Luxury goods pricing: Don’t envy their high price tags and high margins
Luxury goods companies show that making pricing decisions amid extreme currency fluctuations is more than just narrowing the gap to reduce arbitrage effects
Serve, Don’t Sell: How Better Pricing Helps Associations and Non-Profits Fulfill Their Missions
Many Associations and Non-Profits are faced with slowing growth and shrinking margins. But with better pricing, they can serve, not sell and see “Quick Win” pricing opportunities.
Premier League Tickets: Price Increases Make Good Business Sense, But For How Long? Part I
Premier League football clubs are in a strong position to maintain price increases. Pricing Solutions applies the 5Cs of Pricing Strategy to see if the League is reaching a tipping point.
Pricing in the Medical Device Industry
Managing price is increasingly difficult and complex for Medical Technology companies. Internal development of the pricing function, organization and skills is a must. Read our thoughts on the state of pricing in the medical device industry...
Win Pricing Battles Without Going to War
Good Pricing Management is key to ensuring your lowest negotiated prices don’t unintentionally start a damaging pricing battle or war in your industry.
Time to Re-evaluate Your Pricing Process?
Many organizations begin their annual pricing process in July in order to be ready to start invoicing Jan 1st. By developing a pricing strategy as part of your annual planning process you can achieve profits well in excess of just taking a uniform increase.
Can’t Handle the Hagglers? You Could Be Leaving Money On The Table
Good negotiation is a commendable talent, but businesses need the skills to deal with good negotiators. Protecting your profitability from good negotiators requires ardent compliance to pricing policies, a flexible pricing infrastructure and the ability to say “no”.
Achieve Your Goals With a Solid Pricing Strategy
Pricing strategy is a hot topic these days. Over the past 20 years, we have helped many companies develop, refine or transform their pricing strategy, but today we get requests for help more frequently than ever before. So why the surge of interest now?
Flaherty’s Pricing Parity Initiative
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty recently announced his desire to commission a Senate Committee into Canadian pricing. There have likely been a number of triggers for his reaction, but J Crew, a specialty apparel retailer, entering Canada at a significant price premium to its US pricing and subsequent reversal I am sure was part of the cause.
Goodyear drives profits with mix management
It’s no wonder that Fortune 500 Companies are kicking off pricing initiatives at such a tremendous pace. The fruits of their efforts are continuing to make headlines. In last Friday’s Bloomberg’s Business Week there was a prominent article about the gains Goodyear has made by managing mix.