INTERNSHIP PROJECT REPORT On LOYALTY PROGRAM Of

Under The Guidance Of Mr. Bhushan Parate Lifestyle International Pvt Ltd. (Landmark Group)

Submitted By Name: Nitish Dhawan Batch & Section: 2012-2014 (SSB2), IIPM, New Delhi Student ID: DL1214SSIIPM-PGPSUP11344(AHM-7-AA-33705) Area of Research: Marketing Internship Duration: 6th Apr 2013-6th june 2013

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The beatitude, bliss and euphoria that accompany successful completion of any task would be incomplete without the expression of gratitude to the people who made it possible with their every bit of help. As success in any work is credited to hard work, but without a proper guidance it may be out of ones reach, so with reverence and honor I acknowledge all those who helped me in carrying out this project successfully.

I avail this opportunity to express my profound sense of sincere and deep gratitude to Mr. Bhushan Parate , Lifestyle (Landmark Group) who guided me with his valuable help in channelizing my effort in the right direction during the course of the project.

I appreciate the co-ordination extended by my friends and also express my sincere thankfulness to the entire faculty members of Indian Institute of Planning & Management, Delhi, giving me the opportunity to do this project/study and also assisting me for the same.

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TABLE OF CONTENT Title page Completition certificate from the company / organization Acknowledgements Table of contents Company Profile Executive Summary Introduction Loyalty program (Project) Literature Review Research and analysis Recommendations & Conclusion

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COMPANY PROFILE Lifestyle International Pvt Ltd. Lifestyle International (P) Ltd, part of the prestigious Dubai based Landmark Group, started its operations in India with the launch of the first Lifestyle store in Chennai in 1999. In little over a decades time, Lifestyle has established itself amongst the leading retail companies in India. Positioned as a youthful, stylish and a vibrant brand, Lifestyle Departmental stores offers its customers not just the ease of shopping but also an enjoyable shopping experience. Each Lifestyle store brings together five concepts under one roof Apparel, Footwear, Childrens Wear & Toys, Furniture & Home Furnishings, Beauty & Fashion Accessories - offering a convenience of a one-stop shop and a wide choice of national & international brands. Home Centre by Lifestyle is a one stop destination for Furniture, Home Dcor and Soft Furnishings that truly represent style, comfort and individuality. Home Centre uses a unique Concept Room display model to give customers a practical idea of how each piece of furniture would look in a particular room. In keeping with the Groups tradition of making every shopping experience rewarding and memorable, The Inner Circle Landmark Groups Loyalty program allows members, to enjoy exclusive benefits and privileges such as reward points and exciting offers. The Inner Circle is today recognized amongst the leading Loyalty Program in the country with an ever increasing base of customers. The card is accepted across all Landmark Group Stores in India including Lifestyle, Home Centre by Lifestyle, Max Fashion, Bossini, Spar Hypermarket, Polynation Food Court & Gloria Jeans Coffees. Lifestyle and Home Centre offer a truly international shopping experience, a fact borne by numerous accolades:

Lifestyle International Pvt Ltd recognized amongst India's Best Companies To Work For (42nd position) by The Economic Times and The Great Place To Work Institute 2013 Lifestyle receives Most Admired Fashion Retail Destination of the Year at the Images Fashion Awards for two consecutive years 2011 & 2012 Lifestyle awarded Most Admired Retailer of the Year, Department Store Category at the Images Retail Awards 2012, 2011 & 2008 Images Most Admired Beauty Products Retailer of the Year: Department Store Chain at Images Beauty & Wellness Awards 2013 Retail Supply Chain Excellence Award Express Logistics & Supply Chain Conclave & Awards 2012

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Home Centre awarded Most Admired Retailer of the Year, Home and Interiors Category at the Images Retail Awards 2009 & 2010 Reid and Taylor Retailer of the Year award for the year 2006 for Lifestyle. Lycra Images Fashion Awards for the Most Admired Large Format Retailer of the Year in 2006 for Lifestyle ICICI KSA Technopak Award for Retail Excellence in 2005 for Lifestyle Most Respected Company in the Retail Sector by Business World IMRB in 2003 and 2004 for Lifestyle

MISSION: Lifestyle shall strive to provide ultimate Value and satisfaction to its customer in terms of quality control with price. Through excellence in technology break Through Management enterprise Through Total Quality Management. To make it a preferred organization for both present and future employees, suppliers, customers, shareholders related agencies and society and large and continue its march towards progress and retain its front line positions. VISION: Lifestyle shall deliver every time, everywhere, and everything for every consumer of India in a profitable way. Lifestyle India shares the belief that the potential stakeholders and customers shall be provided by executing and creating future developments in the leading consumption space to the economic development. MOTTO: Customer Satisfaction is our real motto

CORE VALUES: Confidence in ourselves. To be a leader, both in thought, business and in innovation. Respect every individual and be humble in our Conduct. Leading to purposeful thinking. To be open and receptive to new ideas, knowledge and information. To build long term relationships.
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Simplicity and positively in our thought, business and ideas. To be flexible and adaptable, to meet challenges

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Marketing theory and practice has become more and more customer centered, and managers have increased their emphasis on long-term client relationships because loyalty, stronger relationships and therefore longer customer lifetimes likely are associated with a greater degree of cross-buying, a more significant level of transactions and therefore higher profits. This makes Customer retention rates and customer share of category purchase as important metrics in customer relationship management. To maximize these metrics, many firms use relationship marketing instruments, and loyalty programs or frequency reward programs. But these programs along with being beneficial are also highly costly. Thus it is important to find out whether these loyalty programs are influencing the buying behavior of customers or not and if they are influencing then how impactful is there influence.

Definition of Loyalty card program: The loyalty program provides gratification to those who require rewards for purchases and avoids additional costs for those who would buy even without them. Loyalty card program is an integrated system of marketing actions that aims to make customers more loyal by developing personalized relationships with them. Relationship marketing focuses on the customer, in the sense that the firm seeks to create long-term business relations with existing prospects and customers.

Retailing is one of the oldest business activities in India. But until the liberalization and deregulation of the Indian economy in the 1990s, it was dominated by small one-man retail units. Today's customers have more choice, are better informed and are more demanding of value and return for their spending money. They look not only for the products and 6|Page
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services that meet their needs at the price they are willing to pay, but for the merchant that recognizes, appreciates and rewards their patronage. Now a days all big apparel retailers have started the loyalty program with different benefits in order to satisfy customer needs and wants Top retail players like lifestyle, pantaloons ,shopper stop ,Globus have adopted loyalty card and The loyalty program is used as a tool for retaining a customers now a In India the retailers plays vital role in selling goods to the ultimate customer and day by day number of retailers are increasing tremendously and ultimate end users are being confused and customers keep on changing the retail store The questionnaire survey was taken from 150 customers randomly and most of them have purchased before at lifestyle. The loyalty program at lifestyle plays a vital role in retaining a customer and nearly 75% of the customers are using the membership card for more than two years Satisfaction level in shopping experience, services, quality and discount are very high 69.8% of customers whos using lifestyle membership card for more than 2 years says that the current loyalty program is excellent.

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INTRODUCTION The word retail is, in fact, derived from the French word retailer, which means to cut off a piece or to break bulk.A retailer may be defined as a dealer or trader who repeatedly sells goods in small quantities. Retailing is the business where an organization directly sells its products and services to an end consumer and this is for his personal use. By definition whenever an organization be it a manufacturing or a whole seller sells directly to the end consumer it is actually operating in the Retail space. The growth in Indian Retail segment was mostly attributed to factors like increasing disposable income, favorable demographics, changing lifestyle, growth of the middle class segment, high potential for penetration into rural markets, and progressive FDI norms It is an Industry which is heavily dependent on consumer spending. In this ecosystem consumers play the most important role. Retail sales are generally driven by peoples ability (disposable income) and willingness (consumer confidence) to buy goods and services. "Retailing is one of the oldest business activities in India. But until the liberalization and deregulation of the Indian economy in the 1990s, it was dominated by small one-man retail units. However since the past five years, it has become more structured and formalized and is moving towards international standards. Today, the organized retail sector is an industry Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be individuals or businesses. In commerce, a "retailer" buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells smaller quantities to the end-user. Retail establishments are often called shops or stores. Retailers are at the end of the supply chain. Manufacturing marketers see the process of retailing as a necessary part of their overall distribution strategy. The term "retailer" is also applied where a service provider services the needs of a large number of individuals, such as a public utility, like electric power. Shops may be on residential streets, shopping streets with few or no houses or in a shopping mall. Shopping streets may be for pedestrians only. Sometimes a shopping street has a partial or full roof to protect customers from precipitation. Online retailing, a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and mail order, are forms of non-shop retailing. Shopping generally refers to the act of buying products. Sometimes this is done to obtain necessities such as food and clothing; sometimes it is done as a recreational activity. Recreational shopping often involves window shopping (just looking, not buying) and browsing and does not always result in a purchase. 8|Page
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ISSUES IN RETAILING: How can we best serve our customers while earning a fair profit? How can we stand out in a highly competitive environment where consumers have too many choices? How can we grow our business, while retaining a core of loyal customers? Retailers can best address these questions by fully understanding and applying the basic principles of retailing, as well as the elements in a well-structured, systematic, and focused retail strategy

EVOLUTION OF INDIAN RETAIL: Informal retailing Sector Typically large retailers Greater enforcement of taxation mechanisms

High level of labor usage monitoring

Formal Retailing Sector Typically small retailers. Evasion of taxes Difficulty in enforcing tax collection mechanisms No monitoring of labor laws.

TYPICAL CHANNEL OF DISTRIBUTION MANUFACTURE RETAILER

WHOLESELLER FINAL CONSUMER A retailer sells to consumers through multiple retail formats Web sites Physical stores

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Retail consumer markets today include high rates of personal expenditures, low interest rates, low unemployment and very low inflation. Negative factors that impact retail sales involve weakening consumer confidence. One of Indias major retailers with presence in following two segments: Lifestyle Retailing : Pantaloons, Central, Fashion Station, aLL, MeLa. Value Retailing :Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar. Retailing is the worlds largest private industry: Retail is the worlds largest private industry with global retail sales of roughly USD 8 trillion. Retailing is also one of the biggest contributors to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of most countries and also one of the biggest employers. (Source CII McKinsey Report titled Retailing in India, the Emerging Revolution) In India, however, the retail sector has seen a high level of fragmentation with a large share held by unorganized players. BOOMING OF APPAREL RETAIL INDUSTRY In india the retailers plays vital role in selling goods to the ultimate customer and day by day number of retailers are increasing tremendously and ultimate end users are being confused and customers keep on changing the retail store The apparel retailers try to adopt change with new fashion and promotional activities to ultimate customers now a days many franchise apparel retail store are being increased and so that number of stores are increasing easily and retaining a customer by apparel retailers are becoming very difficult and in order to retain customers now top apparel retail giant like pantaloons, lifestyle, globus, shopper stop, Westside and many more apparel retailers try to retain customer using various customer program because relationship with customer is more important or else they may move easily to other retail stor

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LOYALTY PROGRAM Loyalty is one of the great engines of business success. The word loyalty has different explanation and it all refer to way of Services. It is important to define exactly: what is meant by loyalty in the context of Business Development and Retention. Several broad definitions exist, including the following: The commitment of customers to a particular brand or company The extent to which your customers continue with key loyalty behavior when Competitors offer more attractive prices, products, and/or services Faithful to any person or thing conceived of as deserving fidelity... characterized by or showing faithfulness For this report, loyalty is defined as follows: Loyalty is a positive belief, Generated over the course of multiple interactions, in the value that a company and Its products and/or services provide, which leads to continued interactions and Purchases over time. Loyalty should not be confused with customer satisfaction. Although loyalty is built on satisfaction, organizations can have satisfaction without loyalty. Customer Satisfaction is an opinion measure about company performance and how Customers feel their needs were met in past interactions or by past purchases, Whereas customer loyalty is a results measure that includes expectations of future behavior. For example, 75 percent of consumer wireless customers are satisfied with their current service, but 72 percent would be willing to switch to a competing provider. Thus, when designing a rewards program to build loyalty, it is critical to think about how to encourage true long-term customer loyalty and not just fleeting customer satisfaction.

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LOYALTY PROGRAM BASICS Companies typically have several goals when launching loyalty programs, all of which are focused on generating greater profits from the programs members. These goals include Improving knowledge of the customer Leveraging that knowledge to increase the sales of undersold and/or highly profitable products/services Increasing customer retention and purchase frequency The most common type of loyalty program begins when a customer enrols. From that point forward, the organization accurately tracks information about that member, captures the members purchases, credits points to the member based on the rules stored in a loyalty engine, categorizes the member in tiers or groups based on the members value to the organization, and enables the member to redeem points for products or services when various point levels are attained. The specific types of behaviour that are tracked and rewarded are unique to each industry/company and are typically linked to the organizations profitability drivers.

BENIFITS OF LOYALTY PROGRAM: Greater Customer Knowledge A loyalty program enables a company to gain detailed knowledge about its customer base with the customers consent; customers actually want to provide transaction and detailed profile information to ensure that they receive the full benefits of being a member of the program. In some market segmentssuch as business-to-businesscompanies already possess significant knowledge about their customers. As a result, these firms will not see customer knowledge as an important component of a loyalty programs value. However, for most business-to-consumer companies, gaining this level of intimate customer knowledge is a critical benefit of a loyalty program. In such B2C industries, loyalty programs enable companies to match their faceless customer purchase data (what was bought, when, at what store) with specific customer profile information, which can then be used to create targeted marketing promotions or redesign services around highvalue customers needs.

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The loyalty program helps to get a good relationship with customers because without responding or not providing any special benefit the may dont think to come again for purchase to the particular store so Customer Relationship Management makes it very useful

CRM is not just a technology, but rather a comprehensive customer-centric approach to an organizations philosophy in dealing with its customers. This includes policies and process, front-of-house customer service, employee training, marketing systems and information management. Hence it is important that any CRM implementation considerations stretch beyond technology, towards the broader organizational requirements.

Managing the customer experience, maintaining a more reliable data base, improving service operations. Fostering customer loyalty, embracing the characteristics of high performance marketing and other related subjects. The loyalty program gives a good benefits to apparel retailers to do more and more service to customer INCREASED CUSTOMER RETENTION A well-honed loyalty program improves customer retention rates, by increasing a members switching costs, which are costs a member would bear in order to switch to a competing provider. These costs can include decreased service and the time and resources required to build a new relationship. The higher a members switching costs, the more likely that member is to remain loyal. Most loyalty programs today do not create high enough switching costs for members. For example, airline industry frequent-flier programs all provide virtually the same product (a seat, perhaps with a few extra inches of legroom) and the same membership benefits (separate customer service number, priority boarding, priority upgrades, and bonus miles). If gold-tier members on one airline want to switch to a competitor because the competitor just added nonstop service on their favorite routes, all they have to do is fax the competitor their last frequent-flier statement, and they will immediately be made gold members of the competitors frequent-flier program. Because the products and services these two airlines and their loyalty programs provide are virtually identical, the members can switch to a competing carrier at virtually no cost to themselves.

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However, if the first loyalty program offered a unique set of benefits that the competing carrier could not easily duplicate, it would be much less tempting for members to switch. Companies use their loyalty programs to create these switching costs, by Leveraging in-depth member profile and transaction data to create unique offers and product/services that a competitor, which does not know as much about the member, cannot match Providing targeted service consistently across all channels By using the personalized data provided by their loyalty program, companies can create a win-win relationship with their members that cannot easily be replicated by their competitors. Businesses are quickly learning that being the best is no longer enough. Every consumer demands the highest quality goods or services at the best prices, conveniently delivered to them through whatever means and at any time they choose. So the retailers have to do everything to meet those demands. At the same time, invest time and resources to hire and train the staff to be courteous, friendly, helpful and trustworthy when facing customers. Today's customers have more choice, are better informed and are more demanding of value and return for their spending money. They look not only for the products and services that meet their needs at the price they are willing to pay, but for the merchant that recognizes, appreciates and rewards their patronage. Given this wide acceptance and popularity of reward & recognition-based loyalty programs, merchants have leveraged, and continue to employ, programs to compliment their traditional efforts in responding to a variety of challenges. Now a days all big apparel retailers have started the loyalty program with different benefits in order to satisfy customer needs and wants ATTRACTING, RETAINING AND GROWING CUSTOMERS A) Customers are becoming harder to please. B) Companies seeking to expand profits and sales have to spend considerable time and resources searching for new customers. 14 | P a g e Suspects are people or organizations that might conceivably have an interest in buying but many not have the means or real intention to buy. Prospectscustomers with the motivation, ability, and opportunity to make a purchase Customer churnhigh customer defection
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Two main ways to strengthen customer retention: Erect high switching costs. Deliver high customer satisfaction.

C) Most companies now recognize the importance of satisfying and retaining customers. D) Satisfied customers constitute the companys customer relationship capital. Acquiring new customers cost five times more than the costs involved in satisfying and retaining current customers. The average company loses 10 percent of its customers each year. A 5 percent reduction in customer defection rate can increase profits by 25 percent to 85 percent depending on the industry. Customer profit rate tends to increase over the life of the retained customer..

TOP PLAYERS IN APPAREL RETAIL STORES ADOPETED LOYALTY PROGRAM Lifestyle Pantaloons Shopper Stop : The Inner Circle : Green Card (TIC) (GC) (FC)

: First Citizen

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM To know at what extend the loyalty program pulls customers to purchase apparels at lifestyle and to know the satisfaction level of customers whether loyalty program increase the sales of LIFESTYLE

OBJECTIVE

To know the loyalty program adopted by lifestyle and other apparel retailers. To know how lifestyle retain customers using loyalty program.

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LIMITATIONS The study was taken on at NCR region The survey was taken only 150 customers

LIFESTYLE MEMEBERSHIP CARD (TIC-The Inner Circle) INITIAL STEPS : Informing the Customer about the loyalty program To become a member -Filling of form -Enrollment payment While filling the form various customer details like -Name -Address -Date of Birth -Phone No. -e-mail id -Income -Relationship Status etc. are collected to form the customer database. -New Enrolment of memebership cards cost- Rs300(INR) -Gift and discount vouchers are provided eith new enrolment of card: Code-250Rs discount Van Heusen Rs500 discount (minimum purchase of Rs4000) Planet M- buy worth of Rs500, get 100Rs off Fringe- 20%off on all services Four Fountains- Rs400 gift card ( Rs 400 discount is applicabler on any 60min therapy) Auchen Hyper mkt- Rs100 discount ( minimum purchase of 499rs) -Classification of memebership: -Silver: Shopping upto 15000rs On 100rs purchase, customer gets 2Points 16 | P a g e
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Reedemed at 166points, customer gets Rs100 discount -Gold: shopping above Rs 15000rs On 100rs purchase, customer gets 3Points Reedemed at 166points, customer gets Rs100 discount -Platinum: Shopping above 65000rs On 100rs purchase, customer gets 4Points Reedemed at 166points, customer gets Rs100 discount One point value is 60 paise (for all silver, gold & platinum)

BENEFITS

SILVER

GOLD

PLATINUM

Out store offers

YES

YES

YES

Birthday Bonus Points

100

200

Exclusive billing counters Exclusive sales preview (Jan, July-2days)

YES YES

YES YES

YES YES

Assisted shopping(calls, texts)

YES

YES

YES

Exclusive Store Promotions Exclusive Discount Vouchers

YES -

YES YES

YES YES

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COMPETITOR LOYALTY PROGRAM STUDY The other major players in apparel retail store are PENTALOONS SHOPPERS STOP

PANTALOONS MEMBERSHIP CARD -New Enrolment of memebership card cost- Free of Cost -No gift vouchers provided with enrolment of memebership card. -Classification of membership: One Star Three Star- shopping more then 7999INR Five Star- shopping more then 199999INR Seven Star- shopping more then 399999INR -Classification of points: One,three,five and seven star (On 100Rs purchase, customer gets 4points) -One point value is 25paise - Reedemed at 200points, memebership card holder gets voucher of 50Rs(INR)

FEATURES

ONE STAR Green card discounts (instant discount on No purchase) Complimentary parking yes Complimentary home drop of altered apparel Exclusive sales preview (Jan, July-2days) Exclusive billing counters Complimenatry home delivery Assisted shopping(Calls,Sms,EmailText) yes yes no no no

THREE STAR 3% yes yes yes yes yes no

FIVE STAR 5% yes yes yes yes yes no

SEVEN STAR 7% yes yes yes yes yes yes

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SHOPPERS STOP MEMBERSHIP CARD -New Enrolment of membership card cost- Rs300(INR) -GV/DC with new enrolment -Classification of memebership: Classic Moments: shopping upto 10000rs On 100rs purchase, customer gets 1Point Silver Edge : shopping upto 40000rs On 100rs purchase, customer gets 2Point Golden Glow: shopping above 40000rs On 100rs purchase, customer gets 3Point -Redeemed at 100points, customer gets 70rs in his card. -One point value is 70paise. BENEFITS Extra reward points on preferred brands Regular updates Exclusive cash counters Free parking (2hrs) Home delivery of alternations Out-store offers Exclusive sales preview (jan, july- 2days) CLASSIC MOMENTS Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes SILVER EDGE 1% yes yes yes no yes yes GOLDEN GLOW 2% yes yes yes yes yes yes

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LITERATURE REVIEW

LOYALTY PROGRAMS: BUILDING CUSTOMER LOYALTY TO BUILD PROFITS Loyalty is one of the great engines of business success Frederick F. Reicheld, author of the loyalty effect Todays successful readymade garment retailers recognize the importance of customer retention in their efforts to grow operational profits. to achieve this, more and more retailers are implementing loyalty programs as a competitive marketing strategy to build long-term relationships with customers, allocate marketing rupees based on the customers value and derive as much as revenue as possible from them over a lifetime. of course, loyalty is more than a business strategy. It is an ongoing, two-way relationship based on respect, trust and commitment a relationship in which the customer feels allimportant. A successful loyalty program builds and nurtures such a relationship by accomplishing two critical tasks. the first is to gather information that will help retailers understand their customers tastes, needs and expectations. The second is to offer recognition and rewards (loyalty card, rewards card, points card, advantage card, or club card) that are relevant to their customers as a reward for their loyalty and as a trade for the personal and transactional data that starts the loyalty cycle and keeps it going. by tracking members transactions, companies can identify the various segments of their customer base to create strategies that keep their customers coming back for more.

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CUSTOMER INFORMATION IS KEY: Effective loyalty programs generate incremental spending more rupee spent, more frequently, from customers whose needs and expectations are understood and met. with 80% of retailers business being generated from as little as 20% of their customers, identifying and understanding their needs and expectations of this 20% is crucial. by gathering customer information, retailer can make intelligent marketing decisions that will keep their best and most profitable customers more loyal. they can also leverage this thinking to increase sales the under-performing segments of their customer base. the most valuable loyalty programs to retailers are those which utilize advanced technology to collect data at the point of sale, track valuable information about customer purchase behavior, and provide access to rich database reports and analysis that can be used to increase the effectiveness of retailers marketing campaigns. what customers expect: todays consumers are more savvy and sophisticated than ever. they expect loyalty programs to offer: easy participation instant rewards flexible rewards fast accumulation of rewards rewards claimed at any participating establishment special offers instant win opportunities membership cards greetings on special occasion gifts

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coupons/vouchers

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: 1. RESEARCH BACKGROUND

Research Research design Data collection Sample area Sample size Sampling design Sampling Technique Research approach Research instrument Sampling tool Statistical package Analytical tool

Quantitative Descriptive study Primary Data Chennai 150 customers Non-probability technique Convenience sampling Survey method Questionnaire Structured Questionnaire method SPSS Percentage, cross tabulation

2.RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research method is an academic activity and as such as the term should be used in a technical sense. This research comprises of defining and redefining problem, formulating hypothesis or suggested solution; collecting; organizing and evaluating data; 22 | P a g e
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making deduction and reaching conclusion; and at last carefully testing the conclusion to determine they fit the formulating hypothesis. By this way proper methodology is an essential step in conducting research study.

3. RESEARCH DESIGN
A research design is the arrangement of condition for collection and analysis of data in a manner that aim to combine relevance to research purpose with procedure. The research design adopted for this study is descriptive type. The objective of such a study is to answer who, what, where and how of the subject under investigation. It is used because of its extensive flexibility, scope and convenience. A descriptive research study is basically concerned with narration of particular individual or group with specific predictions.

3.1 IMPORTANCE OF THE DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH To describe the demographic characteristics of certain group. To estimate the proportion of people in a specified population who behave in a certain way. To make specific predictions. To determine whether certain variables are associated.

RESEARCHKNOWN DATA

UNKNOWN DATA

3.2 RESEARCH APPROACH

The survey method was adopted for collecting the primary data. Survey research is the systematic gathering of data from respondents through questionnaire.

3.3RESEARCH INSTRUMENT

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The data for this research was collected by survey techniques using interview method, guided by questionnaire.

4. SAMPLING
Sample denotes only a part of the universe / population. The sample represents the population and is having the same characterizing as the population.

5. SAMPLING METHOD Non probability sampling This type of sampling technique gives no assurance that every element has some specifiable change of being included. It is clear that for the non probability samples, there is no way of calculating the margin of error and the confidence level.

5.1 CONVENIENCE SAMPLING Sampling refers the method of selecting items to be observed for the study. The samples have been selected for the study based on the convenience of the researcher. The method used here is convenient sampling, where the samples are selected based on the convenience of researcher.

5.2 SAMPLING SIZE Sampling size is the number of items to be selected from the universe to constitute the sample. In this study, a sample study of 150 has been chosen.

5.3 SAMPLING AREA This study was undertaken at lifestyle NCR

5.4 PERIOD OF STUDY The study was undertaken between May 2011 and July 2011

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5.5 DATA COLLECTION DESIGN

A marketing researcher has to make a plan for collecting data which may be primary data, secondary data or both. 5.5.1PRIMARY DATA The primary data was obtained by administering survey method, guided by questionnaire to collect information from customers. The questionnaire are both open and Closed ended questions These methods were adopted since the data which is required is highly focused on customer satisfaction

5.5.2 SECONDARY DATA The secondary data are collected through various sources like 1. Secondary data are collected through internet related to industry, company, competitors, etc 2. Review of articles being published on the topic in various magazines and newspapers 3. Data are also collected from the company brochures etc

5.5.3 QUESTIONNAIRES: The best way to collect the data is to personally administer the questionnaires. The advantage of this method is, the data can be collected from the respondents within a short period of time. Any doubts that the respondents might have on any question could be clarified on the spot.

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RESEARCH
STUDY ON LOYALTY PROGRAMME BY APPAREL RETAILERS TO RETAIN CUSTOMER

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION: Name ________________________ Gender: Age: Occupation Marital status Monthly income Male (<18 ) Student Single (20k) Female (19 25) ( 25 40) (40 60) (> 60) Self employed Govt job Other Married (21k 35k) (36k-50k) (above 50k)

2. Have you purchased earlier in lifestyle? yes no 3. Do you have lifestyle membership card? yes no >If yes since how long youve been a member of lifestyle membership card programme? (0-6 months) (6 months 1 year) (1-2 years) (more than 2 years) 4. How frequently do you shop in lifestyle? As per needs monthly once in 3 months 5. In a year how much do you purchase in lifestyle? Less than 8000 8000 - 20000 20000-40000 above 40000 6. How satisfied are you with the purchase you made in lifestyle - rating scale? (5-higly satisfied 4-satisfied 3-nutral 2-unsatisfied 1-highly unsatisfied) PARTICULAR Overall experience Quality Service Discounts Home Delivery shopping 5 4 3 2 1

7. All problems and queries are solved and answered satisfactorily at the TIC desk? Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree 8. Do you receive periodic and proper updates regarding offers and promotions (mail/sms/calls) from lifestyle? yes no

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9. What do you think about the current loyalty program? Excellent Good Average 10. Would you recommend your friends to get enrolled in to the membership program lifestyle? Yes No May be/cant say 11. Do you hold privilege cards of any other retailer? If yes, which one? Shopper stop Pentaloons Westside Other

ANALYSIS 1. PURCHASED BEFORE AT LIFESTYLE Since there are many apparel retailers at NCR we should know whether customers have purchased before or not at lifestyle

PURCHASED BEFORE AT LIFESTYLE PURCHASE

YES NO TOTAL

FREQUENCY
141 9 150

PERCENT
94.0 6.0 100.0

INFERENCE: From the above table we conclude that 94% of the customer have purchased before at lifestyle.

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2. HOLDING LIFESTYLE MEMBERSHIP CARD This helps to know how many respondents are card holders:

HOLDING LIFESTYLE CARD YES NO TOTAL

FREQUENCY 100 50 150

PERCENT 66.7 33.3 100.0

INFERENCE: From the above table we conclude that nearly 66.7% of customers are holding LIFESTLE card and other 33.3% are not having green card

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3 .FREQUENCY OF PURCHASE AT LIFESTYLE:

FREQUENCY OF PURCHASE AS PER NEEDS MONTHLY ONCE IN 3 MONTHS TOTAL

FREQUENCY 102 9 39 150

PERCENT 68.0 6.0 26.0 100.0

INFERENCE: From the above table it is concluded that nearly 68% of customers are purchasing as per need at LIFESTYLE an remaining 26% are purchasing once in 3 months

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4. SATISFACTION LEVEL ON OVER ALL SHOPPING EXPERIENCE This helps to know the satisfaction level of customers at LIFESTYLE OVER ALL SHOPPING EXPERIENCE SATISFIED HIGHLY SATISFIED TOTAL

FREQUENCY 10 140 150

PERCENT 6.7 93.3 100.0

INFERENCE: From the above table we come to know that 93.3% of the customers are highly satisfied in the overall shopping experience at lifestyle

5.SATISFACTION LEVEL IN QUALITY AT LIFESTYLE. This helps to know about the satisfaction level on quality because quality is more important in apparels and it helps to decide for next purchase.

QUALITY UNSATISFIED SATISFIED HIGHLY SATISFIED TOTAL

FREQUENCY 3 19 128 150

PERCENT 2.0 12.7 85.3 100.0

INFERENCE: From the above table we come to know that the satisfaction level in quality of goods and services in which 85.3% of customers are highly satisfied and only 2% of the customers are not satisfied in the quality

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6. SATISFACTION LEVEL OF CUSTOMERS AT LIFESTYLE: The serves is an important factor at retail because if the retailer does not provide a best serves then the wont come back so we should provide better serves so we should know the satisfaction level

SERVES UNSATISFIED NEUTRAL SATISFIED HIGHLY SATISFIED TOTAL

FREQUENCY PERCENT 8 62 43 37 150 5.3 41.3 28.7 24.7 100.0

INFERENCE: From the above table we come to know that 24.8% of customers are highly satisfied and 41.3% of the customers are in neutral level

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7. CURRENT LOYALTY PROGRAM This helps to know how effective is current card program at LIFESTYLE.

CURRENT LOYALTY PROGRAM USING GREEN CARD YES NO EXCELLENT 91.3% 8.7% 100.0% GOOD 64.6% 35.4% 100.0% AVERAGE 41.0% 59.0% 100.0% TOTAL 66.7% 33.3% 100.0%

YES NO

INFERENCE: From the above table we come to know that 91.3% of the customers using green card says that the current loyalty program is excellent.

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8. HOLDING OTHER LOYALTY CARDS Now a days many apparel retailers have started providing membership card this helps to know how many customers are using other loyalty card
HOLDING OTHER PRIVILAGE CARD

MONTHLY INCOME
SHOPPER STOP PENTALOONS GLOBUS WESTSIDE OTHER TOTAL

20000 21000 - 35000 36000 - 50000 ABOVE 50000 TOTAL

18.8% 16.7% 29.2% 35.4% 100.0%

14.3% 9.5% 34.9% 41.3% 100.0%

7.7% 15.4% 46.2% 30.8% 100.0%

.0% 14.3% 85.7% .0% 100.0%

16.7% 16.7% 33.3% 33.3% 100.0%

14.0% 13.3% 37.3% 35.3% 100.0%

<20K 21K-35K 36-50K MORE THAN 5OK

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RECOMENDATIONS SUGGESTIONS FOR TIC(lifestyles) AFTER COMPARISION TO OTHERS Exclusive billing counters should be also placed on second and third floor. Complimentary home delivery should be given to membership holders as given by competitor pantaloons. Complimentary home drop of altered apparel should be provided to membership holders. New enrolment of membership card should be free, no need to give discount vouchers of vanheusen and code as customer may carry different brand loyalty which may restrict them to avoid membership. Complimentary parking (atleast of 2hr/day) should be provided to membership holders which can increase your walk-ins. Fulfilment of minimum criteria of 15000rs shopping for Gold membership to be reduced to 10000rs shopping.

CONCLUSION I conclude that today many retailers are selling apparels so retaining customer is very difficult and its not very easy we have to pull customers for repeated purchase. The loyalty program plays a vital role in pulling customers to purchase apparel by updating its policies.

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