1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 COMPANY BACKGROUND
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1.2 INTRODUCTION TO ASSIGNMENT
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1.3 COMPANY SERVICES
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2.0 EXPLANATION OF TERMS
2.1 MONOPOLY MEANING AND EXAMPLES
(The examples… Sesco, tnb, tm) Monopoly gives one particular organisation or company the sole right to market its goods or services without any competition. This explains the fact that monopoly companies sell goods that has no close substitutes in the market and that is why buyers are being forced to depend on that. An example is SESCO Sarawak. The company provides electricity to the companies and individuals in Sarawak and as a result it is a monopoly because there is no other company that provide that. Telecom Malaysia (TM) is another example as they provide fix line and
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Additionally, the company faces indirect competition from other companies seeking the same consumers’ dollar.
3.4 MARKETING AND ADVERTISEMENT
Advertisement for the company is to make the consumers away of its new products and their availability. Being a monopoly, the advertisement focus is usually on the benefits of the product rather than the price of the products itself. The marketing aspects also are about informing organisations about its data solutions and fix lines and how it will help in the improvement of the overall communication process.
3.5 ENTRY/EXIT BARRIES
One of the important aspect of a monopoly is the cost of entry. It is difficult for new firms to enter the market and provide the same services as TM does. Some of the reasons can be because of government protection of such industries. The government in most cases protect such industries to restrict entry. Another reason is the cost of entry and economies of scale. TM has being around for so many years and have being providing services to both companies and individual. This means that its operating cost reduces with more services it renders to its customers. Therefore, the cost of production for the company is low as it has more people to serve. This makes it more costly for new companies to enter as they cannot cope with providing the services at a lower cost. The exit cost also will be high as the
Advertisement is a way of telling the public about an offer a business has. Tesco use this method to tell customers about their offer and show that it is better than their competitor. Advertising on TV is another way of telling customers about themselves because TV is a popular way of interacting with the
Monopolies are defined as an industry dominated by one corporation, or business, like standard oil. They are a main driver of inequality, as profits concentrate more on wealth in the hands of the few.(Atlantic). A monopoly has total or nearly all control of that industry. They are considered an extreme result of the U.S. free market capitalism. The business own everything, from the goods to the supplies to the infrastructure. This company will become big enough to buy out other competitors or even crush their competitor by lowering their prices to get the other business to go out of business. They will then control the whole industry without any restarted, having the prices be what they want and the product to be in what condition they want
In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge high prices.[4] Although monopolies may be big businesses, size is not a characteristic of a monopoly. A small business may still have the power to raise prices in a small industry (or market).[5]
By definition a Monopoly is exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices (Monopoly 2012). Individuals are often time fearful of a company or industry becoming a monopoly because it would control too much of a market share, and do whatever wants; this includes raising prices, to using excess capital to branch into even more areas (Rise of monopolies 1996). The market structure of a monopoly is characterized by; a single seller; a unique product; and impossible entry into the market (Tucker 2011). A monopoly can be a difficult thing to accomplish being that a single seller faces an entire industry demand curve due to the fact it makes up the industry as a
Advertising via commercials allows businesses to not only show consumers their product, but also tell them about it too. The way companies utilize
Firm under perfect competition and the firm under monopoly are similar as the aim of both the seller is to maximize profit and to minimize loss. The equilibrium position followed by both the monopoly and perfect competition is MR = MC. Despite their similarities, these two forms of market organization differ from each other in respect of price-cost-output. There are many points of difference which are noted below.
A Monopoly refers to a market where-by there is one or limited suppliers of a given commodity to the market.
Monopoly is a firm that is the sole seller of a product without close substitutes. A monopoly is caused by barriers to entry which means that there is only one seller in the market and no other firm can enter or compete with that sole seller. There are three main sources to barrier to entry, monopoly resources: a key resource required for production is owned by a single firm. Government regulation, which is the government gives a single firm the exclusive right to produce some good or service. Also the production process, which is a single firm can produce output at a lower cost than a large number of firms.
In the industry, many companies are providing high, average and low quality products at different prices so buyers can choose according to their needs. The advertising plays an important role in the industry that company can enhance their market share. The quality and price plays an important role in creating an image which in turn enhance sales.
'Marketing merely reflects the needs and wants of customers.' We all need to eat, drink and sleep and reproduce, this is all part of who we are as human beings. Therefore at the basic level companies will strive to satisfy these functions and keep doing so by once in a while showing advertisements that tells the public that they are around and can provide the products they need.
A monopoly is defined as “a firm that is the sole seller of a product without close substitutes”
Today there are many well-known monopolies that are found in the U.S. economy, however, the invention of railroads in the nineteenth century was considered the first monopoly. Railroads were considered a monopoly because they held superiority over traveling by wagon because railroads were able to they were able to transport people and goods quicker than traveling by wagon. In 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to stop monopolies and to promote trade. Pure monopolies are generally a thing of the past because the U.S. prohibits monopolies today. Many approximate monopolies in today’s economy include telephone industries like Verizon and AT&T. Other monopolies include national retail corporations like Walmart and Target. The word monopoly
What is a monopoly? According to Webster's dictionary, a monopoly is "the exclusive control of a commodity or service in a given market.” Such power in the hands of a few is harmful to the public and individuals because it minimizes, if not eliminates normal competition in a given market and creates undesirable price controls. This, in turn, undermines individual enterprise and causes markets to crumble. In this paper, we will present several aspects of monopolies, including unfair competition, price control, and horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate mergers.
Consumers have wants and needs, and the most popular way to get those products known to consumers is advertising. Advertising provides the consumers with important information about the products and or services. Plus, how would the consumers know about things if they were not advertised in a particular way. Advertisements educate the consumers about the positive and negative effect of a product. For example, a medical, commercial may across your television or you may even see an ad about it in a magazine, throughout that ad the marketer will explain to you the good that
The Purpose of Advertising The purpose of advertising is to familiarise the public with a certain brand or product. Companies spend millions of pounds a year on advertising so that when the public are searching for a product or service a certain brand is recognised and, as a result, their product or service is chosen. Companies need to ensure that their money is spent wisely. They do this by completing extensive market and physcological research.