Impact of Sustainable Clothing on Consumer Buying Behaviour in UK Retail Sector: A Case Study of Tesco Plc

This research aims to analyze the impact of sustainable clothing on consumer buying behavior in the UK retail sector, with a case study of Tesco Plc. The study will identify the challenges faced by Tesco while implementing sustainable fashion clothing strategies within the organization and recommend suitable actions to deal with those challenges.

PROJECT TITLE
To analyse the impact of sustainable clothing styles on consumer buying behaviour
within UK retail sector. A case study of Tesco Plc.

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Preliminary Literature Review
 Research Aim
 Research Questions
 Research objectives
 Rationale
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Fashion industry plays an essential role in
generating global revenue and economy and
sustainable fashion is all about fulfilling present
needs, keeping in mind the needs of future as
well.
 Sustainable fashion is all about providing benefit
to people by their supply chain like for example
by recycling factories.
 Some of the brands are doing good by accepting
their old products and are making use of
technology to recycle the fiber (Komodromos,
Papaioannou and Adamu, 2018).

CONT.
 Tesco Plc is one of the leading and second
largest retailer of UK as well as ninth largest
retailer of the world.
 It was founded in the year 1919 and now have
stores of total 6993 in the year 2020.
 The reason behind the success of Tesco Plc is
their strategies to influence consumer buying
decision and bringing sustainable fashion can
help it to influence the buying behaviour of
customers.

PRELIMINARY LITERATURE REVIEW
 As per the opinion of Emily Chan (2022), sustainable
fashion is the term which is being used widely and has been
increased due to the serious impact being done to the
environment by clothing. Sustainable fashion can be
referred to as the clothes which are created as well
consumed in such a way which is sustained and it also
provides protection to both the environment as well as
garments production.
 The purpose of the sustainable clothing style is a great
opportunity for the businesses to act differently which
fulfills their two fold purpose which includes generating
growth and profits as well as creating value and the deeper
wealth for the society and world economy at large.
 The clothing business must place the ethical, social and
environmental improvement on the agenda of management.

RESEARCH AIM
 The aim of my research is to analyse the impact of Sustainable fashion clothing on the
consumer buying behaviour of Tesco Plc.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
 Q.1 What is sustainable fashion clothing ?
 Q.2 What is the impact of different strategies of sustainable fashion on the buying
behaviour of consumers?
 Q.3 What are the challenges faced by Tesco Plc while implementing sustainable fashion
strategies within the organization?
 Q.4 What actions are recommended to company to deal with those challenges?

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
 To understand the concept of sustainable fashion clothing.
 To assess the impact of various sustainable fashion strategies on the buying behaviour of
consumer of Tesco Plc.
 To identify the challenges faced by Tesco while implementing sustainable fashion clothing
strategies within organization.
 To recommend the suitable actions to company to deal with the challenges faced while
implementing such strategies.

RATIONALE
 The rationale of my research is that sustainability affect the success of the business in the
present time.
 In the time of technological innovation, businesses are shifting towards sustainability in
order to lower down the impact of their working on the environent as well as society.
 Hence, the selected research topic is important to be understand and analysed in the
present world.
 Understanding sustainable fashion is also academically important because it helps the
students in starting their own career in this field (Pantano, Priporas and Migliano, 2019).

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CONT.
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