As a Firm's Product Moves Along the Product Life Cycle,marketing

question 243

Multiple Choice

As a firm's product moves along the product life cycle,marketing managers can expect all of the following to occur EXCEPT

• A)potential changes in customers' attitudes and needs.
• B)the necessity of changes to the firm's marketing mix.
• C)a shift in the competitive environment toward pure competition or oligopoly.
• D)increasing industry profits until total product sales finally reach their decline.
• E)total product sales peaking at the market maturity stage.

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