Sunday, June 12, 2011

MGT301 GDB#2 Semester Fall Spring 2011


In product Mix Pricing Strategies five strategies are used. These are Product Line Pricing, Optional Product Pricing, Captive Product Pricing, By Product Pricing and Product Bundle Pricing. You are required to give only the name of pricing strategy from the below mentioned statements.

  1. Company A has introduced 250 ml cold drink and 500 ml cold drink with different prices
  2. Company B is an internet service provider which charges a fixed and some variable rates according to usage in a month.
  3. Company C is dealing in processing petroleum product and introduced Vaseline in the market with low price.
  4. Company D is dealing in car manufacturing and offered company fitted CNG in low price as compared to the market price of the CNG kit.                
Solution:

Strategy
Description
Product line pricing
Setting price steps between product line items
Optional-product pricing
Pricing optional or accessory products sold with the main product
Captive-product pricing
Pricing products that must be used with the main product
By-product pricing
Pricing low-value by-products to get rid of them
Product bundle pricing
Pricing bundles of products sold together