Competitor price position

Where do you sit against the competitors you name?

A competitor charges less on the surface, but offers a smaller pack, a shorter warranty or no included service. Positioning is the work of putting your price and theirs on one footing, so the gap you see is the gap that exists.

Named competitorsLike-for-likeIncluded valuePosition map
The research question

What do your competitors' published prices represent compared with yours?

You name the competitors that matter to your buyers, and the offer of yours that they are measured against. For each, we record the published price together with what comes inside it: quantity, features, support, terms of sale as stated. The report then places the prices on one stated basis and describes the position of yours relative to theirs.

The report describes position. It does not tell you what price to set, and it does not claim to know how your buyers weigh the differences.

What a position map shows

What a position map shows

Price on a common unit

Each competitor's offer restated to the same unit and, where a bundle prevents it, shown with the bundle spelled out.

Included versus extra

What is in the headline price and what is sold separately, taken from the competitor's own published material.

Dating of each price

Each price is shown with the date it was read. A page read once says nothing about earlier levels, and that is reported as unavailable, not as no change.

Situations that change the approach

Situations that change the approach

A manufacturer selling through resellers

Competitor prices at the reseller level are used where published, and are separated from the maker's own list.

A service business with quoted work

Few prices are public. The report relies on published packages and says which competitors give no price at all.

A seller facing one large rival

Depth matters more than breadth: the rival's range is mapped item by item against yours.

Step by step

How the work runs

01

Fix the competitor set and your offer

We confirm the names and the product or package being compared.

02

Read published prices and what they include

Each source is logged with its date.

03

Normalise and map

Prices go onto one basis with the differences described in plain words.

04

Write the position note

Where you sit, what is not comparable, and what the sources cannot show.

The service

Pricing Research

Who it is for
Sellers and buyers who need to know whether a price is in line with comparable offers
The problem it solves
Prices are compared across different specifications, quantities and conditions, so the comparison misleads
What we need from you
  • product or category
  • market and channel
  • specification and quantity basis
  • what decision the benchmark supports
How it works
  • scope and comparison basis agreed
  • public price collection and normalisation
  • benchmark built
  • report with sources delivered
What you receive
A price benchmark: comparable offers normalised to a stated basis, ranges and outliers, what is excluded or not comparable, and a source log
Included
  • collection of public prices and list prices
  • normalisation to a stated basis
  • ranges and outliers with caveats
  • what could not be compared
  • method and limitations note
Not included
  • dynamic pricing tools or software
  • negotiation on your behalf
  • landed cost or freight calculation
  • guaranteeing prices achievable
Timing
Confirmed when your request is accepted.
What LATYNEX does
  • agree the basis
  • collect and normalise
  • build the benchmark
  • write up with sources
Price
Confirmed when your request is accepted.
Good to know

What this is, and isn't

Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do you decide who my competitors are?+

You name them. Competitors you did not name are not substituted.

Will you recommend a new price?+

No. The report is the evidence for your decision, with its limits stated.

Is monitoring included?+

This is a point-in-time review. Repeating it on a rhythm is a manual, scheduled piece of research, not an automated feed.

Request

Tell us what you need.

No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.

Research

Know the counterparty before you commit.

Tell us what you need to find out and by when. We confirm scope before any work starts.

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