Zara: Case questions 1. Coordination of a supply chain is always important. However‚ such efforts are usually initiated by certain parties. For the global apparel industry‚ would it be more suitable for downstream or upstream parties to be the driver of the coordination? Motivate your answer with the use of two important characteristics of the apparel industry. 2. Clearly Zara has a strong relationship with all parties within the supply chain. a) Which of the following retailer-supplier relationships
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Rubio Malo de Molina | [Case Study – ZAra] | Marketing Management – First Assignment | Contents Case preparation 3 - Write a brief synopsis of the company background 3 Questions to answer: 4 - Explain the evolution of fashion market (product‚ environment‚ target…). 4 - Which are the most important differences between “Marketing orientation” and “Market Orientation”? What do you think is better nowadays? 4 - Why Inditex and Zara is a paradigmatic example of market orientation
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I. Point of View We consider Ms. Bea Lim’s perspective‚ the Marketing Assistant of Prime Meat‚ Inc. as our point of view. She is the one envisioning on the pricing strategy formulation that would have a long-term beneficial effect to the company. II. Market Situation Analysis A. Opportunities-Threat Analysis 1. Opportunities Strategic Location - The location of Prime Meat‚ Inc. is Santo Tomas‚ the town next to the capital city. Large Market Potential - For tocino (89.312 metric tons per month)
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INTRODUCTION Value-based pricing is a method of pricing products in which companies first try to determine how much the products are worth to their customers. The goal is to avoid setting prices that are either too high for customers or lower than they would be willing to pay if they knew what kind of benefits they could get by using a product. In most firms prices are determined by intuition‚ opinions‚ rules of thumb‚ out-right dogma‚ top management’s higher wisdom‚ or internal power fights1
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Marketing Management 33 (2004) 765 – 778 Towards value-based pricing—An integrative framework for decision making Andreas Hinterhuber* Falkstrasse 16‚ 6020 Innsbruck‚ Austria Received 1 April 2003; accepted 18 October 2003 Available online 23 December 2003 Abstract Despite a recent surge of interest‚ the subject of pricing in general and value-based pricing in particular has received little academic investigation. Yet‚ pricing has a huge impact on financial results‚ both in absolute terms
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Pricing objectives are goals that describe what a firm wants to achieve through pricing. Pricing objectives must be stated explicitly‚ and the statement should include the time frame for accomplishing them. There are six stages of setting prices. They are developing pricing objective‚ assessing the target market’s evaluation of price‚ evaluating competitors’ prices‚ choosing a basis for pricing‚ selecting a pricing strategy‚ and determining a specific price. Cost-based pricing is adding a
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IACSIT Press‚ Singapore Competitive Pricing Strategies of Low Cost Airlines in the Perspective of Game theory Lim Seng Poh+ and Mohd. Ghazali bin Mohayidin Open University Malaysia Abstract. Price is the weapon of choice for many low cost airlines in the competition for market share. Regional low cost airlines’ pricing strategy for market stimulation is issuing free tickets and competing in ticket prices setting. It has been assumed as an effective strategy in influencing customers’ purchasing
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Principles of Marketing Assignment 3 – Pricing Due Date: 24th December‚ 2012 Dep. of IBS In this Assignment I want to compare several beer brands and their pricing. I will try to find out which pricing strategy is used for each beer brand. Pricing is one oft he 4 major elements of the marketing mix and pricing is an important stratejic issue because it is related to the positioning. Also it affects other marketing mix elements such as product features‚ channel decision and
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Pricing Course Module in Marketing Management Course Modules help instructors select and sequence material for use as part of a course. Each module represents the thinking of subject matter experts about the best materials to assign and how to organize them to facilitate learning. Each module recommends four to six items. Whenever possible at least one alternative item for each main recommendation is included‚ as well as suggested supplemental readings that may provide a broader conceptual context
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absorbing transactions that had previously taken place across markets but by the end of the 90’s large industrial companies reduced their product scope focusing just on their core businesses and outsourcing the rest. Vertical integration is a corporate strategy which the company seeks to acquire control over own inputs or on their output or both. Expansion of activities downstream is referred to as forward integration‚ and expansion upstream is referred to as backward integration. Vertical integration
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