Part IV. The global marketing mix 2. Global pricing strategy 1 Cheap and cheaper… 2 Expensive and more expensive… 3 1. Basic pricing concepts Introduction Price: the amount charged to customers/consumers in exchange for goods or services Market price: the price that prevails in the market for a particular good at a specific time 3 key elements of market price: supply‚ demand and time Eg: hotel prices – peak season during summer – higher prices driven by the demand (more
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Pricing Strategy ITC Foods Business Division (Staples) The FMCG & RETAIL Pricing Strategy UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS FMCG Pricing Strategy is now a critical element of the management mix. Old school management responsibilities of Sales owning the trade spend budget and customer negotiations with marketing owning the Recommend Retail Price do not work in today ’s information driven age. Retail sales volume is now 80% controlled by 2-3 chains with a scattering
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Given that no business can make a sale without first setting a price‚ the importance of price is self-evident. However‚ the process of setting an adequate price is not an exact science. Several issues should be taken into consideration prior to a business determining a price for its products and services. Pricing is a key determinant in the decision making process customers use to purchase a product or service. It is important to establish how much the target market will
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the country stood in long lines to buy the iPhone on the first day of sales. Just two months later‚ Apple discontinued the less-expensive $499 model and cut the price of the premium version from $599 to $399. Target Group A study conducted by Rubicon (2008) on iPhone users indicates that 50% of the surveyed users are age 30 or younger. Most of the users described themselves as technologically sophisticated. In general‚ iPhone users were over represented in the occupations that are usually early
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Pricing Strategy Today’s highly competitive business world forces companies to create different tactics and relatively rely on multiple pricing strategies to conduct business. As is known‚ pricing is one of the most important steps for business plan which needs good research‚ calculations and formulations. There are different pricing strategies to put into effect due to the market and product conditions‚ such as premium pricing‚ penetration pricing‚ economy pricing‚ price skimming(Voice
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2.2Pricing Strategy Factors affecting pricing decision Kia Optima is one type of the oligopolistic competition market. It dominated by a small number of sellers‚ each seller is likely to be aware of the actions of the others. The prices might be uniform or not uniform to buyers. The price can be different at different places due to the reason of labor‚ resources‚ and taxes. Besides‚ there are few competitors include Toyota‚ Honda‚ and Hyundai. New Product Pricing Strategies Normally when
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Chapter 11 Pricing Strategies Questions for Discussion 1. Which of the different product mix pricing strategies discussed in the text applies best to Payless’s new strategy? : The strategy for setting a product’s price changes when the product is the part of a product mix. Firms are look for a prices that maximizes the profits on the total product mix. There are five product mix pricing strategies for the firms. Product line pricing‚ optional-product pricing‚ captive-product pricing‚ by-product
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How Pricing strategies Affected the sales of MODE Accessories backpack Price makes up the one quarter of the controllable marketing mix factors and could be blamed for most company’s success or failure. This report will cover the affect pricing had on the sales of MODE Accessories backpack over a 6-term timeline‚ specifically focusing on the pricing strategy in the growth stage of the product‚ a rise in the market price due to a change in design and how a decision to change the target market
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Group 2009) CAR RENTAL INDUSTRY Car rental operates in an environment that is related and complementary to other sectors such as casinos‚ car rental agencies‚ hotels and tour operators. The majority of car rental companies are small businesses and the five largest companies are Avis‚ Hertz‚ Budget‚ Europcar and Thrifty. With 55‚000 rental vehicles were registered across Australia‚ the motor vehicle hiring industry is highly competitive market‚ but is also highly concentrated with The Big 5 account for
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1. Introduction Pricing strategies usually change as the product passes through its life cycle‚ because there is constrains on the company’s freedom to price a product at different stage. The purpose of this report is to determine and elaborate the elements in pricing strategies of Dell’s notebook. 2. Key Objectives Price is the amount of money changed for a product or service‚ or the sum of the values consumers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service (Kotler et al
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