Here are the matches for the pricing approaches with their examples:
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Cost-oriented: Target priced its new patio furniture sets by adding 15 percent to the invoice price it paid for those products.
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Competition-oriented: Intel slashed its prices to be more similar to those of AMD, a rival computer chip maker.
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Demand-oriented: A new energy efficient light bulb was introduced at $3.00 (about three times the price of a conventional bulb) and will last 6,000 hours (about four times the conventional bulb).
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Profit-oriented: The owner of a vacuum cleaner store sets a target of a 20 percent return on sales.