The effects of adjacent competitors and promotion on brand sales
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to examine the potential for adjacent brands to influence sales of a focal brand. Specifically, this paper examines whether the type of adjacent brand (market leader or non-market leader competitor) and its promotion (featuring or discounting) have an effect on sales of a focal product.
Design/methodology/approach
Store-level scanner data supplemented with in-store audits are used.
Findings
It is demonstrated that adjacent brands and their specific marketing activities influence focal brand sales in specific ways, and that market leaders have a disproportionate and different effect than other competitors on the sales of adjacent brands.
Originality/value
Recent marketing research has suggested that brand activities such as featuring and discounting and in-store environmental stimuli such as shelf allocation and displays can have an important effect on category and individual brand sales. Prior work in this area, however, has not explicitly considered the potential influence of relative shelf positions (i.e. adjacencies) on brand and category sales.
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Acknowledgements
This research was supported by Auburn University’s Department of Marketing Summer Research Grant. The authors thank Craig Stacey and Dr Douglas Bowman for their help in securing access to the data examined in this paper.
Citation
Keel, A.L. and Padgett, D. (2015), "The effects of adjacent competitors and promotion on brand sales", Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp. 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCM-02-2014-0860
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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