NPD (Chapter 8) Flashcards
Attributes
Includes features, functions, benefits and uses of product. Marketers view products as a bundle of attributes that includes the packaging, brand name, benefits and supporting features in addition to a physical good.
Good
Tangible product that we can see, touch, smell, hear or taste.
Core Product
All the benefits the product will provide for consumers or business customers
Actual Product
Physical good or delivered service that supplies desired benefit.
Augmented product
Actual product plus other supporting features, such as a warranty, credit, delivery, installation and repair service after sale
Durable goods
Consumer products that provide benefits over a long time
Nondurable goods
Consumer products that provide benefits for a short time because they are consumed (such as food) or are no longer useful (such as newspapers).
Convenience product
Consumer good or service that is low priced, widely available, and purchased frequently with a minimum of comparison and effort
Staple products
Basic/necessary items available almost everywhere
Consumer packaged good (CPG) or fast0moving consumer good (FMCG)
Low-cost good consumed quickly and replaced frequently.
Impulse products
Product people often buy spur of the moment.
Emergency products
Products we purchase in dire need.
Shopping products
Goods/services for which consumers spend considerable time and effort gathering information and comparing alternatives before making purchase.
Specialty products
Goods/services that have unique characteristics and is important to the buyer and for which he or she will devote significant effort to acquire.
Unsought products
Goods/services for which a consumer has little awareness or interest until product or need for product is brought to his/her attention.
Equipment
Expensive goods organization uses in daily operations that last for long time
Maintenance, repair and operation (RMO) products
Goods that a business customer consumes in a relatively short time.
Raw materials
Products of the fishing, lumber, agricultural and mining industries that organization customers purchase to use in their finished products
Processed materials
Products created when firms transform raw materials from their original state.
Specialized services
Services that are essential to the operation of an organization but are not part of the production of a product.
Component parts
Manufactured goods or subassemblies of finished items that organizations need to complete their own products.
Innovation
A product that consumers perceive to be new and different from existing products.