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Consumers’ Perception, Attitudes and Intention to Purchase Celebrity Endorsed Food and Beverage Products in Kuala Lumpur

Abdul Rais Abdul Rahman, Nurainina Mohd Najib, Siti Nur’ Afifah Jaafar, Mohaini Mohamed@Naba

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i16/11220

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Nowadays, consumers are well educated, diverse and technological-savvy thus it is a challenge to marketers to attract consumers’ attention. Celebrity endorsement has been used to build credibility of the product, make the brand stand out, and open up new markets. Despite that, it is costly and during endorsement period, celebrity image could shine or tarnish the brand of the product. Thus, the study primarily investigates how consumers’ perception and attitudes towards celebrity endorsement influence their purchase intention of celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products in Kuala Lumpur. Survey by mean of self-administered questionnaire through purposive sampling was conducted among 120 respondents, in selected area in Kuala Lumpur. The data collected were then analysed to obtain descriptive statistic, correlation, and multiple linear regression. Purchase intention of celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products was found to be influenced by consumers’ perception and attitudes. The finding indicated that positive perception and attitudes of consumers towards food products with endorsement could encourage repurchases. Food manufacturing companies could consider having celebrity endorsements for their products.

Consumers’ Perception, Attitudes and Intention to Purchase Celebrity Endorsed Food and Beverage Products in Kuala Lumpur

Abdul Rais Abdul Rahman1, Nurainina Mohd Najib1, Siti Nur’ Afifah Jaafar1, Mohaini Mohamed@Naba2
1Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia, 2Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Branch, Malaysia
Email: a.rais@umt.edu.my

Abstract
Nowadays, consumers are well educated, diverse and technological-savvy thus it is a challenge to marketers to attract consumers’ attention. Celebrity endorsement has been used to build credibility of the product, make the brand stand out, and open up new markets. Despite that, it is costly and during endorsement period, celebrity image could shine or tarnish the brand of the product. Thus, the study primarily investigates how consumers’ perception and attitudes towards celebrity endorsement influence their purchase intention of celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products in Kuala Lumpur. Survey by mean of self-administered questionnaire through purposive sampling was conducted among 120 respondents, in selected area in Kuala Lumpur. The data collected were then analysed to obtain descriptive statistic, correlation, and multiple linear regression. Purchase intention of celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products was found to be influenced by consumers’ perception and attitudes. The finding indicated that positive perception and attitudes of consumers towards food products with endorsement could encourage repurchases. Food manufacturing companies could consider having celebrity endorsements for their products.
Keywords: Celebrity Endorsed Food Products, Consumer Perception, Consumer Attitude, Consumer Purchase Intention

Introduction
Celebrity endorsement is known effective marketing since the late 19th century (Fletcher, 2008). They come from various background such as actor, actress, musicians, athletes and even politician. Millions of dollars are spend by companies in order to have celebrities appear in advertisements promoting particular products or services in both mass and social media platform which could assist to sustain the business in the long run (Gupta et al., 2015; Mukherjee, 2009).

Purchase intention refers to the preference of consumer in buying particular products or services because of the usefulness (Jamil & Hassan, 2014). Three factors are known to influence consumers’ purchase which includes perception towards credibility of celebrity endorser and consumers’ attitude (Jamil & Hassan, 2014; Mirabi et al., 2015; Chang, 2011). Perception towards the credibility of a particular celebrity endorser includes physical appearance, trustworthiness, and expertise greatly affected celebrity endorsement's effectiveness as it has a significant role on consumers’ intention to purchase a particular products or services (Sertoglu et al., 2014). Ahmed et al (2012) contended that most of the times consumers are awed by the attractiveness of the celebrities which entices them to purchase a particular endorsed product. Consumer’s purchase intention could also be triggered through consumers’ attitude towards a product (Madahi & Sukati, 2012).

Despite the rising trend of celebrity endorsement utilization in Malaysia, there is no information about consumers’ perception and intention to purchase celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products. Several researches have attempted to measure the effect of celebrity endorsement on consumers’ purchase intention and buying behaviour in general (Bailey, 2007; Chang, 2011; Zipporah & Mberia, 2014). However, celebrity endorsed food and beverage products have yet to be explore extensively. Having identify the research gap, this study is aimed to fulfil the following objectives empirically:

RO1. To study the relationship between perceived celebrity endorsement, perceived
credibility of celebrity endorser, and consumers' attitude towards celebrity endorsed food and beverage products towards purchase intention of celebrity endorsed food and beverage products.
RO2. To determine the best predictor of consumers’ purchase intention towards celebrity-
endorsed food and beverage products.

Literature Review
A review on the branded food and beverage products endorsed by celebrities in the USA from 1990 to 2017 revealed that there were 732 endorsements and the major 3 food and beverage products/brands having endorsements are snacks and candy, sugar-sweetened beverage and Quick Service Restaurant products (Zhou et al., 2019). Three categories of endorsement are; (1) endorsement involving particular food and beverage products (i.e. Coca-cola), (2) endorsement of the company or corporate brand (i.e. McDonald’s) and (3) endorsement of health-promotion campaign brand also known as social marketing (Zhou et al., 2019). Their review depicted that food and beverage companies have been widely dependent on celebrity endorsement as marketing. Even a single brand such as Pepsi spend tens of millions to several pop singers and athletes (Rada & Dominguez-Alvarez, 2014). This is because celebrity endorsement can benefit the industry in various ways, including increasing the consumers' awareness of their brands and thus may influence their intention to purchase the celebrity-endorsed brands (Fathi & Kheiri, 2015).

Consumer perception is concerned with how an individual selects, organizes, and interprets stimuli into what is happening in the real world (Schiffman & Kanuk, 2000). Regarding celebrity endorsement, people’s purchase decisions are influenced by the attractiveness and effectiveness of the celebrity endorser. The endorser's credibility can be defined as the degree to which they are considered believable, which is contributed by endorser’s attractiveness, trustworthiness, and level of expertise (Ohanion, 1990). In other words, credibility is the audience's perception of the believability and truthfulness of the advertisement where products are being advertised (Wang, 2012). The attractiveness of endorsers is known to grab the attention of consumers to a specific product or brand through all means of advertisement (Zipporah & Mberia, 2014). In advertising, trustworthiness is depicted as the level of confidence towards something that aims to communicate a valid, honest and objective manner (Choi & Rifon, 2012). In a study among university students in Malaysia, a substantial link between credibility of celebrity endorsers and purchase intention was observed (Aziz et al., 2019). Trustworthiness of an advertising endorser is a major significant factor that impacts consumers’ purchase intention (Rafique, 2012; Roozen & Claeys, 2010). Expertise is about endorsers’ professionalism in some specific knowledge which can convince consumers to buy products (Chanavat et al., 2016). Thus, it is crucial for companies to carefully select celebs who has adequate knowledge background associated with a specific product (Hugosson et al., 2014).

Attitude refers to an individual’s internal assessment of a particular object and has been a crucial concept in marketing related studies since the 1960s (Sallam, 2011). Attitude is defined as positive and negative feelings (evaluative effect) of an individual in performing the target behaviour and is often considered relatively stable (Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975). Consumers’ attitude plays a crucial role in consumers' purchase intention and measuring the effectiveness of celebrity endorsed product (Bhatt et al., 2013; Madahi & Sukati, 2012). In this study, attitudes towards celebrity endorsed food and beverage products are perceived as a susceptibility to respond in either a favourable or unfavourable manner to any food and beverage product involving celebrity endorsement.

Several studies investigated the purchase intention of celebrity endorsed food and beverages. Shenje (2017) found a positive and significant correlation amid celebrity endorsement and consumer buying intentions of fast food outlets. Meanwhile, Dutta and Singh (2013) revealed that the purchase of healthy foods brands by the Indian housewives also influenced by the celebrity endorsements. In another study, celebrity endorsement has less influence on the purchase intention of healthy food diet (Nugraha et al., 2018). These few examples show that celebrity endorsement may influence purchase intention, but the magnitude depends on types of product involved. This could be because consumers’ perception towards celebrity as individual may influence their rating. For instance, Ohanion (1990), among the earliest researchers related to celebrity endorsement, revealed that a celebrity endorser's attractiveness, trustworthiness, and expertise influence consumers’ purchase intentions for one celebrity but not for another celebrity. The proposed conceptual framework for this study is drawn as Figure 1 below based on the above discussion.

Figure 1: Conceptual framework adapted from Chang (2011); Samat et al. (2015); Zipporah and Mberia (2014)

In this study, three independent variables namely consumers’ perception towards celebrity endorsement, consumers’ perception towards credibility of celebrity endorser and consumer attitudes towards celebrity endorsed products are studied as factors that will potentially influence consumers’ purchase intention.

Methodology
This study adopts a cross-section quantitative approach using structured questionnaires. Kuala Lumpur was chosen as sampling location because the outcome of the survey ranks Kuala Lumpur as the 23rd city with the highest purchasing power in the world (Union Bank of Switzerland, 2012). Purposive sampling was used in selecting the supermarkets and sample size. Supermarket was chosen for sampling location because the object of this study i.e. food and beverage products can be found easily in supermarket. An information sheet consists of pictures of food products which have celebrity endorsement is presented to respondents. It assists the respondents to recall the products with celebrity endorsement before they complete the questionnaire. Prior to data collection, official approval letter was granted from the stores. Respondents were approached while they were shopping at the chosen stores. A screening question was asked to potential respondents.

Only consumers aged between 15 to 40 years who knew about the celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products became the subject for this study. Based on Youth Societies and Youth Development Act 2007 [Act 668], Malaysian youths' age range is between 15 to 40 years old. Using sample size calculation formula by Yamane (1967), the total number of respondents required is 120 considering the percentage of youth 48% within the total population of Kuala Lumpur 1.7 million (Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2015); Institute for Youth Research Malaysia ,2016). After getting consent from the potential respondents, a brief instruction on how to complete the questionnaire was given. Upon completion, token of appreciation was offered to respondents.

The structured questionnaire comprises of 6 sections namely Section A (Demographic Profiles), Section B (Consumers’ Perception towards Celebrity Endorsement), Section C (Consumers’ Perception towards Credibility of Celebrity Endorser), Section D (Consumers’ Perception towards Characteristics of Celebrity-Endorsed Food Products), Section E (Consumers’ Attitude towards Characteristics of Celebrity-Endorsed Food Products) and Section F (Consumers’ Purchase Intention towards Celebrity-Endorsed Food Products). Items were adapted from past research relating to celebrity endorsed products and post purchase behaviour (Madahi & Sukati, 2012; Preedanorawut et al., 2011; Samat et al., 2015; Ahmed et al., 2012; Chang, 2011; Nelson et al., 2012; Zipporah & Mberia, 2014). Five-point Likert scale was used in measuring items in from section B to F ranging from 1= strongly disagree to 5= strongly agree. Questionnaire items are bilingual (Malay and English). A pilot study was carried out to authenticate the reliability and validity of measurement items.

The data were analysed using descriptive statistics in the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 21.0. The potential relationship between perceived celebrity endorsement, perceived credibility of celebrity endorser, product characteristics, and consumers' attitude towards purchase intention was tested using correlation analysis. Further examination to identify the most significant factor that influences consumers’ purchase intention towards celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products was proceeded with multiple regression analysis. The basic threshold for regression models relating to sample size, normality, homoscedasticity, multicollinearity and outliers (Pallant, 2013) were met.

Result and Analysis
Demographic Profile of Respondents
A total of 120 completed questionnaires were obtained in this study. Majority respondents are female (62.5%) compared to 37.5% of male respondents. 67.5% respondents aged between 15 to 26 years old while another 32.5% respondents are 27 to 40 years old. Malay became the highest proportion of respondents (87.5%) compared to only 12.5% non-Malays participated in this study. 44.2% respondents attained degree or higher degree education while 40.8% respondents completed secondary education. The rest have attained primary education (3.3%), STPM/matriculation/A-level (7.5%) and other education (4.2%).

The Relationship between Independent Variables and Consumers’ Purchase Intention of Celebrity Endorsed Food and Beverage Products
Table 1 depicts the r value for the relationship between the three relevant independent variables and consumers’ purchase intention towards celebrity endorsed products.

Table 1: Relationship between all independent variables and consumers’ purchase intention of celebrity endorsed food and beverage products.
Variables r value Strength of
relationship
Consumers’ perception towards celebrity endorsement 0.528** Moderate
Consumers’ perception towards credibility of celebrity endorser 0.644** Moderate
Consumers’ attitudes towards celebrity endorsement 0.662** Moderate
**Correlation is significant at 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Table 1 indicates moderate to high correlation (r= 0.528 to 0.662) between all variables towards consumers’ purchase intention of celebrity endorsed food and beverage products. This outcome is partly parallel to few past studies. Shenje (2017) found positive and significant correlations between celebrity endorsement and consumer buying intentions of fast food outlets. Both, Dutta and Singh (2013) and Nugraha et al. (2018) revealed the connection between celebrity endorsements and purchase intention of healthy food. Studies revealed the relationship between consumer attitudes to purchase intention (e.g. Bhatt et al., 2013; Madahi & Sukati, 2012), but none has focused on food and beverage endorsed products. Study investigating all independent variables similar to this present study are yet to be found. Even within a similar country, research findings were varied because different variables were examined and dissimilarities in research design (e.g. Vien et al., 2017; Aziz et al., 2019). Results from this study somewhat has supported the fact that consumers’ perception and attitudes towards celebrity endorsement and credibility of celebrity endorser may contribute to their intention to purchase food and beverage product with celebrity endorsement. This could be due to publics recognized celebrity endorsers very quickly thus can help specific products/brands stand out from the rest of the crowd and in turn could resulted in favorable attitudinal and behavioral responses (Doss, 2011).

Determination of the Best Predictor that Influences Consumers’ Purchase Intention towards Celebrity-Endorsed Food and Beverage Products
Table 2 depicts the R square, ? and t value obtained from multiple regression analysis for the relationship between independent variables and consumers’ purchase intention towards celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products.

Table 2: Result of multiple regression analysis
Variables
?eta
value t value
Overall perceived celebrity endorsement 0.11 1.41
Overall perceived credibility of celebrity endorser 0.04 0.47
Overall consumers’ attitude towards celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products 0.73 9.54*
P Value <0.001
R2 0.68
Note: *p<0.01

The R2 statistic depicts 68 percent of the total variance for the estimation of consumers’ purchase intention towards celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products. In general, the bigger the R2, the greater the model fits the data (West et al., 2012). Consumers’ attitude was the only significant predictor (?=0.69, t=8.43) of consumers’ purchase intention, despite correlation present between all independent variables and consumers’ purchase intention (refer Table 2). It is probably because attitude is an established predictor of purchase intention for ages, conceptually and empirically. Ajzen (1991) developed the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) in which is an extension to the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). This theory concurred that positive individual’s attitudes and subjective norms will result in greater individual’s behaviour control thus the more people are intended to perform the particular behavior (Ajzen, 2006). This theory has also supported finding in Table 3 which explains that consumers’ intention to purchase that particular endorsed product is greatly influenced by his/her own attitude and the attitude of an admired celebrity towards the product or brand in the endorsement (Tran, 2011).


Conclusion
This study suggests that consumers’ perception of celebrity endorsement, consumers’ credibility of celebrity endorser and their attitude towards celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products able to influence their purchase intention of celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products. Further investigation reveals that consumers’ attitudes become the strongest predictor of purchasing of celebrity-endorsed food and beverage products. Thus, it is advocated that food marketers put more emphasis on developing consumers’ positive attitudes towards the product to increase their chances of purchase intention. Food manufacturers must first understand that having good products is the utmost important criteria that leads to consumers’ attitude. Marketers could then strategize ways to create consumers’ positive attitudes towards the product, perhaps by changing their affect, behaviour, and beliefs. Celebrity may be involved in that attitude change strategy but be sure to select the right celebrities at business and consumers’ perspective, who will be able to shine your brands and increase your sale.

Despite delivering some significant findings and insights, a few limitation could be improve upon in future studies. Firstly, responses were limited to only 120 respondents. Replicating the study on a state or national level will provide data to comprehend consumer perception, attitude, and purchase intention related to celebrity endorsed food products. Many consumer behaviour studies have extensively proved that the elements of perceived value, eating behaviour, and satisfaction develop a holistic understanding of the sequence of factors affecting post purchase behaviour. Therefore, future research focusing on post purchase behaviour of celebrity endorsed food products could incorporate some of these dimensions to develop an in-depth understanding.

Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank participants who are directly or indirectly involved in ensuring that this research can be conducted well and completely done.

Corresponding Author
Mohaini Mohamed@Naba Universiti Teknologi MARA Campus Dungun
Email: hanee@uitm.edu.my

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In-Text Citation: (Rahman et al., 2021)
To Cite this Article: Rahman, A. R. A., Najib, N. M., Jaafar, S. N. A., & Mohamed@Naba, M. (2021). Consumers’ Perception, Attitudes and Intention to Purchase Celebrity Endorsed Food and Beverage Products in Kuala Lumpur. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(16), 91–101.