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Start date: 2016End date: 2019Author: search.filters.author.Bandara, B.S.S.U.Subject: search.filters.subject.Celebrity Endorsement

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    The Impact of Celebrity Endorsement on Consumer Purchasing Intention .
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Senarathne, B.G.S.; Bandara, B.S.S.U.
    In present business and marketing context the celebrity endorsement in building brands has become a major strategy. However the impact of this celebrity endorsement needs to analyze more as it impacts on the customers in different ways. Therefore the problem of this study has centered to “celebrity endorsement and consumer purchasing intension in Sri Lanka”. Even though there are many researches conducted with regards to the celebrity advertising and celebrity endorsement. There are no sufficient empirical evidences in Sri Lanka with regards to celebrity endorsement and its impact on consumer purchasing intention. The researcher has used the quantitative method and utilized the simple random sampling to select the respondents. Thus data were collected using 200 respondents from Kiribathgoda, Kelaniya and Gampaha area. The findings show positive relationship with celebrity endorsement and consumer purchasing intention. But it is a week positive relationship. However match up congruence of celebrity endorsement has strong positive relationship on consumer purchasing intention. Based on the findings the researcher has also provided recommendations in order to develop good brands based on the celebrity endorsement which can ultimately increase the purchasing intention.
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    Impact of Celebrity Endorsement towards Brand Equity: With Special Reference to Carbonated Soft Drinks Brands.
    (Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Costa, M.P.C.; Bandara, B.S.S.U.
    Nowadays, companies spend billions of dollars per year on celebrity endorsement to create the positive awareness for their products and brands. Most of carbonated soft drink brands tend to implement celebrity endorsement as an effective promotional tool .on the other hand the impact of the celebrity endorsement on brand equity varies from country to country according to previous research studies. But here the researcher could not found out any prior research conducted on the impact of celebrity endorsement towards the brand equity with special reference to carbonated soft drinks brands in Sri Lankan context. Thus the key purpose of this research to study the impact of celebrity endorsement towards the brand equity; with special reference to carbonated soft drink brands. In order to obtain a more reliable result, a quantitative research is carried out to investigate the topic. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis of demographic data. Correlation analysis was carried out to find out the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. According to the research findings, all the factors of celebrity endorsement (trustworthiness, expertise, attractiveness, product congruency, celebrity activation and celebrity multiplicity) have a liner relationship with brand equity .However; the level of impact of each factor is different from one another. Celebrity multiplicity and attractiveness of celebrity endorsement are most prominent factors which impact to build brand equity.