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Alteration | A product-mix strategy in which a business makes changes to its products or product lines. |
Broad product mix | A description of the width of a business's product mix offering many product lines. |
Cannibalization | The situation that exists when the sale of one of a company's products takes away sales from another of its products. |
Competition | The rivalry between two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars. |
Consistency | A product-mix dimension referring to how closely a company's product lines are related in terms of the products' end use, methods of distribution and production, target market(s), and/or price range. |
Contraction | A product-mix strategy in which a business removes, or deletes, product items or product lines from its product mix. |
Deep product mix | A description of the depth of a business's product mix offering a great many items in the product line. |
Depth | A product-mix dimension referring to the number of products and the assortment of sizes, colors, and models offered in a product line. |
Expansion | A product-mix strategy in which a business expands its product mix by adding additional product items or product lines. |
Goods | Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale. |
Liabilities | Responsibilities of the business, especially legal responsibilities. |
Narrow product mix | A description of the width of a business's product mix offering a limited number of product lines. |
Product item | Each individual good, service, or idea that a business offers for sale. |
Product line | A group of related product items. |
Product mix | The particular assortment of goods and services that a business offers in order to meet the needs of its market(s) and its company's goals. |
Product-mix strategies | The ways in which businesses handle, or manage, their product mixes. |
Service(s) | Intangible activities that are performed by other people for money; productive acts that satisfy economic wants. |
Shallow product mix | A description of the depth of a business's product mix offering few items in the product line. |
Target market | The particular group of customers a business seeks to attract. |
Trading down | A product-mix strategy in which a business adds a lower priced product or product line to its product mix. |
Trading up | A product-mix strategy in which a business adds a higher priced product or product line to its product mix. |
Width | A product-mix dimension referring to the number of product lines carried by a company. |