In Depth Marketing Analysis Carmex – Setting the Price of the Number One Lip Balm

1. Read the case on pages 394-396 (Additional information regarding Carmex can be found on pages 232-234).
2. Watch the video supplement: https://www.viddler.com/embed/64abee32
3. Respond to the following case below

The Carmex pricing structures are determined by how a firm might view itself as an integral partner in a value network. It may be thought of as an overall system of formal and informal relationship within which the firm participates to procure, transform, enhance, and ultimately supply its offering in final form within a market space. This value network is a strategic approach to cut costs and maximize process efficiencies, in the pursuit of the ultimate objective; to co-create value, a most important component of the pricing structure.

You’re a member of the corporate marketing team and you’ve been given the task of recommending the pricing considerations for future product introductions. Include an analysis/evaluation of the current pricing structure (define the strategy used currently) and if you recommend this strategy be continued for future product introductions.