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25 Cards in this Set
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Making goods and services available in the right quantities and locations, when customers want them.
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Place
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Any series of firms or individuals who participate in the flow of products from producer to final user or consumer.
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Channel of Distribution
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______ distribution allows firms to keep control over the marketing mix.
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Direct Distribution
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Direct communication between a seller and an individual customer using a promotion method other than face-to-face personal selling.
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Direct Marketing
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The difference between the quantity of products it is economical for a producer to produce and the quantity final consumers want.
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Discrepancies of Quantity
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The difference between the lines of a typical producer make and the assortment final consumers or users want.
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Discrepancy of Assortment
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These adjust the quantities of assortments of products handled at each level in a channel of distribution.
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Regrouping Activities
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Collecting products from many small producers. Ex. The Coffee grown in Colombia.
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Accumulating
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Dividing larger quantities into smaller quantities as products get closer to the final market.
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Bulk-Breaking
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Separating products into grades and qualities desired by different target markets.
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Sorting
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Putting together a variety of products to give a target market what it wants.
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Assorting
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In______. the various channel members make little or no effort to cooperate with each other. They buy and sell from each other but that is the extent of it.
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Traditional Channel Systems
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A manager who helps direct the activities of a whole channel and tries to avoid or solve channel conflicts.
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Channel Captain
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_____channel systems are ones in which the whole channel focuses on the same target market at the end of the channel.
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Vertical Marketing Systems
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Acquiring firms at different levels of channel activity.
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Vertical Integration
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In a ______ channel system, the channel members informally agree to cooperate with each other.
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Administered Channel Systems
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In _________ channel systems, the channel members agree contract to cooperate with each other.
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Contractual
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_____ market exposure makes a product available widely enough to satisfy target customers' needs but not exceed them.
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Ideal Market Exposure
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______is selling a product through all responsible and suitable wholesalers or retailers who will stock or sell the products.
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Intensive Distribution
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Selling through only those intermediaries who will give the product special attention.
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Special Distribution
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Selling through only one intermediary in a particular geographic area.
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Exclusive Distribution
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This occurs when a producer uses several competing channels to reach the same target market-perhaps using several intermediaries in addition to selling directly.
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Multichannel Distribution
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Selling the right to use some process, trademark, patent, or other right for a fee or royalty.
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Licensing
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When a domestic firm enters into a venture with a foreign firm?
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A joint venture
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______ means that a parent firm has a division (or owns a separate subsidiary firm) in a foreign market.
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Direct Investment
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