New Product Planning Professor Patton 3/5/14 Metabical: Pricing‚ Packaging‚ and Demand Forecasting for a New Weight-Loss Drug Case 1. How does Metabical compare to current weight-loss options? There are only several other weight-loss options in the market competing with Metabical. The first is prescription drugs. These are prescribed for use only by obese and severely obese individuals. This meant that only individuals with BMI of over 30 who were prescribed weight-loss drugs were using appetite
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Retailer Target Private Brand A New Day Type & Categories Womenswear - accessories‚ - apparel (shirts‚ dresses‚ pants‚ jackets‚ sweaters‚ skirts…) - shoes Price Range All items under $50 with most items between $20 and $40 Size Range XXS-XXL and Plus Sizes Target Customer Millennials – customers currently in their 20s and 30s as clothing items in this line are suitable for both office and casual wear Details Target has started to phase out many of its staple private brands including Merona and Mossimo
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2) How should Printup think about the segmentation of potential Metabical consumers? Who is the optimal target consumer? The book of Marketing Management defines “Market Segmentation” as the process of dividing the market into group(s) of similar consumers and selecting the most appropriate to serve. Eventually‚ the selected group will be called the target market. According to this definition and the case on hand‚ Printup must decide on the parameters according to which she should start the segmentation
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• What is the decision making process for Metabical? ◦ Who is involved? ◦ What role do they play? ◦ What are the stages in the process? In the launch of Metabical for the US market‚ several marketing decisions need to be made to bring a viable product into the market to maximize market penetration and gross margins over the PLC and to best serve the needs of the customers The players are • Health Care Professionals ◦ Will prescribe Metabical to their patients ◦ Can influence Insurance Companies
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Can we trust anyone? In Edgar Allan Poe’s‚ "The Cask of Amontillado‚" Montresor is a deceitful man who buries his friend‚ Fortunato alive. Throughout the story‚ Fortunato has a slow intelligent level and he is an innocent man‚ which makes him an easy target. The story ends when Fortunato is chained up to a wall made of granite and is buried alive by Montresor. Fortunato makes himself an easy target because he is a weak‚ lonely‚ and a drunk. Due to the fact that Fortunato is lonely and sincere at
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272593 BUS 474 A 02/14/2011 Metabical After spending millions of dollars for ten years in research and development‚ Metabical was finally able to receive FDA approval‚ making it the first and only drug to receive FDA approval to meet the needs of customers who have been trying to lose weight. Like with any other new product‚ numerous issues need to be considered before Metabical is actually introduced in the market. Decisions about pricing‚ packaging and demand forecast of the product are key
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Barbara Printup must determine the packaging for Metabical that will best capture the accurately forecasted demand of the target market. With many substitutes for weight loss in a variety of packages and price points‚ it will be important to create a package that can be priced in a way to both drive sales and continued use of the 12-week drug. Printup must also develop a pricing model to align with the packaging and the price expectations of the target market. Since this is the first prescription drug
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[pic] Business Case Metabical Version 1.0 ● October 21th‚ 2010 [pic] Work Group Metabical – Business Case |VERSION: 1 |REVISION DATE: 10/21/2010 | |Team Members | |Eduardo Lins |[Email] |[Telephone]
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We started to get more information on the toys and prices from Target since we considered it to be more of middle to upper middle class store. We initially thought of Target to be a lower-middle class and classify it to be similar to Big Lots. After going through the toy section in Target‚ we soon realized that the prices were way more than those at Big Lots. The variety and selection of toys Target had to offer were far more extensive than those at Big Lots. We started from the first aisle of the
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Metabical (Case study) Case Facts • Metabical is a prescription drug produced by Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals (CSP) for weight loss. • It was the first and only prescription drug to obtain FDA approval for weight loss (overweight category) drug. • The company had conducted an elaborate market research program for identifying the target segment and positioning the product. • Competitors: FDA approved OTC drug Alli. • Marketing strategy: – DTC advertising- celebrity endorser‚ TV‚ radio‚
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