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Mini-Case Review Ted Mitchell
Mini-Case • The XYZ Toy Company has a selling price of $80 per wagon. The variable cost of making each wagon is $25 per wagon and involves direct materials and labor. In the past month a total of 50,000 wagons were sold and $1,000,000 was spent on advertising, $200,000 was spent on consumer promotions, $400,000 was spent on the sales force, $100,000 was spent on dealer promotion. The company also spent $200,000 on research and development. Monthly rent was $90,000 and Monthly salaries were $160,000.Hint: Prepare a basic operating or income statement for the month before you answer the following questions:
What was the Breakeven Quantity for The XYZ Toy Company? or • What was the Minimum quantity of Wagons that XYZ had to sell last period to cover its costs? • BEQ = Total Fixed Costs/(P-V) • BEQ = $1,700,000 + $450,000 = 2,150,000/$55 • BEQ = 39,091 Units had to be sold just to breakeven
You are Using a Cost Based Approach to setting your Promotion Budgets • What was the Advertising to Sales Ratio last period. • AD/R = $1,000,000/$4,000,000 = 25%
You wish to know how many units are being sold for every marketing dollar being spent on Promotion • Total Marketing Expense = TME = $1,700,000 • Total Quantity Sold = 50,000 • Q/TME = 50,000/$1,700,000 =0.0294 units sold per dollar of promotional effort • Normally quoted in terms of thousands of dollars spent. • For every $1,000 of advertising sells 29.4 units
Calculating Competitive Ratios • Part of Your Marketing Mix is: • Price = $80 • Advertising = $1,000,000 • Consumer Promotion = $200,000 • Sales Force = $400,000 • Dealer Promotions = $100,000 • It Generates 40,000 wagons sold
What is your : • Relative price, Pr • Relative advertising, ADr • Relative consumer promotion, CPr • Relative sales force, SRr • Relative dealer promotion, DPr
How Efficient is Your Marketing System at Converting Relative Effort into Relative Share? • Sr = ADr x CPr x SFr x DPr x (1/Pr) x Efficiency • Efficiency= (Sr x Pr)/(ADr x CPr x SFr x DPr) • Efficiency= (1.25 x 1.03)/(1.11 x 0.91 x 0.89 x 1.11) • Efficiency= 129% • What other part of the marketing mix might explain our 129% efficiency? • Relative Product Quality = Ur