Brand awareness and consumer profile for milk: case of the Tirana market, Albania

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Ledia Thoma
Anila Boshnjaku
Ana Kapaj
Etleva Muca


Keywords : brand awareness, milk sector in Albania
Abstract
Nowadays, it is quite important that business companies understand brand awareness and consumer profile for their products and services. They can take advantage of this information to properly adapt their marketing strategies to the needs of their targeted markets and segments. This research paper aims at measuring brand awareness and consumer profile for different types of milk in Tirana. Through a set of face to face questionnaires, it is revealed that those in charge of purchases in the household are pretty aware of the vast majority of the milk brands available in Tirana market. They also give high evaluation scores to the most known brands. On the other hand, consumers’ profile for different types of milk (UHT vs. pasteurized or fresh) seems to differ based on some specific socio-economic variables of the household and the person in charge of the purchases. The consumers with the highest income and education level are more aware about food safety importance. Such consumers are leaned more towards purchasing UHT milk.

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Thoma, L., Boshnjaku, A., Kapaj, A., & Muca, E. (2017). Brand awareness and consumer profile for milk: case of the Tirana market, Albania. Annals of Marketing Management & Economics, 3(2), 113–119. https://doi.org/10.22630/AMME.2017.3.2.22
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