NDLI: Entry for supermarket feature me-too brands: An empirical explanation of incidence and timing

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Sinapuelas, Ian Clark Robinson, William T.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Anticipating the speed of market entry can help the feature pioneer and me-too brands develop more informed product launch strategies. This paper explains imitation speed, broken down into the incidence and timing of imitation, across 144 imitators and 847 nonimitators in 22 consumer packaged goods subcategories. On average, it takes 85 weeks for a me-too brand to introduce its feature imitation. Increasing category market share increases the incidence of imitation and, conditional on their occurrence, decreases the time to market of feature imitators. Faster entry arises for store brands as they are more likely to imitate and tend to take shorter times to market. Price premium does not have a significant effect on the incidence or timing of a me-too brand as it tends to dissipate after the first year. Brands imitate innovative features more often than noninnovative features. Some evidence indicates these imitators can take a longer time to enter the market. New product managers may benefit from the direction as well as the magnitude of these results.
Starting Page	183
Ending Page	196
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09230645
Journal	Marketing Letters
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1573059X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2008-09-25
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Me-too brands Feature imitation Split population model Marketing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Marketing

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