Pepperidge Farms, makers of quality baked goods has increased its sales in the U. S. by a minimum of 15% each year for the past 10 years. In 2021, they will be launching products (3) into a new food space: Specialty Treats for Dogs. This represents an entirely new Customer Segment and as result, will require heavy spend to capture Market Share in this competitive space. As Marketing V. P., you are preparing a presentation to senior management. One of the items you feel is important to cover is the Cost of Customer Acquisition (CCA). Your Brand Director for Pepperidge Farms Specialty Dog Treats has determined that it will cost $1,000,000 in total for all Marketing activities for these 3 new products and the attainment of NEW customers. She estimates that this will result in a total of 5,000 NEW customers in the calendar year 2021. Initial projections are that this will carve out a 7% Market Share for this Market Segment, with sales totaling $500,000 the first year, $1,000,000 in year 2, and $2,800,000 in year 3. What is the CCA (Customer Acquisition Cost) in 2021 for the above projections?

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

The card shoppe needs to maintain 21 percent of its sales in net working capital. currently, the store is considering a four-year project that will increase sales from its current level of $349,000 to $408,000 the first year and to $414,000 a year for the following three years of the project. what amount should be included in the project analysis for net working capital in year 4 of the project?

The rybczynski theorem describes: (a) how commodity price changes influence real factor rewards (b) how commodity price changes influence relative factor rewards. (c) how changes in factor endowments cause changes in commodity outputs. (d) how trade leads to factor price equalization.