Abstract :
Brand identity is one very important variable for a companies as an effort to survive in
the increasingly complex market competition. Brand identity also play a major role as a
differentiator for a brand in today?s generalized market condition. A brand which able to deliver
and communicate it?s identity will have a good level of brand perceive value among the
consumers, this good level of brand perceive value indicate that the brand able to accommodate
expectations of consumers, this will creates consumer satisfaction. Satisfied consumers tend to
be loyal to the brand, this thing called brand loyalty.
This study aims to 1). analyze the influence of the Starbucks brand identity to consumer
satisfaction, 2). analyze the influence of consumer satisfaction to brand loyalty of Starbucks, 3).
analyze the influence of the Starbucks brand identity to it?s brand loyalty, 4). analyze the
influence of the Starbucks brand identity to it?s brand loyalty through consumer satisfaction.
This research is explanatory research, and the types of data in this study are primary data
which obtained directly from the 119 Starbucks consumers in Surabaya, which is determined by
purposive sampling. The analysis technique used in this research is Structural Equation
Modeling (SEM).
The results showed that variable of brand identity did not significantly influence the
variable of consumer satisfaction, and variable of consumer satisfaction significantly influence
the variable of brand loyalty, and variable of brand identity did not significantly influence the
variable of brand loyalty, and variable of brand identity did not significantly influence the
variable of brand loyalty through the variable of customer satisfaction.