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Impact of Celebrity Endorsement on Females’ Consumer Buying Behavior: With Special Reference to the Beauty Soap Industry in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Harshani, A. W. W.
dc.contributor.author Weerasiri, R. A. S.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-11T06:53:14Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-11T06:53:14Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Harshani, A. W. W.; Weerasiri, R. A. S. (2021), Impact of Celebrity Endorsement on Females’ Consumer Buying Behavior: With Special Reference to the Beauty Soap Industry in Sri Lanka, 6th Student Research Conference in Marketing (SRCM 2021), Department of Marketing Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka. Page 11 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/28306
dc.description.abstract Celebrity endorsement is one of the modern ways of advertising. In here, companies tend to increase their sales using very famous and popular personalities. In beauty soap industry, there has a huge growth. Also, competitive brands are tried to compete with other brands using celebrity endorsement. That’s why researcher thinks this topic will be very useful. The major purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of celebrity endorsement on female consumers’ buying behavior. According to literature review, researcher identified four independent variables as Credibility, Attractiveness, Product/Celebrity Match up and Meaning Transferred. Because most of the people think that are these qualities should have in their favorite celebrities. When talking about the methodology, researcher developed hypothesis based on the literature review. The researcher collected data through the google form method. The Questionnaire was distributed among 384 respondents. However, researcher received only 180 questionnaires. By using the SPSS version 22.0 the data was analyzed. The findings of this study reveal that, most of the people concentrate only the attractiveness of the celebrity. The reason is celebrities’ credibility is very low. Because they act only for the advertisements. When organizations try to do the advertisements, they should think about attractiveness of the celebrity. en_US
dc.publisher Department of Marketing Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Advertisement, Attractiveness, Celebrity Endorsement, Credibility en_US
dc.title Impact of Celebrity Endorsement on Females’ Consumer Buying Behavior: With Special Reference to the Beauty Soap Industry in Sri Lanka en_US


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