This thesis focuses on clarifying how brand loyalty interplays with brand satisfaction. As most research conducted on this subject have been quantitative, this study takes a qualitative approach as a way to further describe the interplay on an individual level in a specific context, in this case the clothing industry. It has been conducted through semi-structured interviews, using seven heterogeneously brand loyal informants who answered questions concerning their brand satisfaction and brand loyalty towards brands within the clothing industry. The results demonstrates that there are significant differences in the interplay on the individual level, though most of these can be explained through previous research. Furthermore, there is considerable differences between interplay that can be explained by the brand loyalty levels of the informants. The interplay was clear amongst manifestly brand satisfied consumers. Subcategories to mental brand loyalty influenced both brand loyalty and brand satisfaction and the identification-subcategory had a distinct influence on the reasoning of all consumers.

The thesis discusses the importance of loyal customers, and loyalty system as a tool for building loyalty. It defines loyalty and customer satisfaction, it deals with the issue of customer retention. It describes the history and types of loyalty programs, important factors for deciding on their implementation and problems associated with them. The practical part is concerned with the clothing market, Orsay company and its Orsay Club loyalty systeme. The work also includes a survey of the loyalty programs on the market with clothes, with a focus on Orsay and Orsay club.

For fashion online stores loyal customers are as important as they are for traditional retail stores. Through a high amount of loyal customers a company can reduce operational costs and increase its overall profitability. Finally a company can gain more benefits from retaining existing customers instead of acquiring new ones. Therefore it has become more important to win customer share than market share. To figure out how loyalty can be created a company needs to occupy itself intensively with the concept of Customer Relationship Management. There exist different types of loyalty and not every customer can be turned into a loyal customer. The company has to enter into a relationship with its customers that has to grow like the courtship. At best case the bond will end up in a satisfied win-win relationship that contains benefits for both the customer and the company. The longer the relationship will last, the higher the customer value will get and the more the company can profit from it. The same rules and principles also count for the online business. Because of higher costs for attracting new customers, high competition in the market and highly demanding customers treating your existing customers well and turning them into loyal customers is the key to success. E-Loyalty drivers give the company an indicator about what generates e-loyalty for company’s website. Why does a customer return to a website and why does he stick to a certain online shop? One of the most crucial factors to create loyalty in an online business is trust. Only when a customer trusts the vendor he will hand out his personal data, will return to the vendor and will recommend the online shop to others. When it was taken a further look at how online shops tackle the question of loyalty it became clear that the customer is put in the centre. The online shops heavily attempt to keep up with the latest ecommerce trends in order to win over customers. Through Social Commerce the companies have totally new possibilities to interact with the customers and to gain customer insight. In this way it has become much easier to understand the customer and to respond to his individual needs and preferences in order to build up a relationship with him. / Program: Magisterutbildning i fashion management med inriktning modemarknadsföring

Bakalauro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjamas vartotojų lojalumas prekės ženklui. Teorinėje dalyje apžvelgiama vartotojų lojalumo prekės ženklui samprata, lojalumo fazės, lojalumą veikiantys veiksniai, vartotojų lojalumo prekės ženklui tipai, lojalumo teikiama nauda vartotojui ir įmonei bei lojalumą skatinančios priemonės. Vartotojų lojalumo prekės ženklui tyrimas atliekamas Lietuvos telekomunikacijų bendrovių pavyzdžiu. Tyrimu siekiama nustatyti vartotojų lojalumą telekomunikacijų bendrovės prekės ženklui lemiančius veiksnius, taip pat veiksnius, kurie paskatintų pakeisti dabartinį prekės ženklą, vartotojų lojalumo prekės ženklui tipus ir elgesį. Tyrimo metu nustatyta, kad kaina yra vienas iš pagrindinių veiksnių, kuris ne tik veikia vartotojų lojalumą telekomunikacijų bendrovės prekės ženklui, bet ir gali paskatinti pakeisti dabartinį prekės ženklą, jei kita telekomunikacijų bendrovė pasiūlytų mažesnę kainą už paslaugas. Remiantis gautais rezultatais, galima teigti, kad telekomunikacijų bendrovių klientai yra lojalūs prekės ženklui, tačiau įvairių tipų ir lygių. Dauguma jų priklauso viduriniam lojalumo lygiui. Jie naudojasi telekomunikacijų bendrovės teikiamomis paslaugomis, bet galėtų ją pakeisti ir kita, jei pasitaikytų geresnis konkurentų pasiūlymas. / The bachelor's thesis analyses consumers’ loyalty to brand. The definition of brand loyalty, loyalty phases, factors affecting brand loyalty, the types of brand loyalty, benefits of loyalty to the consumer and company and measures to promote loyalty are overviewed in the theoretical part. Research of brand loyalty was done by example of Lithuanian telecommunication companies. There were tried to determine factors of consumers’ loyalty to the telecommunication companies brand and factors that could lead to change the current brand, consumers’ type and behavior of loyalty to brand. There were noticed that the price is one of the main factors that not only affect consumer’s loyalty for the telecommunication company's brand, but can also lead to replacement of the current brand in case that another telecommunication company would offer a lower price for the service during the study. In the light of results one of suggestions could be that costumers of telecommunication companies are loyal to the brand, but they differ in types and levels. The main part of them belongs to middle loyalty level. They use the services of telecommunication company, but could change it to another if they get better offer of rivals.

SANTRAUKA Bakalauro baigiamajame darbe pateikiama užsienio ir lietuvių autorių suformuotos vartotojų lojalumo sampratos ir esmė, atskleisti ir analizuojami vartotojų lojalumą formuojantys veiksniai, lojalių klientų nauda įmonei, nagrinėjami lojalumo tipai ir lojalumo matavimo metodai. Remiantis išanalizuota literatūra lojalumo formavimo aspektu ir naudojantis lojalumo ekspertų F. Reicheldo bei J. J. Ellingo ir S. Jorgenseno lojalumo matavimo metodais atlikta UAB „PTA Group“ vartotojų lojalumo analizė. Šio bakalauro sudedamosios dalys: 1. vartotojų lojalumo sampratų, formavimo, naudos ir matavimo analizės teoriniu aspektu; 2. UAB „PTA Group“ vartotojų lojalumo Šiaulių mieste tyrimo analizė. Tyrime dalyvavo 100 Šiaulių miesto moterų, kurios žino ir bent kartą buvo apsilankiusios, pirko PTA rūbų parduotuvėje. Atlikus ne tik esamų ir pastovių, bet ir potencialiai lojalių PTA klienčių apklausą, nustatyta, ne tik kokie veiksniai labiausiai įtakoja prisirišimą ir teigiamą požiūrį PTA atžvilgiu bet atskleistos ir nelojalumo, nepirkimo PTA priežastys bei kas paskatintų neutralių ir potencialiai lojalių vartotojų grupes pirkti PTA. Atsižveldama į atitinkamą lojalumo lygį pasiekusius vartotojus, PTA įmonė gali kurti marketingo strategijas, teikti skirtingus pasiūlymus ir skatinimo priemones. Šio tyrimo duomenys gali būti naudingi tobulinant savo įmonės marketingo strategiją, plečiant aptarnaujamą segmentą, atsižvelgiant į klientų nuomones, poreikius ir į daugumą, kuri neša įmonei... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / SUMMARY In this final work of Bachelor studies are submitted the concept and essence in customer loyalty structured by foreign and Lithuanian authors, analyzing the factors, witch form customer loyalty, benefits of the company of loyal customers, examined the types of loyalty and loyalty measurement methods. According to literature reviewed in the formation of loyalty and respect through loyalty expert F. Reicheldo, J. J. Elling, S. Jorgensen loyalty measurement approaches was taken UAB “PTA Group's” customer loyalty analyze. Component parts of final work of Bachelor studies are: 1. customer loyalty concepts, formation, value and measurement analysis of the theoretical aspect; 2. customer loyalty study analysis on UAB “PTA Group” in the city of Siauliai. The study included 100 women in the city of Siauliai, which know and have been visited at least once or bought in PTA clothing shop. After not only current and stable, but potentially loyal customers survey done, was found not only what factors most affect the attachment and a positive attitude to PTA but also was founded the reasons of disloyalty and what neutral and potentially loyal consumers groups lead to buy PTA. Considering to permitted level of loyal consumers, PTA can create marketing strategies to differentiate their offerings and incentives. These studies may be useful in improving PTA company's marketing strategy, expanding the catchment segment according to customer opinions and needs and of the majority of the... [to full text]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: J. Joseph Cronin Jr., Florida State University, College of Business, Dept. of Marketing. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 27, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 209 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

The aim of this thesis is to suggest optimizations for Triola Plc. loyalty program based on theoretical understanding of loyalty and its role in success of a company, as well as numer-ous practical analyses. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part overviews the theoretical knowledge about consumer loyalty and how loyalty program can be an ef-fective tool in building said loyalty. The second part is formed of variety of practical anal-yses, including analysis of Triola sales data, data mining analysis using MML-TGI data ana-lyser, consumer survey and lastly benchmarking analysis. The last chapter is a synthesis of the theoretical and practical parts and suggest recommendations for Triola loyalty program based on the insights gathered throughout the whole thesis.

This thesis investigates young bank customer (YBC) perceptions of loyalty in the context of mobile bank applications (MBAs), including loyalty antecedents and the consequences of loyalty. A first study investigates the relationships between cognitive, affective, and conative antecedents, on one hand, and loyalty, on the other. A second study investigates the relationships between usability, responsiveness and reliability, and customer satisfaction, on one hand, and loyalty, on the other. The thesis employs a theoretical framework describing customer loyalty in the MBA context. An electronic questionnaire was sent to 500 YBCs in the Mid Sweden region (146 completed questionnaires were received), and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling were employed to test and develop a measurement model from the responses. Synthesizing the results of the studies performed suggests a model of MBA loyalty from the YBC perspective. The model indicates that cognitive and usability antecedents are significantly related to customer satisfaction, which in turn is significantly related to attitudinal and behavioural loyalty. Despite some limitations, the thesis has novel implications for theory and practice regarding YBC perceptions of MBAs. / <p>Vid tidpunkten för framläggningen av avhandlingen var följande delarbeten opublicerade: delarbete 1 (accepterat), delarbete 2 (accepterat).</p><p>At the time of the defence the following papers were unpublished: paper 1 (accepted), paper 2 (accepted).</p>

This study concerns the relationship between organisational and professional commitment over time. The study was conducted among solicitors In large commercial practices. Reviewing the literature on organisational and professional commitment three issues appeared salient. The first concerns the extent to which commitment Is time related. The second concerns the extent to which professional and organisational commitment are compatible. The third relates to the nature of commitment. Levinson's (1978) theory of adult development provided the framework of analysis for the present study. The core of Levinson's theory Is that people experience periods of stability and transition during their lifetime. Moreover, these changes are to some extent predetermined. The present study tests the Idea that commitment generally Increases with age. The underlying assumption is that older people are generally more satisfied with life In general than younger people. Another set of hypotheses relates to the relationship between organisational and professional commitment. It Is expected that both forms of commitment are complementary. Levinson suggests that at each life structure individuals experience different Intensities of commitment. This Is shaped by personality development as well as the processes of adaptation and socialisation. Finally, the motives behind an Individual's decision to stay In the organisation or the profession determines the nature of their commitments. It Is expected that professionals express their commitments In terms of a positive attitude rather than Instrumental behaviour. Organisational and professional commitment were measured using Meyer and Alien's (1991) scale.The measuresof organisational and professional commitment differentiated between attitudinal and behavioural dimensions. Attitudinal commitment was defined as the psychological Identification and attachment to the firm and to the profession (affective commitment), as well as a perceived moral duty to remain In the firm and profession (normative commitment). Behavioural commitment wasdescribed aspersonal sacrifices and the costs of quitting either the profession or the firm (continuance commitment). The survey also measured Job Involvement (Lodahl and Kejner 1965). professionalism (Hall 1968), and work values orientation (Shepard 1972; Popper and Lipshizt 1992). A sample was drawn randomly from large solicitors' firms In London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. 403 usable replies were received. Data were analyzed mainly by t-test and Oneway Analysis of Variance (A.N.O.V.A) and Duncan's multiple-range test for multiple comparisons. The results confirm the Initial hypotheses. Age was found to be a stronger predictor of commitment than Individuals' experiences. Further, solicitors are more professionally than organisationally committed. This finding Is, however, subjected to some qualifications. The sense of 'wanting to stay' and 'needing to stay' Is higher for the profession than the firms. Yet the 'obllgation to stay' Is higher for the organisation than the profession. When results are analysed by age, professional commitment predominates only among solicitors In the early career stage. Thereafter, no form of commitment predominates until 'Mid-life Transition'. At this stage, organisational commitment predominates. In the late career stage, there Is no significant difference between both forms of commitment. Generally, affective commitment predominates over calculative commitment. The theoretical and practical Implications of the findings of the present study are discussed. The thesis Includes suggestions for future research.

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