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Pricing

Pricing for
for Profit
Profit

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Factors Affecting Price

 Product or service costs  Business location


 Market factors  Seasonal fluctuations
 Sales volume  Psychological factors
 Competitors’ prices  Credit terms and
 Company’s competitive purchase discounts
advantage  Customers’ price
 Economic conditions sensitivity
 Desired image

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What determines price?
Price Ceiling ("What will the market bear?")

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Final
FinalPrice
Price(What
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company'sdesired
desired"image?")
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Price
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Range ? ?
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Price Floor ("What are the company's costs?")
Introducing a New Product

Three Goals:
 Get the product accepted
 Maintain market share as competition
grows
 Earn a profit

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Introducing a New Product

Three Strategies:
 Penetration
 Skimming
 Sliding down the demand curve

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Pricing Established Goods
and Services
 Odd pricing
 Price lining
 Leader pricing
 Geographic pricing
 Zone pricing
 Uniform delivered
pricing
 F.O.B factory

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Pricing Established Goods
and Services
 Opportunistic pricing
 Discounts
 Multiple pricing
 Bundling
 Suggested retail prices

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Two Pricing Forces: Image and
Competition
 Price conveys image.
 Prices send signals to customers about
quality and value
 When setting prices, business owners
must consider competitors’ prices.
 Competitors’ locations
 Nature of the competing goods

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Pricing for Retailers:
Markup
Dollar Markup = Retail Price - Cost of Merchandise
Dollar Markup
Percentage (of Retail Price) Markup = Retail Price

Percentage (of Cost) Markup = Dollar Markup


Cost of Unit

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Pricing for Retailers:
Markup
Dollar Markup = Retail Price - Cost of Merchandise
Dollar Markup
Percentage (of Retail Price) Markup = Retail Price

Percentage (of Cost) Markup = Dollar Markup


Cost of Unit
Example:
Dollar Markup = $25 - $15 = $10
$10
Percentage (of Retail Price) Markup = = 40%
$25
$10 = 67%
Percentage (of Cost) Markup =
$15
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Pricing for Manufacturers:
Breakeven Selling Price
Total
Breakeven { Variable cost Quantity } fixed
Selling Profit + { per unit x produced } + costs
=
Price Quantity produced

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Pricing for Manufacturers:
Breakeven Selling Price
Total
Breakeven { Variable cost Quantity } fixed
Selling Profit + { per unit x produced } + costs
=
Price Quantity produced

Example:

Breakeven
Selling
= $0 + { 6.98/unit x 50,000 unit } + $110,000
Price 50,000 units
= $9.18 per unit

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Pricing for Service Firms:
Price per Hour

Price per Hour = Total cost per x 1


productive hour (1 - net profit target as
a % of sales)

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Pricing for Service Firms:
Price per Hour

Price per Hour = Total cost per x 1


productive hour (1 - net profit target as
a % of sales)

Example: Ned’s TV Repair Shop

Price per Hour = $13.44 per x 1 = $16.38 per hour


hour (1 -.18)

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Consumer Credit

 Credit cards
 National
 Private
 Installment credit
 Trade credit

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