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What Is Special About Marketing Organic Products? How Organic Assortment, Price, and Promotions Drive Retailer Performance
Higher sales and margins are key goals for retailers promoting emerging products, such as organics, but little is known about their marketing effectiveness and their cross-effects on conventional product sales. Extant research reports conflicting results about price and promotional sensitivity for organic products and does not address the impact of organic assortment. This article calculates long-term own- and cross-elasticities of organic and conventional product sales in response to changes in assortment, price, and promotions. Using a rich data set of 56 categories, the authors test hypotheses on how different costs and benefits of organic products affect these elasticities. They find that enduring actions, such as assortment and regular price changes, have a higher elasticity for organics than for conventional products. In contrast with common wisdom, even ?core? organic consumers are sensitive to these actions. Increasing organic assortment and promotion breadth yields higher profits for the total category, as do more frequent promotions on conventional products. The category comparison yields specific advice with regard to where larger assortment and lower prices versus more and deeper promotions are most effective..Printed Journal
Ketersediaan
| Call Number | Location | Available |
|---|---|---|
| JM7701 | PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana | 1 |
| Penerbit | : American Marketing Association |
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| Edisi | - |
| Subjek | Marketing mix Cross empirical generalizations Category organic products food marketing vector autoregressive models |
| ISBN/ISSN | 222429 |
| Klasifikasi | - |
| Deskripsi Fisik | - |
| Info Detail Spesifik | - |
| Other Version/Related | Tidak tersedia versi lain |
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