Answer:
Mergers and acquisitions consist of either joining two or more firms, or having one firm acquire another firm.
The rationale behind a merger or acquisiton is always strategic: a merger or an acquisition is carried out with the goal of improving the economic position and performance of the firms involved.
Some business strategies that can be implemented by a merger or acquisition are:
- Horizontal integration: companies that sell similar products merge in order to join forces and expand their market reach.
- Vertical integration: companies in the same industry, but that sell different products (for example, one company sells cars and the other sells bikes) merge in order to expand their market share.
- Conglomerate formation: companies in different industries join in order to expand their markets even more.
Answer:
<u>product recalls</u>
Explanation:
Note, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is an agency that is concerned with consumer product safety in general regardless of whether they are food-related products or not.
Hence, <u>this agency among its stated primary objectives on its official website includes carrying out product recalls where necessary.</u>
Answer:
A. the economy is producing at less than its potential output and has some cyclical unemployment.
Explanation:
Increase in government spending will increase domestic income, only if economy is producing at less than its potential output.
Increase in federal government spending raises the level of 'govt expenditure' in Aggregate Demand. This creates 'Excess Demand' (AD > AS). However, if the economy is at full employment level, i.e all the resources are already best efficiently utilised as per their production potential. Then, the economy can't increase its domestic income more than its full employment (full potential) level. So : Increase in government spending in full employment case, wont increase total production/ income/ employment further ; as the economy is already at full employment & can't increase economic activity beyond that.
Answer:
a. Consumption will increase as goods and services are now cheaper for people to buy.
b. Investment increases as people will have more money to invest due to having spent less on consumption.
c. Net exports increases as exports become cheaper due to lower prices in the country. More people outside will therefore demand exports leading to them increasing more than imports.
d. Money Demand - B. There is a movement along the Money Demand curve to the Left
As price has decreased, the amount of money needed to buy goods will decrease which would lead to less demand for money. Money demand curve will show this as a movement to the left of the Money demand curve.
e. The interest rate will decrease because there will be more money to invest as explained above. With more money to invest, loanable funds will b in high supply thereby dropping interest rates.
f. Aggregate expenditure shifts right to show that expenditure has increased from people buying cheaper goods.
g. Aggregate demand - B. AD shifts to the Right.
More people will demand goods and services because they are cheaper.
Based on the given definitions, Mountain Dew is flanking. It is not the market leader (Coke is), so it is not playing defense. It is not playing offense either, because that would entail making a product identical to Coke and trying to get the same market. Mountain Dew has a unique taste and is stated to not have any direct competition, so it is capitalizing on this market which the others have not yet gotten into.
