A Study on the Determinants of Purchasing Decision Making for Effective Branding Strategy: Focusing the Medicine Treatment in Infantile Obesity

효과적인 브랜딩 전략을 위한 소비자 구매의사 결정 요인 분석: 소아비만 치료제 유통시장을 중심으로

This study is important in its focus to find key clues in the marketing strategy, consumer behavior, and communication processes that define the infantile obesity market. The study, the first of its kind, surveyed a target audience, purchasing group, and housewives in their quest to determine purchasing decisions and effective branding strategy planning for the infantile obesity market. Another key component of the study was to focus on the key direct and/or indirect distribution channels for the subject market. Recently, obesity has emerged as a major social concern; some studies show that the onslaught of an adverse eating culture in Korea emanates from the prevalence of fast-food dining establishments. Obesity among children leads to adult obesity, especially if the young people's parents are overweight; notably, if either one or both of the parents are obese, the percentage of young people eventually being obese is approximately 80 to 85 percent. Because obesity is the cause of many major health concerns later in life, the struggle for a healthy life is considerably adversely affected by parents' consumer behavior. Infantile obesity, resulting in adult obesity, is also an important national economic and social issue. The sizable direct and indirect economic costs, as well as the tremendous social costs of obesity, cannot be overstated. Effective food branding and advertising centered on food preferences and dietary behaviors, especially to children, creates an effective marketing effort that, ultimately, leads to positive results. Thus, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the treatment of childhood obesity in Korea, through the activation of a brand and retail market, can effectively solve social and economic problems that result from infantile and childhood obesity. In this study, obesity markets and distribution channels in the purchase decision-making factors determining factor based on it effective inspection and branding strategies and brand marketing communications strategy proposed measures contribute to the obesity drug market and further enable the childhood obesity problem is intended to assist in solving.

본 연구는 소아비만 치료제 시장에 있어 중요한 마케팅 대상그룹인 구매 타켓, 주부들을 대상으로 한 설문조사를 통해 소아비만 시장에서의 구매의사 결정요인과 유통경로 결정요인 등을 분석해 효과적인 브랜딩 전략을 수립하기 위한 것이다. 최근 비만이 사회적으로 큰 문제로 떠오르고 있고 몇 몇 연구들을 통해 우리나라의 외식문화로부터 사회적 비만문제의 원인을 찾는 경우가 있어 외식프랜차이즈 산업에 있어서도 비만 문제는 관심 있게 바라보고 대처해야 할 관심사라 할 수 있다. 특히 소아비만의 경우 소아비만 환자의 80~85%가 성인비만으로 이어져 평생 비만과 씨름하면서 살아야 하는 심각한 문제를 야기 한다. 따라서 이러한 소아비만 문제는 부모들의 소비행동에 적잖은 영향을 미치고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 소아비만 시장의 구매의사 결정요인과 유통경로 결정요인 등을 살펴보고 이를 바탕으로 한 효과적인 브랜딩 전략과 브랜드 마케팅 커뮤니케이션 전략수립 방안을 제시하여 소아비만 치료제 시장 활성화에 기여하고 나아가 소아비만 문제해결에 일조하기 위함이다.