Which of the following statements about the impact of a company's competitive efforts in a region on its regional market share and number of branded pairs sold is false?

Companies whose delivery times on retailer orders are in a region are longer than the allcompany regional average have a competitive disadvantage in attracting footwear retailers to stock their brand.

The more a company's $\frac{S}{Q}$ rating in a region is above the all$-$company regional average, the bigger is the company's resulting S$/$Q$-$based competitive advantage and the bigger is the positive impact on the company's branded pairs sold and market share in the region.

A company's sales$/$market share outcomes in a region's Wholesale segment are negatively impacted if its rebate offer is below the regional average, and this impact becomes progressively larger as the size of the percentage below the regional$-$average mail$-$in rebate offer increases.

A company's sales$/$market share outcomes in a region's Wholesale Segment are negatively impacted if the amount of footwear retailer support it provides is below the all$-$company average in a region $($such levels of support also discourage some footwear retailers from stocking its brand in the upcoming year$),$

Achieving a competitive advantage on brand advertising in a given region requires a company to boost its brand advertising expenditures to an amount that exceeds the expenditures of every other company in the region.