Author: Preethi Raghuraman
June 06, 2016
In the final week of our in-country experience, we consolidated the information that we had collected over the time we spent in China, specifically in Shanghai and Beijing. From the primary marketing research, there were some interesting results. Our Chinese experts on the team mentioned that the Chinese tend to trust foreign brands more than local brands when it comes to health conscious products such as air purifiers. They also hypothesized that the Chinese have huge trust, perhaps the greatest trust, in US brands.
May 17, 2016
We started our primary marketing research in Shanghai on Monday, 9th May by visiting some electronic stores in certain malls. We wanted to better understand consumer behavior and pricing, and also be able to estimate the market size if we introduce our client's product to the Chinese market. Trying to talk to the sales representatives at these stores as college students working on a project, we realized that they were quite secretive about their sales information, and even refrained from sharing any in depth information about the products that they had on display.