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Market Trends Paper

Prepare a 1,400-1,750-word paper in which you describe market trends that your selected organization/industry will face. Explain your conclusions. In your paper address how each of the following will change or will not change, and why:
Intro:

a. Market structure

b. Impact of new companies entering the market

c. Prices

d. Technology

e. Productivity (consider the law of diminishing marginal productivity)

f. Cost structure

1) Wages and benefits

2) Fixed and variable costs

g. Price elasticity of demand

h. Competitors

i. Supply and demand analysis

j. Impact of government regulations

I have completed most of this paper. I am going to post what I have so far. The only sections that I was looking for help for are f. cost structure both parts a. wages and benefits and b. fixed and variable costs. As you will read in the attachment this paper is being done on the coca-cola company. I only need about 140 words per section for a total of 280, if you can avoid going over please so because the instructor takes away points for going over the word limit.

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Discussion of cost structure of Coca-Cola

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Per BrainMass policy, I can help you with research but I cannot compose your essay for you. You will need to compose the final copy on your own, and at that time you can determine the word count.

Coca-Cola workers are unionized and make a competitive wage. Unlike many corporations, it has a pension plan (see http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20090219/NEWS/200015478). Benefits vary with location but US employees receive health, dental, life, disability, and vision insurance, along with vacation and sick leave. For this information see http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/careers/employee_benefits.html

Fixed costs are those ...

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