M29 - Business Economics: OtherReturn

One of the most prominent features of the contemporary retail-trade in Slovakia is imminently its concentration and changing structure of the retail network where small stores and self-service stores were replaced by large-scale business formats like supermarkets, hypermarkets and discount stores. In the scope of the retail-trade, the localization decision making is very important since a mistake in the decision and a following inconvenient location of the retail unit leads mainly to serious trade difficulties and subsequently to the crash of the store. The evaluation of the development of retail networks in regions of the Slovak Republic was realized on the basis of selected indicators of the localization and the concentration. Based on the analysis of the concentration and the localization of the retail network in regions of the Slovak Republic conducted, it can be stated that the Bratislava region demonstrates a significant dominance in the monitored period.

Nowadays, a firm has to, not only, follow the outside environment and predominantly its field environment where it constantly maps customers' behaviour, but the firm has to also perceive the inside environment. Firm price making represents the key role. This paper describes pharmaceutical market and its rules of price making. As remedies should be available to anyone, it is obvious that the market is regulated by state. Products are divided into groups according to their prices. The groups are identified by the highest possible percentage of margin that can be made by a particular product. On the basis of publicly available data this paper analyses behaviour of producers and distributors and looks for similar characteristics of such behaviour. The goal of this article is to analyse current pharmaceutical market in relation with regulated prices and on this basis to describe optimal profit margin on this market. Today's economy results from more or less theoretical findings that cannot be fully compatible with economic reality. This situation is illustrated by game theory and consequently arising theory of redistribution systems. When creating theoretical visions, it is necessary to go basically from known patterns of real economy. This paper is also focused on practical usage of game theory and theory of redistribution systems on pharmaceutical market through research of redistribution of regulated margin between various subjects of supply chain.