Elektra Electronics Company is a business division of a mid-sized company focused on manufacturing and selling a high quality consumer electronic device through high-end marketing channels such as specialty shops and exclusive department stores. These specialty outlets advise and educate customers about the desirable features of different electronic devices. Elektra charges on average 500 per unit to its distributors‚ who mark it up to 899 when selling to retail customers. After many years of high
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Business Strategy Focuses on improving the competitive position of the company’s or business unit’s products or services within the specific industry or market segment that the company serves .It has a double impact on the overall performance of the company do either corporate or industry effects. Porter’s Competitive strategies Competitive Strategies Lower Cost | Differentiation | Cost Leadership | Differentiation | Cost Focus | Differentiation Focus | Cost leadership : Virgin
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Pricing Decisions are decisions faced by top management and marketing managers. How much to charge for a product or service depends on a multitude of factors such as competition‚ cost‚ advertising‚ and sales promotion. Economic theory suggests that the best price for a product or service is the one that maximizes the difference between total revenue and total costs. However‚ in reality‚ the price charged is usually some form of cost-plus‚ which is later adjusted for market conditions and competition
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1. Pricing decisions Factors to consider when setting prices All profit organizations and many non profit organizations must set prices on their products or services. Simply defined‚ price is the amount of money charged for a product or service. More broadly‚ price is the sum of the values consumers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. A company ’s pricing decisions are affected both by internal company factors and by external environmental factors. These factors
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Case Study 3 Pricing Strategy Payless Shoesource: Paying less for fashion Table of Contents BACKGROUND…………………………………………………... 3 OBJECTIVE……………………………………………………….. 3 PROCEDURES……………………………………………………. 4 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS………………………………………. 4 CASE STUDY QUESTION: 1…………………………………….. 4 CASE STUDY QUESTION: 2 …………………………………….. 5 CASE STUDY QUESTION: 3……………………………………... 6 CASE STUDY QUESTION:
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and core competencies. The first part will be concluded by a series of recommendation discussed during the group presentation provided in class The second part of the report will focus on the strategy developed and used by Cirque du Soleil in order to reach the success. This strategy called Blue Ocean strategy will be in a first part detailed to the Cirque Case and then we will see in a second part where this concept can be applicable or if it was already applied and by which industry. A bibliography
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Blue Ocean Strategy Paper MKT/421 The Blue Ocean Strategy The blue ocean strategy in marketing is an approach to building a customer base looks to build an entirely new market segment that does not currently exist with other firms. Perfect competition consists of a myriad of competitors in the same industry that are fighting with each other over their slice of the market by offering similar products or substitute products for innovations that already exists. A “red ocean” describes a marketplace
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environment. This is indeed the case with its implementation of its pricing strategy‚ which is one of localisation rather than globalisation. Table II illustrates the comparative Big Mac prices (flagship brand of McDonald’s) from around the world. It succeeds in highlighting the point that McDonald’s has had to come up with different pricing strategies for different countries. More importantly‚ rather than just having a different pricing policy for the Big Mac in these listed countries‚ McDonald’s has
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2.2 Pricing Strategy 2.2.1 Factors affecting pricing decisions Milo is considered as a product of monopolistic competition market because there are many competitors of Milo in the market. Some of the competitors include Vico‚ Ovaltine‚ Horlicks‚ Dutch Lady and Nutrilite. Secondly‚ monopolistic competition market has free market entry and exit. This means that new competitors can enter the market easily and Milo may be easily force out of the market by its competitors. Monopolistic competition
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Pricing productsIntroduction Products and services have a price just as they have a value. Many non-profit and all profit-making organizations must also set prices. Pricing is controversial and goes by many names: Price is all around us. You pay rent for your apartment‚ tuition for your education. The airline‚ railway‚ taxi and bus companies charge you a/are; the local utilities call their price a rate; and the local bank charges you interest for the money you borrow ; the guest lecturer charges
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