Foods Company Is Considering Expanding Beyond the Regional Market Segments

question 34

Multiple Choice

Foods Company is considering expanding beyond the regional market segments now served by its Hellmann's mayonnaise.One criterion management wants to use to evaluate potential new geographic market segments is whether new equipment must be bought to serve each new segment.This is an example of which criterion used to select target market segments?

• A) Best Foods' competitive position in the segment
• B) Best Foods' created product groupings
• C) expected growth of the market segment
• D) size of the market segment
• E) cost of reaching the segment

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