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chapter 4.01 notes
branding, labeling, and products
Question | Answer |
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What is a product? | A product is everything, both favorable and unfavorable, that a person recieves in exchange; tangible good, service, idea |
What is a business.industrial product? | It is used to manufacture other goods or services, to facilitate an organizations operations, or to resell to toher consumers |
What is a consumer product? | a product bought to satisfy an individual's personal needs/wants |
What are the four types of of products? | Convenience, shopping, specialty, and unsought |
What is a product item? | A specific version of a product that can be designated as a distinct offering among an organiations products |
What is a product line? | A group of closely-related product items |
What is a product mix? | All products that an organization sells |
What is product mix width? | The number of product lines an organizations offers |
What is planned obselence? | The pracitce of modifuing products so those that have already been sold become obsolete before they actually need replacement |
What is product line extension? | Adding additional products to an exsisting product line in order to compete more broadly in the industry |
What is a brand? | A name, term, symbol, disign, or combination that identifies a sellers products and differentiates them from competitior's products |
What is a generic brand? | no-frills, no brand name, low-cost product that is simply identified by its product catergory |
What is a manufacturers brand? | A brand name of a manufacturer |
What is a private brand? | A brand owned by a wholesaler/reseller, also known as a private label/store brand |
What is an individual brand? | Using different brand names for different products |
What is a family brand? | Marketing several different products under the same brand name |
What is a trademark? | The exclusive right to use a brand |
What is a universal product code? | A series of thick and thin vertical lines readabl by computerized optical scanners, that represent numbers used to track products |