Managing Market Segmentatıon for Dıfferent Brands of the same Headquarter

Ahmet Hakan Özkan ()
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Ahmet Hakan Özkan: Istanbul Aydin University, Anadolu Bil Vocational School, Department of Business Management in English,

International Journal of Business and Social Research, 2016, vol. 6, issue 9, 32-38

Abstract: Brand management is inevitable for sustainable marketing. Civil aviation companies focus on sustainable marketing, because of their long-term investments. Customer loyalty is one of the most improtant factors of sustainable marketing. It is known that, if there is no certain limit or border, segmentation damages the reputation of the brands and it is one of the most important threats of sustainable marketing. Segmentation can be done by using new brands, but this process has its own constraints. Such constraints are related with the reputability of the company. To evaluate the impact of a new brand on reputability, service quality is taken as a metric and SERVQUAL is used. The customers of two civil aviation companies participated the study. These two aviation companies have the same headquarter, but they have different brand management strategies. One of them is globally reputable and it is the headquarter company. 166 questionnaires of the 83 participants are evaluated. It is seen that the service quality perception on the brand of the headquarter company did not change and the new brand did not effect its reputability. New brand created its own market or took a share from the other civil aviation companies which attract the customers of the headquarter company with their lower prices.

Keywords: Brand management; civil aviation; service quality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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