Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction

Methodology

Analysis

Conclusions

Summary

Appendix A

Appendix B

 

 

Conclusions

 

Basic Statistics Analysis:

I. Paired t-Test: Brand Index Score Correlations
From these results, we can reliably assume that among women over the age of 18, the Schick brand is perceived slightly less favorably than Venus brand of razors, but almost three times more favorably than BiC brand of razors. The Venus brand of razors is preferred even more than Schick over the BiC brand of razors. The projected ranking of the three brands among women over the age of 18 is: 1. Venus, 2. Schick, and 3. BiC.

II. Between Groups t-Test: Post Exposure Favorability (IV) and Brand Index Score and Advertisement Index Score (DV’s)
The results of this survey show that those who like the Schick brand more after seeing the ad also score the Schick brand and ad higher than those who do not throughout the survey. Additionally, the majority of audience members will increase their favorability of Schick after seeing the ad. In other words, the majority of women over the age of 18 will not only like the ad, but also like Schick after seeing this ad.

III. Chi-Square Significance Test: Post Exposure Favorability and Brand Index Score
From these results, we can see that for Schick, all respondents changed their rankings of the brand after seeing the three ads. Additionally, those respondents that had lower than the median brand index scores were more likely to reduce their ranking of Schick after exposure to the ads. On the other hand, those respondents that had higher than the median brand index scores were more likely to increase their ranking of Schick after exposure to the ads. In all, there were slightly more respondents that increased their ranking of Schick than decreased after viewing the ads.

IV. Constant Sum Scale: Post Exposure Favorability Changes
For each of the three brands, we can see that each respondent changed their ranking of the brands after being exposed to the three ads. This shows that the ads did have an effect on their reported brand preference. According to this data, Schick and Venus benefited from the greatest increase in brand favorability post exposure.

V. Schick and Venus Brand Index Scores Compared
According to the survey research, more respondents have a higher favorability towards the Venus brand than towards the Schick brand of razor.

VI. Simple Correlation Coefficient: Schick and Venus Brand Index Scores
There is a slight indication that the Schick and Venus brands are not direct competitors in the market, but instead benefit from brand favorability from different segments of the market.

VII. Constant Sum Scale: Women above the age of 36 and Venus Brand Index Scores
According to the survey research, the Schick brand is viewed favorably among the vast majority of women over the age of 36 surveyed.

Multiple Regression Analysis

There doesn't’t seem to be a consistent connection between how people changed their opinion about the Schick brand after seeing the three ads and their ratings of whether the brand was good, produced a smooth shave, produced a close shave, was cool, was expensive, made them feel sexy, was a trusted brand, was preferred over Venus and BiC, a brand they would use, or a brand they would purchase. There must be another factor that causes women over the age of 18 to change their preferences for Schick after seeing the three ads.

There doesn’t seem to be a consistent connection between how people changed their opinion about the Venus brand after seeing the three ads and their ratings of whether the brand was good, produced a smooth shave, produced a close shave, was cool, was expensive, made them feel sexy, was a trusted brand, was preferred over Schick and BiC, a brand they would use, or a brand they would purchase. There must be another factor that causes women over the age of 18 to change their preferences for Venus after seeing the three ads.

There doesn’t seem to be a consistent connection between how people changed their opinion about the BiC brand after seeing the three ads and their ratings of whether the brand was good, produced a smooth shave, produced a close shave, was cool, was expensive, made them feel sexy, was a trusted brand, was preferred over Schick and Venus, a brand they would use, or a brand they would purchase. There must be another factor that causes women over the age of 18 to change their preferences for BiC after seeing the three ads.

Multiple Discriminant Analysis

We would expect consumers opinion of how good the BiC brand is, how smooth the shave is, how close the shave is, how cool appearance of the razor is, how sexy the razor makes them feel, how trusted the brand is, and preference over Schick and Venus brands to be strong indicators of whether or not they will change their opinion of the brand following exposure to advertisements.

Consumers’ opinion of how smooth the shave is, how close the shave is, how cool the razor looks, how trusted the brand is, and purchase intent are strong indicators of whether or not they will change their opinion of the brand following exposure to the advertisements.

There is a substantial difference between the two groups in the population. In other words, consumers that will rank BiC higher before exposure to the ads differ considerably in from consumers that will rank BiC higher after exposure.

Female consumers over the age of 18 will either have a higher ranking of BiC brand razors after being exposed to the three ads or a lower ranking after exposure based on their opinions of how good the brand is, how smooth the shave is, how close the shave is, how cool the razor looks, how sexy the razor makes them feel, how trusted the brand is, their preference over Schick and Venus brands, and their purchase intent.

ANOVA/MANOVA

According to the data, we can see that there is very little difference in the mean score for Likert item smooth shave between the two higher post ranking groups and the 36 and older, lower post ranking group. We do know, however, that differences exist in participant’s opinion of how smooth the shave is from a BiC razor for women under the age of 36 that ranked the BiC brand lower after viewing the ads and the other participants in the survey.

According to the data, we can see that there is very little difference among the mean scores for the Likert items between the two higher post ranking groups and the and older, lower post ranking group. We do know, however, that differences exist in participants’ opinion of the 10 Likert items for women under the age of 36 and ranked the BiC brand lower after viewing the three ads.

It does not make a difference as to whether women over the age of 18 are older or younger than 35 and what their opinions are related to the BiC brand as indicated in the Likert questionnaire items on how the participants responded to viewing the ads.

Factor Analysis

From this, we can see the preference order of these three disposable razor brands among women over the age of 18 that participated in this study to be Schick and Venus tied for 1st, followed by BiC.