INDUSTRY BACKGROUND I. A. About the Industry Coffee is a brewed beverage with a distinct aroma and flavor‚ prepared from the roasted seeds of the Coffea plant. A coffee plant is usually a bush or small tree that grows to 10-12 feet (although it can grow up to 32 feet) and can produce coffee beans for decades. It can live for between 60 and 70 years. It can take up to four years for a coffee tree to reach maturity and bear fruit. The English word coffee originates from the Arabic word ‘kaweh’ meaning
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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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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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Coffee has become a huge consumption in the world today. There is so many different things that coffee has done in the world today. There are many different situations where coffee is very important in the world. One example can be seen is from the people in Ethiopia where there is a huge dependence of harvesting coffee beans and the fact that it is Ethiopia’s major exports that they have. Another example that can be seen is in North America where the majority of people would drink coffee as a
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Marketing Individual Assignment 3 1) What is the product mix of Trung Nguyen? What are the key attributes of its coffee? How do these attributes help Trung Nguyen to differentiate itself from its competitors? The product mix refers to the total composite of products offered by Trung Nguyen coffee. It consists of different product lines‚ various product items in each product line and within each item is the product depth. Firstly‚ the product line is a group of product or service items that
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the name of a chain of coffee company‚ established in 1971‚ is the world’s largest coffee chain‚ its headquarters is located in Seattle‚ Washington‚ United States.In addition to coffee‚ Starbucks also has tea‚ pie ‚the cake and other commodities.Starbucks has nearly 12‚000 stores in the world‚ throughout North America‚ South America‚ Europe‚ the Middle East and the Pacific area.For a long time‚ the company has been committed to the customers provide the best quality coffee and services‚ create a
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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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CHAPTER 10: MARKET POWER AND PRICING STRATEGY Introduction We have examined how firms with market power can generate positive economic profit by influencing the price at which their products or services are sold. This conclusion was based on the assumption that firms must charge the same price to all customers. Now we explore alternative pricing strategies and show that when a firm with market power can “discriminate” among customers‚ additional surplus (beyond that achieved by a single-price
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The Pricing Strategies of Fast Foods vs. Restaurants Dateesha L. Cavin Webster University 28 April 2011 Abstract This paper explores the difference in pricing strategies of Fast Food vs. Restaurants. Fast food restaurants compared to sit-down restaurants are exceedingly popular because they prove to fit comfortably in our active‚ modern day lives. Today‚ many people eat fast food instead of cooking meals at home. The reason for this is that many of us are constantly busy with our daily responsibilities
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Pricing objectives and pricing methods in the services sector George J. Avlonitis and Kostis A. Indounas Department of Marketing and Communication‚ Athens University of Economics and Business‚ Athens‚ Greece Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to explore the pricing objectives that service companies pursue along with the pricing methods that they adopt in order to set their prices. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive review of the literature revealed the complete
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