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RELIANCETRENDSCHENNAI1
RELIANCETRENDSCHENNAI1
TRENDS, CHENNAI
ABSTRACT
The study is mainly conducted for the Reliance Trends. In present scenario, customer
retention is the important marketing strategy in global business competition. An organization
strategy that combines all of its marketing goals into one comprehensive plan, where a good
marketing strategy will be drawn from market research and focus on the right product mix in
order to achieve the maximum profit with a potential customer and sustain business. Today’s
customer is the king of the market so customer retention has great importance in business.
Customer Retention is the activity, that a selling organization undertakes in order to maintain
customers as their assets. The study is mainly to identify what the customer is expecting from
the Reliance Trends. And what are the measures need to take in order to retain the customers.
Since the population size is in….N number 100 samples have been chosen. The target
respondents would be the customers of Reliance Trends. So this study lies under descriptive
research with random sampling method. The data is framed and collected through primary
source with the above analysis a findings, suggestion will be engraved and conclusion will be
suggested to the Reliance Trends where improvements can be done for the growth of the
company.
INTRODUCTION
Customer retention refers to the percentage of customer relationships that, once established, a
small business is able to maintain on a long-term basis. It is an important element of business
strategy in today’s increasingly competitive environment. In global business environment,
customer retention is playing important role for development of the business. The days are
gone where main emphasis was given on profit making only. In present scenario, business
organizations are giving main stress on its customers and their retention.
Marketing is societal process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and
want through creating offering and freely exchanging products and services of value with
others. Marketing management as the art and science of choosing target market and getting
keeping and growing customers through creating, delivering and communicating superior
customer value.
Customer means that the company is able to produce individually differentiated goods
whether ordered in person, on the phone or on-line. The combination of operational customer
and marketing has been called customer.
Today more companies are recognizing the importance of satisfying and retaining customer.
Satisfied customer constitutes the company’s relationship capital. If the company were to be
sold, the acquiring company would have to pay not only for the plant and equipment and the
brand name, but also for the delivered customer base, namely the number and value of the
customer who would do business with the new firm.
A customer is not dependent on marketers.
A customer is not someone to argue or match with. Nobody ever won an argument
with a customer.
A customer is a person who brings us his needs and wants, it is our job to handle them
profitably to him and to ourselves.
The Review says,Modern business environment is famous for various new trends. An
environment where the businesses used to hire employees for the sake of monetary benefits
only is now changed in multi-dimensional and multi-pronged environment. Now business are
not run for the sake of money and short term financial benefits only but for a long time
sustainable growth and development. Now the only focus of all business is “customer” and
Customer Retention. This Customer Retention cannot be achieved without proper
involvement of internal customers i.e., employees. Companies start their business philosophy
from their main goals or objectives and make clear statements showing their mission and
values. All lateral developments are performed on the basis of these predetermined values.
Modern businesses focus only on customer satisfaction. Customer lifetime value might be
factored into business development strategies. But without adequate support across the
organization, it remains unfulfilled as core customers depart and new customers reject the
offer. Customer retention has direct impact on business development and business
competitiveness
To find out the consumer real expectations in products available in Reliance Trends.
To identify current consumer tastes & attitudes towards a Reliance Trends.
To find out the competitive satisfying store other than from Reliance Trends by
consumers.
To suggest feasible solution in retaining the consumers towards Reliance Trends.
NEED OF THE STUDY
The research is conducted in order to find the satisfaction level and the retention of
the customer of Reliance Trends. The Reliance Trends is further interested to know
the major factors which can be used for attracting the customers.
The study is conducted to find what the customers feel about Reliance Trends and
about the merchandise available in the store and the services provided by the
employees of Reliance Trends.
Measuring competitors market share and consumer behaviour in a selected region and
understand various factors affecting the customer choice while shopping.
SCOPE FOR THE STUDY
The scope of the study is to retain the customers towards their purchase in Reliance Trends,
Chennai.
The scope of the study is to cover all the chronic factors among the customers of
Reliance Trends. And finding the needs and wants of the customers to retain them.
In businesses, today, have become more sensitive to the benefits of retaining and
cultivating the existing customers.
On average, A 1% improvement in customer retention leads to a 5% increase in
profits per customer. It’s a well-known statistic that 80% of sales come from 20% of
your existing customers. As a result, retaining customer loyalty is a vital component
of your business.
Reliance Trends is a Textile retail outlet were consumer can buy all variety of
garments. This leading company has started analyzing few measures to retain the
customers.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
SAMPLING METHOD
A sample design is a finite plan for obtaining a sample from a given population. Simple
random sampling is used for this study.
SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
The Researcher has selected the sample respondents based on the convenience of researcher
and the respondents. This means that random sampling was adopted for the study.
SAMPLE SIZE
Number of the sampling units selected from the population is called a size of the sample.
Sample of 100 respondents were obtained from the population.
More promotion needs to be done. Reliance Trends should establish itself as a brand which
can be done only through heavy promotions because in today’s scenario to make consumer
aware about the store promotion plays an important role in it. Though Reliance Trends are
old unit of Reliance Retail but it has to promote their products, promotion is necessary to
stand up in market.
Improve quality of clothing, many customers do not get size they are looking for and are
disappointed. There should be proper and timely stock replenishment done at the store level.
CONCLUSION
The customer is more interested in range and price of the products rather than the
price. Bringing customer into the store may be easy, but once they enter the store they
should get what they want, and retaining the customer is an toughest job for every
business.
Consumers have high expectations from Reliance Trends regarding pricing they
expect good collection of clothes at much cheaper price.
A lot of offers and promotion may help in getting better footfalls.
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