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The market segmentation concept, which aims at meeting the specific needs of different customer groups, has been part and parcel of marketing science for many years. Primarily the technical literature focuses on the different ways of creating segments. Up till now, the way in which companies...
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strategies for launching and positioning backfired, leading to attraction of the wrong segment towards the car. There were …
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. In cooperation with the management, we implemented and tested a new segmentation, targeting, and positioning tool, which …
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When purchase and consumption decisions are separated in time and when future utility is state dependent, consumers may desire to pursue consumption flexibility by purchasing different products together (multiple buying). This paper analyzes the effects of consumption flexibility on competing...
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Brand positioning and brand pricing are important strategic decisions for marketing managers. Such decisions are … and price adjustment by competitors thus leading to either new market equilibria or a price/positioning “war.” This paper … examines such price and positioning decisions in a competitive environment by extending the ‘Defender' consumer model to more …
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We examine the retailer's store brand positioning problem. Our game-theoretic model helps us identify a set of …' perceptions of overall or product quality similarity. While it appears that retailers do follow a positioning strategy consistent …
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This note provides a formal proof that for the Defender model, with uniformly distributed tastes, the Nash price equilibria exist and, for a given set of positions, that they are unique. We also show that the profit function is well-behaved—continuous and quasi-concave—and that the maximum...
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A methodology is provided for examining the impact on profitability of a significant change in the merchandise portfolio of a retailer. Such repositioning is essential to maintain competitiveness in a rapidly changing environment. At the same time, management is often reluctant to undertake such...
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We study competitive positioning and pricing strategies in markets where consumers seek variety. Variety seeking …
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