New Age Pharmaceuticals Inc

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True/False

New Age Pharmaceuticals Inc. produces two limited lines of drugs—one for common maladies and one for rarer conditions and diseases. The majority of its business comes from the tried-and-true drugs that most Americans have been using for many years, but the new growth area in the pharmaceutical industry is in high-priced new drugs. New Age management believes that the company’s research-and-development operations are sufficiently effective and efficient enough to develop six new prescription drugs that will start showing a profit within 12 months of their roll-outs. Currently more than 4 million people use New Age products.
-In researching the quantity of medicines that customers are willing to purchase at various prices,New Age management will actually be researching demand.

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