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What’s your markup strategy?

Every industry pro has a different strategy, so this week, we asked six designers how they go about marking up product.
It may come as a surprise to you that Oklahoma has a mandated 6 percent markup on things like gas, groceries and even some medications. The regulation was put into place in 1949 and was meant to ...
Q. I’m working on pricing for the products I sell. I’m getting confused about the difference between gross margin and markup. Would you please explain this? Also, if I know the gross margin I want, ...
Even the astronomical price markups that consumers regularly pay for, say, wine in restaurants pale beside those in some U.S. hospitals: The price for procedures is often 10 times the cost, according ...
The bathroom on the C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane is nothing special. The soap dispensers are exactly the same kind of pump that customers might find on a civilian airliner or in a restaurant ...