International Journal of Business Studies
Vol 5 No 2 (2021): International Journal of Business Studies (IJBS)

The Art of Luxury: Sealy Brand Personality Identification

Rudy Prilto Lesmana (IKB LSPR)
Margaretha Margawati van Eymeren (IKB LSPR)
Ferdinand Fransiscus Tanuwidjaja (IKB LSPR)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2021

Abstract

Sealy is one of luxury mattress brands in the global market that since 2013 strives to have a successful business in the Indonesia luxury mattress market. In Indonesia, Sealy competes directly with many top collection models from several other international mattress brands. To face the competition, Sealy needs brand personality. This research aims to identify Sealy's brand personality, which can be used as a guideline for the company when setting up its marketing communication plan. This research's methods are qualitative, and as desk research, the unit analysis are both product-related and non-product-related characteristics of Sealy that called drivers. This research constructs a category based on 42 traits, 15 facets, and 5 dimensions of Aaker’s brand personality framework to analyze Sealy's specific brand drivers. The result is that Sealy main personalities are leader and upper class from competence and sophistication dimensions.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijbs

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

Description

International Journal of Business Studies (IJBS) is an international open access and peer-reviewed journal published tri-annually in February, June, and October by IPMI Research Center, Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen IPMI. IJBS aimed to provide research articles in order to have a significant implication ...