Premium may refer to:
Marketing
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Premium (marketing)
In marketing, premiums are promotional items — toys, collectables, souvenirs and household products — that are linked to a product, and often require proofs of purchase such as box tops or tokens to acquire. The consumer generally has to p ...
, a promotional item that can be received for a small fee when redeeming proofs of purchase that come with or on retail products
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Premium segment
Premium pricing (also called image pricing or prestige pricing) is the practice of keeping the price of one of the products or service artificially high in order to encourage favorable perceptions among buyers, based solely on the price. Premium re ...
, high-price brands or services in marketing, e.g.:
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Premium business model
The premium business model is the concept of offering high end products and services appealing to discriminating consumers. Brand image is an important factor in the premium business model, as quality is often a subjective matter. This business mo ...
, offering high end products and services
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Premium domain
A domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services and more. As ...
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Premium email
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic ( digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant ...
, a marketing term used by for-profit email services
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Premium fare
A premium fare is a fare on a public transport service set at least ten percent above the fare normally applying on that route or offered by alternative service - companies or public bodies often using a slower or less commodious vehicle. A premiu ...
, a higher fare on a public transport service
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Premium gasoline
An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of a fuel's ability to withstand compression in an internal combustion engine without detonating. The higher the octane number, the more compression the fuel can withstand before detonating. ...
, a grade of gasoline, with the highest octane rating
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Premium lager
Pale lager is a very pale-to-golden-colored lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness.
The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid-19th century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brewi ...
, marketing term for beer
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Premium Processing Service
Premium Processing Service refers to an optional premium service offered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to employers filing Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker) or Form I-140 (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worke ...
, service offered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
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Premium Residency
The Premium Residency, informally known as the Saudi Green Card, is a residence permit in Saudi Arabia that grants expatriates the right to live, work and own business and property in the Kingdom without need for a sponsor. The scheme aims to att ...
, a Saudi residence permit
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Premium station
The Melbourne rail network is a passenger and freight train system in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The metropolitan passenger rail network is centred on the Melbourne CBD and consists of 222 stations across 16 lines, which ser ...
, a class of railway stations on Metlink in Melbourne
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Premium television
Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but ...
, a class of subscription-based television service
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Premium texting
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile devices, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible compute ...
, SMS used for delivering digital content
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Premium-rate telephone number
Premium-rate telephone numbers are telephone numbers that charge callers higher price rates for select services, including information and entertainment. A portion of the call fees is paid to the service provider, allowing premium calls to be an ...
, telephone numbers for which prices higher than normal are charged
Brands
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Premium-Cola, a brand of cola from Germany
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Premium Brands Holdings Corporation
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation is a Canadian specialty food manufacturing and distribution company. It is a publicly traded corporation on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
History
Premium Brands was founded in 1917 as Fletcher Limited. It was ...
, a Canadian specialty food manufacturing and distribution company
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Premium Outlets
Simon Property Group, Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in shopping malls, outlet centers, and community/lifestyle centers. It is the largest owner of shopping malls in the United States and is headquartered in Indian ...
, a brand of shopping malls
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Premium Records
Premium Records was an American record label established in Chicago in 1950 by Lee Egalnick, who had previously run Miracle Records. Lew Simpkins, who had also worked at Miracle, joined Premium soon afterwards.[Premium Saltines
Premium (Premium Saltine Crackers) is a brand of soda cracker produced by Nabisco. It is known as Premium Plus (Premium Plus Salted Tops) in Canada, under the Christie (formerly, Mr. Christie) banner. In the United States it is marketed as "Orig ...]
, a Nabisco brand of saltine crackers
Monetary
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Risk premium
A risk premium is a measure of excess return that is required by an individual to compensate being subjected to an increased level of risk. It is used widely in finance and economics, the general definition being the expected risky return less t ...
, monetary difference between the guaranteed and possible returns on an investment
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Insurance premium
Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge ...
, money charged for coverage in an insurance policy
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Deposit premium A deposit premium is the amount of money required by an insurer to initiate a policy whose premiums aren't fixed, but are determined after the policy term by multiplying a premium rate by the amount of sales, payroll
A payroll is the list of emp ...
, a type of insurance premium
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Option premium
In finance, a price (premium) is paid or received for purchasing or selling options. This article discusses the calculation of this premium in general. For further detail, see: for discussion of the mathematics; Financial engineering for the impl ...
, the price of an option
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Premium tax credit
The premium tax credit (PTC) is a refundable tax credit in the United States. It is payable by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to eligible households that have obtained healthcare insurance by a healthcare exchange (marketplace) in the tax yea ...
, a refundable tax credit in the United States
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Premium Bond, a type of bond available in the United Kingdom
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Buyer's premium
In auctions, the buyer's premium is a charge in addition to the hammer price (i.e. the winning bid announced) of an auction item, or lot. The winning bidder is required to pay both the hammer price and the percentage of that price called for by the ...
, a charge to be paid in addition to the cost of an item
Places
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Premium, Kentucky
Hot Spot is an unincorporated community and former coal town in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. It was named for the Hot Spot Coal Company. Other names for the community have been Smoot Creek, Dalna, Elsiecoal, and Premium. It has frequ ...
, the post office for Hot Spot, Kentucky
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Premium Mill-Pond
Premium Mill-Pond is located in the communities of New Rochelle and Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York. The mill-pond is situated northeast of Echo Bay, between the Premium Point peninsula and the mainland. It is fed by the Premium Rive ...
, mill-pond in Westchester County, New York
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Premium Plaza, Ndola
Premium Plaza is the largest residential flats building in Zambia owned by the Zambia States Insurance Corporation (ZSIC). With 10 floors above the ground, the building is situated in Kansenshi, Ndola at the corner of Kwacha and Chela roads. The g ...
, residential flats building in Zambia
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Premium Plaza
Premium Plaza is a class A office building located in the city of Bucharest, Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeaster ...
, office building in Bucharest, Romania
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Premium River - Pine Brook Wetlands The Premium River - Pine Brook Wetlands are located on Long Island Sound in the City of New Rochelle, Town of Mamaroneck, and the Village of Larchmont in Westchester County, New York. The fish and wildlife habitat is an approximately 65 acre area ...
, river in Westchester County, New York
Other uses
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''Premium'' (film), a 2006 film starring Dorian Missick and Zoe Saldana
See also
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