Independent Study An investigation into pricing strategies of Wal-Mart in China Module Leader: Gunjan Saxena Student ID: 200912567 Date: 17/05/2009 Executive Summary The report is an investigation about Wal-Mart’s pricing strategies in China‚ which consists of three parts. The part 1 includes five points relevant information. To begin with‚ it will have an introduction for this investigation to assess the brief of Wal-Mart and its pricing strategies in China. The next is setting up
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image as a beauty care provider Increase the number of retail outlets selling dove products by 250 within 12 months PRICING STRATEGY Price is the exchange value of a product or service‚ always expressed in terms of money. There are costs to produce and design a product‚ to distribute a product‚ and to promote. Price must support these elements of the mix. Pricing is difficult and must reflect supply relationship. Price is the only element of marking mixes which sales revenue. Price is
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managers most often use a method called the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) .The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is the standard risk-return model used by most academicians and practitioners. The important concept of CAPM is that investors are rewarded for only that portion of risk which is not diversifiable. This non-diversifiable risk is termed as beta‚ to which expected returns are linked. Problems can arise when using the CAPM to calculate a project-specific discount rate. For example‚ one common
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Pricing strategy is an idea implemented into a plan to get the most favourable price for a service or product that will give way the highest profit. Pricing is one of the most important elements of the marketing mix‚ as it is the only mix‚ which generates a turnover for the organisation. The remaining 3p’s are the variable cost for the organisation. It costs to produce and design a product; it costs to distribute a product and costs to promote it. Price must support these elements of the mix. Pricing
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fluctuations in foreign exchange rates have on the pricing decisions of export marketing managers? Globalization is no longer an abstraction but a stark reality that virtually all firms‚ large and a small‚ face. Firms that want to survive in the 21st century must confront all encompassing force that pervades every aspect of business. However‚ exchange rate fluctuation is an issue that affects the decisions marketing managers make about pricing. Management faces different decision situations‚
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1 – What has been Southwest’s traditional pricing strategy? Why has this pricing strategy been so successful throughout the airline’s first three decades? Southwest’s traditional pricing strategy has been the choice of buying cheap airplane tickets for just basic transportation services‚ without any extra service‚ such as meals. Even though there is many people that buy expensive tickets just to have all the comfort that others airlines offer‚ Southwest decided to do the opposite and selling just
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Assignment 3: Pricing Strategy and Channel Distribution 1. Determine and discuss a pricing strategy (Penetration and Skimming) The penetration pricing strategy approach is what we are going use to represent our SONO water filter products in today’s market. Since it serves as many customers as possible representing different valua-tions‚ this pric¬ing model will be our best option. The advantage this approach holds for us is the low volume customers‚ who presumably have a relatively lower valu¬ation
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2.3.4 Customized Pricing Bid Response Model (CPBRM) Majority of the literature in the price-optimization area focuses on pricing of consumer goods or the optimal design of auctions but‚ a large percentage of firms face pricing decisions in a business-to-business setting where a customer requests bids from a small set of competing firms getting a quote for the product or service. When the total annual sales to the firm requesting the bid does not justify a dedicated sales person on behalf of the
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Case Analysis - Atlantic Computer – A bundle of pricing options Introduction – Atlantic computer is the largest player in the hi-tech IT hardware industry and a major player in the server market. Based on the fast growth of the internet and with it the proliferation of corporate websites and file sharing systems‚ huge demand is predicted in the basic server segment market over the next few years. In order to make the most of this opportunity‚ Atlantic has come put with a new product called Tronn
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