Definition of market and marketing
The word market in the economic sense carries a broad meaning. Some of the definitions of market are given below:
1. A market is the sphere within which price determining forces operate.
2. A market is the area within which the forces of demand and supply converge to establish a single price.
3. The term market means not a particular market place in which things are bought and sold but the whole of any region in which buyers and sellers are in such a free intercourse with one another that the prices of the same goods tend to equality, easily and quickly.
4. Market means a social institution which performs activities and provides facilities for exchanging commodities between buyers and sellers.
5. Economically interpreted, the term market refers, not to a place but to a commodity or commodities and buyers and sellers who are in free intercourse with one another.
6. The American Marketing Association has defined a market as the aggregate demand of the potential buyers for a product/service.
7. Philip Kotler defined market as an area for potential exchanges
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