Distribution Channel The marketing mix is composed of all the elements of a successful marketing process including price‚ packaging‚ product and place. And while everything is important‚ it is the distribution channel that finally makes the product available to the customer and hence makes an integral part of the marketing mix. The distribution channel refers to the ways the product reaches the shelves. And this may include retailers and wholesalers and sometimes the manufacturers themselves (Lamb
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Chapter 158 Distributions to Shareholders: Dividends and Repurchases ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS 158-1 a. The optimal distribution policy is one that strikes a balance between dividend yield and capital gains so that the firm’s stock price is maximized. b. The dividend irrelevance theory holds that dividend policy has no effect on either the price of a firm’s stock or its cost of capital. The principal proponents of this view are Merton Miller and Franco Modigliani (MM). They
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the challenges faced using the various channels of distribution. INTRODUCTION A service can be defined as an essentially intangible benefit either on its own right or as a significant part of a tangible product which through some form of exchange satisfies an identified need (Palmer‚ 2001). From the dictionary it is said to be a system or organization that provides for a basic public need. Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer
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of product from producer to consumer is an important function of marketing. It is the obligation of the producer to make goods available at right place‚ at right time right price and in right quantity. The process of making goods available to the consumer needs effective channel of distribution. Therefore‚ the path taken by the goods in its movement is termed as channel of distribution. The goods may be sent to the consumer directly or indirectly through middlemen. The channel of distribution may
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supply chain evolution is characterized by both increasing value added and cost reductions through integration. A supply chain can be classified as a stage 1‚ 2 or 3 network. In a stage 1–type supply chain‚ systems such as production‚ storage‚ distribution‚ and material control are not linked and are independent of each other. In a stage 2 supply chain‚ these are integrated under one plan and is ERP enabled. A stage 3 supply chain is one that achieves vertical integration with upstream suppliers
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general product category. For example‚ the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board promotes natural cheese through advertisements without referring to any particular cheese maker. But most promotional strategies are aimed at creating selective demand‚ the desire for a particular product. Land O’ Lakes campaign—"The taste that stands above. Land O’ Lakes 4-Quart Cheese"—is an example. The objectives of promotion‚ the components of the promotional mix—personal selling‚ advertising‚ sales promotion‚ and public
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Promotion Mix Developing Effective communication Identify the target audience Our main target audience are young adult age from 20-34 years old‚ they are either working or schooling. There are other groups which are not our main focus for example children. Children actually can influence their parents the cereals that they will want to have. We will still have to look into the population in a whole. Our main target audience are young adults aging from 18-36 years old‚ young families
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Samsung promotion Samsung puts great emphasis on its presentation and image in public. Promotion is highly important part of marketing mix and the company sets aside a sufficient and quite large budget for making the best to promote itself. Support of selling is highly intensive and always tries to react on the competition. There are many types of promotion. Samsung uses three types of them. The first one is selective promotion. Selective promotion means that the company provides distribution of
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Critically outline and discuss Irish health promotion policies. Health is an important factor in all human beings lives; it is what determines the lifestyles we will be able to achieve‚ the standard of living we will achieve along with many more factors. Therefore it is vital that we understand our health system and the strategies used to benefit our well-being. That is why our health systems throughout the years have changed and adapted‚ to allow them to adequately deal with the public’s
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The Poisson distribution is a discrete distribution. It is often used as a model for the number of events (such as the number of telephone calls at a business‚ number of customers in waiting lines‚ number of defects in a given surface area‚ airplane arrivals‚ or the number of accidents at an intersection) in a specific time period. It is also useful in ecological studies‚ e.g.‚ to model the number of prairie dogs found in a square mile of prairie. The major difference between Poisson and Binomial
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