Marketing is based on many different relationships between customers, wholesalers and producers, buyers, and sellers. What does the term relationship marketing refer to?

"in my opinion, we ought to stop making our own drums and accept that outside supplier's offer," said wim niewindt, managing director of antilles refining, n. v., of aruba. "at a price of $21 per drum, we would be paying $4.70 less than it costs us to manufacture the drums in our own plant. since we use 70,000 drums a year, that would be an annual cost savings of $329,000." antilles refining's current cost to manufacture one drum is given below (based on 70,000 drums per year):

Two products, qi and vh, emerge from a joint process. product qi has been allocated $34,300 of the total joint costs of $55,000. a total of 2,900 units of product qi are produced from the joint process. product qi can be sold at the split-off point for $11 per unit, or it can be processed further for an additional total cost of $10,900 and then sold for $13 per unit. if product qi is processed further and sold, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company compared with sale in its unprocessed form directly after the split-off point?

Ichelle is attending college and has a part-time job. once she finishes college, michelle would like to relocate to a metropolitan area. she wants to build her savings so that she will have a "nest egg" to start her off. michelle works out her budget and decides she can afford to set aside $9090 per month for savings. her bank will pay her 4 %4% per year, compounded monthly, on her savings account. what will be michelle's balance in five years?