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Lowe's Cos Looks to Gain Market Share From Rivals: ATLANTA (Reuters) - Home improvement retailer Lowe's Cos Inc LOW is looking to take market share in the U.S. housing slump, mainly from independent stores but also from bigger rivals such as Sears Holdings SHLD, its chief financial officer said on...; Tags: Retail, Corporate law, home improvement, price increase, Home Depot Inc., slump, CFO, Atlanta, retail company, antitrust, Thomson Reuters Corp., quarterly profit, worker, supplier, acquisition, environment, hardware, sales, Internet; News items 2008-06-24
BHP May Seek Iron Ore Price Rise After Rio Deal: By Lucy Hornby and James Regan BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters UK) - BHP Billiton BHP BLT said on Tuesday that Rio Tinto's RIO RIO record iron ore price settlement with China's Baosteel failed to provide an adequate freight premium, signalling it may seek a further price hike....; Tags: China, Settlement, Price Increase, Analyst, Price, Pricing Strategy, Rio Tinto, Blount International Inc., Pricing System; News items 2008-06-24
Raise Prices...and Keep Your Customers: A reader writes: I love reading your articles! I would like your input and advice on what measures are necessary to determine if a rate increase is appropriate, the time frame to inform clients of this increase and the etiquette too execute. Our firm...; Tags: Marketing research, Geoffrey James, price increase; Blog posts 2008-06-11
7 Tips for Managing Price Hikes: Following the historic 9 percent run up in oil futures June 6, expect your customers to be more concerned than ever about prices. But it's not just customers you have to worry about -- you need to be thinking right now about how to manage your business through the deepening...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, John Quelch; Blog posts 2008-06-10
Signet Profit Falls on Bad Debts in U.S.: By Mark Potter LONDON (Reuters UK) - Signet SIG, the world's biggest speciality jewellery retailer, posted a 24 percent fall in first-quarter profit on Friday and said bad debts in its main U.S. market had risen, hitting its shares. The firm, which trades as Kay Jewelers...; Tags: Price Increase, Signet, Basis Point, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oukbs, US; News items 2008-06-06

Raise Prices...and Keep Your Customers: Raise Prices...and Keep Your Customerssorryfor the typos.RE: Raise Prices...and Keep Your CustomersRule #5: Plan for some lost customers. No matter how justifiable the increase, some customers will bail simply because they don't have the extra money.In our business automobile rental I see this a lot. customers "bailing" due to lack...; Tags: B2B; Discussion threads 2008-06-12
Housing Price Bubbles - A Tale Based on Housing Price Booms and Busts: This paper focuses on housing price bubbles, and the price increases in this asset class in a number of industrial countries. However, large price increases - which will be referred to as booms - are only sufficient but not necessary conditions for bubbles. The purpose of this paper is to...; Tags: Bank for International Settlements, price increase, bubble, asset; White papers 2005-04-22
The Right And Wrong Way To Increase Prices: From the executive summary: ‘The current business environment is rich with opportunities to implement price increases, but companies must remember that price increases based solely on increasing costs will sow the seeds of discontent and lead to requests for future price concessions. Moving to a two-component price structure, using surcharges...; Tags: STRATEGIC PRICING GROUP INC., price increase; White papers 2004-10-01
Health Care Distribution and Service Companies: Reflections on a Changing Business Model: The pharmaceutical distribution sector is undergoing a change in the very structure of its core business model, shifting from a traditional "buy-and-hold" model to a fee-for-service model that is more akin to just-in-time inventory. Under the current traditional business model, distributors, to varying degrees, make a portion of their margin...; Tags: Strategy, price increase, pharmaceutical company, business model, JIT, health care, industry; White papers 2004-05-05
Should Price Increases Be Targeted? - Pricing Power and Selective Versus Across-the-board Price Increases: Firms in many industries experience protracted periods of pricing power, the ability to successfully enact price increases. In these situations, firms must decide not only whether to raise prices, but to whom. Specifically, in a competitive context, they must determine whether is it more profitable to increase price across-the-board, or...; Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Telecom & Utilities, University of Pennsylvania, price increase, pricing strategy, knowledge, phone, industry; White papers 2004-05-04
Hospital Consolidation and Negotiated PPO Prices: This paper examines the effects of hospital consolidation on the actual prices paid by preferred provider organizations. It finds that price increases following consolidations among nearby hospitals invariably equaled or exceeded median price increases among other hospitals in the same market. Using multivariate regression analysis, it finds that consolidation enables...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Project HOPE, price increase, hospital, consolidation; White papers 2004-04-01
Dealing With Cost Increases: A Matter Of Survival: From the executive summary: ‘Many industries today are affected by rising costs. Raw material prices have been rising steadily over the last few years, especially those connected to the price of oil. Uncertainty about the supply of the world’s fuel have inched its price upwards and with it, the ability...; Tags: STRATEGIC PRICING GROUP INC., profit margin, industry; White papers 2003-01-01
A Portfolio Approach to Print Legal Serials Pricing: This paper reports results from a comprehensive study of print legal serials. Data on law serial prices, holdings, use and costs were collected for the period 1990-2000. Using a portfolio approach to interpret behavior in this market, the evidence suggests that the observed price increases are related to two factors...; Tags: Georgia Institute of Technology, serial, price increase, merger, pricing strategy; White papers 2002-07-01
Geographic Markets In Hospital Mergers: A Case Study: In three recent hospital merger cases, the courts concluded that the merged hospital would be unable to increase price profitably because of competition from distant hospitals. In reaching this conclusion, the courts found the following: hospitals earn high margins on the last patients that they serve; given these high margins,...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, FTC, price increase, hospital, ZIP code, patient, merger; White papers 2001-01-26

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PRODUCERS EXPECT TO SPEND 3.5% MORE IN 2008 ON CAPEX: U.S. producers will increase their domestic spending from $78 billion in 2007 to $81 billion in 2008 (up 3.5%), according New York-based Lehman Brothers' annual spending survey. Most of the increased spending will target oil, given the continued uncertainty surrounding gas prices. "We believe that spending in the U.S. may...; Articles 2008-12-17
Saving $$$ .22s for practice: With ammo prices going so suddenly and steeply upward, .22 caliber "understudy" practice guns make more sense than ever. Jan Stevenson, my predecessor as handgun editor for this magazine, once wrote a great article on .22 caliber "understudy guns," or handguns that duplicated their larger caliber versions, but shot low-priced...; Articles 2008-08-01
The business of practice … meets the business of ammunition: With the current costs of ammunition it is often hard to justify casual shooting or sometimes even defensive practice in addition to the overall general cost of just day-to-day living. Ammunition costs went up a nominal 11 percent in January and we can expect another price increase towards the middle...; Articles 2008-08-01
US Fed holds interest rates as inflation concerns mount: The Federal Reserve said it had become less worried about the growth of the economy and more worried about inflation, as it announced last night that it would keep US interest rates on hold for now. In a statement that affirmed financial markets in their view that the next move...; Articles 2008-06-26
Rise in profits for Stagecoach underlines public's move away from: Petrol prices, congestion and parking costs are all conspiring to end the dominance of the car Petrol prices are rocketing. Congestion is worsening. Parking is a headache. Sooner or later, the UK's driving public was going to get fed up, or priced out, of the ordeal that...; Articles 2008-06-26
General Mills hikes prices for cereals: MINNEAPOLIS -- With ingredient prices popping up like toaster strudel, General Mills on Wednesday said it has raised cereal prices and might consider other price increases, too. The maker of Yoplait Yogurt, Wheaties cereal and Pillsbury Toaster Strudel said its fourth-quarter profit dropped 17 percent. But the...; Articles 2008-06-26