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MKT 301 Final pt 2
Question | Answer |
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Trade Allowances | A price reduction from a manufacturer to a retailer or wholesaler in e change for the performance of specified promotion activities. |
Push Money | Intermediaries receive push money as a bonus for pushing the manufactuer's brand. Often the push money is directed at the retailer's salespeople. |
Training | Sometimes a manufacturer will provide free training for the personnel of an intermediary if the product is complex. |
Free Merchandise | Another trade promotion is free merchandise offered in lieu of quantity discounts. |
Price | That which is given in an exchange to acquire a good or service. |
Revenue | Prices charged to consumers multiplied by the number of u it's sold. |
Profit | Whatever is left over from revenue after paying for company activities. |
Profit Maximization | Setting prices do total revenue is as large as possible relative to total costs for a given item. |
Target Return On Investment | Sometimes called return on total assets. It measures the effectiveness of management in generating profits with its available assets. |
Market Share | Refers to a company's product sales as a percentage of total sales for that industry. Market share can e expressed in dollars of sales or u it's of product. |
Status Quo Pricing | Seems to maintain existing prices or simply to meet the competition's prices. This strategy requires little planning other than monitoring competitor's prices. |
Demand | The quantity of a product that will be sold in the market at various prices for a specified period. Ordinarily, the quantity demanded increases as prices decreases and decreases as price increases. |
Supply | Quantity of product that will be offered to the market by suppliers at various prices for a specified period. |
Elasticity of Demand | Refers to consumers' responsiveness or sensitivity to change in price. |
Elastic Demand | Occurs when consumers are sensitive to price changes. |
Inelastic Demand | An increase or decrease in price will not significantly affect demand for a product. |
Yield Management Systems | Use complex mathematical software to profitably fill unused capacity by discounting early purchases, limiting early sales at these discounted prices, and overbooking capacity. |
Variable Costs | Vary with changes in the level of output, for example, the cost of materials. |
Fixed Costs | Such as rent and executive salaries, do not change as output is increased or decreased. Rent, executive salaries, insurance for the building, vehicles, and computer leases are examples. |
Average Variable Cost | Total variable cost divided by quantity of output. |
Average Total Cost | Total cost divided by output. |
Marginal Cost | The change in total cost associated with a one-unit change in output. |
Markup Pricing | The cost of buying the product from the producer plus amounts for profit and for expenses not otherwise accounted for. |
Keystoning | Markups that are double the cost. |
Profit Maximization Pricing | Occurs when marginal revenue equals marginal cost. |
Marginal Revenue | The extra revenue associated with selling an additional unit of output. |
Break-even Analysis | Determines what sales volume must be reached for a product before the company breaks even and no profits are earned. |
Prestige Pricing | Marketing managers can use high prices to enhance the image of their product in some cases. |