B&B has a new baby powder ready to market. If the firm goes directly to market with
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B&B has a new baby powder ready to market. If the firm goes directly to market with the product, there is only a 55 percent chance of success. However, the firm can conduct customer segment research, which will take a year and cost $875,000. By going through research, B&B will be able to better target potential customers and will increase the probability of success to 70 percent. If successful, the baby powder will bring a present value profit (at time of initial selling) of $16.5 million. If unsuccessful, the present value payoff is $7.5 million. Should the firm conduct customer segment research or go directly to market? The appropriate discount rate is 13 percent.
Discount RateDepending upon the context, the discount rate has two different definitions and usages. First, the discount rate refers to the interest rate charged to the commercial banks and other financial institutions for the loans they take from the Federal...
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Corporate Finance
ISBN: 978-1259918940
12th edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford Jordan