potential strategies should Starbucks Thailand adjust and change in order to improve its performance and enhance its competitive advantage.
1.3 Research Objectives
1. To study the impacts of marketing mix on customer satisfaction of two coffee companies in Thailand (The American Company as Starbucks Company – Thailand and the Thai company as Black Canyon Coffee).
2. To study the related marketing strategies for enhancing the competitive advantage of coffee company in Thailand.
1.4 Scope of the Study
The research has been selective in focusing on the service marketing strategies compare between Starbucks Coffee Company in Thailand market and Black Canyon Coffee by using Marketing mixed model to examine the best strategies to enhance the customers’ satisfaction in Thailand market.
1.5 Operational Definitions
Wholly owned subsidiaries: Facility entirely owned and controlled by a single parent company.
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Franchising: Practice by which one company (the franchiser) supplies another (the franchisee) with intangible property and other assistance over an extended period.
Global strategy: offering the same products using the same marketing strategy in all national market.
Multinational (Multi-domestic) Strategy: Adapting product and their marketing strategies in each national market to suit local preferences.
Strategy: Set of planed actions taken by managers to help a company meet its objectives. Service Marketing mixed: This model is a tool used by marketers to assist in implementing the Marketing strategy to generate the optimal response in the target market by blending 8 variables (product, price, place, promotion, people, process, physical evidence and Productivity) in an optimal way.
Satisfaction: a person’s feelings of pleasure or disappointment resulting from comparing a product are perceived performance or outcome in relationship to his of her expectations. Service Quality (SEARVQUA): a service-quality framework that has been incorporated into customer-satisfaction surveys to indicate the gap between customer expectations and experience