or Cost-Reimbursement Contract Willie Glover BUS 501 February 20‚ 2011 Dr. Nick Nayak Abstract Fixed-price contracts and cost-reimbursements are two different forms of contracts used by the federal government while determining contract pricing. Contracting officers may use either when contracting however there are several types of fixed-price contracts. Fixed-price type of contracts provide for a firm price or an adjustable price. Fixed-price contracts consist of firm-fixed-price contracts
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Marketing Mix Paper – Price Pricing is the amount of money that customers are willing to pay a business for a good or service. There are a lot of contributing factors that businesses must take into consideration when it comes to effectively setting a price for a good or service. It includes direct and indirect cost as well as opportunity cost. Pricing is one of the most important elements of the marketing mix. It is the only one of the components that generate revenue‚ while promotion‚ place
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DISTRIBUTION DEFINITION A distribution channel is a set of independent organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available to the consumer or a business user. IMPORTANCE OF DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS The main function of a distribution channel is to provide a link between production and consumption. Organisations that form any particular distribution channel perform many key functions: Information Gathering and distributing market research and intelligence - important
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in success of clothes retailing is how the company use their distribution channel decision and strategies. This essay will study on Hennes & Mauritz’s (H&M) ‚ the Swedish-owned globally famous fashion retailing and research on how they deal and rely on their distribution channel partners. Unlike their competitors such as Uniqlo‚ Forever21‚ ZARA or GAP ‚H&M has implemented a unique and efficient distribution channel strategy to increase their level of competitiveness and cost effectiveness
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Predatory pricing is a practice in which a company attempts to gain control of a market by cutting its prices to levels well below those of competitors‚ so that those competitors go out of business because they cannot match those prices‚ or they cannot sustain lowered prices because they lack capital. This tactic is illegal in many regions of the world‚ although it can be very difficult to prove that a company is really engaging in predatory pricing. Some economists have suggested that this practice
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El Paso and gradually built a customer base throughout Texas. A distribution center was established in Ft. Worth‚ Texas later‚ as business expanded to the north; a second distribution center was established in Santa Fe‚ New Mexico. The El Paso plant was expanded when the company began marketing its meters in Arizona‚ California‚ Nevada‚ and Utah. With the growth of the West Coast business‚ the Darby Company opened a third distribution center in Las Vegas and just two years ago opened a second production
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Transportation Cost & Pricing Transportation Cost & Pricing Compare and contrast the cost structures of rail‚ motor carriers‚ and air. When you compare the rail cost structure to that of the cost structures of the motor‚ and air carriers‚ you will see that the rail carriers have a high structure cost. “One of the characteristics of railroads as previously noted is the level of fixed costs present in their cost structures.” (Coyle‚ 2011) These fixed cost exists because the ownership of
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Tourism distribution channel is a system of intermediaries or middleman that facilitates the sale and delivery of tourism services from suppliers to consumers (Buhalis and Law‚ 2001). Distribution channels can serve as part of the marketing mix that can makes the products available to consumers as the link between suppliers of tourism products and their end consumers‚ as well as the bridge between supply and demand (Kracht and Wang‚ 2010). This shows that‚ important to have a good distribution channel
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Several strategies for Malaysian exporters to promote Made-in Malaysia Halal food products to Saudi Arabia are: (i) Malaysian Halal food exporters must first identify the appropriate type of Halal food that can be marketed in Saudi Arabia. They must study the possibility of producing dishes which suit to local Arabic tastes in order to penetrate the market. This would assure a constant demand for the food which is usually consumed daily by Saudi consumers. (i) They have to participate in
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Soda also. Ubiquitous:Restaurant‚ Pan shops‚ Kirana Stores‚Confectionaries‚ Pepsi on wheels‚ all these aresome examples of the fact that the product Pepsiis ubiquitous. Number Of Intermediaries Intensive Distribution: Pepsi Co follows anintensive distribution strategy. To support theirubiquitous feature they want to place theirproduct in as many outlets as possible. Increases market coverage Competing against Coca Cola and other localcompanies. Terms And Responsibilities
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