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Marketing Management, 4/e
Harper W Boyd
Orville C Walker, Jr
John W Mullins
Jean-Claude Larreche

Effective Pricing Decisions Reflect Customer Value and Achieve Objectives

Chapter Outline

I. P & G Changes Priding Strategy to Meet Private-Label Threat

II. Marketing Challenges Addressed in Chapter 12

III. A Process for Making Pricing Decisions
A. Strategic pricing objectives
B. Estimating demand
C. Estimating costs
D. Analyzing competitor’s costs and prices

IV. Methods Managers Use to Determine an Appropriate Price Level
A. Cost-oriented methods
B. Competition-oriented methods
C. Customer-oriented methods

V. Deciding on a Priced Structure: Adapting Prices to Market Variations
A. Geographic Adjustments
B. Global Adjustments
C. Discounts and allowances
D. Differential pricing
E. Product-line pricing adjustments