Abstract:
The objective of this research was to study factors affecting consumer buying behavior offashion and ready-made clothes. Three main factors were investigated:1) Marketing mix ( 7P s) including product, price, place, promotion, people, physical evidence and process; 2) Customer relationship management comprising customer prospecting, relations with customers, interactive management, customer retention, feedback and services; and 3) Demographics including sex, age, educational background, occupation and monthly income.
The samples were 400 customers of H&M and Uniqlo in Bangkok.These two shops were previously researched as the most popular fashion and clothing shops. Non-Probability sampling method was employed in this research. Purposive and quota sampling were selected as the sampling technique to choose the department stores and to gain a number of samples.
The findings indicated that different sex and educational background of the respondents did not affect their overall buying behavior. However, their age, occupation and monthly income did at a statistically significant level of 0.05 of the marketing mix factors, price was the most influential factor on consumer buying behavior. It was also found that interactive management of customer relationship management factors affected their buying behavior the most. These research findings would hopefully be beneficial to entrepreneurs in fashion and ready-made clothing industry in that they could set their strategic planning to effectively compete in the market and also meet the customer needs.