You are the CEO of Winton Enterprises, a large specialty manufacturer of automobile parts. You have a $200 million business providing car parts to a number of auto manufacturers, both domestic and international. Many years ago, your company offered "lifetime health benefits" to all retirees. Foreign competition has forced you to move some of the manufacturing to China. This off shoring of work has reduced your expenses tremendously. However, the cost of medical insurance and benefits for retirees has risen dramatically. The program for retirees is in serious jeopardy. Recently, new hires are told to invest their benefits money as they see fit; they are not offered lifetime health benefits. Now you must inform the company's retirees that they will have to pay half of the cost of their medical benefits beginning January 21 of next year

What is product differentiation, and how can it be achieved ? what is product positioning? what conditions would head to head product positioning be appropriate?

Acompany set up a petty cash fund with $800. the disbursements are as follows: office supplies $300 shipping $50 postage $30 delivery expense $350 to create the fund, which account should be credited? a. postage b. cash at bank c. supplies d. petty cash

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)