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. 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). 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. 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. The more a company's 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. Which one of the following does not affect the reject rates at a company's production facilities? Annual company expenditures to improve the ease and accuracy of producing the models comprising its product line The number of models/styles comprising the company's product line and whether Production Improvement Option D has been installed The size of the incentive payment per non-defective pair produced The percentage use of new equipment versus refurbished footwear-making equipment Spending for TQM/Six Sigma quality control efforts The projected unit sales volumes of branded and private-label footwear per company in the table on p.6 of the Player's Guide indicate that worldwide sales of branded footwear per company is projected to exceed 9,000,000 pairs in Year 12. North America is the geographic region with biggest projected unit sales of branded footwear per company in Years 11, 12, and 13. in the Asia-Pacific region unit sales of branded footwear per company in Year 13 is projected to be 2,185,000 pairs and unit sales of private-label footwear per company in Year 13 is projected to be 255,000 pairs, equal to total per company sales of 2,440,000 pairs. the two geographic regions with the smallest projected sales of private label footwear per company in Years 11-13 are Europe-Africa and Latin America. The projected unit sales volumes of private-label footwear per company in the North America region in Years 11-13 are projected to be higher than in Latin America
