Amity Business School

A Project
On
A study on consumer behaviour with reference to pharmaceutical retail industry.
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Bachelor of Business Administration
 
in
 
Marketing
 
By
 
Sagar Gupta
 
Enrollment No. A60006418084
 
Under the guidance of

Dr. Malay Ghosh

Assistant Professor
 
 
Amity Business School
Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior
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 Introduction Amity Business School

Background
 
• With the pharmaceutical business growing and with some expertise during a pharmaceutical operating environment, the author has chosen to
explore this field more through analysis. The pharmacy sector has its attention-grabbing structure as drugs costs are constant all told pharmacies,
and thus they lack in price war as compared to stores of the daily trade goods trade. these days there are more product choices as more generic
medicines take off on the market and challenge original product with their lower price

• CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
 
• Consumer behaviour may be a topic of nice interest for marketers as a result of a command of this field are often crucial in terms of selecting the proper selling strategy, so
create business prosperous . client behaviour will be seen consistent with Solomon because the information of a method that a personal or a gaggle undergo to satisfy a
need, by choosing and shopping for still as victimisation and disposing product. This process in not solely relating to products because it can likewise be concepts and
experiences that satisfy the need. a similar plan is additionally supported by Kotler

• A elementary reason for a company to exist is to satisfy the requirements of consumers. a corporation that succeeds to try and do thus are often victorious and therefore,
it's of nice importance to understand what the necessitys and needs of the buyers are. A information of consumer behaviour helps to explore and understand these needs
and wants. each consumer has biological needs that are essential for survival, adore food, water and shelter

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Elements of influence
 
Consumer behaviour and how they buy products and services are affected by a variety of factors. When studying customer behaviour,
companies must take environmental, socioeconomic, personal, and also psychological considerations into account.
 
 
Cultural influence
 Culture has a great influence on consumer behavior, and culture is one of the most influential factors. Culture is the foundation of a
person's values, insights, and behaviors.

Social influence
 
A consumer’s shopping for behaviour is additionally stricken by the individuals around. Family may be a sturdy entity that has an
influence on buying behaviour. This includes each the fogeys, further because the mate kids} with whom the patron may more often pay
time with. Through the upbringing, parents teach their children regarding love, self-esteem, economics, politics then fort

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Personal influence
 
In addition, consumers can be segmented according to their personal characteristics and personality types that affect their consumer behavior.
Research can discover the personality characteristics shared by users of certain products, and then use specific characteristics to describe and
group consumers. Group them according to their sociality, stubbornness, aggressiveness or adaptability, because these characteristics enable
them to reflect similarities in behavior. Consumer behavior is not only affected by personality and personal qualities, but also by consumer
self-esteem. How the consumer sees himself and how he values ​his own characteristics

Psychological influence
 
Motivation is accustomed describe one’s behaviour and it can be seen because the reason behind one’s actions. Motivation is what drives
people to realize an exact goal. once the buyer feels a need, there's tension that the consumer needs to eliminate by satisfying that specific
need. If the drive to achieve that goal is robust enough the consumer can possess a motivation that drives and pushes him towards its
realization. .In accordance to a theory made public by Sigmund Freud, shoppers don't seem to be totally alert to their true motivations and are
not continuously able to make a case for them.

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purchasing process

Before consumers choose a product, they evaluate the various options available. In this process, the various product attributes assigned by consumers
to each product variant can be evaluated and their importance can be determined. The evaluation of alternatives can be very extensive, because
consumers can create different rules to help them make decisions, promote their adoption and reduce the amount of information processed.
Consumers use their own personal heuristics to limit other options. These rules can be of different types and reflect different assumptions or ideas.
They can be related to their personal views on the product and the company, whether it is to correlate product familiarity with product quality, or how
to interpret product quality based on indicators obtained from appearance. product. Some consumers tend to judge a book based on the cover of the
book, usually linking high prices with high quality, or forming beliefs about product attributes based on its country of origin

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 LITERATURE REVIEW Amity Business School

AUTHOR YEAR OF SUMMARY OF RESEARCH

PUBLICATIO
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Alvarez, Begofia, 2005 studied the impact of gender and
Rodolfo, Vttzquez, company reputation on consumer attitudes towards, and perceptions of
Casielles companies involved in non-fulfillment of promotions.
Kunreuther 2002 influence that sales promotion has on brand choice behaviour. A regional
consumer panel was used for collecting necessary information for the study.
The authors report that promotion is a tool that can help manufacturers andor
retailers in the achievement of their objectives (try the brand, help to decide
what brand to buy, etc.).
Peter, R. Darke and 2009 investigated the impact of fiaming through the use of a vague scarcity
Cindy, MY. Chung restriction ("while
stocks last") on consumer's perception of promotional offers involving
different claim formats (tensile price claim such as "save up to 60 percent"
versus non-tensile price claim such as "save 60 percent") and different amount
of price discounts

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Amity Business School

• The current thesis is focused on descriptive analysis methods, which means it is based on secondary data obtained from
various established sources.
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• The material available in the public domain on different websites such as newspapers, magazines, journals, and various
web-based outlets has been gathered and analysed in order to draw any useful conclusions.
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• Retail pharmacy is an especially regulated profession and thanks to the varied restrictions placed on this profession comparable to Single Exit
evaluation (SEP) and restricted advertising of scheduled medication, retail pharmacies realize it very difficult to grow revenue and profitability.
within the drugss and connected Substance management Act one zero one of 1965, Tsabalala-Msimang (2010) states that no one shall advertise
any drugs or scheduled substance purchasable unless such promotion complies with prescribed requirements

• In India, the advertising of medicines from schedule zero to schedule one is allowable to the overall public however the advertising of medicines
from schedule 2 to schedule vi isn't allowed underneath the Medicines Act and rules (Marketing Code Steering Committee, 2008). These
regulations create an environment in retail pharmacies where only fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and schedule 0 and schedule 1
medication is permitted to be advertised. Therefore, promotional material is limited to these items.

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• MARKETING PRICIPLES AND AUTHORITY IN PHARMACY

 
• The healthcare pharmaceutical industry has agreed to incorporate the Marketing Code (MCA) into a highly regulated environment to ensure fair
and consistent application across the industry.
• Offer and acceptance
 
• A valid bid and a valid acceptance are required for the conclusion of a valid contract in India, according to common law. Advertisements, on the
other hand, are commonly known as invitations to do business rather than legally binding dealsAdvertisement of price and price tickets

• In India case law, it is argued that a price ticket should be considered as a bid in general, and that any issues with the particular price ticket should
be resolved by reading the relevant implicit words displayed on the price ticket .
 
• When it comes to the self-service setting in India neighbourhood pharmacies, the bid and approval occur when the customer tenders the price to
the cashier and when the customer removes the item from the counter, even though the price is already marked on the shelf

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• PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES IN TERMS OF THE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

• Barnard defines promotional practises as actions taken by a retailer or distributor to advertise a product, service, or brand. It also

involves advertisement or marketing via platforms such as television, radio, and blogs,

• TYPES OF PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITY CURRENTLY IN USE

• The retail setting needs promotional methods that are centered on the particular shopper targeted Associate in Nursingd it's important that the

platform used is that the correct path to the specified consumer

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• Types of product

• Brand medicines
• Generics medicines

• Brand medicines
 
• The word "brand name medicine" refers to medicines that can only be manufactured and marketed by the corporation that owns the copyright.
Typically, brand-name drugs are granted a patent lasting about 20 years, providing protection to the corporation that invested in the new product's
research, production, and marketing.
 
 
• Generics medicines

• Generic medications are brand-name prescription replicas with the same doses, benefits and side effects, administration method, risks and
protection, and power as the initial medicine; this means that the pharmacological effects are equivalent to those of brand-name products.

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CONCLUSION Amity Business School
There are two main types of important products in the pharmaceutical market: brand-name drugs and generic drugs. Compared with other countries. The market is based on
three main players: the country, doctors and patients. Some of the main challenges in the industry are government price controls, the cost of new product launches, and the
increasing number of people influencing product choices, which means they are no longer important.
 
• Other sources of information are pharmacists, patient groups, and mainly the Internet. Here, the consumer behavior of pharmacy customers was examined to find out the
factors that constitute the basis of consumer behavior and decision-making, and influence their choice of pharmacies and their choice of non-prescription and non-
prescription drugs at similar prices.
 
• Consumers in metropolitan areas and all age groups. , Bottom and no. The research was almost exclusively conducted in selected pharmacies, but it also targeted residents
of single-story buildings and friends of the author.

• The study can investigate how consumers contact pharmacists in pharmacies, and how pharmacists are aware of their impact on customers and how they use their
knowledge to help them make decisions. The first research objective provides excellent guidance for advertising strategies.
 

• Every pharmacy that wants to increase sales and gross margins should develop its strategy based on the results of this research.
 

• Correlation shows you what to do. Each correlation can be applied to the shopping situation in the store and used to manage the store. On how to best work with your
customers.
 

• An example of a strong association between promotional gifts and in-store displays can be applied to stores. When companies use in-store display services, in order to get
the best results, they must provide customers with some form of gift. .

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 SUMMARY
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• The study disclosed various promotional activities that the shoppers in retail pharmacies like on top of others. sturdy
positive and negative correlations were found between variety of known factors which is able to guide managers and
homeowners of those specific retail pharmacies in their future promotional campaigns.

• Thus, the conclusion of this study is that each one pharmacies, each severally in hand and corporate, got to first off
accommodates all moral and legal needs of promoting and promotions in pharmacy and second align their
promotional strategy with their consumer preferences. By doing in order that they are probably to govern the buyer
behaviour in their stores to such a degree that their revenue will increase considerably and sustainabl

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 REFERENCE Amity Business School

• Alverez, Begoiia and Casielles, Vhquez, Rodolfo (2005), "Consumer

• Evaluations of Sales Promotion: The Effect on Brand Choice", European

• Kumar, KM. Krishna (2006) "Consumer Perception About

• Promotional Strategies Adopted By Marketers: A Study with
• Reference to Fast Moving Consumer Goods in Kerala", PhD. Thesis,

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