Profile a) Historical Background TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (NYSE: TM) is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Toyota‚ Aichi‚ Japan. It was founded in Japan on August 28‚ 1937. The company originally produced small cars and light trucks for consumption in Japan and for exports to other countries. The first Toyota retail dealership was opened on October 31‚ 1957 in Hollywood‚ CA. In 1980 a heavy United States import tax on vehicles forced Toyota to open a plant in America in order
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Case No.07 – Nokia’s pricing strategy Nokia is one brand name that inspires all those who are into the mobile culture. Of the entire brand that touches our lives‚ Nokia stand s out significantly. It has taken mobility a step forward by creating products with continuous innovations in this industry has made it imperative that every player keeps pace with changes. Nokia has been one step ahead in anticipating future market moves and strategizing accordingly. Interestingly the company prices its
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Indomie Pricing Strategy One of the four major elements of the marketing mix is price. Pricing is an important strategic issue because it is related to product positioning. Furthermore‚ pricing affects other marketing mix elements such as product features‚ channel decisions and promotion. In this case‚ Indomie is brand of noodle which was produced by PT Indofood Sukses Makmur‚ Tbk. As a leader of brand noodle‚ Indomie has pricing strategies‚ it product-line pricing. They set different price in
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Assessing Toyota’s Current Regional Production Strategy (North America‚ Canada‚ Mexico‚ USA) Performed By: University of Maryland University College May 17‚ 2015 Executive Summary The Toyota Motor Corporation employs a self-developed system known as the Toyota Product System (TPS) which is based on the concept of efficiency‚ necessity‚ quality‚ and cost reduction to guide business process improvements. This system has two pillars known as just-in-time (JIT) and auto-activation (Jidoka). Just-in-time
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Allowances Loss-Leader Pricing Special-Event Pricing Cash Rebates Low-Interest Financing Longer Payment Terms Warranties & Service Contracts Psychological Discounting Customer-Segment Pricing Product-Form Pricing Image Pricing Channel Pricing Location Pricing Time Pricing Price Discrimination Differentiated Pricing Promotional Pricing Geographical Pricing (Cash‚ Countertrade‚ Barter) Changing Pricing Environment How Companies Price Understanding Pricing Consumer Psychology and Pricing Reference Prices
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The target market of Firefly has always been travellers both for business and also leisure. Travellers for both business and also leisure are potential customers of Firefly as it is a low cost airline providing great services. 2.0 Marketing Mix Strategies Marketing mix is a mixture of numerous ideas followed by a marketing representative in promoting a particular product or brand. The elements of marketing mix are often called the four P’s of marketing which are product‚ price‚ place and promotion
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1. Introduction Pricing strategies usually change as the product passes through its life cycle‚ because there is constrains on the company’s freedom to price a product at different stage. The purpose of this report is to determine and elaborate the elements in pricing strategies of Dell’s notebook. 2. Key Objectives Price is the amount of money changed for a product or service‚ or the sum of the values consumers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service (Kotler et al
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early success would not be lasting. This is why Apple has decided to use different pricing strategies such as the skimming and versioning. Price Skimming Skimming is referred to as selling a product at a high price; basically companies sacrificing sales to gain high profits. This is employed by companies in order to reimburse their cost of investment put into the original research of the product. This strategy is often used to target early users of a product/service because they are relatively
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INTRODUCTION AVIS Avis is the Australian largest car rental company‚ with 33% market share across the nation’s airports‚ employing 1000 staffs in 240 locations (Super brands 2009). The company entered Australian market in 1955‚ initially only had a market share of just 10- 11% of the car rental market. In 1962 Robert Townsend joined as President of Avis and introduced a bold advertising campaign focusing on the company’s customer service: “We’re No.2. We try harder!”. The message‚ together with its
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Running head: IMPLEMENTING PRICING STRATEGY Implementing Pricing Strategies Janaina Logan Strayer University Strategic Market Pricing – MKT 402 Professor Charla Session-Reed March 18‚ 2011 Abstract Implementing pricing strategy decisions requires properly addressing organizational issues related to how decisions are made and enforced as well as motivational issues that encourage managers to engage in more profitable behaviors. Pricing decisions are strategic and
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