Ikea - Case Study Expansion Into China and Japan “IKEA – A Long March to the Far East” Global Strategic Marketing Case Study Table of Contents 1 Introduction to the case 2 2 Critically and systematically analyse the global strategic advantages of IKEA 3 2.1 Branding ‚ designer appeal 3 2.2 Critical mass‚ low cost‚ low price 3 2.3 Quality‚ green credentials 3 2.4 Global appeal‚ local sensitivity 3 3 What were the key challenges that IKEA faced in a) China and b) Japan
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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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INTRODUCTION 3 IKEA HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT 3 IKEA TARGET MARKET 6 BRIEF PRODUCT OVERVIEW 8 COMPETITIVE REVIEW 9 Product Positioning 9 Competitions 9 DISTRIBUTION REVIEW 9 Objective and challenges 11 Challenges 12 SWOT 13 COMPANY MARKETING CARACTERISTICS 13 PRODUCT LINE‚ BRAND AND SERVICES 16 PRICE 18 Designing Pricing Strategies and Programs 19 PLACE 20 PROMOTION 22 INTEGRATED MARKETING PLAN MIX 24 Budget 24 Control 24 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IKEA group is one of the top
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1. What is “kamikaze pricing”? Kamikaze pricing is an extreme form of penetration pricing. “Kamikaze” is a reference to World War II Japanese dive bomber pilots who would sacrifice their lives by crashing their airplanes‚ heavily loaded with explosives‚ onto enemy ships. Kamikaze pricing happens when the reasoning for penetration pricing is flawed because marketers wrongly assume lower prices will increase sales. However‚ in the business world‚ the continuous pursuit of increasing sales by lowering
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MBAA 514: Marketing Case Study of the IKEA Company September 12‚ 2011 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University- Worldwide Executive Summary IKEA (2011) has found a wide market in the discount furniture industry. The mission is simple- provide furniture to help everyone decorate as they like (IKEA‚ 2011). The company always strives to lower costs and pass savings to consumers (IKEA‚ 2011). It provides exceptional products which enabled the company to increase sales through the recession (Manners
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ECONM2035: Asset Pricing Evarist Stoja (2B7‚ x10603) e.stoja@bristol.ac.uk Outline: This course runs over the autumn term and aims to provide a thorough grounding in the pricing of financial securities. The lectures start with some quantitative review material before moving on to bond pricing. Equity markets and determination of equity prices are treated next before students are introduced to the theory behind and testing procedures for informational efficiency in financial markets. Finally
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149 Control w it h fairness in transfer pricing A transfer price is useless unless unit managers feel they are being treated fairly while top management retains control Robert G. Eccles It seems straightforward on the face of it: when a unit in a company sells a product to another unit‚ it ought to charge a fair price. That price may be based on what it cost to make the product‚ or on the market price of the product‚ or on some combination of these two. But as most managers
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MARKETING Session III: Pricing Policy Question I: Why is pricing policy so important in the marketing mix of a product ? What is pricing? Pricing is the process of determining what a compagny will receive in Exchange for its products. Pricing strategy is important for several aspects in the compagny wich are: Survival : short-term objectives are set in order to survive Profit :the objective is to maximise profits Return on investment : prices are set to attain a specified return on
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MKT 521 *Psychological Pricing S*trategy {draw:frame} Reference Pricing.- Any business can leverage on reference pricing by positioning their product in the market place along with high value or luxury items to make consumers perceive that its product fits into the same category. However‚ if consumers feel that the product does not belong in that category the pricing and positioning strategy will not work and be it counterproductive for the product and the company. Two common forms of
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PRICING METHODOLOGY Pricing methods adopted by an organization determines the values attached to its products. Pricing determinant can be Internal or External. An Internal pricing determinant is one that is controlled by the marketer while the external is not controllable by the marketer. We shall be considering the following types of pricing models: PRICE DISCRIMINATION: Price discrimination is the practice of setting a different price for the same product in different segments to the market.
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