Pricing is one of the most important elements of the marketing mix as it is the only mix‚ which generates a turnover for the organization; the remaining 3p’s are the variable cost for the organization. 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 is difficult and must reflect supply and demand relationship (Constantinides‚ 2006). Pricing a product too high or too low could mean a loss of sales
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The Fuqua School of Business Duke University International Strategy: WBA 434 Professors Heath‚ Huddart‚ & Slotta Transfer Pricing 1. Overview An essential feature of decentralized firms is responsibility centers (e.g.‚ cost-‚ profit-‚ revenue-‚ or investment-centers). The performance of these responsibility centers is evaluated on the basis of various accounting numbers‚ such as standard cost‚ divisional profit‚ or return on investment (as well as on the basis of other non-accounting measures‚ like
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CASE STUDY 1. Describe the service organization culture at Amy’s Ice Cream. Amy’s Ice Cream culture is rather laid back. The atmosphere in the parlor is cheery and everyone exhorts a friendly and happy attitude. Amy encourages employee empowerment by allowing the employees to dress as they wish and to interact with customers in a way that is more suitable to their personality. The customers’ attitude is very important to the management as well as the employees so they make sure that customers
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How attractive is the Russian ice cream market? How is it likely to evolve? Market attractiveness refer to all the characteristics that contribute to the success of organizations within the market. Profitability is one and Exhibit 9 suggests profit margins for retailers and distributors are about 30% - 50%‚ and producers’ is about 15%. This is high in the Russian food industry where‚ the profitability in the confectionary industry was only 6% - 8%. The russian ice cream industry had about 300 companies
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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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Ice-Fili Analysis Table of Contents I- Introduction 2 II- Analysis 3 1- External Analysis 3 i) Porter’s 5 Force 3 ii) Key Success Factors 4 2- Internal Analysis 5 i) Value Chain Analysis 5 ii) Financial Analysis 6 III- Decision Opinions with Evaluation 6 IV- Recommendation and Implementation 8 1- Short Term Activities 8 2- Long Term Activities 9 V- Exhibits 10 i) Exhibit A: Financial Ratio Analysis and Calculations 10 ii) Exhibit B: Decision Matrix 11 Introduction First time
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Consumer as Decision Makers Consumer decision-making Stage 1: Need recognition Stage 2: Pre-purchase search Stage 3: Evaluation of alternatives Stage 4: Purchase Stage 5: Post-purchase behavior Stage 1: Need recognition Needs Motivation Goal If goals not achieved‚ renewed motivations Motivation – the driving force to take action produced by a state of tension due to unfulfilled needs. How to identify consumer needs? Consumer research Activity analysis (process-oriented) Problem analysis
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1. How structurally attractive is the Russian ice cream market? How is it likely to evolve? Analyzing from using five force model we can conclude that the structurally attractiveness of Russian ice cream market is quite low due to several reasons. Firstly‚ the crisis in 1998 had greatly reduced the consumption ability of ice cream market and increased the imported ingredients for producers. Secondly‚ Centralize planning system that is used in Russia caused the Russian managers to have little
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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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