Forecasting Why forecast? Features Common to all Forecasts • Conditions in the past will continue in the future • Rarely perfect • Forecasts for groups tend to be more accurate than forecasts for individuals • Forecast accuracy declines as time horizon increases Elements of a Good Forecast • Timely • Accurate • Reliable (should work consistently) • Forecast expressed in meaningful units • Communicated in writing • Simple to understand and use Steps in Forecasting Process
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1. THE IMPORTANCE OF PACKAGING It can be seen that people use packaging for a long time. They apply it as the container. However‚ the packaging has been improved continuously in many ways to support the people in each period. For example‚ in the past‚ people used the glass to preserve food before they has developed the metal can to use instead. 1.1 The importance of packaging in the past In the ancient time‚ people use the packaging in the dairy life for storing or preserving the food‚ protection
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT …………………………………………………………………… APPROVAL LETTER ……………………………………………………………………. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY…………………………………………………………………….. THE CHALLENGE ……………………………………………………………………… • Product concept and description ………………………………………………… • Characteristics ………………………………………………………………….. • Strategies to be implemented……………………………................................ • Company’s strategic goals …………………………………………………...... SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS…………………………………………………………………. • Company
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Importance of Product Packaging in Marketing Whether you’re getting ready to create packaging for a product you’re selling or you’re considering changing the packaging of an existing product‚ you may be wondering if the appearance of a product’s package is important. Many product providers may think that the product and its performance is more important than what the packaging looks like‚ but the product packaging can play a role in the success or failure of the sales of the product. The purpose
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FORECASTING Q1: Moving averages are often used to identify movements of stock prices. Weekly closing prices (in $ per share) for Toys Я Us for 22 September‚ 1997‚ through December 8‚ 1997‚ are as follows (Prudential Securities Inc); Month Sept 22 Sept 29 Oct 6 Oct 13 Oct 20 Oct 27 Nov 3 Nov 10 Nov 17 Nov 24 Dec 1 Dec 8 Fund Price 37.8750 35.6250 34.6875 33.5625 32.6250 34.0000 33.6250 35.0625 34.0625 34.1250 33.2500 32.0625 a. Use a 3-month simple moving average
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Announce a New Product or Service—Letter Recipe Dr. Mel Luthy‚ Chief Editor This letter recipe makes creating your own letters easy. With tips‚ steps and sample phrases and sentences for each step‚ you can boost your creativity. Click for the sample letters. Helpful Tips Although this is an announcement‚ it also serves as a sales letter or newspaper advertisement. It provides the reader with useful information and promotes your product or service. See also "Write a news release." Writing Steps
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Supermarket is the country’s top supermarket chain. With an extensive‚ nationwide presence and employing state of the art retailing technology‚ it offers food and non-food products. • SaveMore Market • SM Hypermarket SM Hypermarket is a rapidly growing retail chain‚ selling wet market‚ grocery‚ general merchandise‚ and discount products. • Pilipinas Makro‚ Inc. (Makro) Pilipinas Makro‚ Inc. (Makro) is the one-stop leading retail chain. Now it is a member of SM Group. Banking • Banco De Oro is the
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Starbucks recently unveiled a new single-serving home brewer. Starbucks has always made their coffee available at home. They were presently offering their coffee beans for home brewing; sells premixed bottled frappuccinos; and recently started selling Via which is instant Starbucks coffee. So‚ being able to brew Starbucks’ coffee at home isn’t a new concept. However‚ now Starbucks has an added twist with its new top notch coffee system‚ the Verismo. The Verismo is in alignment with Starbucks’
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Software Licensing and Pricing Software is a mature industry with considerable cost pressures. It costs an incredible amount of money to develop‚ deliver‚ market‚ sell and support a software product. Software vendors are struggling with dwindling margins‚ increased competition‚ and bad economy that keep pushing them to sell at lower prices. For many‚ the only way to overcome that is to make big shifts in licensing and pricing schemes. Traditionally‚ most software vendors use a perpetual
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imagine‚ if one day‚ you can no longer find any plastic packaging‚ what would your life be? Say‚ when you bought a chunk of fresh meat‚ normally placed in a polythene plate with a layer of food wrap‚ the plastic packaging of which disappeared now‚ what could you do to take it away hygienically? Or when you bought some toilet cleaners‚ how could you bring it home in order not to harm your hands without a plastic bottle provided? Plastic packaging is everywhere that one can never avoid in our daily
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