; Rundle and Bennet, 2001). Loyal customers are also less incline to change to another brand simply because of pricing factor and they purchase more frequently compared to their non-loyal counterparts (Bowen and Shoemaker,

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