Consider the problem facing two businesses in the cafe market, Starbucks and Waves. Each company has just come up with an idea for a new coffee, which it would sell for $4. Assume that the marginal cost to produce a new coffee is a constant $2 and the only fixed cost is advertising. Each company knows that if it spends $6 million on advertising, it will get 2 million consumers to tr its new product. Starbucks market research suggests that its coffee does not have any staying power in the market. Even though could get 2 million consumers to buy their coffee once, it is unlikely that they will continue to buy the coffee in the future. Wave's research suggests that its coffee is very good, and consumers who try it will continue to be consumers over the ensuing year. On the basis of its market research, Waves estimates that its initial 2 million customers will buy one unit of the product each month i the coming year, for a total of 24 million units. Given this information we should expect, to advertise and to earn total profit of . from this new product.

Consider the problem facing two businesses in the cafe market, Starbucks and Waves. Each company has just come up with an idea for a new coffee, which it would sell for $4. Assume that the marginal cost to produce a new coffee is a constant $2 and the only fixed cost is advertising. Each company knows that if it spends $6 million on advertising, it will get 2 million consumers to tr its new product. Starbucks market research suggests that its coffee does not have any staying power in the market. Even though could get 2 million consumers to buy their coffee once, it is unlikely that they will continue to buy the coffee in the future. Wave's research suggests that its coffee is very good, and consumers who try it will continue to be consumers over the ensuing year. On the basis of its market research, Waves estimates that its initial 2 million customers will buy one unit of the product each month i the coming year, for a total of 24 million units. Given this information we should expect, to advertise and to earn total profit of . from this new product.

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Chapter21: Cost-volume-profit Analysis

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