Ch 10 Products and Branding Flashcards

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Define a Product

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It includes the core product itself, its supplemental features, and its symbolic or experiential value

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Define:

The Core Product

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The product’s fundamental utility or main benefit
Addresses the basic needs of the consumer

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Define:

Supplemental Features

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Provide added value or attributes in addition to a product’s core utility

Help differentiate the brand

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4
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What are the three types of benefits

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Functional

Social

Psychological

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5
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Identify and define the two classifications of products

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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

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Identify four types of Consumer Products

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Convinience Products
Shopping Products
Specialty Products
Unsought Products

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Define:

Convenience Products

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Relatively inexpensive, frequently purchsed items

Buyers exert minimal purchasing effort

Packaging is most important here

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Define:

Shopping Products

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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

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Define:

Specialty Products

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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

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Define:

Unsought Products

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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

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What are the seven classifications of Business Products

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Instillations
Accessory Ecquipment
Raw Materials
Component Parts
Process Materials
MRO Supplies
Business Services

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Define:

Installations

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Facilities and non-portable major equipment

Office buildings, factories and warehouses,
production lines, very large machines

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# Define:
Accessory Equipment
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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

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Define:

Raw Materials

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Basic natural materials that become part of a physical product

DO NOT RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY

Ores, water and lumber

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Define:

Component Parts

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Items that become part of the physical product

DO RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY

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Define:

Process Materials

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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

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Define:

MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operating)

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Items that facilitate production and do not become part of the finished product

such as cleaners, rubber bands, and staples

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Define:

Business Services

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The intangible products that many orgnaizations use in their operations

such as cleaning, legal, consulting, and repair services

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Product Item

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A specific version of a product that can be designated as a distinct offering among a firm’s products

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Product Line

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A group of closely related product items viewed as a unit because of marekting, technical or end-use considerations

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21
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# Define:
Depth of Product-Line
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the number of items in a line

22
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Product Mix

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The total group of products (all items) that an organization makes available to customers

23
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Define:

Width of a Product Mix

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The number of product lines that a company offers

24
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What are the four Stages of the product life cycle

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25
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What happens in the introduction phase

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The initial stage of a product’s life cycle

Sales are at zero and profits are negative

26
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What happens during the Growth Stage

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The stage of a products life cycle when sales rise rapidly and profits reach a peak and then start to decline

Focus is on segmentation

More Competitors enter the market

27
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What happens during the Maturity stage

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The stage of a product’s life cycle when the sales curve peaks and starts to decline and profits continue to fall

Emphasis on improvements and differences in competitors’ products

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What happens in the Decline

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The stage of a product’s life cycle when sales fall rapidly

Could be planning to phase out the product

29
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What are the categories of product adoption process

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Innovators: first adopters of new products

Early Adopters: careful choosers of new products

Early Majority: those adopting new products just before the average person

Late Majority: Skeptics who adopt new products when they feel it is necessary

Laggards: The last adopters who distrust new products

30
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Brand

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A name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one marketer’s product as distinct from those of other marketers

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Brand Name

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The part of a brand that can be spoken

32
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Brand Mark

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The part of a brand not made up of words

33
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Trademark

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A legal designation of exclusive use of a brand

Registered

34
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Trade Name

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Full legal name of an organization

i.e. American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (AT&T)

35
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Define and Identify the four parts of Brand Equity

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Define: The marketing and financial value associated with a brand’s strength in a market

4 Parts: Brand Name Awareness
Brand Loyalty
Percieved Brand Quality
Brand Associations

36
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Define Brand Name Awareness

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Familiarity and Acceptability

37
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Define:

Brand Loyalty

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A customers favorable attitude and behavioral predisposition toward a specific brand

38
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What are the three levels of Brand Loyalty

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Brand Recognition: brand is viewed as an
alternative if preferred brand is unavailable or
other brand is unfamiliar

Brand Preference: the degree of brand loyalty
in which a customer prefers one brand
over competitive offerings

Brand Insistence: The degree of brand loyalty
in which a customer strongly prefers a
specific brand and will accept no substitute

39
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Define Brand Associations

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“Linkages” made to help identify product’s benefits, users or uses

40
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Define Percieved Brand Quality

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Positioning efforts to portray a level-of-quality that consumers may not be able to judge
or have no basis to judge

41
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What are the three types of brands

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Manufacturer Brands: brands initiated by producers

Private Distributor Brands: brands initiated and owned by resellers

Generic Brands: brands indicating only the product category

42
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What are the degrees of protecting of a brand

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43
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What are the three types of branding policies

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Individual Branding: a policy of naming each product differently

Family Branding: branding all of a firm’s products with the same name

Brand Extension: using an existing brand name on a new product in a different category

44
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What is Co-Branding

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Using two or more brands on one product

Brands involved must represent a “complimentary” fit in the minds of consumers

45
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Define Brand Liscensing

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An agreement whereby a company permits another organization to use its brand on other products for a licensing fee

46
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What are the Functions of Packaging

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Protech the product and maintain its functional form

Provide customer convenience

Promote the Product’s features and uses

Communicate Quality through symbols

47
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Define:

Family Packaging

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Similar packaging for all of a firms products or packaging that has one common design element

48
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Define:

Secondary-Use Packaging

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Reusable packaging adds customer value

49
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Define:

Category Consistent Packaging

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Packaging reflects customer expectations for the expected appearance of products in a category

50
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Define:

Labeling

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Providing identifying, promotional, legal, or other information on package labels

Helps identify the product

Support promotional efforts for the product

Provide legally required labeling information

Provide information on product origin