2025 Pricing Predictions Revisited: A Year of Tariffs, Inflation, and Pricing Scrutiny

About this episode

This episode revisits the 2025 pricing predictions made by leading experts at the beginning of the year, reflecting on their accuracy as the year concludes.

In this special year-end episode of Pricing Heroes, we revisit one of our most widely listened-to conversations of the year: our 2025 pricing predictions roundtable. Recorded in January, this episode brought together nine leading pricing experts to share their perspectives on the forces they believed would shape pricing throughout the year ahead. Now, as 2025 comes to a close, those predictions read less like forecasts and more like a reflection of the realities pricing teams have spent the y...

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Host: Aaron Thomasson

Topics covered

• pricing predictions
• tariffs
• inflation
• pricing scrutiny
• expert insights

Keywords

• pricing
• predictions
• tariffs
• inflation
• pricing teams
• experts

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