Abstract:
The objectives of the thesis are to investigate the market situation of premium coffee shop business in Thailand using secondary data which based on descriptive analysis. And to analyze the difference between two types of coffee-shop franchising. Thai-owned firm and foreign-owned firm. Regarding to franchisor, the study focus on the difference of organization, marketing, production, and franchising. The study mainly based on primary data, collected from franchisors in-depth interview. For franchisee and consumer opinions, the study is based on data collected by questionnaires of 15 franchisee samples and 400 consumer samples, and utilizing discriminant analysis to identify the difference between two groups of franchisee and two groups of consumer. The study found that most firms offer coffee beverage menu as the core product, their brand names and logos are designed to be differentiated by consumers. Besides, product strategies, product advertising, corporate advertising, people strategies, and franchising expansion are attractive competition strategies in this business. Moreover, the kind of benefits and franchising costs variation is the difference in brand and size of individual shop. Furthermore, the study found some difference of both franchisings. According to franchisors, there are some findings summarized as following. Firstly, their organization structures are quite similar but Thai-owned franchisor is likely to expand the business by franchising than the foreign-owned franchisor. Secondly, regarding to marketing structure, foreign-owned franchisor has more wildly range of consumers, positions the product in higher market, tends to establish the shop in location where easily accessed by consumers, and presenting more modern style of products. But, Thai-owned franchisor is likely to establish the stand-alone shop and attracts consumers by high quality products from local market. However, they both have similarity in advertising campaign, both prefer to use shop marketing and advertising. Thirdly, production structures of both franchisors are similar except different suppliers of coffee making process. Lastly, for franchising structure, the foreign-owned franchisor charges higher initial costs and franchising fees. In examining the difference between franchisees, the result implies that Thai-owned firm's franchisees mostly are married, operate with high ratio of loan to total capital, high ratio of other source to total capital, and express high pricing policy satisfaction. However, foreigh-owned firm's franchisees mostly receive high annual income of shop, spend high costs of franchisig, take long-time for training, high preference to the standard of quality control, and having business experiences. In examining the difference between two groups of consumer, the result shows that Thai-owned firm's consumers mostly are Thai nationality, high preference to other food and beverage pricing such as bakery, prefer shop decoration and free roduct samples, express high satisfaction of friendliness of staff, being the government official or business owner, and prefer hot coffee beverage menu. On the other hand, foreign-owned firm's consumers mostly are students, big spenders, in favor of shop atmosphere and location, and high preference to product samples