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SEGWAY, PRICING AND MARKETING

2006). However, at $5,000 the Segway is not a cheap product. Its out of reach of all but the upper middle class to wealthy populat...

TAXATION AND PRICE CONTROLS ON THE ECONOMY

However, in additional studies Stehr performed, he found that in other situations, women were more tax-sensitive to cigarettes, an...

What the American Government can do to Lower Gas Prices

Thus far, there have been attempts to deal with this problem such as recommendations to get rid of gas taxes temporarily in an eff...

Will High Oil Prices Lead to Recession?

of a U.S. recession in 2008; this was up from his predication of a 33% chance the previous month and the reason for the pessimism ...

Congestion Pricing for Lower Manhattan

is: ...the practice of charging motorists more to use a roadway, bridge or tunnel during periods of the heaviest use. Its purpose ...

Production and Pricing at Under Armour, Inc.

The fabric on which the Under Armour company has been built has moisture-wicking properties "which are designed to keep perspirati...

Knowledge Management, Topps Tiles and the Price of Wheat

This 22 page paper is written in 3 parts. The main part of the paper discusses the concept of knowledge management, looking at wha...

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

Replenishment, Forecasting, Collaborative Planning, and Factory Gate Prices

will be required or even of error rates of any other items that can be measured statistically. To replenish can be defined as "...

Determining Sales Prices for Pecos Printers

income. Non-manufacturing costs and taxes are not evaluated for this situation. Table 1. Costs, Sales and Operating Income Flex...

Amazons and Kindle Pricing

of demand can be used to calculate this, based on sales figures from the Kindle 1. The product is the second in...

Branding as a Strategy to Support High Prices

company Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp (Zielaznicki, 2001). Aaker and Lane (1990), sees a brand as a mental box, which can be desc...

PRICING STRATEGIES AND THE SEGWAY

From the start, the Segway was geared toward the pedestrian. But problems happened almost immediately, including a voluntary recal...

HIGHWAY CAPACITY AND PRICE DEMAND ELASTICITY

of reality. A decrease in the price of elasticity of demand means that more drivers are going to want to clog...

International Trade Increases and Oil Price Impacts

and as such this theory was built upon and developed by theorists such as Ricardo, which helps to explain, to a greater extent, wh...

STARBUCKS AND COST ELEMENT OF PRICING DECISION

there is any outstanding debt, the interest on that would also be a fixed expense. The variable costs, on the other hand,...

IMPACT OF OIL PRICES ON THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

One of the culprits of all of this change involved spiking oil prices, which led to an increase in gas prices at the pump. This, i...

Issues Concerning Price Elasticity

and supply side economics. The way in which supply and demand meet can be seen as the determinants of price and the equilibrium th...

Avril Hotel Pricing Strategy Case Study

(this means the percentage change in the number bought if these are from historical figures), which is then divided by the bottom ...

McDonald's Pricing

of McDonalds and 20) Analyze the pricing strategies and tactics followed by McDonalds Formerly the undisputed leader in the...

DYNAMIC PRICING AND AIRLINES

a date of expiration for the seats (once the airline flies, if a seat is empty, it stays empty). Furthermore, capacity is fixed in...

Wal-Mart and Low Prices

The article discusses a little more regarding the profit numbers, and then illustrates that the year of 2008 was a year where cons...

PRICE DISCRIMINATION AND THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

2007). After analyzing the costs and markets, the authors came to the conclusion that there was more of a monopoly effect in the a...

Progress Comes at a Price: American Civil War

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

Price of Change/Global Warming

automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...

Pricing Strategy for Alma Products Inc.

higher price. However, this may also be difficult, as higher priced products will take longer to establish market share, this is a...

Are Fuel Prices Correlated with Elections

higher due to inflation. There are many tests we can undertake using this data, but for the comparison of data sets to asses if t...

The Rising and Lowering of Gas Prices

was the largest quarterly profit ever for a U.S. company" (Noe, 2006). Mann (2006) writes: " Despite an 11 percent fall in Florida...

Assessing a Potential Price for an Equities Future Contract

market price is $42.03 at the close of business on the 8th November 2006 (Yahoo Finance, 2006). This would mean a price of $420.30...

Pricing of Books

cost for each book. If we look at the way in which the costs are attributed to it is possible that the profit margin could be re...