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irinina [24]
3 years ago
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Best Foods Co. is considering expanding beyond the regional market segments now served by its Hellmann's mayonnaise. One criteri

on management wants to use to evaluate potential new geographic market segments is whether additional real estate must be purchased or leased to serve new segments. This is an example of which criterion used to select target market segments?
A. Best Foods' competitive position in the segment
B. size of the market segmentC. Best Foods' product groupings
D. expected growth of the market segment
E. cost of reaching the segment
Business
1 answer:
WITCHER [35]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Option  E                    

Explanation:

In simple words, the given case illustrates the cost analysis method for choosing target market segments. Under such criterion of selection, the subject company identifies various costs that it must bear in order to operate in some potential segment and after identifying those cost, such company evaluates if there will be any profit left for them in the market.

This method is complex, time consuming and needs experts advise but still is most popular nowadays as it gives most accurate results by identifying various quantitative and qualitative factors.  

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