EFFECTIVE PRICING STRATEGIES FOR MARKETING OF NEW PRODUCTS (A CASE STUDY OF ROYALUZ BY HARDIS AND DROMADES LTD, IN ENUGU STATE) Sources: www.projectng.com

ABSTRACT

This study focussed on effective pricing strategies for marketing of New products a case study of Royalux by Hardis and Dromades. The objectives of the study are as follows.

- To determine the methods used by Hardis and Dromades in setting prices for their new product – Royalux.

- To determine how prices of Royalux affect its demand, position and market shares.

- To find out how customers respond to different prices of different quality of products.

The scope of the study was limited to Enugu Metropolis. In sourcing for the required informtion, the researcher used both primary and secondary data which collected through oral interviews and administration of three sets of questionnaire one for the management and relevant staff of Hardis and Dromades, others for consumer and distributors. Bowloy’s formular was used to determine the sample size of consumers while Topmans formular was used for Distributors whist a census survey was used for the management/ relevant staff of Hardis and Dromades. Data were organized, analysed, interpreted and summaried using tables, percentages, pie chart and histogram, and chi-square statistics were used to test the three hypotheses formulated.

Based on the analysis, the following finding were made;

- That Hardis and Dromades products become a household name in Enugu.

- That the firms cost of production was given the highest consideration in setting price for Royalux.

- The high cost of transportation and handling cost contributed to increase in price of Royalux

- That the wholesales and consumer of Hardis product were encourage to a reasonable price to buy Royalux.
CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Marketing operates within a dynamic environment and today’s companies are wreathing with customer values and orientations; economic stagnation, environmental decline, increased global competition, and a host of other economic political, social and pricing challenges which if Ignored will be detrimental to the company. Marketing is concerned with getting the right product to the right customer at the right price.

Price for a product is one of the factors that determine the demand for the product, that is why economic theory states that price is determined by the interaction of demand and supply cost and price usually affect demand and these three are in continuous inter play. For economist, it is a key factor describing the level and movement of demand. The basic assumption made about demand is that all things being equal, price plays a decisive role in determination of the rate of purchase by the consumers. Price presents a thorny but interesting phenomenon under our current economic system.

Traditionally, price occupies the second position of the internal or important variables of the marketing mix otherwise known as 4ps.

Product, price and promotion, place pricing decision aspect of a firms marketing programme arises partly from the fact that of all the elements of the marketing mix, price is the only one that generates income and revenue while the next represent lost to the firm (Adirika, Ebue and Nwachukwu 1996:59). Price is also one of the flexible elements of other elements of the marketing mix unlike, product features and channel commitment, price can be changed quickly and if price is well blended with way in achieving better result. Price is a very sensitive issues facing a company of which a company cannot do without because of that, it can make or mar a company’s image. Price communicates to the market the company’s interview value/positioning of its products/services.

No company will want to incur loss through the sales of its products. Inspite of this firms want to achieve certain level of customer satisfaction translated in price terms, that is why both manufacturers and marketers use price to accomplish multiple objectives price may be use as a clue to product quality while conveying to the customers that a seller has high quality goods and services. Price wears many hats, stated by (Mark 1979) of the authors in pricing strategies and this emphasizes the crucial role of pricing in the survival of a company. At the same time price are pricing competition is the number one problem facing many marketing executives. Yet, many companies do not handle pricing well. The most common mistake are: pricing that is too cost oriented; prices that are not revised often enough to take the rest of the marketing mix into account; prices that are various enough for different products, market segment and purchase occasions. Read More