Do Customer Incentives Increase Profitability?Customer IncentivesWho would have thought you can actually give away enough to show losses?It dependsI think customer incentives can be a great tool to use if it defrays some of the risk the customer takes with the purchase. GM should focus more on quality and price....
You may be sick of hearing the words "toy recall" by now, but this one's a little too scary not to mention. Aqua Dots or Bindeez in Australia, a popular holiday toy distributed by Toronto-based Spin Master Toys, isn't living up to its "toy of the year" status. Unless you classify...
In the United States, layoffs during the downward economic cycle following the dot.com bubble and then the 9/11 attack have had a severe impact on the local economies. In the resulting legislative debate over the impact of outsourcing, some state legislators have proposed a reversion to the "Buy American" principle...
Outsourcing to China has been the rage for more than 20 years, but how about the flip side? China is quietly outsourcing to -- and seeking investments in -- the United States. There is clear evidence of this going on, despite the political controversy in 2005 when...
