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Pricing Concepts for Establishing Value
These are the learning objectives guiding the chapter and will be explored in more detail in the
following slides.
List the four pricing orientations.
Explain the relationship between price and
quantity sold.
Explain price elasticity.
Describe how to calculate a product’s break-
even point.
Indicate the four types of price competitive
levels.
LO1
LO2
LO3
LO4
LO5
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Price
Price refers not just to money but also other costs such as time.
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Benefits
Sacrifice
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The Role of Price in the Marketing Mix
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Price is the only marketing mix element that
generates revenue
Price is usually ranked as one of the most
important factors in purchase decisions
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The 5 Cs of Pricing
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These are the Cs of pricing.
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1st C: Company Objectives
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Each firm has a specific orientation in the marketplace that dominates its pricing strategy. Profit-
oriented firms do not use value as a consideration but rather focus on generating a set level of
profit from each sale.
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2nd C: Customers
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The following slides address different parts of this graph; this slide serves as an introduction to
the topic of demand curves.
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Demand Curves
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Name a prestige product. Why do they think people are willing to pay a higher price. For
example, why will someone pay a higher price for a BMW than a Saturn. They will mention
product quality but also branding issues including the esteem offered to the owner from the
BMW.
Not all are downward
sloping
Prestigious products or
services have upward
sloping curves
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Factors Influencing Price Elasticity of Demand
Wal-Mart stresses good service in the holiday season, but as always, ends their ad with
messaging related to their low price offerings and the importance of low price (live better).
Income
effect
Substitution
effect
Cross-
price
elasticity
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3rd C: Costs
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No discussion of price would be complete without a discussion of cost. The price must at least
cover the cost of the item. However, as you may have learned in your finance courses,
understanding costs is rarely easy.
• Variable Costs
• Vary with production volume
• Fixed Costs
• Unaffected by production volume
• Total Costs
• Sum of variable and fixed costs
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Break Even Analysis
Although profit, which represents the difference between the total cost and the total revenue
(total revenue or sales = selling price of each unit sold number of units sold), can indicate how
much money the firm is making or losing at a single period of time, it cannot tell managers how
many units a firm must produce and sell before it stops losing money and at least breaks even.
Total Variable Cost = Variable Cost per unit X Quantity
Total Cost = Fixed Cost + Total Variable Cost
Total Revenue = Price X Quantity
Fixed Costs
Contribution per unit
Break-Even Point (units) =
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5th C: Channel Members
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Have you ever bought books marked “Instructor Copy: Not for Resale” or “International Student
Edition”? Is the bookstore engaging in unethical behavior? Whom does this gray market benefit?
Whom does it hurt? The purchase of gray market textbooks hurt the publisher and authors.
These books do not help recover the costs of all the ancillary packages that are provided to
instructors.
Courtesy Apple, Inc.
• Manufacturers, wholesalers and
retailers can have different
perspectives on pricing strategies
• Manufactures must protect against
gray market transactions
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Check Yourself
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1. What are the five Cs of pricing?
2. Identify the four types of company objectives.
3. What is the difference between elastic versus
inelastic demand?
4. How does one calculate the break-even point in
units?
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Economic Factors
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Firms and consumers alike should constantly monitor the economic environment, because
economic conditions have a direct impact on pricing. How many people cross-shop? Do you
believe this practice has influenced the way some firms price their merchandise? It has made
prestige products more expensive and more moderately priced merchandise even less
expensive.
Local economic
conditions
Increasing
disposable
income
Cross- shopping
Increasing status
consciousness
Increasing
globalization
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1. How have the Internet and economic factors
affected the way people react to prices?
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Glossary
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Break-even analysis enables managers to examine the relationships among cost, price,
revenue, and profit over different levels of production and sales.
Cross-price elasticity is the percentage change in the quantity of Product A demanded
compared with the percentage change in price in Product B.
Fixed costs are those costs that remain essentially at the same level, regardless of any
changes in the volume of production.
Income effect is the change in the quantity of a product demanded by consumers due to a
change in their income.
Maximizing profits strategy assumes that if a firm can accurately specify a mathematical model
that captures all the factors required to explain and predict sales and profits, it should be able to
identify the price at which its profits are maximized.
Price is the overall sacrifice a consumer is willing to make to acquire a specific product or
service.
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Substitution effect refers to consumers’ ability to substitute other products for the focal brand.
Target profit pricing is implemented by firms to meet a targeted profit objective. The firms use
price to stimulate a certain level of sales at a certain profit per unit.
Target return pricing occurs when firms employ pricing strategies designed to produce a
specific return on their investment, usually expressed as a percentage of sales.
Total cost is the sum of the variable and fixed costs.
Variable costs are the costs that vary with production value.