Green marketing concept emerged as a result of organizations' interest in environment. These originations realized that their survival and continuity lies in the coordination between its interest and the benefits of consumer and society. Green marketing includes a broad range of activities such as product modification, change in the production process, modification in advertising, and change in packaging. This paper aims to at investigating the influence of applying green marketing mix elements (product, pricing, distribution and promotion) in Sudan on purchase intention, The design of this research is descriptive and quantitative in nature. The target population for the study is the postgraduate (MBA) listing all universities in Khartoum state that offered graduate level courses were used as the sampling frame. A total of 417 questionnaires were distributed and 341 questionnaires were returned. Statistical analysis revealed that there is significant relationship between green marketing mix elements and consumer's purchase intention. Future research can investigate relationships identified in this work, as well as test out mediating and moderating relationships. This study will provide better information as input to government policy makers, who responsible for business development, to encourage the manufacturing farm's use of green marketing to benefit key stakeholder interests.
This paper tries to provide an overview of green marketing from marketing mix concept. The aim of green marketing is to include environmental issues in the marketing efforts. The idea is that marketers provide consumers with better information about the green properties of the products offered and then they will include this information in their purchasing decisions. This will consequently push companies to produce products that are better from an environmental point of view. Consequently companies have executed various green marketing strategies to meet the demands of environmentally sensible customers as they are very much aware of what they are consuming. Companies that use the extreme green marketing fully incorporate environmental issues and responsibility into their business and address issues related to marketing mix for the environment.
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