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02 September 2010
marketing/sales sector

Competitive Pricing Strategies 2008
Setting Your Product with the Right Price and Using the Right Strategies to Maximise Customer Satisfaction and Generate Profitable Results

Event Date: 6-7 Mar 2008
Location: Indaba Hotel, Fourways, Johannesburg, South Africa

key conference speakers

Bryan Mclachlan
Head – Transactions and Deposits, Nedbank
Thinus Keeve
Alternative Beverage Manager, The South African Breweries Limited
Francois Hoffmann
Marketing Executive, Adcock Ingram Pharmaceuticals
Tawanda Nyandoro
Acting Group Strategy Executive, Rand Water
Micheal Gee
Managing Director, Business Knowledge Systems

key conference topics

  • Pricing for Market Share and Customer Retention or Profit Revenue – Balancing the Needs of the Share Holders and Organisational Objectives
  • Increasing Sales Volume through Discounts and Promotions
  • Using Competitor Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risks and Create Strategies
  • Devising Ways to Tackle a War Game - Price Wars
  • Pricing Strategies Using a Value Based Approach – Workshop
  • key conference features

  • Featuring One Interactive Full-Day Workshop
  • conference focus

    conference sponsors

    who should attend the conference

    MDs, Directors, Chiefs, Divisions, Heads, Senior Managers of:
    • Pricing
    • Competitive Intelligence
    • Pricing Software
    • Marketing and Branding
    • Sales
    • Finance
    • Products and Services
    • Revenue Managements
    • Procurement, Revenue
    • Merchandising
    • Strategic Planning
    • Business Development
    • Market Research

    From:
    • Private Sector
    • Public Sector

    the conference organisers

    marcus evans specialises in the research and development of strategic events for senior business executives. From our international network of 63 offices, marcus evans produces over 1000 event days a year on strategic issues in corporate finance, telecommunications, technology, health, transportation, capital markets, human resources and business improvement.

    Above all, marcus evans provides clients with business information and knowledge which enables them to sustain a valuable competitive advantage and makes a positive contribution to their success.



    conference speakers

    Bryan Mclachlan
    Head – Transactions and Deposits
    Nedbank

    Thinus Keeve
    Alternative Beverage Manager
    The South African Breweries Limited

    Francois Hoffmann
    Marketing Executive
    Adcock Ingram Pharmaceuticals

    Tawanda Nyandoro
    Acting Group Strategy Executive
    Rand Water

    Micheal Gee
    Managing Director
    Business Knowledge Systems

    general enquiries

    Paul Egberink

    No 1 Georgian Crescent, Cnr Sloane Street
    Bryanston East


    Telephone:
    +27 86 524 3287
    Fax: +27 11 516 1004
    Email: marketing@marcusevanssa.com


    sponsorship opportunities

    Harold Melaphi

    No 1 Georgian Crescent, Cnr Sloane Street
    Bryanston East
    Johannesburg

    Telephone: +27 11 516 1149
    Fax: +27 11 516 1000
    Email: marketing@marcusevanssa.com

    conference quote

    "The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services. - Brian Tracy"

    Pricing strategy is more important and valuable to businesses today than ever before, yet organisations continue to manage pricing in reactive ways that losses, damages the long term business impact. For organisations to stay competitive in the current dynamic and ever changing business environment they need to identify every process in each segment of their pricing strategies and implementation to ensure no compromise is made on the end service or product while reaping maximum profits.