The factors affecting on customers purchase intention of white kidney bean products

Abstract

The research aims to study the factor affecting on purchase intention of white kidney bean product. In healthy market, the people are more concern about health food. The trend towards purchasing healthy products is growing among people. However, the white kidney bean is containing high nutrition, but it is not well known among Thai peoples. The white kidney bean is not popular in Thailand because almost the white kidney bean in Thailand are import from other country and hardly to find white kidney bean products in the market. So, there seems lacking in marketing research on the topic in preparation for new market of white kidney bean product. So, the quantitative questionnaires were conducted and also distributed 400 sets of questionnaires to the people who know the white kidney bean in Bangkok, Thailand. The respondents are both experience and unexperienced in white kidney bean. The descriptive analysis and multiple linear regression were used to confirm the results. A study of factors that affect the purchase intention include health consciousness, perceived product knowledge, perceived product quality, perceived product price, and subjective norm. The result affirmed that all the factors are effect in purchase intention of white kidney bean product which is perceived product knowledge is the highest effect and perceived product quality is the lowest effect on purchase intention of white kidney bean product.