Brand awareness to its sales
There are more than 200,000 passengers per day between 15- 59 years of age
based on the most recent survey of 1,600 persons conducted by The Nielsen
company(Thailand) Limited. The past commuters used regular services from
their residences to their work place. Now, more people are moving into the
nearby city where they can use convenient routes. This changing lifestyle
particularly for the modern generation has required people to adjust their
behaviors. The consumers' insight behavior patterns and found that the
products most popular with the new generation are those with modern brand names,
such as IT products, real estate, financial institutes, movies, life insurance,
and insurance. Their brand names are constantly repeated by the media reminding
customers each time they buy something. Marketer's expectations of short term
sales volume are surpassed. Development of the next stage of technology of
out of home administrators - inside MRT, - is to apply movable media to attract
attention, and emphasize modern trends by merging the three subsidiary companies
together under the administration of MRT. Another interesting project in the
planning stage is to develop the area inside the station into a medium size mall
called "Metro Mall" - shopping mall for customer convenience such as tutorial
schools for students who are commuting. Thus parents fell at ease that their
children are in a secure environment. Other products in convenient stores will
also be made available. However, factors to increase the number of commuters
are limited by the progress of rail extensions and construction of new routes.
Product exhibitions along the most convenient routes, such as the Queen Sirikit
Conference Center can be presented when new routes come into operation. Other
limiting factors of concern are the present restricted safety regulations of the
MRT system. Improvement of safety will increase commuters' confidence. In the
future commuters will be valuable consumers of many
products. |