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
In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a more significant proportion of overall spending. Luxury goods are in con ...
, offering high end products and services
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Premium domain
In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services, and more. D ...
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Premium email
Electronic mail (usually shortened to email; alternatively hyphenated e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving digital messages using electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the late–20th century as the ...
, 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, a grade of gasoline, with the highest octane rating
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Premium beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grain—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used. The grain is mashed to convert starch in the gra ...
, marketing term for beer
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Premium Processing Service
Premium Processing Service is an optional premium service offered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to individuals and/or employers filing Form I-129 (Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker), Form I-140 (Immigrant Petition for A ...
, service offered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
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Premium Residency, a Saudi residence permit
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Premium station
The Melbourne rail network is a metropolitan Commuter rail, suburban and Rail freight transport, freight rail system serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The metropolitan rail network is centred around th ...
, 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, bu ...
, 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 phones, tablet computers, smartwatches, desktops/laptops, or ...
, 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
Premium-Cola is a soft drink brand founded on November 23, 2001, in Hamburg, Germany, by a collective of fans of the German brand Afri-Cola, at the time reduced in caffeine.
The collective (which named itself "Interessengruppe Premium") starte ...
, 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 wa ...
, 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 Indi ...
, 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, which were first introduced in 1876. It is known as Premium Plus (Premium Plus Salted Tops) in Canada, under the Christie (formerly, Mr. Christie) banner. In the U ...]
, 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 Rate of retur ...
, 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 protect ...
, 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 a list of emplo ...
, a type of insurance premium
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Option premium
In finance, a price (premium) is paid or received for purchasing or selling option (finance), options.
The Option (finance)#Valuation, calculation of this premium will require sophisticated mathematics.
Premium components
This price can be split ...
, the price of an option
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Premium tax credit
The premium tax credit (PTC) is a mechanism established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through which the United States federal government partially subsidizes the cost of private health insurance for certain lower- and middle-income individual ...
, a refundable tax credit in the United States
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Premium Bond
Premium Bonds is a lottery bond scheme organised by the Government of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom government since 1956. At present it is managed by the government's National Savings and Investments agency.
The principle behind Premium ...
, 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 th ...
, 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
Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region o ...
, 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 R ...
, 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 ...
, 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 is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north ...
, office building in Bucharest, Romania
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Premium River - Pine Brook Wetlands, 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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