THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY AGRO- ALLIED INDUSTRIES IN NIGERIA. (A CASE STUDY OF OLYMPIC MAIZE MILLING AGRO ALLIED INDUSTRIES LIMITED AWKA)

ABSTRACT

This research work traced the effectiveness of promotional strategies  employed by  Agro- allied Industries in Nigeria in the promotion of their products like meshing,  casavita, yam flour, maize flour, animal feeds and vitarice. The researcher selected Olympic maize milling Agro-Allied industries Ltd. Awka as case study. He  made an adept study into the various promotional   elements and available media with their strategies.Different structured questions were administered to respondents after reviewing similar literatures.These questionnaire were administered to both consumers and the management of Olympic Maize Milling Agro _ Allied Industries.The research also conducted oral interview with the manager of the company from where I get much of the information  not covered in the questionnaire.The test of two hypotheses was based on the researcher’s project topic, which tested with “a  chi square approach”.  The analysis of our data  revealed that most consumer of Agro- Allied product (Olympic) Mesolina, Olympic cassvita, Maize flour, animal feed etc became nature of the product through advertising and hence the most  effective promotional strategies being through the radio  advertising from which was followed by television with its strategically advertising from immediately  after national broadcast in the evening. 
The same was discovered that the most  effective media of promoting the products were radio and television which consumers rated highest and higher respectively.  More so, the management also confirmed this through the research’s analysis. The significant strategies in the promotional tools used by the management as the researcher discovered in her interview with the marketing manager and some customers are the jingles in the radio, that runs thus, the more you buy it and cook for food, the more satisfaction you get, which consumers said they found to be time. The one used in the advertisement is also effective and significant because of the way they cook it after preparing the Olympic mesolina, set it on the   table & the  family sit round the table and not their heads in affirmation and requested his to be everyday food. Finally, we recommend what we consider appropriate measures that would enhance a more posit effectiveness on the promotional strategies to employ  in the marketing of Agro-Allied products and other similar establishment that will aid the effectiveness like the product research and development, employing the services of promotional experts and strategies  and maintain good cooperate citizens through community activities.   TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGEII APPROVAL PAGEIII DEDICATIONIV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSV ABSTRACT VII
TABLE OF CONTENTX
CHAPTER ONE  INTRODUCTION 1.1STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 18 1.2OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY20 1.3SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 21 1.4SCOPE OF THE STUDY 23 1.5LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 24 1.6HYPOTHESIS FORMULATION 25 1.7EXPLANATION OF KEY TERMS25
CHAPTER TWO  REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 28 2.1THE ROLE OF PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE ECONOMIC 30 2.2PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY32 2.3ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS PROMOTIONAL  VARIABLES                                             34 2.4PROMOTIONAL OBJECTIVE IN AGRO – ALLIED  INDUSTRY 40 2.5PROMOTIONAL PLAN AND PLANNING 42 2.6MEDIA SELECTION
CHAPTER THREE  RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1SOURCES OF DATA46 3.2QUESTION DESIGN AND METHOD47 3.3DETERMINATION OF    SAMPLE SIZE48 CHAPTER FOUR 4.1PRESENTATION, A51 4.2ANALYSIS 4.3INTERPRETATION OF DATA 4.4TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS64
CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY OF FINDING 5.1RECOMMENDATION 75 5.2CONCLUSIONS79 BIBLIOGRAPHY80 APPENDIX A84