For mid-market retail companies

Grow EBIT with professional pricing

Most mid-market companies optimize costs. The best optimize prices. Pricing is the largest untapped profit lever – and the fastest path to higher margins without increasing volume.

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Your reality

Does this sound familiar?

Mid-market companies face enormous pressure. Cost reductions are exhausted, yet the strongest profit lever often remains unused: your prices.

01

Prices emerge from daily operations – not from a system

Purchasing, category management, sales, or controlling set prices to the best of their knowledge. However, the quality of decisions depends heavily on individual people.

02

High effort – little time for systematic price review

Prices are set with significant manual effort. Nevertheless, there is no time to regularly review even core products. In the peripheral assortment, prices often remain unchanged for long periods.

03

Purchasing is exhausted – the sales price remains the biggest lever

Purchase prices are negotiated, cost programs are running. The biggest profit lever today lies in the sales price.

04

Simple rules control complex assortments

Target margins are added to purchase prices and applied across thousands of items – without differentiation by market, channel, or competition.

05

Prices react too slowly to the market

Competition, demand, and costs change constantly. Yet pricing decisions often follow with significant delay.

06

Unclear impact of pricing decisions

Which prices actually increase margin and which cost revenue often remains opaque.

The result: Pricing remains operational – even though it is one of the biggest strategic profit levers in the company.

The cost of the status quo

What does your current pricing cost you – every day?

Every day without professional pricing is a day when margin potential remains untapped.

01

Margin erosion on autopilot

Standard markups on purchase prices do not work for different products, customers, or channels. Without differentiated pricing, you forfeit contribution margin daily.

02

Operational effort instead of strategic control

Prices are set with significant manual effort. Nevertheless, there is no time to regularly review even core products. In the peripheral assortment, prices often remain unchanged for long periods.

03

Pricing is not an organizational competency

Pricing decisions depend on the experience of individual people. A systematic capability of the company is missing – and with it scalability and security.

04

The market moves faster than your prices

Target margins are added to purchase prices and applied across thousands of items – without differentiation by market, channel, or competition.

05

Competitors are one step ahead

Competitors are already using data-driven pricing. While you maintain spreadsheets, opportunity costs grow with each day.

06

Price reactions that are too slow cost results

When prices cannot be adjusted flexibly, excess inventory, clearance sales, or unnecessary discounts arise – with direct impact on revenue and margin.

The result: Pricing is managed operationally – instead of being used as a strategic lever for margin, growth, and competitiveness.

8-11%

EBIT impact

Increase from a 1% price improvement—pricing is your strongest profit lever.

50+

Completed projects
From mid-sized companies to corporations, €100m–€100bn in annual revenue.
>300%

Minimum ROI

Minimum value from completed projects—measurable, documented, reproducible.

Your perspective

What drives you personally?

Depending on your role, different priorities are in focus.
Where do you recognize yourself?

Executive Management

What typically concerns you

"Our profit is too low, declining, or falling behind the competition. We need to better control our sales prices – but where exactly is the lever?"

Finance Management / CFO

What typically concerns you

"Profitability in our company is too inconsistent: across assortments, regions, channels. Our sales prices are set too simply and with too little differentiation."

Sales / Purchasing / Pricing Management

What typically concerns you

"I am not achieving my margin targets – despite optimal purchase prices. We need to better control our offers and sales prices."

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Why companies entrust their pricing to Dr. Markus Husemann-Kopetzky

15+ years of experience in one of the most important profit levers of successful companies: price

Dr. Markus Husemann-Kopetzky, founder of the Price Management Institute, combines scientific depth with practical implementation at top corporate level. As a former Senior Pricing Manager at Amazon, he led international pricing initiatives at one of the world’s most data-driven retail companies. Today, he helps companies build pricing as a strategic lever for margin, growth, and competitiveness. His approach: enable companies to master pricing independently for the long term—instead of creating dependence on consultants.
Amazon
Senior Pricing Manager – international pricing strategies at one of the world’s leading retail companies
Academic expertise
PhD and research at Freie Universität Berlin on the topic of price management
European pricing community
Chairperson of Europe’s largest pricing conference for retail & e-commerce
Project track record
Over 50 pricing projects in companies with revenues between €100m and €100bn

FEATURED IN

Logo - Der Handel - Experteninterview zu Künstliche Intelligenz im Pricing und Preisstrategie
Logo Horizont - Gastbeitrag zu Preisstrategien, SaaS, Subscriptions und Abomodelle
Logo ntv - Interview zu Preisstrategien
Logo - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) - Interview zu Preisstrategien
Logo - Handelsverband Österreich - Best Practice Beispiel zu datenbasierte Preisstrategie
Logo - Springer Professional – Gastbeitrag zu Preisstrategien und Preispsychologie
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Logo MDR - Experteninterview zu Preisstrategien
Logo RTL - Experteninterview zu Preisstrategien
Logo - Lebensmittelzeitung - Experteninterview zu datenbasiertes Pricing und Preisstrategien
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Experience

What industry experts and decision-makers say who have implemented it.

Over 50 successfully delivered projects—from mid-sized companies to corporations.

Standard markups on purchase prices do not work for different products, customers, or channels. Without differentiated pricing, you forfeit contribution margin daily.

Rainer Will

Managing Director, Austrian Retail Association

With Dr. Markus Husemann-Kopetzky as an expert, our pricing transformation not only benefited in terms of content, but also gained significant speed.

Regina Großmann

Pricing Manager, XXXL digital (XXXLutz Group)

Working with Dr. Markus Husemann-Kopetzky showed us how valuable sound pricing expertise is for our platforms. (…) Pricing has thus become a strategic instrument for us—one that strengthens all sides and creates sustainable competitive advantages.

Martina Novotny

Chief Digital Officer,
ANWR Group

Dr. Markus Husemann-Kopetzky is one of the leading pricing experts for retail, wholesale, and e-commerce.

Ulrich Spaan

Senior Vice President, EHI Retail Institute

Thank you for your inspirational leadership and consultancy in the project and for the bundles of energy and passion you brought! We had a lot of fun working with you, too!

Rachele Williams

Domain Lead: Assortment, Pricing, and Promotions at VistaPrint

Dr. Markus Husemann-Kopetzky succeeds in an impressive way in applying and communicating his deep pricing expertise so that the benefit for the company becomes immediately clear.

Thomas Neubauer

VP Marketing EMEA & APAC, Bosch Power Tools

Your target state

Imagine pricing were your strongest competitive advantage

Imagine pricing were your strongest competitive advantage

This is what it looks like when pricing is professionally established in mid-market companies.

01

Clarity about potential

You know exactly where the biggest levers lie – by assortment, region, and channel. Decisions are based on data instead of assumptions.

02

Short-term profit improvement

Initial pricing quick wins have a measurable impact on EBIT within 4–6 weeks – without major IT investments.

03

Sustainable competitive advantage

Pricing becomes an organizational core competency of your company – independent of individual people.

04

Less effort, better control

Manual pricing effort decreases by at least 25%. Your team works on pricing strategies instead of spreadsheet maintenance.

05

Professional price management

Make pricing decisions intelligently, flexibly, and quickly – while securing margin and competitiveness.

06

Measurable results

Minimum values from real projects: +3% contribution margin, +5% revenue growth, >300% ROI
Your first step

The PMI 360° Pricing Assessment

Within two to three weeks, you’ll know where your biggest pricing potential lies — and which 5 actions deliver the highest ROI.

01

Objective analysis of your current pricing

We review your pricing logic, processes, and calculation models – and identify systematic weaknesses.

02

Benchmark from over 50 projects

Comparison of your pricing with best practices from retail and e-commerce.

03

Top 5 optimization potential

You receive a clear prioritization of the top 5 pricing potential areas – evaluated by economic impact and feasibility.

04

Roadmap for the next 90 days

A concrete implementation plan for how to develop your pricing step by step into a strategic organizational capability.

05

Personal execution

The assessment is conducted personally by Dr. Markus Husemann-Kopetzky – without delegation to junior consultants.

Ready for clarity about your pricing potential?

In a non-binding initial consultation, we will jointly determine whether and how the PMI 360° Pricing Assessment delivers the greatest value for your company.

Clarity about your pricing potential in just a few days.

Schedule your non-binding initial consultation now. Together we will determine whether the PMI 360° Pricing Assessment delivers the greatest value for your company.