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Abstract
The post liberalization phase in India has gone through plenty of changes in the market place. The transition phase has created the concept of “Holistic Marketing” in the contemporary times. Quality advancements, media revolution, technological advancements service culture, and healthy competition among firms to satisfy the consumers have educated the customers like never before. The main objective of this study is to identify factors (demographic factors and behavioral factors) influencing on consumer attitudes towards these products. For this purpose, 100 respondents were selected by using Area Probability Sampling method with an association of Judgment Sampling and data gathered from them through questionnaire and personal interviewing. The findings showed the majority of the consumers for these products were young generation people especially students and working people below 40 years who belongs to nuclear family with moderate monthly income level. It was also found that television was the major source of medium for consumer awareness, and the interest of consumer towards these products was instant consumption, timesaving, taste and convenience to use them as snacks. Therefore it is recommend that these food manufacturers should pay much attention on attractive packaging, health and nutrients and quality and intermediaries should stress on effective sales promotion activities to increase the consumption of these products and sustainability. Instant Cooking food products play a key role among the people in today’s busy lifestyle. It is observed that there is a huge flow of products into the consumer market in Chennai city. The present study made an attempt to analyze the consumer behaviour towards taste and preference of Instant Food Products by individual households and to predict the demand for Instant Food Products. All the respondents were aware of pickles and Sambar masala but only 56.67 per cent of respondents were aware of Dosa/Idli mix.