With the coming of the global marketplace on the Internet, would “Uniform Global price” become a reality?
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What is the ‘Price’ of a product? How is the price of a product determined? Why is the price of an Apple iPhone relatively higher than the price of other Smartphone having the same or even more features? Read on …
Pricing is one of the key functions of the finance as well a marketing department of any company whether it is a manufacturing concern or a service provider. On one hand, the finance department decides the margins and other costs involved in bringing the product or service to a condition for final consumption, the marketing department analysis the market conditions, determines the consumers purchasing power and behavior and various other factors which would influence the sales of their product in the market.
However, as questioned above, how is the price of a product determined and why is the price of an Apple iPhone relatively higher than the price of other Smartphone having the same or even more features? Here is the answer! The price of a product or a services is an addition of the cost to bring the product to its final stage, the charges relating to the types and number of distribution channels, ‘the brand value, first mover advantage, product innovation’, and the final constituent of the price, the profit margin. Wonder why the brand value, first mover advantage and product innovation were quoted together? Well that bring us to the answer of the question relating to the pricing of Apple iPhone’s whose prices are mainly a combination of the brand value in the market which acts as a status symbol for many consumers and the first mover advantage due to the innovation of what we called the innov...
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The sales department would need information such as prices of products so that they can inform customers. They would also need to know if certain stock is available before talking to customers about that product. Marketing This function of the business is responsible for identifying the needs of customers and fulfilling the customer desires profitably. In other businesses sales and marketing may be combined into one department but
We the consumer would rather pay less for any product that is needed or want. Ultimately we are the reason for high prices as well as low prices. Prices of products do not always stay the same and more popular products have higher prices than less popular products. These fluctuations, high prices and low prices are from the idea of supply and demand. Supply and demand defines the effect that the availability of a particular product and the desire or demand for that product has on price. Generally, if there is a low supply and a high demand, the price will be high (Investopedia). To understand the idea of supply and demand, the understanding of supply and the understanding of demand must be defined. The Law of Supply states that at higher prices, producers are willing to offer more products for sale than at lower prices, also that the supply increases as prices increase and decreases as prices decrease (Curriculum Link). The Law of Demand states people will buy more of a product at a lower price than at a higher price, if nothing changes, at a lower price, more people can afford to buy more goods and more of an item more frequently, than they can at a higher price and that at lower prices, people tend to buy some goods as a substitute for others more expensive (Curriculum Link). In todays economics these ideas are seen frequently in everyday life. The laws of supply and demand are seen in many ways in the company Apple Inc. Each year Apple Inc unveils a long awaited mobile operating system and IPhone. We can also see many aspects of the law of supply and demand in Nike Inc’s Jordan Brand. Jordan Brand has released a number of...
As we learned from Chapter 12, price must be carefully determined and match with firm’s product, distribution, and communication strategies. (Hutt & Speh, 2012, p. 300) Therefore, there should be a strong market perspective in pricing. In order to build an effective pricing policy, marketers should focus on the value a customer places on a product or service. One of the most effective ways to do so is differentiating through value creation.
Due to the various options of distribution channels their prices vary. Consumers take that into consideration when purchasing their products.
Price is that which is given up in an exchange to acquire a good or service. Price is typically the money exchanged for the good or service. Blue Jays pricing structure is based on the perceived value of the game, the entertainment, the love of baseball, and the action, not just the money.
The pricing strategy will start out rather high for this product upon its release in order to draw a more selective crowd such as the upper class members of the urban society. Once the product has succeeded within this market there will be a development of additional variations of the product which will allow for certain models, with less features, to be sold at a lower price point in order to attract the members of society who are less willing to pay the high asking price for the top of the line version of the
price as the major decision-making tool for customers (“Global Consumer Electronics”, 2013). This lack of
Pricing is an important aspect of every business. Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO) use pricing to create financial projections, establish a break-even point, and calculate profit and loss margins (Power Point, 2005). It is the only element in the marketing mix that produces revenue. Price is also one of the most flexible elements of the marketing mix as it can be changed very quickly. This is usually done to beat competitor prices in an attempt to fix the product’s market value position very low (Anderson & Bailey, 1998). After all, high prices make it difficult to become the market share leader. The leading US retailer, Wal-Mart, is an expert at low product pricing as evident in 2004 with $250 billion dollars in sales to their 138 million weekly shoppers. However, they are also responsible for reducing prices so low that it drives specialty stores out of business. This is the effect Wal-mart has had on many toy stores and has almost closed the doors of the famous toy store Toys “R” Us Inc.
The major objective of any company is to make profits. Marketing is responsible for identifying a company’s customers anticipating their needs and wants, satisfying theses needs while keeping the its major goal which maximizing profits
Under the circumstance that the mobile phone industry entered the 3rd generation, Nokia faced competition from both macro level and industry level. For the macro level, the government encouraged competition among the operators and handset manufacturers by giving digital licenses to new entrants. As a result, the mobile phones became more sophisticated, for example, the cameras and the games in the mobile phone. For the industry level, which can be analyzed by the Porter’s Five Forces, (lecture )Nokia was facing threat of new entrants, competitive rivalry and the bargaining power of buyers is increasing as well. As the government encourage completion between the handset manufacturers, there are several new entrants from different countries enter this industry, such as Apple from USA, Samsung from Korea. These new entrants compete with Nokia in both smartphone segment and basic phone segment. Some of them even constructed “ecosystems”, which they could integrate the services and applications quickly, in order to produce the phone in just two days. For the bargaining power of buyers’ aspect, they do not need to rely on the only operating system Symbian. They can choose Windows mobile launched by Microsoft, Android launched by Google and Ios launched by Apple, in addition, basically all of them are better than Symbian (Amiya, 2010). The buyers could choose any
As such, there is material cost regulator, manufacturing control, labor cost regulator, excellence control and so on. Conversely, control over the price is implemented through the methods of financial control and typical costing (Meigs, 1998). The control methods aid the management in understanding the operating competence of a firm. Cost accounting also determines the selling price. The intention of all business firms is minimizing costs and maximizing profits. The costs incurred in producing goods and services may be reduced through incorporating alternate but cheaper resources of
Price is the values entirety that consumers trade for the advantages of having or utilizing the product or services. Different places and cultural have different spending culture. Therefore the price has to be relevant according to the product offer because it can reflect the image of a
Value- It includes providing products and services and how Mr. Price add values to customers.
Besides Apples iPhone being one of the most expensive phones in the market right now, many of the other Smartphone competitors also engage in price wars with Samsung in attempt to pull market share away from both Samsung and Apple, the two largest Smartphone market shareholders. Engaging in price wars creates a big threat to Samsung because competitors are able to drop down prices for their phones in order to
Apple smartphones like IPhone 6s, IPhone 6 plus S, IPhone 6 and IPhone 6 plus are the latest and the most popular smartphones. The price range for IPhones are $549 to $849 in the United States of America. There are big telecommunication companies like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint offering very affordable contract price to customer and rapidly increases the users of Apple. It becomes very easy to buy Apple products in many countries. Samsung has more advantages than Apple in the European and Asian market. Because Samsung has wider price variant and most of the products are cheaper than Apples.