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Business Definition for: Competitive Pricing

  • setting a price by reference to the prices of comparable competitive products

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PC World Business gains a new level of online competitive intelligence from Cogenta's NetPrice; PC World Business will use NetPrice to significantly improve the way it gathers competitive pricing information from online resources; NetPrice provides a new
M2 PRESSWIRE-20 February 2007-Cogenta: PC World Business gains a new level of online competitive intelligence from Cogenta's NetPrice; PC World Business will use NetPrice to significantly improve the way it gathers competitive pricing information from online resources; NetPrice provides a new level of competitive intelligence ...
Tags: MARKETING, PC World, Strategy
Research articles 2007-02-20
Northwest Airlines Denies Suit's Charges of Anti-Competitive Pricing.(Originated from Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn.)
Jun. 18--Northwest Airlines came out swinging Tuesday in response to a lawsuit charging the Eagan-based carrier with anti-competitive pricing. Jun. 18--Northwest Airlines came out swinging Tuesday in response to a lawsuit charging the Eagan-based carrier with anti-competitive pricing.
Tags: Northwest Airlines Corp.
Research articles 1997-06-18
Competitive Pricing Behavior in the Auto Market: A Structural Analysis
This paper takes a theory-driven empirical approach to gain a deeper understanding of the competitive pricing behavior in the U.S. auto market. The ability-motivation paradigm posits that a firm needs both the ability and the motivation to succeed in implementing a strategy. They use arguments from the game-theoretic literature to...
Tags: U.S., Competitive Pricing, Analysis, Ability-motivation Paradigm, Pricing, Marketing
White papers 2001-01-01
Five other SkyTeam partners seek added global customer benefits with antitrust immunity; Deal would offer customers more destinations, better connections, more competitive pricing.
M2 PRESSWIRE-7 July 2005-Delta-Air: Five other SkyTeam partners seek added global customer benefits with antitrust immunity; Deal would offer customers more destinations, better connections, more competitive pricingC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06072005 ATLANTA: Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) and five of its...
Tags: alliance, antitrust, Delta Air Lines Inc., SECURITY, Strategy
Research articles 2005-07-07
US DEPT OF HHS: Local residents appointed to National Medicare Competitive Pricing Demonstration.
M2 PRESSWIRE-30 March 1999-US DEPT OF HHS: Local residents appointed to National Medicare Competitive Pricing Demonstration C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:290399 Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala today named 21 residents of Phoenix to the local advisory committee that...
Tags: beneficiary, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, Phoenix Technologies, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Research articles 1999-03-30
US DEPT OF HHS: Local residents appointed to national Medicare competitive pricing demonstration.
M2 PRESSWIRE-24 March 1999-US DEPT OF HHS: Local residents appointed to national Medicare competitive pricing demonstration C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:230399 Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala today named 17 residents of Kansas City to the local advisory committee...
Tags: beneficiary, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Medicare, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Research articles 1999-03-24
Canberra: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission requires CDMA carriers to reduce anti-competitive pricing and encourage lower fixed-to-mobile call prices - Asian telecoms this month - Brief Article
Canberra: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission requires CDMA carriers to reduce anti-competitive pricing and encourage lower fixed-to-mobile call prices.
Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Canberra, CDMA, MARKETING, Pricing, telecommunications
Research articles 2002-12-01
Industry leaders NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, and Japanese manufacturers reach a mutual understanding to support modest royalty rates for the W-CDMA technology worldwide; Ensures fair and competitive pricing for W-CDMA handsets and infrastruct
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 November 2002-NOKIA: Industry leaders NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, and Japanese manufacturers reach a mutual understanding to support modest royalty rates for the W-CDMA technology worldwide; Ensures fair and competitive pricing for W-CDMA handsets and infrastructure equipment C1994-2002 M2...
Tags: Ericsson Inc., Nokia Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc., Siemens AG
Research articles 2002-11-06
DataFort provides secure backup for Globe Micro customers; Appointed on the basis of competitive pricing, ease of use and location.
M2 PRESSWIRE-11 November 2005-DataFort: DataFort provides secure backup for Globe Micro customers; Appointed on the basis of competitive pricing, ease of use and locationC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11112005 DataFort, the leading UK provider of off-site data backup, today announced that Globe...
Tags: IT Solutions Inc.
Research articles 2005-11-11
Pricing Your Products and Services
Although pricing can be one of the most difficult marketing decisions, the basic process is straightforward—calculating your costs; estimating the benefits to customers and the limits on how much they're willing to pay; and comparing your products, services, and prices to others that are similar. What You Need to...
Tags: Cost, Product, Customer, Price, Pricing Strategy, Service, Marketing Research, Pricing, Marketing, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-28
Approach to Pricing
The article talks on the importance of pricing. From a strategic perspective, pricing has more impact on positioning and ultimate profitability than any other item in the overall marketing mix. Depending on market sensitivities and current profit margins, a 1% increase in price could increase profitability by up to 10%....
Tags: Price, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Scanners, Marketing Research, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals
White papers 2003-01-01
Competitor Visioning: Key to Managing Competitive Pricing
The paper concludes that price moves are powerful shapers of company's fortunes. Poor planning and "step-at-a-time" pricing actions can destroy strategies and sink profits. Successful managers take a long-term perspective for managing pricing competitive dynamics. The chess game analogy provides useful insight for profitably managing pricing. To implement a chess...
Tags: Competitive Pricing, Pricing Strategy, Chess Game Analogy, Pricing, Games, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Personal Technology, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Finding New Answers To the Pricing Question: What's It Worth to the Customer?
Initially the paper talks about the two approaches of pricing known as cost-based pricing and competitive pricing. While both approaches have their obvious flaws, their greatest weakness is they both overlook the value of value. Neither approach takes into account the value that a new product or service brings to...
Tags: Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Big airlines seek to stall pricing rules
A lobbying group representing major air carriers including Northwest Airlines Corp. wants to stall U.S. Department of Transportation guidelines on competitive pricing by establishing a yearlong commission. The U.S. House of Representatives could vote oA lobbying group representing major air carriers including Northwest Airlines Corp. wants...
Tags: commission, Northwest Airlines Corp., pricing strategy
Research articles 1998-06-22
The Gurus of Pricing Strategy
The Gurus of Pricing StrategyEvery dollar countsThe right Pricing Strategy is critical.Good ArticleThank you. I don't like the part about making up a story but of course I know that's how it goes. I also think that everyone in business needs a comfortable chair that does not hurt our back,...
Tags: pricing strategy
Discussion threads 2007-06-23
Market Feedback, Cost System Choice and Competitive Pricing: The Advantage of Not Being a Leader
This study experimentally investigates the value of cost report accuracy in an interactive pricing context. Market agents received feedback about their own profits via either a volume-based costing or a more accurate activity-based costing report. This also received a typical market report containing the performance of their rivals. While prior...
Tags: Competitive Pricing, Leader, Feedback, Pricing Strategy, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Pricing, Performance Management, Marketing Research, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
White papers 2004-06-01
The Principal Financial Group Introduces New Term Life Insurance Products; Enhanced Product Line Offers More Competitive Pricing and Flexibility Than Ever before
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Principal Financial GroupR introduces an updated line of term life insurance products that now includes new 15 and 30-year term products, an enhanced conversion provision to age 70 and a new Super Standard risk class. These latest features for 2006 are designed with affordable pricing...
Tags: competitive pricing, pricing strategy, Principal Financial Group
Research articles 2006-08-21
Competitors accuse Smartcom PCS of anti-competitive pricing. (Global Wireless).
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--Wireless operator BellSouth lodged a complaint with the Fiscalia National Economica of Chile against Smartcom PCS, owned by Endesa Spain, because it considers Smartcom's Revolution 1000 plan anti-competitive. BellSouth said Smartcom's pricing plan is unprofitable because it offers...
Tags: BellSouth Corp., Endesa S.A.
Research articles 2002-03-11
LODESTAR Corporation Announces PricingExpert; Provides On-the-Spot Pricing Proposals for Energy Retailers' Sales Force
Business/Technology Editors PEABODY, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 5, 2001 LODESTAR Corporation, the world's leading provider of e-Business software to enable customer choice in the new economy, today announced a new product--PricingExpertTM--that provides on-the-spot pricing analysis and proposals for energy retailers. The new LODESTAR offering is a realtime, competitive pricing-analysis...
Tags: Energy Retailers Inc.
Research articles 2001-03-05
Competitive Pricing With Dynamic Asymmetric Price Effects
We model the temporal pricing strategies for two firms with asymmetric costs and differing market power (i.e. big-box retailer versus smaller local merchant). A firm's demand is a function of its price, a reference price and its competitor's price. Price effects may be asymmetric, i.e. consumers respond differently if they...
Tags: Competitive Pricing, Price, University Of Western Ontario, Pricing, Marketing Research, Retail, Marketing
White papers 2005-06-02
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