Investigating the Factors Leading towards the Purchase of a Perfume Brand; An Empirical Study of Working Females in Karachi

Investigating the Factors Leading towards the Purchase of a Perfume Brand; An Empirical Study of Working Females in Karachi

Hudaibia Jamali

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Maleeha J. Muslim

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Zainab Agha

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Zohaib Sufyan

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The objective of our study was to evaluate, in a population of Togolese People Living With HIV(PLWHIV), the agreement between three scores derived from the general population namely the Framingham score, the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE), the evaluation of the cardiovascular risk (CVR) according to the World Health Organization.

Nowadays, in an increasingly more evident manner, perfumes assume the role of indications of individuality and ascetic orientation of those who wear them. In this regard, role of advertising is quite evident to persuade working females in choosing the best fragrance and at the same time, understanding number of factors is also a key consideration for marketers. Therefore, the purpose of this research paper is to examine the number of reasons a working women keeps in mind when purchasing a particular perfume brand. This is a quantitative research and based on a philosophy of post positivist, with a deductive research approach. Survey questionnaire has been used as an instrument to collect the data which was adopted from the literature. The sample size is 384 and probability random sampling technique has been used. Data was analyzed through SPSS software and applied both the descriptive and inferential statistics.

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Zainab Agha. 2016. \u201cInvestigating the Factors Leading towards the Purchase of a Perfume Brand; An Empirical Study of Working Females in Karachi\u201d. Global Journal of Management and Business Research - E: Marketing GJMBR-E Volume 16 (GJMBR Volume 16 Issue E2): .

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