Product Life Cycle Products play an essential part in our lives. Products are divided by their tangible and intangible attributes which is offered by the wholesaler to end consumers (Business dictionary). Throughout our lives‚ products play a key role in satisfying not only the needs and but also the desires of consumers. Today‚ we are living in a world that has a wide variety of products ranging from the basic needs of life such as food‚ clothes and household appliances to luxury items such
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Abstract: product life cycle is an important concept that provides an understanding of the competitive dynamics of a product. Just like human beings also have a product cycle or the life cycle. product life cycle {Product Life Circle} is a graph depicting the history of product since introduced to the market to be drawn into the market. Keyword: Product life cycle is the stages through which a product or its category bypass. From its introduction to the marketing‚ growth‚ maturity to its decline
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Compaq notebooks 1.0 INTRODUCTION Compaq Computer‚ based in Houston‚ Texas‚ is the world’s largest personal computer manufacturer and the fourth largest information technology (IT) company. From 1992-1997‚ the company’s aggressive high volume PC strategy propelled it to high growth rates in revenues‚ while its leadership in PC servers sustained strong margins and drove profit growth. Starting in 1995‚ former CEO Eckhard Pfieffer began to transform Compaq from a pure PC company to a full-service
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Product Life Cycle Marketing Management D01 April 7‚ 2013 Abstract In marketing‚ there is a tool that is very useful to marketing strategy development. This tool is known as the product life cycle. The product life cycle goes through four stages before it is complete or starts over again. The life cycle starts with the introduction of a product‚ and then the product begins to grow as it is recognized by more markets and is delivered to through more channels. After the growth period‚ a product
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Product Life Cycle The product life cycle of the self-service vending machine is dependent upon many variables compared to the human condition of aging. The vending machine will be born or introduced into new markets in order for the organization to expand its sales volume and ultimately its profit. The company will focus on differentiating its new product from others by promoting its two main attributes; convenience and saving the end-user money. The company will promote its products
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Product Life Cycle Introduction: This paper aims at analysing the usefulness of the Product Life Cycle (PLC) concept to the marketers. It will describe the different stages of the PLC concept and their respective implications on the marketing mix and the strategies which can be adopted during the different phases. Every new product right from its entrance in the market till its elimination from the market goes through a certain sequence of stages known as Product Life Cycle. There are four stages
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of marketing i.e. product ‚ price‚ place and promotional activities. Product Life Cycle : Product Life cycle is the process through which products pass through several stages of development in its life from introduction to decline. It describes the stages a product goes through from when it was first thought of until it finally is removed from the market. Not all products reach this final stage. Some continue to grow and others rise and fall. Stages of product life cycle include : 1) Development
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7. PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE: - Successful new products may not last forever‚ during its life. Sales /profits generated for by-product may vary. - Variance depends on the market demand for product changing needs level is described by demand cycle curve such as: - Demand may also decline due to a change in technology. - Based on demand for a product it may be possible to create a concept that provides insights of the product’s competitive dynamics. This is called PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE. - PLC
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The product life cycle concept is the explanation of the product from its birth to death as a product exists in different stages and in different competitive environments. William j.stanton Like humans every product have certain length of life during which it passes through various stages ‚ which can conceptually be represented as product ageing process. Similar to human life a product`s life can also divided into four parts. Introductory stage Growth stage Maturity stage Decline stage
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Product Lifecycle Management Stage 4: Decline The decline stage of the product life cycle is the one where the product ultimately ’dies’ due to the low or negative growth rate in sales (see Figure 1). Profitability will fall‚ eventually to the point where it is no longer profitable to produce‚ and production will stop. As a number of companies start to dominate the market‚ it becomes increasingly difficult for the company in question to maintain its level of sales. Consumer tastes also change
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