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Item Factors Affecting to Brand Loyalty in Fast Food Industry With Special Reference to Colombo District(Department of Marketing Management, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Fernando, T.M.D.; Fernando, P.M.P.Developing and managing Brand Equity for a brand is considered as a critical issue for most of the industries. Having too many brands around the customer and competitive marketing and promotion campaigns can be a cause to create a brand confusion in customers mind. Multinational companies like Pizza Hut, KFC and McDonalds’ coming in to the local market using franchise model may use innovative strategies to build up their brand loyalty in local context. On this research, researcher tries to identify the most important factors that affect brand loyalty in fast food restaurants. The researcher identified Atmosphere, Promotion, Value Addition, Food Provided, Price, Brand Image and Service Quality through a comprehensive literature review as factors leading to branding loyalty. The research was conducted in Colombo District with a sample of 140 respondents. Survey method was used as the research strategy and a self-administered, structured questionnaire was distributed among respondents to collect data for the study. Hypothesis were tested using regression analysis and results showed that atmosphere is the most prominent factor when it comes to customer brand loyalty of fast food restaurants while other variables indicated a moderate to weak influence on brand loyalty.Item The effectiveness of brand personality dimensions on brand loyalty: A study on mobile telecommunication services in Sri Lanka(The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2015) Silva, A.R.N.; Fernando, P.M.P.Telecommunication sector has evolved as a major business trend in worldwide. It is one of the major commercial activities in Sri Lanka also where many competitors are playing with different strategies to win a larger market share. This research is focusing on the mobile telecommunication industry in Sri Lanka where the industry players are using carefully planned marketing strategies to attract more customers into their share. The research is taking the approach of investigating the effectiveness of Brand Personality Dimensions on creating Brand Loyalty within the industry. Building upon the prior research on the concepts, Aaker’s Brand Personality Scale was used as the base to measure the brand personality and attitudinal and behavioral loyalties were used to measure brand loyalty within the mobile telecommunication sector. The primary data was gathered using a self-administrated questionnaire from 100 users of mobile telecommunication networks using convenience sampling technique within the Western Province of Sri Lanka. The results indicated that the most important brand personality dimensions associated with the brand loyalty in the Sri Lankan mobile telecommunication industry were Excitement and Sincerity. Further it was found that Sophistication, Competence and Ruggedness dimensions of brand personality also significantly affects brand loyalty. Implication of the findings were highlighted and discussed based on the research findings.