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Product line pricing is a product pricing strategy, used when a company has more than one product in a product line. [10] It is a process that traders adopt to separate products in the same category into various price groups, to create different quality levels in the customers’ minds.
Pricing is the process whereby a business sets and displays the price at which it will sell its products and services and may be part of the business's marketing plan.In setting prices, the business will take into account the price at which it could acquire the goods, the manufacturing cost, the marketplace, competition, market condition, brand, and quality of the product.
Contribution margin-based pricing maximizes the profit derived from an individual product, based on the difference between the product's price and variable costs (the product's contribution margin per unit), and on one's assumptions regarding the relationship between the product's price and the number of units that can be sold at that price.
Price lining is the use of a limited number of prices for all products offered by a business. Price lining is a tradition started in the old five and dime stores in which everything cost either 5 or 10 cents. In price lining, the price remains constant but the quality or extent of product or service adjusted to reflect changes in cost.
Economists such as Tim Harford in The Undercover Economist have argued that this is a form of price discrimination: by providing a choice between a regular and premium product, consumers are being asked to reveal their degree of price sensitivity (or willingness to pay) for comparable products. Similar techniques are used in pricing business ...
A product's average price is the result of dividing the product's total sales revenue by the total units sold. When one product is sold in variants, such as bottle sizes, managers must define "comparable" units. Average prices can be calculated by weighting different unit selling prices by the percentage of unit sales (mix) for each product ...
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Product planning (or product discovery) is the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product's feature set. [1] It serves as the basis for decision-making about price, distribution and promotion.