Marketing Management

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Author: search.filters.author.Dissanayake, D.M.R.Subject: search.filters.subject.Brand Equity

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    Relationship between Perceived Brand Equity and Purchase Intention of Life Insurance Brands in Sri Lanka: A Concept Paper
    (2016) Gunawardane, N.; Munasinghe, A.; Dissanayake, D.M.R.
    Sri Lanka is referred as a service driven economy as it denotes in the structural dynamics noticed in the economy. Accorodgly, insurance business has also been evolving with different structural and market dynamics that influence wider impact to the economy. Moreover, a subset of insurance market, life insurance business in Sri Lanka, exhibits more competitive moves as per the marketing and consumer behavioral perspectives. Industry practices of the life insurance sector highlight many brand building initiatives aiming at stimulating favorable responses of consumers to sign competitive edges. Meanwhile, the notion of brand equity and purchase intention have been referred in many empirical studies to examine the relationship between brand related marketing stimulus and behavioral responses of consumers towards them. Alongside, this study intends to review those concepts and suggest research propositions with reference to the context of life insurance business of Sri Lanka. We followed a deductive approach, and comprehensive literature review on empirical studies was carried out as the main research tool to build arguments supporting to suggested propositions. Paper concluded by denoting directions for the future studies in line with the notions of brand equity and brand related behaviors addressing to empirical research gaps in Sri Lanka.
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    Building Brand Equity through Integrated Business Model: A Case of Cable Brand in Sri Lanka
    (IES Management College and Research Centre, Mumbai, India, 2015) Dissanayake, D.M.R.
    There are mainly six local companies in Sri Lanka operate on cable manufacturing and trading business namely ACL Cables, Kelani Cables, Sierra Cables, Ruhunu Cables, Kamal Cables and Orange Cables. As ACL Cables and Kelani Cables are in the export market, they manufacture their cables complying with the British and Australian Standards.This study is based on “Kelani Brand” which is currently exporting to Maldives, Bangladesh and India in the region. Branding a cable product is a critical challenge where it has to cater for both consumer market and industrial segments. Researcher specially focused on how the said Cable brand has effectively acclimated to branding strategies rather operating as a generic product. Special reference was made to study how the organizations strategized the functional and emotional brand appeals to develop brand equity for the end-user market. Study has been conceptualized brand building variables as independent factors and purchasing decision as the dependent factor. Researcher has analysed the result of the implementation of brad building model of Kelani Cables via descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Conclusion of the study has provided hindsight as contribution to practice at the end of the report.