In one city, Biggies', a competing retail outlet, opens a store across the street from a Sam-Mart. A battle for business ensues. One of the tools both chains use in their fight for customers is advertising. Sam-Mart runs three different commercials that stress the point that it has very low prices. Biggies' runs three different commercials that stress the point that it has very friendly salespeople. Which one of the following practices are the two stores engaging in? A. External positioning
B. Product polloning
C. Corporate advertising
D. Intemal positioning point

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

Consider two similar industries, portal crane manufacturing (pcm) and forklift manufacturing (flm). the pcm industry has exactly three incumbents with annual sales of $800 million, $200 million and $100 million, respectively. the flm industry has also exactly three incumbents, with annual sales of $500 million, $450 million and $400 million, respectively. which industry is more likely to experience a higher level of rivalry?

The gorman group is a financial planning services firm owned and operated by nicole gorman. as of october 31, 2016, the end of the fiscal year, the accountant for the gorman group prepared an end-of-period spreadsheet, part of which follows: