BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM Since the late 1980s‚ Business School marketing professor Itamar Simonson has looked for ways to understand how consumers make choices. Much of his work debunks the accepted theory that giving consumers what they want and making a profit are the most basic principles of marketing. Customers may not know what they want‚ and second-guessing them can be expensive‚ says the professor who teaches MBA and PhD marketing and consumer decision-making courses. In Simonson’s words
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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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NIKE‚ INC.: COST OF CAPITAL Professor Meiberger By Sebastian Gomez Team 5 Cohort: Front The portfolio manager for NorthPoint Group‚ Kimi Ford was deciding if she should pitch in and draw Nike within NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund. Nike‚ which did not have the strongest fiscal year results in 2001‚ was implementing new strategies to heighten its revenue and income. Kimi Ford‚ after having carefully read reports by analyst‚ and their input within this publicly traded company decided to emphasize
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Team 8 BRAND EXPLORATORY & STRATEGY REPORT MAR6816 – Advanced Marketing Management Summer 2015 2-‐Year Internet MBA University of Florida NIKE FOOTWEAR Team 8 Members: Jordan Ariche Stephanie Gomillion Lauren O’Brien Ken Oliveri Team 8 INTRODUCTION Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports and originally operated as a distributor
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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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we used market value based on the share price of Nike on July 5‚ 2001and number of shares outstanding‚ which resulted in the weights of debt and equity of 10.2% and 89.8% respectively (see Exhibit 2). Cost of Debt: Cost of debt was calculated by Ms. Cohen by finding the historical interest rate of 2.7% and tax rate of 38%. We agree with her estimation of the tax rate of 38%‚ but calculated a cost of debt of 7.17% based on the market price of Nike bonds and finding their yield to maturity (see Exhibit
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Nike Inc.‚ Cost of Capital Dr. Romer Finance 3613 By: Joseph White Michael Parker NorthPoint a mutual-fund-management firm is contemplating adding Nike Inc. stocks to its Large-Cap Fund. Kimi Ford a portfolio manager for NorthPoint has developed a discounted-cash-flow forecast to help make the decision. Kimi comes to the conclusion that Nike is overvalued at its current price of $42.09 with a 12 percent cost of capital that she estimated. To determine if her estimation is correct about
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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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