Bergslagens Sparbank : En marknadsundersökning av bankens företagskunders attityder

Title: Bergslagens Sparbank – A market survey of the bank’s corporate customer’s attitudes Seminar date: 2010-02-05 Course: Individual essay, 30 higher education credits Authors: Mathias Lindberg, Bogdan Efimov Advisor: Pia Lindell Key Words: relationship marketing, finance industry, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to try to identify those factors that lead to customer satisfaction and customer loyalty among the corporate customers to Bergslagens Sparbank. The purpose is also to find out what the corporate customer think about Bergslagens Sparbank and why they think as they do. Method: For this essay the authors have chosen to use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. The reason for that a combination of these methods have been chosen is because the authors thought that it was a proper way to answer the essays main questions since these questions are of both qualitative and quantitative nature. Further the essay is built on an abductive approach. Conclusions: We have identified several factors that create customer satisfaction and customer loyalty among the corporate customers to Bergslagens Sparbank. Mainly the corporate customer wants that Bergslagens Sparbank acts more like a partner and that the bank is more engage in the corporate customers businesses. There are also other factors that create customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, an example is that the bank should create a total experience around their core services. Other examples are the importance of personnel in the creation of customer satisfaction and loyalty and that the bank can provide all the available services in the market and that these services work without any problems