Integrated marketing communication and trust affecting purchase intention for Chinese brand electric vehicles among consumers in the northern region, Thailand
Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to 1) study the opinion level of the integrated marketing communication, trust, and purchase intention for Chinese brand electric vehicles among consumers in the northern region of Thailand and 2) to study factor affecting purchase intention for Chinese brand electric vehicles among consumers in the northern region of Thailand. The sample was 385 working-age consumers aged 20-60 years who intend to buy Chinese brand electric cars. The study tool was an online questionnaire. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and enter multiple regression analysis.
The results showed that 1) the integrated marketing communication; advertising, personal selling, sales promotion; publicity and public relation, direct marketing, trust and purchase intention for Chinese brand electric vehicles were at a high level and 2) the integrated marketing communication; direct marketing (β = 0.263), sales promotion (β = 0.162), personal selling (β = 0.158), trust (β = 0.146) advertising (β = 0.133), and publicity and public relation (β = 0.091) affecting purchase intention for Chinese brand electric vehicles among consumers in the northern region of Thailand with statistical significance at the .05 level. These predict the purchase intention for Chinese brand electric vehicles among consumers in the northern region of Thailand by 71.70 percent. The electric vehicle operators should apply integrated marketing communication and trust into marketing strategies as a potent means to positively impact consumer intent to purchase Chinese brand electric vehicles in the future.