Describe the five major pricing objectives discussed in the text

What will be an ideal response?

a. Penetration pricing – entails giving most of the value to the customer and keeping a small margin. The objective is to gain as much market share as possible.
b. Skimming – gives more of the cost-value gap to you than to the customer.
c. Return on sales or investment pricing – implies that you can set a price that delivers the rate of return demanded by senior management.
d. Pricing for stability – sometimes customers for industrial products are as concerned about price stability as they are about actual price levels.
e. Competitive pricing – describes a situation in which you try to price at the market average or match a particular brand's price.

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