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    Effectiveness of Advertising Appeal on Purchase Intention for Mobile Connection Market of Sri Lanka.
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya, 2016) De Silva, S.M.N.S.J.; Wijenayake, S.I.
    Mobile connection industry can be identified as one of growing industries in Sri Lanka. Therefore, many multinational and local companies have entered to the market in the recent past. Because of this reason, we can see a huge competition in the mobile connection industry. To win the market share and to survive in the industry, most of the companies use advertising as their major promotional tool. Thus this research attempts to identify the effectiveness of advertising appeals in promoting mobile connections. Further, this study aims to find out the most effective advertising appeal for advertising mobile connection services in Sri Lanka. Objectives of this research are to identify the importance of the advertising appeals and the impact of the demographic variables on the advertising appeal. Population of the study is the individual customers in the mobile connection service market in Sri Lanka. The sample size of 100 respondents are selected from Colombo district. Consumers with diverse demographic characteristics are considered in the study where 50% of the respondents are males. Quantitative data analysis is carried out to identify the impact of advertising appeal on purchase intention of customers. Specifically a correlation analysis was used as the statistical tool in testing the hypotheses and it was conducted in SPSS. According to the findings of the research it can be stated that there is a significant relationship between advertising appeal and purchase intention. Further, it is found that positive emotional appeal and rational appeal are effective when attracting new customers. These findings can be used to improve the organizations in the mobile connection market.
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    The Impact of the Marketing Communication Tools on Brand Awareness in Second Hand Automobile Market in Sri Lanka
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) de Silva, A.K.S.; Wijenayake, S.I.
    This study is done to examine the impact of marketing communication tools on brand awareness in second hand automobile industry in Sri Lanka. It was identified that there is an increased usage of automobiles and most of people are buying used automobile from owners and automobile companies. Furthermore, it is observed that people consider many factors in their purchasing decision making process. Therefore the main objective of this study is to identify impact marketing communication tools on brand awareness in second hand automobile industry. A survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire to examine the stated hypothesis. Primary data was collected from 80 respondents who buy second hand automobiles in Colombo district and Gampaha District. Collected data were entered to SPSS software for purpose of basic data analysis. The impact of marketing communication tools on brand awareness in second hand automobile in Sri Lanka was identified as the final result of the study.
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    Impact of the Promotion Tools on the Brand Loyalty in Relevance to Anchor Newdale Flavoured Milk in the Context of Western Province,
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya, 2017) Balakrishnan, G.P.; Ubayachandra, E.G.
    In the present business environment, marketers are using different kinds of promotion tools to achieve the organizational communication goals. Companies spend millions of money on developing promotion tools but only very few of the promotion tools which are adopted to achieve the brand loyalty. Considerably a very low amount of researches has been done for the flavored milk industry in Sri Lanka, while in other countries there are many researches evaluating the relationship. With the limitations, a new research is required to evaluate the relationship between promotional tools and brand loyalty with special reference to in Anchor Newdale flavoured in western province Sri Lanka.This research was made based on 6 objectives and made sure that all 6 objectives were met and the research questions were answered. The Hypothesis created based on the objectives was also met by this research. For this purpose, 150 respondents were selected by using non probability sampling method. This research was conducted based on qualitative and quantitative basis and questionnaires, interviews and observation was used to collect data from the respondents. The data analysis covered correlation & regression by using the version 20.0 of SPSS package. Results revealed that promotion tools and brand loyalty are positively correlated.The researcher can conclude the fact that the promotion tools do have a positive significance on the brand loyalty. The analysis proves that this has been met. Although there is a positive significance towards the brand loyalty the relationship is basically moderate.