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

question 241

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) customers' attitudes and needs may change.
• B) the firm's marketing mix must change.
• C) the competitive environment shifts toward pure competition or oligopoly.
• D) industry profits increase until total product sales finally reach their decline.
• E) total product sales reach the peak at the market maturity stage.

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Definitions:

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