VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS NGUYEN MINH DUC VIETMAC FAST FOOD – MARKETING RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS Major: Business Administration Code: 60 34 05 MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION THESIS Supervisor: Dr. Tran Doan Kim Hanoi – 2011 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENT. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS. vi LIST OF CHARTS.
ix LIST OF FINGURES. xi LIST OF TABLES. 1 CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW. Research methodology theory and implication.
Data collection methods. Data processing analysis. The marketing analysis. Fast food marketing.
Market segmentation, target market and positioning. 25 vi TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com CHAPTER 2: VIETNAM FAST FOOD MARKET AND VIETMAC MARKETING REVIEW. Vietnam fast food market review. Vietnam Fast food Industry models analysis.
Vietmac marketing review. Comparative advantages and marketing strategies. Initial target market & customer. 52 CHAPTER 3: SURVEYS CONDUCTING AND FINDINGS.
Target respondents and sampling. Data processing and analysing. Vietnam fast food market findings. 57 vii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.
Customers’ need, habit and satisfaction measurement. Behavior of people about fast food products. Behavior of people about price. Behavior of people about advertising channel.
Behavior of people about distribution channel. Market structure and opportunity. Recognition of Vietmac and comments. Vietmac satisfaction measurement.
Satisfaction measurement comperation between Vietmac and KFC. Answering the research question. 88 CHAPTER 4: SOME MARKETING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VIETMAC. 101 viii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF CHARTS Chart 1.
Most wanted fast food brand name. Factors measurement influences on chosing a brand. Brand changing habit. Brand satisfaction measurement.
Nutrition, health and safety satisfaction measurement. Tasty and flavor satisfaction measurement. Convenience satisfaction measurement. Menu flexible satisfaction.
Price satisfaction measurement. Point of sale decoration satisfaction measurement. Service and staff behaviour satisfaction. Satisfaction compare within KFC, Jollibee and Vietmac.
Behaviour of people about price. Frequency of eating fast food in last month. Times of eating fast food in last three months. Recognition of Vietmac Rice burger.
Brand satisfaction Vietmac V. 77 ix TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Nutrition satisfaction Vietmac V. Tasty & flavor Vietmac V.
Convenience measurement Vietmac V. Menu satisfaction Vietmac V. Price satisfaction Vietmac V. Service and staff behaviour Vietmac V.
Vietmac satisfaction by factors. 83 x TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com LIST OF FINGURES Figure 1. Phases of the research process. Organization of the research.
Follow chart of the research process. Factors influence to Vietnam fast food marketing application. The four Ps components of marketing mix. Market analysis steps.
Porter five force. Vietmac Rice burger product. Vietmac's strengths and weaknesses. 84 xi TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.vietmac LIST OF TABLES Table 1.
Forecast sales in fast food by subsector: units/outlets 2011-1014 (quoted from 2009 - 2014). Forecast sales in fast food by subsector: foodservice value 2011 – 2014 (quoted from 2009-2014). Global Brand Owner Shares of Chained Fast Food 2005-2009. Brand Shares of Chained Fast Food 2006-2009.
Hanoi fast food market sales forecast - lunch time meal. Factors measurement influences on chosing a brand. Time of meal. Place of meal.
Group of people. Willing measurement to sellect fast food. Treatment of people with fast food. Fast food potential measurement.
Respondents by genders. Respondents by ages. Respondents by careers. Respondents by location.
Respondents by income. Vietmac Satisfaction by factors. 84 xii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Place of work.
86 xiii TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Back ground Global economic with the daily changing of business environment, as the human needs are continuously developing and changing, according to those changes, opportunities are constantly appearing. Marketing research plays an important role in searching for new opportunities and determining the objectivities, valuation of those new opportunities. It is also used to know more about existing market like customer, competitor, business environment, marketing trend and prospect… Fast food is an example of changing and developing market over the past years.
Living and working environment and food culture have been changing, people quickly accept Western style fast food and this is a great opportunity for investors in this area. In a short time, the leading brands of fast food worldwide have been quickly penetrating and growing strongly in Vietnam, for example, KFC, Lolteria, Jollibee, BBQ, Pizza Hut. Sales volume of fast food chain stores in five years from 2004 to 2009 had grown 55%, and forecasted to grow 18.9% / year from now to 2014. Sales of fast food industry in Vietnam in 2009 reached 6.296,6 billion, expected to reach 9.204, 4 billion USD in 2014 (according to Eromonitor international).
Fast food for lunch time that serving officer is one of the major markets that competitors are focusing on. Vietnam currently has some brands participating in fast food industry and also found the objective signs e. and most recently, in early July, 2011, Vietmac Rice burger brand was officially introduced in Hanoi after six month of researching and developing. 1 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.
Definition of Problem Vietmac is trying to launch a new product – Vietmac rice burger to a rich potential market but risk. It stared business with limited information about fast food market, it did business when the founder saw the opportunity with his intuition. Vietmac managers need to know both about market landspace and behaviour of customer about Vietmac product. Who are serving this market? What are customer’s needs, habit and satisfaction? What is the most important characteric of fast food products? Why some people choose FKC, others choose Jollibee, and some like Vietmac? What differentiates Vietmac product from its competitors' products? Do we need to enhance our current product or service? What specific marketing strategies are currently using? How do competitors market their products? Should marketing strategy need be revised? After six months of testing new product Vietmac rice burger to Hanoi market, the company has achieved initial goals, but this time the company needs to look back for any adjustments in marketing strategy and marketing plan to choose a right way of developing.
Objectives of the research Vietmac had started its business with very limited information in fast food industry. So that the first objective is to have an overview of Vietnam fast food market. It is very important, once understanding about market, Vietmac managers will know how to deal with it. Information about market the thesis will cover is: competitor, customer need, habit, and satisfaction, product, price place and promotion, market structure and opportinuty, awareness of Vietmac product.
2 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.vietmac The second objective is to measure the satisfaction of costomers with Vietmac rice burger product after few months of testing and developing the products. Satisfaction about brand/origin, nutrition/health, tasty/flavor, time consumming, menu flexible, price, place, service and staff will be presented. The author will focus on fast food products that serve for officer in lunch time in Hanoi city. Finally, is to provide Vietmac manager some recommedations in marketing strategy and marketing activity.
Research question To fullfill the objectives of the research, the study should answer the following questions: • Is there a need for Vietmac's product or service? • What is the target market? • Who are the customers? • What do customers expect from this type of product or service? • What are customers willing to pay for this type of product or service? • What specific companies are servicing this market? • Is the market saturated or wide open? If so, why? • What is the size of the market? Is it a growing market? Is the industry stable, volatile, growing or trendy? • How can Vietmac reach this market? How do competitors reach the market? What are the business models of competitors? • What core competencies must the product or service have? 3 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.vietmac • What is Vietmac competitive advantage? These questions will be answered after this marketing research is completed. The necessary of the research Marketing research covers a wide range of phenomena. In essence it fulfills the marketing manager’s need for knowledge of the market. The marketing manager of Vietmac may ask “How we can expand Vietmac brand and gather customer from other competitors?” or “How is customer satisfying with the products?” Or “If need to refine the product or price?.” Each of these marketing questions, as well as questions concerning most other marketing decisions, requires some information about how customers, distributors, and competitors will respond to the executive’s marketing decisions.
Marketing research is one of the principal tools used for answering these questions. Beside that, after discovered, the author found that, there are few reports, documents, researches mentioned about Vietnam fast food market. While, Vietmac had tested it products for few months, so that it needs more and more information about fast food market and its testing results. This research may supply more knowledge for readers, investors, marketers, and especially, it is meaningful for Vietmac managers.
Scope of the research First, in this research the author presents an overview of Vietnam fast food market and some major analysises about it such as market trends, market prospect, consumer market data, competitor information, model analysis. Second, Vietmac customer satisfaction measurment will be conducted in the research. The author also compare Vietmac rice burger with the market leader, may be KFC, Jollibee or Lotteria to find out the strong and weakness of each sides. 4 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.vietmac The research will conduct two questionnaire surveys, one for Vietnam fast food market, and the other for Vietmac satisfaction measure.
Food for lunch time market is diversified to kinds of foods. Take the main market share is traditional foods such as “ordinary sidewalk meals” (In Vietnamese is said “Cơm bụi”), “home delivery rice meals” (In Vietnamese is said “Cơm hộp”), and “canteen service”. However, Vietmac rice burger is defined as fast food, so the author will not mention and analyse non-fast food products, or if yes, it is just point of views of the author, professors, or information gathering from second data sources. The fact that, definition of fast food is too wide, it includes any foods that can be served fast, such as bakery product fast food, burger fast food, chicken fast food, pizza fast food, Vietnam noodle fast food or it may be classified to chained fast food and independent fast food, convenience store fast food… in this research the author mainly focus on chained fast food with range of products that serve for lunch time meal such as burger fast food, chicken fast food and Vietnam noodle.
And the research focuses mainly on officers working in Hanoi. Research methodology The data and information may be collected from primary source where data can be measured in numerical or secondary source where information is just as point of views. In this research the outhor uses both approach method of qualitative and quantitative. Data and information from secondary sources and surveys are both gathered.
This research will use descriptive research method to describe and demonstrate the answers of the problems. Research design In general, the process of the research usually involves six phases described as Figure 1. Phases of the research process: 5 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Phases of the research process1 This research will follow this design.
Organization of the research This thesis includes four chapters. Chapter one: Literature review. In this chapter, we will scan through the literature about marketing research, research methodology, marketing management, and the theory of franchising. By understanding this literature chapter, readers will have a better understanding the other chapters.Zikmund, Exploring marketing research, 2nd edition, 1986, p.40 6 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.