Abstract:
The Thai pick-up trucks market has contributed to high growth in the automobile industry in Thailand, but there have been a few entrepreneurs in the industry ; the competition in this industry recorded the high level. This research project aims to study the market behavior in terms of price; no-price for entrepreneurs in changing demand condition of consumers, and factors affecting a sale quantity of pick-up trucks in Thailand. The simple statistical analysis and the econometrics model are used to conduct the project. We studied across country, in particular the northeast with the Panel Data Model analyse the montly data from 2001-2004 by the method of Pooled Least Square. The study of the Thai pick-up trucks disclosed that most Thai pick-up trucks entrepreneurs use non-price behavior more than the other which this strategy develop their products more varied and differentiated than their competitors. Apart from a variety of the products, the non-price strategy also include sale promotion, especially the use of media advertisement as well as refurnishment and an increase in a number of showrooms and after sale service centres. Moreover, the study pointed out that price factor, non-price factors including advertisement and showrooms and after sale service centres had significant impact on the sale quantity across the country and the northeast. They are in according with the hypothesis and theory. The value of elasticity of damand on sale price, advertising expenditures and showrooms and after sale service centres over the country is equal to -4.39, 0.46 and 1.47 respectively. Furthermore economic factors such as national income cause an affect on the sale quantity of trucks in the country and targeted area. However, price in argriculture product and interest rate have an impact on the sale quantity only in the northeast