Your Competitive Intelligence team is predicting that the Chester Company will invest in adding capacity to their Cute product this year. Assume Chester's product Cute invests in increasing its capacity by 10% this year. Because of this new information, your company anticipates all other products in the Core segment will increase their capacity by the same amount. How much can the industry produce in the Core segment the next year? Consider only products primarily in the Core segment last year. Ignore current inventories. Figures in thousands (000).

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answer : 13156

Explanation:

Considering only products primarily in the core segment last year.

they are : Ant, cone, cute,Drat and Daze

From the question it is assumed that Chester's product Cute and other products in its Core segment will be increased  by 10% this year hence we will calculate the 10% increase of each core product and add it to its initial value

For ANT (1550)

will become = 1550 + ( 10% * 1550 ) = 1705

For CONE ( 1050 )

will become = 1050 + ( 10% * 1050 ) = 1155

For Cute ( 1300 )

will become =  1300 + (10% * 1300 ) = 1430

For Drat ( 1040 )

will become = 1040 + ( 10% * 1040 ) = 1144

For DAZE ( 1040 )

will become = 1040 + ( 10% * 1040 ) = 1144

The total capacity of the current year = 1705 + 1155 + 1430 + 1144 + 1144 = 6578

Hence the Total capacity the Industry will produce in the core next year still applying the 10% increment will be = 2 * 6578 = 13156

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