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International Mkt
UNLV MKT 456/Nill
Question | Answer |
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Full Cost Pricing | Price = FC + Profit + VC |
Markup Pricing | Pricing as a percentage of sales |
Incremental Cost Pricing | Price is set to cover variable cost only |
Cost Oriented = | Full cost pricing, Markup Pricing , & Incremental Pricing |
Skim Pricing | Strong relative advantage, low elasticity of demand, low competition , differentiated and difficult to copy, small total market |
Penetration Pricing | economies of scale in production , high elasticity of demand, strong competition , not differentiadted and easy to copy, large market |
Legal Restrictions | Most countries have laws relating to , dumping, price fixing , price discrimination ,price advertising |
Cost of exporting | Taxes , tariffs , administrative costs, inflation , exchange rate fluctuations, varying currency values |
Lessening Price Escalation | Lower Cost of goods, Lower tarriffs, lower distribution costs, Foreign Trade Zones |
Countertrades | exchanging goods or services which are paid for, in whole or part, with other goods or services, rather than with money. A monetary valuation can however be used in counter trade for accounting purposes. |
Forms of Counter trade | barter, compensation deals, counterpurchase or offset trade, product buy-back agreement |
Benefits of Counter trade | preserve hard currencey, improve balnce of trade, gain access to new markets, upgrade manufacturing capabilities, maintain price of export goods. |
Transfer Pricing | the pricing of contributions (assets, tangible and intangible, services, and funds) transferred within an organization. |
Grey Trades | trade of a commodity through distribution channels which, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer. |
characteristic's of import Oriented System | sellers market, one deal mentality, demand exceeds supply |
Characteristics of Mass Marketing system | Buyers Market, ongoing business, supply exceeds demands |
Push-Pull Strategy | movement of a product or info between two subjects. On markets the consumers usually "pulls" the goods or info they demand for their needs, while offerers or suppliers "pushes" them toward consumers |
Decentralized Strategy | An organizational system whereby planning and decision-making responsibility for marketing, advertising, and promotion lies with a product or brand manager rather than a centralized department. |
Country of origin affect | Any effect on a person's perception arising from stereotypes of associations with a product's country of origin |
Stimuli | Everything that corresponds with our senses, hearing, seeing, feeling, touching , smelling |
Perception is affected by | culture, context and individual factors |
Buyer Motivation is based on | Physiological , Psychological, Sociological needs |
Involvement | perceived importance a purchase is to a customer , involvement increase with perceived risk |
positively correlated | Direct association between two variables. As one variable becomes large, the other also becomes large |
Extended Problem Solving | High degree if complexity Often occurs with expensive items, All 7 consumer decision making stages are often used (need recognition, search for information, pre-purchase evaluation of alternatives, purchase, consumption, post-consumption evaluation and |
Limited Problem Solving | Low degree of complexity, Consumers don't have time, motivation or resources to engage in EPS ,Little search and evaluation before purchase ,Consumers always look for familiarity and low |
Leading Markets | 3 criteria , highly competitive , demanding customers, no government involvements |
cost leadership | compete for lowest price |
Breakeven Point | fixed cost / price - variable cost |
Economies of Scale | decreased product cost as volume of product per period increases |
Economies of Scope | when the same investment can support multiple profitable activities less expensively in combination then separately |
Brand Name Leveraging | Broadening a company product range by introducing add'l forms of products under a brand name which is already successful in another category. |
cost advantages through differences in laws and regulations | labor , cost to protect environment , taxes |
regional trade agreements | economic trade agreement to reduce tariffs and restrictions on trade btwn two or more nations with in a certain region |
free market economy | economy for which the allocation for resources is determined only by their supply and demand for them |
global marketing | a business treating the entire world, including the home country, as a single market |
A leading market typically has | Strong competition, little governmental regulation, and highly demanding consumers |
Porters Generic Strategies | low cost leadership, differentiation, and focus |
Differentiation Strategy | A differentiation strategy calls for the development of a product or service that offers unique attributes that are valued by customers and that customers perceive to be better than or different from the products of the competition |
Focus Strategy | concentrates on a narrow segment and within that segment attempts to achieve either a cost advantage or differentiation |
cost leadership | prices to earn a profit higher than that of rivals, or below the average industry prices to gain market share. |
Porters Five Forces | Entry Barriers, Buyer Power,Supplier Power,Threat of Substitutes, Rivalry |
Produce Diversification | creating a new customer base, which by definition expands the market potential of the original product |
Market Segmentation | Market segmentation is a strategy that involves dividing a larger market into subsets of consumers who have common needs and applications for the goods and services offered in the market. |
Product Differentiation | A marketing process that showcases the differences between products. Differentiation looks to make a product more attractive. |
Global sourcing | selling the same products in many different countries |
compare a FDI with licensing | FDI ( foreign direct investment)offers more control and more risk than licensing |
Licensing | ) a market entry strategy whereby one company permits a foreign company to make use of its patents, know-how, technology, company name, or other intangible assets in return for a royalty payment |
Joint Ventures | a legal entity formed between two or more parties to undertake an economic activity together. |
objectives of market entry | product selection , country selection, mode of entry , strategy and time of entry |
Fragmented | Emergence of new segments (in a previously homogeneous market) which have their own distinct needs, requirements, and preferences |
Concentrated Market | Is a market segmentation and market coverage strategy whereby a product is developed and marketed for a very well-defined, specific segment of the consumer population. |
Product Positioning | the process by which marketers try to create an image or identity in the minds of their target market for its product, brand, or organization |
Economic Clusters | Geographic concentrations of interconnected companies in a particular field |
Factors in country selection | strategic, demand, cost, soci-political , and regulatory factors |
Country selection Process | region identification, preliminary screening, in depth screening , final selection |
analysis of market attractiveness | size, growth, competition , trade barriers, analysis of political risk , currency, infrastructure , capital requirements, production cost, taxes |
Strategic thinking | deals with important issues, anticipates the incalculable, contains irrational and subjective elements |
operative thinking | deals with pressing issues, contains rational and objective elements, based on incremental thinking , based on the calculable |
Basic questions of strategic planning | where are we, where do we want to be, how do we get there |
BCG Model | Boston consulting group model , classification of products (and implicitly also company business units) into four categories based on combinations of market growth and market share relative to the largest competitor. |
value chain | how we create value for the customer, product design, purchasing, logistics, marketing, distribution, retailing |
vision | what you want to achieve in the long run |
elements of a successful vision | openness, spontaneity , realism |
market segmentation, how do we get there | demographics, psycho graphics, geographic, ethnographic |
select target market, how do we get there | volume potential , margin potential , persuasion potential . |
Product positioning | how product is perceived relative to competitors, offerings , company and brand image, country of origin affect |
What determines the price of currencies | free market (AKA free float), ER are determined by the supply and demand for the currencies |
currency exchange risk | cash inflow in one currency is higher or lower then corresponding cash outflow in different country |
factors influencing supply and demand of currencies | Trade, Investment |
Types of currency exposure | transaction exposure, translation exposure, operating exposure |
Transaction Exposure | occurs when contract are denominated in a foreign currency |
Translation Exposure | Occurs when financial statements must be consolidated |
Operating Exposure | when the value of cash flows depends on exchange |
Short term hedging | less then 18 months , locks in E.R. through the use of financial instruments |
Long term hedging | close gap of cash flows in different countries , can not eliminate the currency exchange risk for ongoing business |
Factors effecting Trade | real price shocks (oil price), Government Policy (tariff/trade) |
Absolute purchasing power parity | the purchasing power for the dollar is the same everywhere |
Relative Purchasing Power Parity | Exchange rates move to offset differences in rates of inflation.Works well In the long run When differences in inflation are dramatic Works much less well in the short run |
brand extension | marketing strategy in which a firm marketing a product with a well-developed image uses the same brand name in a different product category |
dumping | the act of a manufacturer in one country exporting a product to another country at a price which is either below the price it charges in its home market or is below its costs of production |
global marketing | characterized by the firm treating the entire world, including the home country, as a single market |
2) A leading competitor typically has | high market share |
the phrase 'the customer is always right" | c) Does not always provide a good guideline for marketing and product managers because customers don’t always know how their needs can be satisfied |
expropriation | Compulsory seizure or surrender of private party for the state's purposes, with little or no compensation to the property's owner |
criteria for good research | objective, validity,reliability, cost |
objective | unbiased |
validity | relevance , measures what you want to measure |
reliability | consistancey |
cost | marginally decreasing benefits for every dollar invested |
quantitative research | findings expressed numerically, and are amenable to mathematical (statistical) manipulation enabling the researcher to estimate (forecast) future events or quantitiesdifficult to control for validity but good obj and reliability |
qualitative research | Interviews conducted with a small number of consumers, primarily to gather initial consumer needs or early reactions to new product concepts.easy for validity not necesarily objective or reliable. |
trend extropolation | Forecasting technique which uses statistical methods (such as exponential smoothing or moving averages) to project the future pattern of a time series data. |
regression analysis RA | Statistical approach to forecasting change in a dependent variable (sales revenue, for example) on the basis of change in one or more independent variables (population and income, for example). |
3 types of decision making | rational, emotional, behavioral |
rational | high invlovment , EPS |
emotional | medium to high involovment |
behavioral | low invlovment LPS |