Ch 10 Products and Branding Flashcards
Define a Product
It includes the core product itself, its supplemental features, and its symbolic or experiential value
Define:
The Core Product
The product’s fundamental utility or main benefit
Addresses the basic needs of the consumer
Define:
Supplemental Features
Provide added value or attributes in addition to a product’s core utility
Help differentiate the brand
What are the three types of benefits
Functional
Social
Psychological
Identify and define the two classifications of products
Consumer Products:
Products purchased to satisfy personal and family needs
Business Products:
Products bought to use in an organization’s operations, to resell, or to make other products
Identify four types of Consumer Products
Convinience Products
Shopping Products
Specialty Products
Unsought Products
Define:
Convenience Products
Relatively inexpensive, frequently purchsed items
Buyers exert minimal purchasing effort
Packaging is most important here
Define:
Shopping Products
Items for which buyers are willing to expend considerable effort in planning and making purchases
This is the opposite end of the spectrum from Convienence products
Define:
Specialty Products
Items with unique characteristics that buyers are
willing to expend considerable effort to obtain
Are preselected by the consumer
Have no close substitutes or alternatives
Define:
Unsought Products
Products purchased to solve a sudden problem, products of which the customers are unaware, products that people will pay to avoid
and products that people do not necessarily think about buying
What are the seven classifications of Business Products
Instillations
Accessory Ecquipment
Raw Materials
Component Parts
Process Materials
MRO Supplies
Business Services
Define:
Installations
Facilities and non-portable major equipment
Office buildings, factories and warehouses,
production lines, very large machines
# Define: Accessory Equipment
Equipment that does not become part of the final physical product but is used in production or offics activities
File cabinets, small motors, calculators, and tools
Define:
Raw Materials
Basic natural materials that become part of a physical product
DO NOT RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY
Ores, water and lumber
Define:
Component Parts
Items that become part of the physical product
DO RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY
Define:
Process Materials
Materials that are not readily identifiable when used directly in the production of other products
DO NOT RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY
such as screws, knobs, and handles
Define:
MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operating)
Items that facilitate production and do not become part of the finished product
such as cleaners, rubber bands, and staples
Define:
Business Services
The intangible products that many orgnaizations use in their operations
such as cleaning, legal, consulting, and repair services
Product Item
A specific version of a product that can be designated as a distinct offering among a firm’s products
Product Line
A group of closely related product items viewed as a unit because of marekting, technical or end-use considerations