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Product Classifications Revisited With Transparency Effect, Jaebeom Suh, Dawn Deeter Schmelz, Taehyun Suh, Jin

Asia Marketing Journal

It is appropriate and useful to interpret some product classification schemes as buyer behavior models; such classifications permit investigations of discrepancies between classification predictions and actual buyer behavior. We review existing product classifications and identify underlying behavioral assumptions of various classification schemes that have been used in the marketing discipline for more than nine decades. Recognizing the irrelevance of existing product classifications for current products, we propose a new reclassification framework by incorporating transparency concepts. Based on this extended product classification, we highlight the potential roles of product classification study as an important link between consumer research and marketing strategy, …

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빙그레 요플레의 시장 선도적 신제품 마케팅전략, So Young Kim, Heon Soo Jung, Young Chan Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

Since launching a spoonful yogurt ``Yoplait`` for the first time in the nation, Binggrae Co. has established the reputation of the Yoplait brand, and secured its leading position in the yogurt market. This study examined how Binggrae as a market pioneer (in the spoonful yogurt market) or a market follower(in the drinking yogurt market) has developed and responded to the yogurt market in which competition between companies are becoming fierce. Instead of being bound by conventional competition rules, Binggrae was found to have implemented distinctive marketing strategies for new products. That is, providing new values, the company led the market …

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