INTRODUCTION From natural gas‚ crude oils‚ and other fossil materials such as coal‚ few intermediates are produced that are not hydrocarbon compounds. The important intermediates discussed here are hydrogen‚ sulfur‚ carbon black‚ and synthesis gas. Synthesis gas consists of a nonhydrocarbon mixture (H2‚CO) obtain- able from more than one source. It is included in this chapter and is fur- ther noted in Chapter 5 in relation to methane as a major feedstock for this mixture. This chapter discusses
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Free Markets and Rights:Locke Govt needs to play a very limited role in markets as human beings have natural rights that only a free market can protect; the two natural rights are right to freedom(as they enable individual to voluntarily exchange goods with others free from coercive power of govt.) and right to private property(as each individual is free to decide what will be done with what he owns without interference from govt.); Locke argued that if there were no govts.‚human beings would find
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MARKET SEGMENTATION‚ TARGETING AND POSITIONING MARKET SEGMENTATION INTRODUCTION: - The market for any product is normally made up of several segments. A ‘market’ after all is the aggregate of consumers of a given product. And‚ consumer (the end user)‚ who makes a market‚ are of varying characteristics user and buying behavior. There are different factors contributing for varying mind set of consumers. It is thus natural that many differing segments occur within a market. In order to capture this
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Heiens / Market Orientation Market Orientation: Toward an Integrated Framework Richard A. Heiens University of South Carolina Aiken Dr. Richard Heiens is Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of South Carolina Aiken‚ School of Business Administration‚ 471 University Parkway‚ Aiken‚ SC 29801. (803) 641-3238. RichardH@Aiken.SC.edu EXECUTIVE SUMMARY "Market orientation‚" may actually encompass several different approaches to the strategic alignment of the organization with the external
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Market segmentation‚ targeting and positioning MARKET SEGMENTATION Definition: This is the process of dividing the total market for a good or service into several smaller‚ internally similar (or homogeneous) groups. All members in a group have similar factors that influence their demand for the particular product. 4-2 BASES FOR SEGMENTATION Geographic — The city size‚ urban/ suburban/ rural population distribution and climate. Demographic — The distribution
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Money Market an integral part of the financial market of a country. It provides a medium for the redistribution of short-term loanable funds among `financial institutions‚ which perform this function by selling deposits of various types‚ certificate of deposits and discounting of bills‚ treasubillry s etc. The participants in the money market are: the central bank‚ commercial banks‚ the government‚ finance companies‚ contractual saving institutions like the pension funds‚ insurance companies‚ savings
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Assess the view that making an oligopolistic market more contestable is the best way to improve the efficiency of that market. The theory of perfectly contestable markets was presented as a generalization of the theory of perfectly competitive markets and was presented as providing guidelines for the conduct of regulation‚ namely to allow freedom of entry and exit and to ensure equal access of competitors. An oligopolistic market is a particular market that is controlled by a small number of firms
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head: QANTAS MARKET DEMAND Qantas Market Demand Qantas Marketing Demand Before any attempt at marketing can be successful‚ a marketer must carefully study the potential market‚ and determine its potential demand. This demand is market demand‚ which is the "total demand of every individual willing and able to buy a good" (AmosWEB‚ 2004). Determining this market demand is the first step in evaluating market opportunities (Kotler & Keller‚ 2006). The next step in determining market opportunities
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Market Analysis Andrews Corporation is a $40 million electronic sensor manufacturer. We are in a business-to-business market‚ providing sensors for our customer’s products. The sensor industry is increasingly growing at about 14-15% each year. The low-tech segment of the market has a 10% growth rate while the high tech segment has a 20% growth rate. Currently‚ the low-tech segment of the market makes up for more than 2/3 of unit sales. However‚ overtime the high tech segment will control a greater
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The secondary market‚ is also called aftermarket‚ is the financial market in which previously issued financial instruments such as stock‚ bonds‚ options‚ and futures are bought and sold.[1] Another frequent usage of "secondary market" is to refer to loans which are sold by a mortgage bank to investors such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The term "secondary market" is also used to refer to the market for any used goods or assets‚ or an alternative use for an existing product or asset where the customer
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