Factors influencing demand

In addition to the influence of buyers, a number of other significant market factors influence demand. It is important to understand the operations of both domestic and foreign competitors, their rate of capacity utilization, and their products and services. In many markets, the dynamic interaction of supply and demand influences prices. Moreover, changes in capacity availability due to capital investment programs will influence supply and prices. A second important aspect of knowing the market is the need to determine price-volume relationships. 

FACTORS INFLUENCING DEMAND. The demand for milk and milk products depends on a number of factors, chief of which are those which follow ... 

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Economic models are based on structural equations that explain how customers and railroads will act. The quantity of railroad service demanded by shippers of goods or passengers will be measured in ton-miles or passenger-miles respectively. The factors influencing demand are described by a demand function ... 

Other factors that affect either production cost or the consumption of fertilisers tend to be periodic and short-Hved. On the consumption side, weather conditions, prices of fertilisers, and the pohtical stabiUty of a region influence demand. The supply side is influenced by raw material availabihty, rehabihty of infrastmcture, on-stream efficiency, age of plants, and the constmction or modernisation of existing plants. 

U.S. ethanol imports were greatiy influenced by the rapid increase of world fermentation capacity in the late 1970s and the rapid increase in U.S. demand for fuel ethanol. Imported alcohol from Brazil reached 140 x 10 L in 1980, mosdy for the fuel market. In 1981, the U.S. Government passed an import duty on fuel ethanol. The duty was raised to 0.158/L in 1985 (248), after BraziUian imports reached 314 x 10 L in 1984. Total ethanol imports in 1984 were 568 x 10 L, with 95 x 10 L going to the industrial market, where the import duties do not apply. Another factor influencing ethanol imports... 

In the previous section we examined the development of the European market for organic agricultural products and the inter-relationship between supply and demand factors within the market. In this section we draw on current work being carried out on organic and low input food supply chains in Europe (http //www.qlif.org/). We examine more closely the consumer of organic foods and ask what factors influence consumers to choose organic... 

Factors Influencing the Demand for Pesticides in Tropical Agriculture... 

Factors influencing orientation in the condensation of 57 with dipolarophiles were examined by employing ethyl tetrolate in place of the phenylpropiolate. A clean reaction was not obtained, but eventually 60 was isolated indicating that the sterically less demanding ester still adds in the same manner. 

The extent to which the molecules formed by recombination are in thermal equilibrium with the catalyst is of fundamental interest for the light it sheds on the nature of the interaction with the surface at the instant of reaction. It is also of practical interest, particularly in the use of thermal probes for the determination of atom concentrations, where the need to take account of factors influencing energy transfer processes has not always been recognised. Fresh interest in the phenomenon has been stimulated by the demands of space technology for information on surface heating due to recombination during re-entry into the earth s atmosphere. 

Simply conceiving of the problem as a market situation in which supply and demand meet does not fully capture the factors that influence the interface in the weapons-expertise arena. In fact, the empirical record on weapons materials and knowledge suggests that supply and demand often do not meet because the mechanisms required for a market fail to develop. Other factors influence the interaction of those who possess sensitive information, those who oversee the possessors of sensitive information, and... 

Companies make money in essentially two ways - they either increase revenue and/or reduce costs. On the revenue side, the business case for CSR is more difficult to quantify reliably, for too many factors influence a company s performance. The general economic climate, industry conditions and market demands, volume discounts to distributors to clear out inventory, and acquisitions all affect revenue, but none has anything do with a company s CSR. Similarly, with stock price, while CSR companies may be more attractive to socially responsible investors (SRI), their corporate responsibility is only one of a half dozen or more factors that influence the buying decisions of money managers and stock analysts. 

Environmental consciousness. It is a modem material that emphasizes sustainability, its low energy demand during manufaeture and its carbon storage capacity and eventually it can be recycled. While aesthetic and economic considerations are major factors influencing material selection, these environmental advantages increasingly influence material selection. 

The University of Missouri held Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival in 2003 and 2004, with the primary objective of increasing domestic demand and consumption of chestnut. During this festival, information and samples of fresh, roasted, and prepared chestnuts were offered. Survey questionnaires were distributed to the participants. It was concluded that as of 2004, the U.S. consumers remained unfamihar with chestnut, they did not know about its health aspects, in what form and where to buy chestnut, or how to prepare it. Participants of these surveys preferred to buy roasted or fresh chestnut from grocery stores or farmers markets. Quahty and nutrition-diet-health were perceived as the most important factors influencing the decision to buy chestnut [65,69,70]. 

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