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Jonathan Moore, president of Polar Manufacturing Company, has just reviewed the performance reports for the previous year and sees that there are some areas in which the company needs to improve.He specifically feels they could do a better job in managing Polar's product mix.Jonathan calls a meeting of all the managers responsible for each of the product lines that Polar currently manufactures.The group decides that they need to eliminate the complete industrial product line of ice chests; they plan to do so by letting the product decline without any changes in the marketing strategy or product.The group also decides to delete Polar's line of thermal underwear, but this product is to be discontinued within the week due to its unprofitability.While discussing these strategies, the group has also uncovered several customer groups for which new products could be developed.The managers decide to assemble a group of people from all functional areas of the company and give them the responsibility for all aspects of the new-product development.
-Because some products are not doing well, Jonathan Moore thinks that the company should set up a procedure to evaluate each product so that management will know when and how a product should be discontinued.He is suggesting a:

• A)discontinuance procedure.
• B)performance review.
• C)closing system.
• D)systematic review.

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