| LC control no. | sh2002007345 |
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| Topical heading | Product elimination |
| Variant(s) | Abandonment, Product Deletion, Product Discontinuation, Product Elimination, Product Product abandonment Product deletion Product discontinuation Product pruning Product withdrawal Pruning, Product Withdrawal, Product |
| See also | Product management |
| Found in | Work cat.: Ensuring best practice in the notification of product discontinuations, 2001: p. 1 (discontinuing a medicine) p. 2 (Every product has a limited medical or economic life cycle and the decision to delete a product can be made for a variety of reasons, including: change in medical practice and availability of newer and better drugs; change in marketing strategy; commercial decisions; parent company decisions; manufacturing capacity restraints, revisions of quality, regulatory or compliance requirements; problems in procurement of active ingredient) p. 3 (product deletions; when a product is being withdrawn) Koschnick, W. Dict. of marketing, c1995 (Product deletion SEE Product elimination: The decision of a business firm to phase out or drop a weak product; product abandonment use product elimination) Ivanovic, A. Dict. of marketing, 1996 (Product: Product deletion or product elimination: Discontinuing of products as new ones are added to a company's product range) BPI (hdg: Product elimination) Ostow, R. Dict. of marketing, 1988 (product deletion, also called product pruning) Clemente, M.N. Marketing glossary, 1992 (abandonment: decision to discontinue marketing a product. Also known as product deletion and withdrawal.) |
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