Answer:
After assessing the market growth potential and market competitiveness in Mexico for his company's baby products, Harold wanted to evaluate market access. To do this, Harold would consider ease of assessing or developing distribution channels and brand familiarity
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Harold would, first of all, find out the ease in accessing the market. If he finds that it is easy to access the market or target the consumers than he will develop distribution channels. Distribution channels take lots of time and effort.
Than Harold will determine the brand familiarity which means he will make the consumers familiar with his company's baby products. Brand familiarity affects the consumer's information about the product.
Answer:
Total direct material cost= $400,000
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Direct material: 5 pounds at $8.00 per pound $ 40.00
Total direct material cost= cost per unit* total units.
Suppouse that the production for the period is 10,000 units:
Total direct material cost= (5*8)*10,000= $400,000
Answer: True
Explanation:
Productivity is the process of measuring an organization's ability to produce a good or service. While organizations that produce goods can point to the total finished number of products as evidence. It is difficult to improve the service sector's productivity, because of the following;
1. Service industries are labor-intensive
2. Measuring and monitoring service quality are difficult
3. Most service establishments are of small size
4. Using machine technology and labor-saving devices is difficult
Climate Change is the first trend that is expected to cause more natural disasters. This has been facilitated by global warming caused by increased green house gases. Food prices are expected to rise due to high temperatures that has affected corn and soybean. Floods and storms are now becoming unpredictable.
There is high control of oil, gas and food prices by financial markets. Commodities traders are now setting prices instead of supply and demand thus the value of dollar in under the control of foreign exchange traders.
Increasing rates of interest, where recently the Federal Reserve wants to increase the Fed fund rates to two percent point. Inflation will be at 2% and unemployment at 4% thus this will show <u>a no falling to recession situation</u> which will allow Fed to keep increasing rates.In the long run cost of loans will rise.
Other trends to notice are;the decline in global economic power of the U.S and the fact that the U.S economy is current in the expansion phase of the business cycle.