Eastern Spice Company was unable to get retailers to agree to a contractual arrangement to cooperate in the distribution process, so it took over all of the marketing functions for its products at grocery stores. The grocers like this arrangement because Eastern Spice provides outstanding marketing support for its products. Eastern Spice is using a(n) system to distribute its products.

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.