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In the recent few years, with the raise of GNP and "five days a week" promoted by government, more and more people are willing to go cycling at the weekends. Taiwan has already got it name by "the export kingdom of bikes" therefore, I have chosen this topic to do my dissertation in order to explore the consumer behavior in buying bikes. Hope the following information will be a good help to Taiwan''s bike manufacturers. This study has mainly separated these consumers into 4 groups: Group 1: economic style; Group 2: informed style; Group 3: external style; Group 4: functional style. We then discover those interesting results as below: 1. Consumers in different segment have significant difference in demographic variances, like as age, educational background, profession, income and location. 2. Consumers in different segment have significant difference in brand, purchaser, purchasing place and price. 3. Consumers in different segment have significant difference in the purpose of commuting, exercise and others. 4. Consumers in different segment have significant difference in the reason of keeping fit, cheaper expense, exercising, not welling to ride motor cycles and leisure. 5. Consumers in different segment have significant difference in the source of information, like as TV advertisement, magazine, professional magazine, radio, promotion poster, vender, catalogue and self-preference. 6. Consumers in different segment have significant difference in consumers'' satisfaction and re-purchasing behavior. As for the whole sample, we found the results as follows: 1. It seems that the controlling system is the most important factor to most consumers. Besides, they also regard product comfort, after service, product guarantee, product quality, professional knowledge from the vender, reasonable price, spare parts quality, image from the vender and anti-stealing system on the bikes. 2. Most consumers will purchase their bikes through their own experience. Opinions form the vender and their relatives will affect their purchasing behavior as well. 3. Most consumers mainly buy their product for leisure use. 4. Over 67.1% of consumers will spend less than NT$4,000 on their bikes, 48.5% of people will spend their bikes between the price range NT$2,001 and NT$4,000. 5. Generally speaking, most consumers purchase bikes for their own. 6. Most consumers will buy their bike from the retailer. 7. It seems that most consumers are happy with their bikes now. The majority of them will even buy another bike from the same brand.
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