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    PROJECT

    ON

    CRITERIA USED BY THE CONSUMER IN SELECTION

    OF BRAND OF FINANCIAL NEWSPAPER

    Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

    Master in management studies.

    SEMESTER: II

    2010-12

    SUBMITTED BY

    Name: CHIRAG J PARMAR

    MMS Roll No. 32

    Batch: 2010 - 2012

    H K Institute of Management Studies and Research,

    Jogeshwari,

    Mumbai 400102

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    H K Institute of Management Studies and Research,Jogeshwari, Mumbai 400102

    JULY 20-- - DECEMBER 20-- / MAY JUNE 200_

    Students Declaration

    I hereby declare that this report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the award

    for the Masters of Management Studies degree to H K Institute of Management Studies and

    Research is my original work and not submitted for award of any degree or diploma fellowship

    or for similar titles or prizes.

    I further certify that I have no objection and grant the rights to H K Institute of Management

    Studies and Research to publish any chapter/ project if they deem fit in Journals/Magazines and

    newspapers etc. without my permission.

    Place : Mumbai

    Date : 30/07/2011

    Name : Chirag J Parmar

    Class : MMS I Sem. II

    Roll No. : 32.

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    Certificate

    This is to certify that the dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of

    Master In Management Studies of H K Institute of Management Studies and Research

    is a result of the bonafide research work carried out by Mr. Chirag J parmar under mysupervision and guidance, no part of this report has been submitted for award of any

    other degree, diploma, fellowship or other similar titles or prizes. The work has also not

    been published in any Journals/Magazines.

    Date Industry/NGO guide : _______________

    Company : _______________

    Place: Designation : _______________

    Project guide : Prof. Dipika singh Prof. K.C. Pandey

    Core Faculty Director

    H K I M S R H K I M S R

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

    During the perseverance of this project, I was supported by different people,

    whose names if not mentioned would be inconsiderate on my part. I would like to

    extend my sincere gratitude and appreciation to Prof. Dipika singh who initiated

    me into the study of CRITERIA USED BY THE CONSUMER IN SELECTION

    OF BRAND OF FINANCIAL NEWSPAPER.

    It has indeed been a great experience working under them during the course of

    the project for their invaluable advice and guidance provided throughout this

    project. I also owe my sincere gratitude to Prof. K.C.Pandey (Director ofHKIMSR).

    I would also like to thank the following people who through their experience have

    enlightened me on the practical aspects of this subject without whom the study

    would not have been carried out successfully.

    o Mr. Madhav modghade

    o Mr. Vaibhav pore

    o Mr. Prabhakar singh

    I would also like to give my sincere gratitude to all my college librarian staff

    because of whom I am able to complete my project .

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    CHAPTER 1

    CHAPTER 2

    CHAPTER 3

    CHAPTER 4

    ANNEXURES

    1.1 Executive Summary

    2.1 Introduction

    2.1.1 Introduction to Company

    2.1.2 Introduction to Project

    2.2 Objectives

    2.3 Methodology

    2.4 Sampling Design

    2.5 Limitations

    3.1 Analysis & Findings

    4.1 Conclusions

    4.2 Recommendations

    A.1 Questionnaire

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    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

    This project will help the Business Standard Ltd. to implement

    necessary steps to improve the market share especially in

    MUMBAI. It will also help the organization to find out weak points

    in comparison to Economic Times & others.

    The study is about Criteria used by the consumer in

    selection of Brand of Financial Newspaper. The main competitor

    of Business Standard is Economic Times therefore this study will

    help to Business Standard Ltd. to know the readers view about

    both the newspapers and what consumer see before selecting the

    brand of newspaper.

    The newspaper industry can be said as the most trusted

    industry as people believe whatever is printed in the newspaper

    99% is a fact and day to day happenings. My motive was to

    broaden the spectrum of trust and acquire more customers for

    business standard ltd.

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    About company

    Business standard

    Type Daily newspaper

    Format Broadsheet

    Owner Kotak Mahindra Bank

    Founder Ananda Publishers

    Publisher Business Standard Ltd

    Editor Sanjaya Baru

    Staff writers A K Bhattacharya

    Sunil Jain

    Shyamal Majumdar and Others

    Founded 1975

    Language English & Hindi

    Circulation 1,44,000 (English)

    53,000 (Hindi)

    Office website business-standard.com (English)

    hindi.business-standard.com

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    BUSINESS STANDARD LTD.

    Business Standard is an Indian English-language daily newspaper

    published by Business Standard Ltd (BSL) in two languages, English

    and Hindi. The Newspaper primarily covers India and international

    business, and financial news and issues.

    The main English-language edition comes from 12 regional

    Centres - Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai,

    Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Lucknow,

    Bhubaneswar, and Kochi - and reaches readers in over 1,000

    towns and cities across India.

    HISTORY

    Started in 1975 in Kolkata by the Ananda Publishers group,

    Business Standardwas hived offas a separate company in 1996.

    It was then bought by Mumbai-based financial investors led by

    the Kotak Mahindra Bank, after which began a phase of rapid

    expansion with the launch of new editions.

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    PERSONNEL

    T. N. Ninan was editor from 1993 to 2009, when he took up the

    editorship ofThe Economic Times. In January 2010, Ninan became

    chairman and editorial director of BSL and was succeeded as

    editor ofBusiness Standardby Dr Sanjaya Baru. He was the media

    advisor of Prime Minister Manmohan Sing. The paper which is

    India's second largest business daily employs around 200 business

    journalists, including A K Bhattacharya and Shyamal Majumdar.

    In establishing a pedigree of strong financial journalism, Business

    Standard also publishes articles by Bimal Jalan, former governor

    of the Reserve Bank of India; Shankar Acharya, former chiefeconomic advisor to the Government of India; Deepak Lal,

    professor of economics, UCLA; Suman Bery, director-general,

    National Council of Applied Economic Research; Abheek Barua,

    chief economist ofHDFC Bank; Nitin Desai, former chief economic

    advisor and former under-secretary general at the United Nations;

    Surjit Bhalla, chairman ofOXUS; Arvind Subramanian, professor at

    the Peterson Institute for International Economics; M. Govinda

    Rao, director ofNational Institute of Public Finance and Policy;

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    BSL also publishes various periodicals, including BS Motoring,

    Indian Management and the Asian Management Review. The

    Hindi edition was launched in February 2008 from seven centres

    stretching from Mumbai in the west, running across the Hindi

    Belt, and to Kolkata in the east.

    ELECTRONIC

    The newspaper's website, business-standard.com, allows visitors

    to access the Business Standarde-paper, with a choice of editions.

    The Business Standard website receives 1.5 million unique users

    per month, the highest for any "stand alone" newspaper website

    in India.[1]

    In January 2010, it launched smartinvestor.in, an information-

    cum-trading website for those interested in the stock market

    BRAND POSITIONING

    Positioned as a serious, respected, top-notch, non-Frivolous,

    business daily which is founded on the editorial principles of

    integrity.

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    A Paper that does not compromise on editorial values.

    That conducts its business within an ethics framework.

    That stands for excellence, fairness, impartiality and

    authority on the subject.

    That represents India reaching out to the world: the first

    paper to be associated with a global publishing brand.

    Business standard is positioned as a premium financial daily.

    Reinforced by the higher cover price compared to the

    market leader.

    Business standard believes in:

    Providing information that creates wealth & enriches lives

    Editorial Overview (Focus on Market)

    Money & Markets

    The compass

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    Unique feature to Business Standard

    o BS experts exclusive take on more than 12 markets

    and corporate developments every week

    o Most important financial news

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    Commodities

    o Most exhaustive coverage on the commodities space

    o Regarded as a key strength of BSs coverage

    Money & currency

    Stock Analysis

    o Expert view on stocks performanceo In-depth analysis on all performance metrics

    BS 200

    Unique feature to Business Standard Tuesday to Saturday:

    An in-depth analysis & tools for tracking the top performing

    200 listed stocks that contributes to 90 to 95% of volume

    and value of total trade I the stock

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    VALUE ADD-ONS FOR READERS

    Weekly supplements

    Smart Investor (everyday):

    Serves as a comprehensive investment guide.

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    The smart investor

    A critical tool for discerning investors

    o Appears everyday

    o Just so the weeks investments can be planned

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    12 page section in Berliner format

    Covers the following features

    Investment Counter

    o Smart Features by experts on the outlook for the market.

    o Trading Desk Covering Macro & Micro Technical, with

    specific trading tips for the week.

    o Exhaustive coverage on derivatives

    o Sectorial analysis of topical interest

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    Strategist (Monday):

    Covers issues around management & marketing.

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    The strategist

    A sought after weekly supplement, the strategist appears

    every Monday.

    Covers issues on management & marketing.

    Analyses critical issues through case studies.

    The following are some of the regular features

    o The Quality Conundrum

    o Kit- critical information relating to an industry in an

    easily digestible form.

    o The strategist Quiz

    o Bookworm- top 10 business bestsellers list.

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    Weekend (Saturday):

    A weekend read covers Art, Leisure, Lifestyle

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    Weekend

    Unlike other business newspaper Business Standard sustains its

    circulation on this day through its most popular section BS

    Weekend

    The weekend section features

    o Newsmakers

    o Lifestyle

    o Portraits of wealthy people

    o Arts

    o Travel

    o Real estate/ Golf

    o Book reviews

    o Exciting full page on motoring

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    Annuals

    The Fund Manager - Covers the high points and

    performances of Mutual Funds . An annual guide to smartly

    invest in mutual funds. Includes profiles of top fund

    managers.

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    BS 1000 A guide to Indias top 1000 companies. An

    annual reference book on corporate performance. Analyses

    and rates top 1000 listed companies.

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    Monthly magazine

    BS MotoringBSMamong Indias most regarded motoring magazines

    Led by a team which is passionate about automobiles

    which reflects in the loyal readership that it commands.

    Circulation in excess of 25,000 copies from news stands

    Also, abridged version circulated to readers of Business

    Standard

    Among many firsts, the BS Motoring awards is the oldest

    and most respected.

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    INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT

    Indias Leading Financial Daily

    Since 1975.

    Project Title

    CRITERIA USED BY THE CONSUMER IN SELECTION OF

    BRAND OF FINANCIAL NEWSPAPER

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    OBJECTIVE

    To find out the brand preference among the business

    newspapers.

    To find out the attributes which influence the consumer

    to purchase business daily?

    To interact with the people and to explain the

    subscription scheme and about the paper to increase

    the profit of the company.

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    METHODOLOGY

    Source of Data : There are two types of data which

    have used in this study:

    o Primary Data

    o Secondary Data

    Research Instrument: The Questionnaire is the most

    common instrument used in collecting primary data for

    the study. It was used for consumer survey, which

    helps in study.

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    SAMPLING DESIGN

    Sampling Method : Simple random sampling

    Sample Unit:

    o Management Student & Professors

    o Corporate professionals

    o Chartered Accountant

    o Investors (Stock brokers).

    Sample Size: The sample size for the survey is 100

    chosen from the large population of area covered. Out

    of 100 it was divided in 25-25-25-25 respectively in

    above categories of sample unit.

    Area covered:

    o Borivali to virar

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    LIMITATIONS

    The study have been completed in 60 days, this is not sufficient

    time to do a survey in city like Mumbai.

    The sample size chosen is limited to 100 respondents; the

    study may not be applicable to the total market.

    As the market being very huge it was not possible to cover each

    and every area.

    Subscription price is very high as compare to other brand of

    newspaper.

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    ANALYSIS &FINDINGS

    Q1: WHICH OF THE BUSINESS NEWSPAPER DO YOU PREFER?

    1. BUSINESS STANDARD 3. ECONOMIC TIMES

    2. FINANCIAL EXPRESS 4. BUSINESS LINE

    5. OTHERS

    Here we can see that Economic time has highest readers in all

    business daily as 51% of people from my survey read only

    economic time. This is because bundle offered by times of

    India.

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    Q2: SELECTION OF THIS NEWSPAPER IS DUE TO WHICH FACTOR?

    1. PRICE 4. SUBS HAMPERS(GIFTS)

    2. CONTENT 5. BRAND IMAGE

    3. AVALIBILITY

    Here we can see the most important factor while selecting a

    business daily is content (31%) and second important thing is

    price (27%).

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    Q3: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER YOU HAVE READ & LIKED? PEASE RATE.

    1. BUSINESS STANDARD ----------------

    2. ECONOMIC TIMES ----------------

    3. FINANCIAL EXPRESS ----------------

    4. BUSINESS LINE ----------------

    (PUT 1 STAR* FOR 1ST

    RANK AND 4 STAR**** FOR 4TH

    RANK.)

    Here we can see ratings given by customers

    o Economic time on 1st

    rank with 59% votes

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    o Business standard on 2nd rank with 35% votes

    o Business line & financial express on 3% each

    Q4: WHY DO YOU READ NEWSPAPER?

    1. FOR GENERAL AWARNESS OR INFORMATION PURPOSE

    2. BECAUSE OF PROFESSIONAL REQUIRMENTS

    3. FOR INVESTMENT GUIDANCE

    4. FOR JOB SEARCH OR CLASSIFIEDS5. BECAUSE OF COLLEGES COURSE STRUCTURE.

    People read financial newspaper for investment purpose i.e. 47% I

    can say that newspaper can help them for their market

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    speculations and secondly people read newspaper for general

    awareness i.e.32%.

    Q: 5 HOW DID YOU COME TO KNOW ABOUT THIS NEWSPAPER?(BUSINESS STANDARD)

    1. ADVERTISEMENT 4. FRIENDS

    2. INTERNET 5. OTHERS

    3. NOT AWARE

    Brand awareness is very low as compare to its competitor

    (economic time), here we can see that 19% readers are not awareabout business standard.

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    Q6: WILL YOU PREFER THE SAME NEWSPAPER IF PRICE WILL INCREASE?

    1. YES 2. NO

    Here we can see that 69% of people believe in changing their brand

    if price of newspaper will increase. Whereas 31% peoples are loyal to

    the same brand.

    YES NO

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    ANALYSIS & FINDINGS

    While surveying the market I came to know that most of the

    business daily readers are reading Economic Times because of

    the bundle offer with Times of India (TOI+ET= RS 990 Annually)

    Whereas BS = RS 710 Annually

    Business Standard is not having Sunday edition in the offer but

    other business dailies like Economic Times and Financial

    Express are having Sunday edition it is also effecting the mindsof consumer.

    Investors are the majority users of Business Standard among all

    the respondents, 47 % of Investors would like to read Business

    Standard because Business Standard is a only business daily

    which provide 12 pages supplement copy calling SMART

    INVESTOR.

    Brand awareness is very less.

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    (as per my survey 19% readers are not aware about BS.)

    CONCLUSION

    As the objective was to find out the brand preference among the

    business newspaper and to find out the attributes which influence

    the consumer to purchase business daily. Here I would like to

    conclude price and content of the newspaper place a vital role in

    selection of brand of the financial newspaper.

    As we seen in data collected by survey, the most important factor

    while selecting a business daily is content (31%) and second

    important thing is price (27%).

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    On other side I found that subscription hampers (free gifts)

    provided by company also matters much in choice of business

    daily.

    (As we all student of SIP from different institute made a history inBUSINESS STANDARD LTD. by selling more than 2,500 Annual

    subscription in Mumbai only in 2 months.)

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    RECOMMENDATIONS

    At the current time Business Standard is not having Sunday

    edition in a scheme but another business dailies like

    Economic Times and Financial Express are having Sunday

    edition and the customers of the Business Standard are

    unhappy with this policy of the organization so that Business

    Standard should start its edition on Sunday with some better

    strategies than its competitors who is charging more on

    Sunday edition.

    The monthly add on given by BS is motoring magazine

    instead of this they should provide magazine related to the

    financial sector.

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    They should concentrate more on brand awareness

    program.

    They should start Customer Relationship Management

    department to maintain the relationship with the

    customers.

    They should again start gujarati addiction of newspaper.

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    The students ofH K INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES & RESEARCH are conducting this survey as a

    part of their project in field of consumer behavior. The primary objective of this survey is to know

    criteria used by the consumers in selection of brand of financial newspaper

    Kindly spare few minutes and help us by answering these questions.

    NAME: DATE:

    AGE: OCCUPATION:

    Q1: WHICH OF THE BUSINESS NEWSPAPER DO YOU PREFER?

    3. BUSINESS STANDARD 3. ECONOMIC TIMES

    4. FINANCIAL EXPRESS 4. BUSINESS LINE

    Q2: SELECTION OF THIS NEWSPAPER IS DUE TO WHICH FACTOR?

    4. PRICE 4. SUBSCRIPTION HAMPERS(GIFTS)

    5. CONTENT 5. BRAND IMAGE

    6. AVALIBILITY

    Q3: HOW DID YOU COME TO KNOW ABOUT THIS NEWSPAPER?

    4. ADVERTISEMENT 3. FRIENDS

    5. INTERNET 4. OTHERS

    Q4: DO YOU BELIEVE THAT CONTENT QUALITY MATTERS IN SELECTION OF NEWSPAPER?

    1. YES 2. NO

    Q5: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER YOU HAVE READ & LIKED? PEASE RATE.

    5. BUSINESS STANDARD ----------------

    6. ECONOMIC TIMES ----------------

    7. FINANCIAL EXPRESS ----------------

    8. BUSINESS LINE ----------------

    (PUT 1 STAR* FOR 1ST RANK AND 4 STAR**** FOR 4TH RANK.)

    Q6: WHY DO YOU READ NEWSPAPER?

    6. FOR GENERAL AWARNESS OR INFORMATION PURPOSE

    7. BECAUSE OF PROFESSIONAL REQUIRMENTS

    8. FOR INVESTMENT GUIDANCE

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    9. FOR JOB SEARCH OR CLASSIFIEDS

    10.BECAUSE OF COLLEGES COURSE STRUCTURE.

    Q7: DOES NEWSPAPER HELP YOU IN YOUR MARKET DECISION / SPECULATIONS?

    1. YES 2. NO

    Q8: WILL YOU PREFER THE SAME NEWSPAPER IF PRICE WILL INCREASE?

    2. YES 2. NO

    Q9: WOUD YOU LIKE TO SWITCH OVER TO ANOTHER BRAND?

    1. YES 2. NO 3. MAY BE

    Q10: WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SWITCH TO ANOTHER BRAND? PLEASE SPECIFY..

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    (Q11. IS ONLY FOR NON BUSINESS STANDARD READERS)

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