Is this a company dominated by siege mentality, unable to recognize that deep value pricing is its last hope for a tolerable back-to-school performance?
Both General Motors and Ford Motor are making their biggest push yet to wean consumers off those costly rebates with new "value pricing" strategies announced Aug. 1.
Value pricing, however, is hardly anything new.
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The new drug pricing system due to come in is known as value-based pricing.
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As economic actors, men possess different data and make different value judgments reflected in pricing so the mere act of gifting may have immeasurable value to one and not to another.
As much as GM and Ford want to tout the value behind their new pricing strategies, consumers are still focused on the deal.
The proposed acquisition would combine two of those four, eliminating from the market T-Mobile, a firm that historically has been a value provider, offering particularly aggressive pricing.
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If pharma and device companies can broaden their lens from providing pills and implants to creating full solutions for disease states, they can vastly expand the value they create and offset intense pricing pressure within their core products.
Pricing is determined by the value a new drug brings to patients and the competitive environment it enters.
Whilst this is definitely a step in the right direction, it still does not allow pricing according to the real value of the service being provided.
"American Express shares trade richly at 3.2x book value which we continue to believe is pricing for perfection even outside of any potential impact from the DOJ, " Arnold said.
Right now, generic companies are competing primarily on cost, yet one can imagine that by bundling the appropriate companion technologies to their products (e.g. technologies that improve and document adherence), they might conceivably be in a position to make more aggressive efficacy claims, to demonstrate to stakeholders that they are delivering greater value, and ultimately command somewhat higher pricing, yet still below the cost of new, branded products.
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The problem: There's a difference between value-for-money and hitting the pricing sweet spot.
First, with stagnant or declining unit sales, if retailers are not pricing products to capture full consumer value, comp sales will almost certainly decline.
Natural gas was selling in the teens then, in roughly a 1:6 ratio to the energy value in a barrel of oil, and pricing was proportionate.
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This dynamic feeds off itself, because as secondary bonds rise on stronger buying, relative value for new issues improves, which makes pricing come down, which stimulates greater demand and so on.
As with most marketable currencies, equity in a biotech can suffer from deviations from this underlying data-supported value, which can result in over-pricing of assets that lack the intrinsic quality or robustness.
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As process manufacturers, chemicals companies are on the upstream side of the overall consumer value chain, with heavy exposure to raw material pricing and energy costs.
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Ultimately the pricing is a function of the demand and value that customers have for that service.
Gap and Old Navy brands are differentiated by their pricing points, with Old Navy being the value priced brand.
It will have been shown to have value in a real world setting, thereby commanding favorable pricing and the confidence of patients, physicians and payers.
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Past pricing schemes were out of sync with this value system.
The loss economists loath from monopolies results from supra-competitive pricing, which transfers some of the economic value of a product from the consumer to the producer.
Where UBS sees value is in the drug pipelines, which the market is pricing for free.
Rising demand for low-to-mid end mobile phones from value-conscious customers will continue to put pressure on average phone pricing.
Xbox 360 will also continue to offer consumers great value throughout the holiday season with a variety of special offers and pricing plans.
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