THE INFLUENCE OF BRAND IMAGE, HALAL LABEL, AND HALAL AWARENESS ON CUSTOMERS PURCHASING DECISION OF HALAL COSMETIC

Abstract

Cosmetics are an important element for everyday life and have become a lifestyle, especially for women. Cosmetics consumption must be complying with government security regulation. Wardah is a cosmetic brand that is designed by local and natural knowledge. Wardah received the Halal Top Trademark Award in the cosmetics category, however from the pre-survey 52.6% respondents did not consider halal labels in a cosmetics product. The purpose of this research study was to analyses the effect of brand image, halal label, and halal awareness on Wardah's customer purchasing decision. The research used a primary data obtained from the distribution of questionnaires. The technique of sampling in this research study is using random sampling method. The number of samples obtained by 140 people, data analysis in this research study is using multiple liner regression techniques. Based on the this research study result, it was found that one of the independent variables which is halal label marked by X2 has insignificance effected the dependent variable, it was shown by the P-value > 0.05. That could happen because the distribution of the data cannot represent the sample of the the population. To continue the research it was required to conduct an intervention by removing the insignificant variable. Eventually after the intervention was conducted the new regression model were able to suit all the of the test, and eventually this research has proved that variable X1 and X3 could explain the Y variable by 32.6% while the other 67.4% was effected by other factors.